Walking Downtown Seattle's 3rd & Pike/Pine Corridor | Mayor’s "Operation New Day" To Address Crime
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- 8:30 AM Saturday March 5,2022
A narrated walking tour of Downtown Seattle's 3rd Ave and Pike/Pine Street corridor. There have been a couple of shootings in this area, and business have left and are leaving. Seattle mayor recently launched Operation New Day to address crime in downtown Seattle.
I'm narrating and commenting as I'm walking in this video, so I ask for some grace if I goofed up in certain parts. I really should do a sit down talk for these types of videos where I'm talking about sensitive topics, but I prefer to walk and talk. Anyway, I hope this video is informative and that you will enjoy.
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A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME…
My name is Dennis aka Lao Ocean (also aka Dr. Wtpho, but more about that later) and I'm a Lao American RUclipsr based in Seattle, WA (since 1980). My videos and vlogs consist of Seattle and Pacific Northwest content, food and product reviews, and travel. I drink way too much coffee and eat pho 20PHO7!
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Regarding someone who commented about the filming of homeless individuals...one of the reasons I watch your channel is in hopes to catch a glimpse of my son and daughter in law who are homeless there. I very much appreciate you making these videos. Thank you.
I hope you find them someday and that they are ok. 🙏🏼
I'm so sorry to hear that...you would probably find them around this particular area.
I don't think I've ever seen that corner so empty. I really hope the new plan works 🤞🏻Thanks for going down to check it out! Hopefully we get to see some great progress in the coming months!
the progress is coming but it's slow and a lot of work, you're bound to run into me someday w/ better weather coming/ peace out!
idk if it’s really “progress”… they’re just pushing people further into suburbs and away from the city center. doesn’t really solve anything. just makes elites feel better bc they can’t see it anymore.
w/ better weather that's the plan to do my rehab walking to the market then waterfront
Thank You….heading to the city shortly & appreciate your “walks.”
Looking forward to trying your favourite coffee places.
So good to see today’s video & a strong police presence.
Sad for the recent events…may the families & first responders be comforted.
Ah, Mr. Ocean, the philosophy went deep with this one... I get a lot of peace from your videos; from the excitement of the intro, the city views and details, hearing your commentary, and your wish for peace at the ending. What an excellent format. Thank you once again Sir...
Deep like the abyss? 😉
@@LaoOcean Deep like the Grand Canyon (a man who has a thing to tell)...😉🤞🏻
Thank you for your eye-opening, honest appraisal of current Seattle. I had been coming down to the city regularly from Vancouver BC since the 1970s, twice a year for the last two decades, and can't believe how much things have changed for the worst. it's been almost three years since my last visit due to the pandemic and your videos have been both nostalgic as well as amazingly sad and depressing. It's very disconcerting to see a once vibrant downtown area almost completely deserted and so many businesses closed presumably for ever. Hopefully, I will make a trek down there later this summer and things will have improved somewhat. Also, somebody please, please save the much loved Cinerama Theater, it's one of the few remaining downtown sites remaining from the 'old' days of the 1970s.
So appreciated this video. What a surprise! We were on Western Ave. - the backside of Pike Place Markets we just PASSED my , an Assisted Place facility! Since covid, we DO NOT get out to walk! And now most of us would not be safe walking alone. However, I still love SEAT
Hi Lao Ocean,
It’s so awesome to watch your videos and to see a fellow Southeast Asian American on RUclips. I am Khmer American and enjoy your videos with commentary. I’m planning to move to Seattle and am scoping out possible places to live and your videos have been helpful! Good luck to you! ❤
Thanks for watching and email me to reach out if you need help with neighborhoods, etc.
I'm born & erased in Seattle but hadn't been downtown for around 30 years. I was absolutely shocked when I saw it a few years ago & now it's even so much worse. And the last Mayor was an absolute joke! She just did not care about Seattle. We had a beautiful city but now it's destroyed.
current one is even worse
@@j.t.9666 how so?
It’s not destroyed. It’s just a little dirtied up.
Are you saying the new Mayer after Jenny Durkin is worse?
Are you saying the new mayor after Jenny Durkin is worse?
I appreciate your unbiased approach: Just show it as it is! Sure, I was sad to see some business close, but the regardless of which 'side' you are on, with the pandemic and the loss of foot traffic, some of that was inevitable. That said, it's still a beautiful location, an economically strong city, so I see hope with the new mayor's effort! Keep the videos coming, I love the view from the street.
Hey your being honest and telling the real truth and how gross the city has become!
Just found your channel. Very informative. I live in Tulsa. Our downtown has had major development in the last 15 years. But we are starting to have similar problems. What I have seen in my city is we don't treat the root of the problem. We don't need more shelters or food banks. We need free drug and alcohol treatment facilities. You've got a beatiful city!
