Is Seattle This Bad Now?

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When I lived in the Seattle area (Kirkland), I used to take the bus to downtown. It would drop me off at the corner of Stewart and Denny, then I would walk down to SoDo (near where Amazon is). I’d usually get off the bus about 7am, and begin my trek. I’d listen to my iPod as I strolled along.

Even then (this was about '04), there were druggies everywhere. There were people sleeping on the streets. It was pretty bad, but I never felt unsafe. But then there was a mugging one morning on the exact route I had taken, where a man was beaten and his wallet, phone, and laptop were stolen. He was knocked unconscious and left to lie on the sidewalk until he woke. I’m trying to find the article, but it was all the buzz in our office. The guy doesn’t know how many people walked by him, but he was out for about an hour, then stumbled to a business and asked them to call 911.

My wife forbad me from taking the bus. But I couldn’t drive, as parking was $20 in the lots, and street parking was limited to 2 hrs/day. So, I took the bus to Westlake Center (which today is far worse than it was then) and rode the SLUT to work–another extra cost. After a couple of years of that I abandoned it.

So, not only is Seattle proper unsafe. It’s expensive. Not only do I have to risk harassment and possible violence, but I have the privilege of paying for it too.
 
Weak secular elected officials. I dare not call them “leaders.” Those cities were targeted by street radicals, and the word travels quickly as to which cities have the most freebies and weakest drug enforcement.
 
we’re slowly starting to see a lot of the same issues in many major Canadian cities like Vancouver and Toronto, so we’re probably not much farther behind…
How bad is it in Vancouver and Toronto?
 
Not as bad as Seattle or other west coast American cities, but we’re starting to see some of the same issues. Here in Toronto, I’ve noticed more and more homeless are camping out in public parks. That might be because many of them don’t want to stay in shelters where there more likely to catch co-vid. However, it’s probably also because of drug addiction and mental health issues.

It doesn’t help that Toronto has a high-cost of living, either.
 
How would any individual dare approach these folks?
It may surprise someone whose only exposure to Seattle is the Nazi-tier propaganda produced by the local conservative-owned TV station, but you just talk to them the same way you’d talk to anyone.
 
I don’t know why that warrants eye rolling, I do homeless outreach work in Seattle and homeless people aren’t an alien species, you can just talk to them.
 
This quote is eyeroll worthy:
It’s not, at least if you’re familiar with KOMO’s anti-homeless propaganda as well as anti-homeless efforts in Nazi Germany (Wolfgang Ayass’ ‘Vagrants and beggars in Hitler’s Reich’ is a great place to start).
 
Now just a minute there! Komo is as far left as anything this side of Pravda and Izvestia, Best not to conflate druggie infestation with homelessness.
 
Not sure what this means.
I’ll take a stab at what @po18guy means, but I suspect he means that KOMO’s piece isn’t so much about homelessness as it is about drug use and the devastation it is causing (including homelessness). The point is don’t confuse the two problems. There are homeless people due to circumstance out of their control (lost job, kicked out of the house, mental health problems, etc, and there are those that are homeless because they are destroying their lives and Seattle lets it happen.

BTW, did you watch the piece? Do you know what their recommendations were to help these people out?
 
Homelessness: It’s the drugs. Those are not blue collar workers living in tents They are dopers. Heroin addicts. Meth heads. Burglars, robbers, rapists and even murderers. All smoking “medical” weed to get them through the lean times. No punishment. No NA, no fines, no nothing except liberal hand-wringing. The drug culture has captured Seattle without firing a shot (*exception the murders of each other).

As to the media: When you hear 24/7 (so it seems) reportage on the savior Biden, the “first woman and woman of color” (that’s racist is it not? If not why not?) and 98% negative about Trump, plus gushing over Biden making Trump a “single term president” their ideology has blinded them to any trace of honestly, accuracy of impartiality. I have not seen a peep about what Biden believes - except that progressive liberals fall into lock-step with him.

Never mind that liberal 100% democrat Seattle is suffering from self-inflicted wounds. Their solution is even more liberalism. That is a working definition of insanity.

Source of much angst in this thread: We have two+ generations raised on liberal media, believing that it is unbiased. That is why there is so precious little understanding of how the Media-BigTech complex has shaped, directed, colored the election.

I have been watching Komo, King and Kiro since 1970 at the latest. When did you start watching?

But, I’ll be dead soon and I praise God for His mercy.
 
There are homeless people due to circumstance out of their control (lost job, kicked out of the house, mental health problems, etc, and there are those that are homeless because they are destroying their lives and Seattle lets it happen.
This isn’t really helping your case that KOMO isn’t spreading Nazi-tier propaganda, given that the distinction you’re making was central to the Nazis’ anti-homeless policies and actions:

 
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