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No Law Enforcement Means No Law
The City of Seattle is finding this axiom to be coming true. Seattle Police Department officers have been leaving in a steady stream since 2019, and accelerated by the 2020 “Defund the Police” movement, still supported by the far-Left City Council. The Covid vaccine mandate did not help either.
Jason Rantz of KTTH Radio cites the high and increasing crime rate and lack of support of the police by the City Council as big reasons for the voluntary quits that are decimating the SPD. Earlier this year, the city council approved new hiring bonuses and other incentives to get more officers hired; however, since potential hires can easily tell that the city council still doesn’t support the police, new hires are just barely trickling in. The officers who are left are overworked and tired. Many will be retirement-eligible at the end of this year, which is fast approaching.
Nothing in Seattle will really improve without a large percentage of the city council being replaced. And what are the chances of that? Pretty close to zero. Lawlessness is increasing downtown, with no remedy in sight. Criminals are arrested and quickly released back to the streets, due to the King County Jail refusing to accept new prisoners, and basing that on Covid! The jail is short on personnel also, as is the Seattle Fire Department.
Lawlessness is increasing, and there is no end in sight. It’s a terrible fate for a previously safe, beautiful city.
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Sounds bad Rush. Glad my youngest son got out of there 10 years ago and moved to Denver where is very happy. Just one question: any beheadings there? Had one in our area last week. Watch for illegals with big swords.
No beheadings, and I am surprised, since Seattle has a sizable Somali population who celebrated 9/11. They veil their five-year-olds, and they are coddled.
Prep.
Well they have voted for it and seem to continue to vote for it.
My son just left Denver and moved up to Seattle. This doesn’t sound good.
Yes, this seems to be what the people of the city want. I mean, a majority of them.
Funny how the
mainstreamruling class news media suppress such information.They finally stayed out of the news for quite a few months, until they created the biggest NGO fraud in Minnesota history a few months ago. LOL New York Times level fraud. One guy bought a condo in Kenya. lol
They are just incorrigible. There is nothing that the honest ones or however you want to describe it can do anything about it.
This is the way that they want it. The master plan is to have Seattle fail so they can ask the feds to come in. It’s a way to start the national police force that the leftists want.
It was so comprehensively awesome when I lived there. I had a retail job in the U District and the diversity was incredible. Really fun. Nobody was shoving it down everybody’s throat.
There was something nice around every corner in that town.
Unless you have seasonal affective disorder, the weather was perfect all year. Perfect summers.
It’s nice to have people reporting from war zones, but eventually they have to go somewhere safe.
The red states need to put up borders so we can keep the liberal insanity in the liberal areas. We do not need it to show up and turn Red to Purple to Blue.
Red State border fences are more expensive than fencing in Blue cities. And those progressive paradises should welcome the helping hand for their Stasi-style population control.
California was always diverse as well.
In my son’s first grade class of 23 students in the early 80’s, some 3 were African Americans, two were from Japan, with their folks being involved at Stanford Univ, 2 were Native Americans, 3 were hispanic and the rest were white.
But where this classroom was “wrong” according to more modern diversity decrees, was in how all the kids and their teacher spoke English.
To be diverse these days means that for the school district to accommodate the several hispanic children in a classroom, a teacher would have to be hired who refused to speak any English, and who spoke a dialect of pidgen Spanish that no one in the classroom would be able to understand.
Because after all, we can’t as a society punish someone for being so poorly educated they don’t speak American English.
This was happening prior to 2005. I temporarily lost one friendship when I told a woman whose son was about to start first grade in the bedroom community of Novatio that her son should not be enrolled in her local public school due to teachers there being incompetent.
She scolded me by saying “Carol, latinas can be good teachers too.” (A claim I certainly would not dispute.)
But picking someone without any English abilities, and the personality of a convict, is just not something we should be inflicting American first graders with in order for a school system to become “diverse.”
Her son lasted 4 days at the school I said was an abomination. Although she desired him to go to a public school where he would meet a wide variety of children, and not just those of her affluent friends, he was crying every night. This young boy spoke both English and Spanish fluently. Yet he could not understand much of what this teacher said. And he was afraid of her to boot.
Our friendship was healed overnight when she realized that I was not at all trashing the latino community. What I was trashing was the New Diversity of California: that no one should not be hired for a job, just because according to “old paternalistic” standards they are not qualified.
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I was born and raised in Seattle, close to the U District. I shopped there all the time. Now, there’s a homeless tent around every corner, panhandlers on every other corner, frequent crime, and empty storefronts as businesses leave. Dystopia is here. And about 30% of the population is still wearing masks everywhere, which is almost as depressing.
In my opinion, the problem with our city council is that it is elected by districts. There are seven districts and two at-large positions. This is due to “Charter Amendment 19,” passed by voters in 2013. It has served to disrupt the flow of business and allow activists to be elected. I live in a district where my most recent ballot choice was between a leftist and a socialist. The socialist did not get elected but the leftist is just that. Very sadly, until this charter amendment is revoked/rescinded, there isn’t a lot of hope for anything less than an activist city council. We do have a new mayor (who did serve on the city council for 10 years, ahem) and he seems to be more of an adult than we’ve had lately.
Why can’t normal people run?
Well, in Seattle, one of the only places you’ll find ‘normal’ is a setting on a clothes dryer.
In seriousness, we have had several worthy candidates who were harassed mercilessly and have bowed out of races as a result. Our once Republican county prosecutor changed his party before the last election to Democrat. I believe this was due to his knowing a Republican would never again be elected in this region. It seems to be a blindness and outweighs reasonable discussion.
OK, but that does not sound like a Charter 19 problem. That sounds like the super majority are all for what is happening. If Normal people can’t run, then there are not enough to take over.
Sodom is going to be destroyed by God. If you are Lot, get out.
The mention of the Somali population brought back a memory from my teaching days in Seattle. Our principal set aside an area in the building where Muslims, mostly Somalis, could go to pray during the school day. No such privilege was granted to other religious groups. I don’t suppose that anyone is particularly surprised by that.
The thing is I have seen this done on the county level by our Democrats. First you beat on the cops and divert their money to soft services such as helping the poor or minorities or some feel good excuse. Then crime goes up then you go on a anti crime tear but, of course, you need to raise taxes to make the cops work again. Y0u you do major tax raising and the cops get things under control then you beat the cops up and take the money for your cronies again, rinse, repeat, over and over.
At my last place of employment, a Muslim employee took a small conference room to pray in the mornings. No one objected. Except me, but I said nothing.
Sometimes it is just easier that way, but I well understand your feelings.
If it’s any consolation, I only used the room a few times to shag substitutes.
Nah, just tell them there are kkk on every block, MAGA is a political party, and all the golf courses are in bad shape
R, check out the BB satire about Californians moving to Texas. Hilarious. And they are moving to get less taxes and regulation. And know what voting for Gov. French Laundry and his ilk did for them. Don’t think they will be a problem in Texas or Florida.