You are spot-on. It's treatment first, not housing first. We have the same problem in my city in the SW, but I'm a Seattle native who left long ago. It was a beautiful city and very safe downtown, even at night, with people everywhere and so much to do.
Thanks for posting. Brought back so many memories.
In the 1940's and 1950's 1st avenue was a rough part of Seattle. For me not much has changed in terms of roughness. Good video walk.
I'm terrified to walk downtown after what happened this week. We NEED more safety. It's time for politicians to DO SOMETHING for these people who live on the streets without the bare minimum of dignity. Seattle is such a wealthy wealthy city and this is what we have to deal with
What happened?
@@Gngrcpl two people were murdered only 4 days apart...
They ain’t going to protect you. You have to protect yourself
You should listen to those fears.
I moved out after witnessing quite a number of violent crime incidents downtown.
@@j.t.9666during the day or after dark?
Thanks Lao for taking the time to show us the lay of the land.
Loved the walk and miss Seattle. I was last there November 2019.
Great one! Love the walking tour 👍👍 ciao from italy 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
I think your videos are a valuable historical resource. Thank you for your work.
Thanks for the walk. I haven't been for one there on 3rd Ave in a few years. I worked downtown during the mid 80s and 90s and loved it. Also lived on Capitol Hill late 70s to mid 80s. I used to walk all over town in those days and loved every minute of it haunting the bookstores, coffee shops, and wonderful little hole in the wall places to eat, and of course Pike Place Market where we did most of our grocery shopping every week. Weird to see it so empty, but glad to see the police presence. I hope the new Mayor Bruce accomplishes the revitalization.
Those were the best years! I love your comment as I did the same thing in the city and surrounding neighborhoods in the '80s and '90s. Sigh. I left 20 years ago and just hope it returns to some semblance of what we remember.
It will take time to clean up the mess the last mayor and her crew left, but I believe in us. We are a very young city, comparatively speaking, and we will learn from the errors made and rebuild.
Yes. I'm with you. Every major city has growing pains. I have tremendous faith in Seattle.
I've lived in Seattle effectively my entire life (born in '81) and in the last few years, the city has gone from bad, to worse, to untenable. Drugs and crime are out of control. I've met the mayor, he's a genuinely nice guy. I hope his plan actually works, but until people in this city acknowledge reality and stop with the naive daydreaming, I'm afraid it will be impossible. Aloha!
"Naive daydreaming" you hit the nail on the head Evan!
I'm going to go through all your Seattle walks over the last year to see if there's a transformation... Can't wait to see what's to come! Even tho I'm not walking around Seattle... You're my new walking buddy 😄... Thanks for the walk
Evil rules there. Some demons feel comfortable
Ron G Johnson - Seattle is a City. Like every city, there is good and bad. Don't demonize whole places or people.
Wow. Didn't hear about the 15 year old till this video. Thanks for informing us. Yeah, Seattle looks so different. Glad that Police Presence is picking up. That corridor is awful at night. Had to walk that way many times from The Art Institute, when I was in college years ago.
I quite enjoyed this video especially with your commentary. It's been a while since I last visited Seattle, but I'm guessing it is similar to what's happening up here in Vancouver. Looking forward to more of your walks.
I grew up here. When my parents moved here from LA they told me and my brother how different downtown Seattle used to be.
Donuts from Seattle made us happy too! I want to come back and visit one day.
I love these tours. Thank you!
this area of Seattle is on life support - stay safe everyone
Awesome video! Really enjoyed watching a new place I could visit one day!
It's actually crazy seeing these videos. I lived in Seattle from 2014-2017 before moving back to NYC. Here I've witnessed crime and the homelessness issue blow up to such an extreme level. I'm moving back to Seattle within the next year, hopefully.
Though it's a problem, all the videos and clips I find of homelessness and unsafe areas in Seattle still feel soooo much more safe than NYC (although yea, both are still pretty unsafe.)
In NYC there are no areas where the homeless haven't found sheltered, whereas what I'm seeing in Seattle from these videos is that they tend to congregate to one area. Not ideal, but it still feels to me like if you map out your points of interest, Seattle can be a beautiful time!
Definitely will plan a visit within the next few months to come tour it for myself
Man this brought back soooo many memories
I worked with the Homeless Downtown Seattle…25 years… I watch very carefully to see anyone I might know..Now Retired… But I won’t stop caring .
The last time I walked down Third Ave between Pike & Union was September. It was much different from your video on Saturday. There were many people on the sidewalk that day. Although they were just hanging out and I made it through 3rd Ave safely, I was worried the entire time.
We shall see how Seattle mayor’s Operation New New unfolds.🤞✌️
Is worth and safe to take a train to pike St?
