That is about San Francisco but it is the heart of the problem. The other big issue is liberal advocates always want to let street junkies be above the law so they decriminalize theft below $900, they order the police to not even ticket people for public drug use or carrying drugs less than 26 doses of say crack or heroin, public defication or urination is decriminalized even when public restrooms are available, they make it illegal to enforce vagrancy laws, etc... This creates a free for all and endangers public health. You have to enforce those laws and make them choose to either go to rehab or go to jail.
Sorry to keep crashing your feelings party with facts, but here I go again... https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...if-you-look-crime-rates-from-the-80s-and-90s/ (not actually sorry you racist and classist garbage human being)
I know its been a long time since my sociology classes in college but I'm pretty sure that crimes rates are considered a lagging indicator of societal decay. That is, the society goes down the shitter and then the crime rates start climbing.
I used to panhandle, but I provided a service by playing guitar and singing. These people are just lazy pieces of shit that probably also milk the system with welfare checks.
Oh WOW! You think the people thought any better of you than the so-called "lazy ones"? And we call Dinner a classist snob!
You should come down here to Floriduh. The people who panhandle are well off lazy people who need to make their Lexus payments. I have to say I was pretty fucking impressed with the Baltimore bums around Otakon. They learned Japanese opening for anime just for the one convention a year. Of course, I cannot imagine how much money they got from the kids sleeping ten to a hotel room because they could not afford it any other way, but it was impressive.
So Seattle is turning into a shithole like San Francisco and @Ancalagon just ignores it. Good, I hope it gets worse and you have to explain to your kids why there's a crazy man shitting in your yard.
I'm sure you'll continue to ignore it because you'll be the liberal elite like the ones in that DS9 episode Past Tense patting yourself on the back on what a good job you did to help the homeless (repeat offender junkies who know the cops aren't going to do shit about anything you do).
You do know Past Tense was arguing about society taking care of all its people? If you came away from the episode thinking the solution was anything other than "fix it before it gets to this point, you were asleep at the wheel. Again.
Again, the Sinclair Agitprop is full of shit. Here are some facts: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...if-you-look-crime-rates-from-the-80s-and-90s/ Yeah, they got some ex-SPD officers to complain about how their hands are tied. This is the same police department currently operating under a federal consent degree due to systemic civil rights violations. https://www.justice.gov/crt/investigation-documents Now I know as an internet libertarian you don’t actually give a shit about actual government abuse of power as long as it is directed at poor and brown folks, but many of us do and so don’t exactly take the SPD at their word.
It was an episode that demonstrated a problem that SF created by creating the districts in the first place, which is what's happening now. Allowing junkies to fill the streets is not a proper solution.
Why would libertarians not care about poor and brown folk? What's inherent about libertarians that you think they don't care about the poor and specifically brown people?
Because they live in a binary world where the rich deserve it, and the poor deserve it, and no other extenuating factors are allowed to come into play. And when the poor deserve it, poverty becomes a moral failing, and you're allowed to spit on them. And when you dismiss the racist history of this country as explanation for why so many in the black community are poor, and call it "a sob story", and still spit on poor blacks, that's racist. When you walk, quack, swim, have feathers, and eat scraps of bread like a duck, you're a fucking duck.
Supremacist ideologies will always take on a racist component, even if you try to firewall against it in your founding texts. That's why the answer is to not be a supremacist period.
I've never forgiven him for the C5, but he got a lot of shit for the ZX Spectrum that wasn't deserved.
Seattle is such a shithole/dying so hard it has fallen all the way down to 2nd fastest growing city in the nation. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/big-city-growth-slows-across-u-s-but-seattle-still-ranks-no-2-in-2018/