@@somriddhy3176 yes
Started food delivery in Seattle in January. Did a stop at that McDonald’s and was surprised that nothing was being done about the area. Went back around and cops were rushing to a shooting. I’ve also done a stop at restaurant u did a video in little Saigon. It’s not people just hanging out, People dying there every other day through violence.
And dying from overdoses while the city does nothing. I've known two people who OD'd on the streets of Seattle and haven't even lived there in 20 years. Their addiction caused their homelessness, not the other way around like some want to believe.
Great video and great choice on Moore Coffee!! My fave!
this is super helpful for people who just moved to seattle
Love this video you are right by my dad’s old flat 1526 Western Ave. and you walked right by the pointe sculpture right at the bottom of the stairs that lead up to pike place market. You should’ve stopped there and checked it out… It’s supposed to be right where several lay lines Cross… Apparently Pike Place Market was built on sacred ground. And my dad created that sculpture from old cement from the waterfront And they positioned it right where several Leylines cross which means there’s supposedly energy there
Born & raised in Seattle (actually Seattle; I hate when I met people that say "oh I live in Seattle. Me: where? Them: Bellingham 🙄) I moved away in summer of 2019 for a variety of reasons. Went back to visit my family Oct of 2021, ALL the females I visited with had self defense weapons. The streets are looking more clean but empty of normal city life/business in your video.
Do you need to carry pepper spray waking downtown ?
The streets will go back to normal after it’s settled. I’ve seen it happen in 2015
I am so devastated to see this once beautiful "Queen City" gone down hill compared to the beautiful city oasis that I d experienced in the seventies when progressive Seattle was talked about as the number one place to visit and live in in the nation. But I also believe that the great people of Seattle will once again someday restore the shining city.
Hey Delusional jabberwok!! It's the "Emerald City". I'm pissed the fcuk off (hehehehe, a little San Fran for you). Amazon is leaving, Boeing is swan song-ing, and I am thinking (as a Seattle native) about moving to New York City again.
I live in London but spend a lot of time in Seattle (10 visits in 3 years). I’m downtown a lot because I travel through there for events regularly. It was eye opening to me how many people are struggling in the downtown & Pioneer Sq areas. I’d never before seen people in open states of psychosis at 11am downtown in a major city, screaming at passing buses… people visibly injecting in public in broad daylight. (London & the UK have our fair share of poor mental health & addiction but it doesn’t manifest as visibly, on major streets in broad daylight.) A social worker friend in the city warned me to stay away from the street where that McDonalds was, especially at night. As I understand it from local friends, the homeless population and people suffering with severe mental health disorders or addiction have been really abandoned by the city (and those who do take care of them aren’t well supported either.) I love Seattle but it’s a great shame to see so many of its people suffering like this.
Wow I haven't seen it this empty in a long time! My commute took me through that section of the city and I'd catch my bus home to Fremont at 3rd and Pine. Last I was there was this past October and it was full of vagabonds, junkies, transients mixed with regular every day folks trying to navigate around the filth. Having to stay vigilant every day was so draining and it was sad to see people suffering in one of the wealthiest cities in the US. I've since moved out of Seattle and haven't missed it.
Hi Dennis! Have you ever considered walking through any of the underground tunnels/passageways that connect parts of the city? I remember there was one that could take you from the Convention Center to 4th Ave. AS always, thank you for the great content. It's interesting to see how some parts of the city have changed and some remained completely as they were from when I lived there. ✌🏻
Good idea and may have to do this!
I appreciate you doing these videos tbh ignore the hate comments
I remember walking in the same areas that you are walking in and its such a shame to hear the terrible things going on in the area... Seattle is such a beautiful place especially when the skies are clear and u can see Rainier from pike place market.
You can please some of the people some of the time. But you can’t please all of the people all of the time! I Enjoy your videos!
The sooner we be honest and upfront admitting we got a problem we won't be able to get to the bottom and solve this homeless/drug/crime/mental problem
Looks like Butte except way bigger. Thanks for vid
eo.
i want to come over to Seattlke and take some pics for a day or two. Thanks
Yes, it really is just that one block on 3rd by the McDonalds. I like how you don't dramatize it. You show what it's actually like. I'm surprised that there isn't a huge crowd of drug addicts by the McDonalds, because that was the norm. I appreciate that Mayor Harrell is actually doing something, but i wish there was more transparency. What's his plan?
during the daylight hours, don't think it is as bad, I walked 3rd and pine Thursday to the market, had a pieroshky piesroskpierohsky in the StienBrueck park before the save our wild salmon rally, I'll continue and repeat with better weather, walking past Macy on pine st. said hello to a homeless guy who was just hanging out, and after he heard my story gave me a friendly half hug and pat on the back, we are all humane and part of the same Mother Earth
Thanks Lao for the downtown Seattle tour thru the war zone. Thank God for Seattle's Finest posted up keeping the area under control 🙏🏾
War zone? I don’t see any bombardment happening here. This isn’t Ukraine.
I’ll be visiting in May 2022 from San Diego, Ca. Hope things get better! It will definitely take time
I enjoy your videos! My cousins live in Olympia. Dennis you rock! Keep the vids coming!
Appreciate the video. Between Union and Steward along 3rd is usually where folks loiter around around all the boarded up store fronts. Most of them have left to elsewhere avoid the mobile police precinct showed up. I do hope we can find long term help for them. Interestingly, two blocks over along 1st by The Market, the city feels vibrant as ever with tourist and locals. Next time you're on Western by the way, stop at the Freya coffee shop, their pastries are amazing.
Also, did you just say to "drive through" The Market to find parking? I thought you were a local!
Drive through meaning going through the brick road. That road goes through the market.
Unless you're vending, delivering, or picking something up, it's never a good idea to drive on Pike Place. You'll grow three new gray hairs and have to go to the restroom by the time you get past all the pedestrians. It's better to take 1st Ave all the way to Virginia St to get to Western Ave for the parking garages.
@@rockjays7926 Nah I do it all the time
3rd Avenue is tough. Curious if you picked out the "worst" street from any major US City and walked that. I'm sure you'll find other rough streets, or do people think this only happens in Seattle? Also, 3rd Avenue was rough back in the 80's, when I used to wait for a bus there, so this isn't new. Hopefully some resources can be applied to help people who congregate there.
I just try to show what’s here. I know NY, Chicago, LA are rougher cities. I’m not comparing or wanting to debate. Simple as that.
I used to transfer at that bus stop late at night in the early '90s to catch a bus up to 85th/Aurora. It was absolutely nothing like this or what I've seen in videos from even a year ago (I left Seattle two decades ago). The pimps were the biggest annoyance at that bus stop and I knew how to handle them as I'd been running around the streets of Seattle since I was 13. I probably caught the bus there back then, too, but can't recall. I'm not sure why our tour guide needs to do a comparison of anything. He's a Seattleite and he's simply showing us what it looks like today. I live in a high-crime city full of filth, vice, wrongdoers, heroin-addicted homeless and so on, but want better for my Emerald City as this place is utterly hopeless and probably always was.
Hello! I’m new to your channel and enjoy it very much. Keep up the great work. Have you video/walk around South Lake Union yet?
Will hit up Lake Union eventually.
Does this new operation also go into West Seattle? I need Delridge cleaned
I like this walking tour. One day I'd like to visit Seattle.
great comment, thanks
Former Seattle resident. Coming for a visit in May. Do you ever walk Seattle Center or International District?
It looks great! Wow he’s already made a ton of progress getting addicts off the street.
I wish I can visits Seattle. Your walking show is really nice here in Toronto shows just creates drama and clickbait thumbnail . Nice to watch a positive walking show . Good job 👍
Johnny Strides is a walking show in Toronto, I think. Have you checked him out?
@@LaoOcean yes I don’t like him at all. His thumbnails are clickbait and he shames people on his videos. like some places If security objects he puts them on video and argues to create drama. I like “ J Corb” he is from Montreal. His videos are quiet and only selected informative talks. No drama and bashing fellow walkers on street.
I left there in 1967 and I'm so grateful to be away from there. Never found one honest person there in 18 years of residency
New to Seattle, have yet to go to pike place market!! But not sure if it’s safe :/ is japantown safe to go to?
it's safe, just avoid the drug infested areas at night, during the day it's more liv and let liv
Would be safe to ride the Lite Rail from the airport to the University stop, we are staying at the Fairmont downtown. We would be walking to hotel around 6:30 pm. Should we taxi or Lyte from the airport? It just a mom and my 2 kids.
Light rail will be fine.
Have you done a Bellevue walk????Would love to see one
Not yet but will
Thanks for the video. Do you ever walk Seattle Center or International District? Planning on a visit in May.
I have many videos of both. Feel free to check out my video library.
No! Steak n Shake closed!! That’s so sad!
To your point about hate comments, just keep doing your thing and use the block and delete buttons as needed. The more your video blows up, the more negative comments will find you, no matter the subject or your take on it.
So true and a good reminder.
Omg who you telling. I was born in 85 but 13 yrs later I hit pike and pine st Seattle and man 99 was the yr for me in Seattle. This a wholeeeee nather life
When it hits rock bottom I plan to invest. This city and it's surrounding area is overdue for a big correction.
Is during daylight hours ok to walk around
I am constantly praying for the city of Seattle, I pray that God uses me some how some way to save this city from the darkness that hovers over it. If anyone is interested in helping me with that please let me know, we can all do something about this, it takes all of us.
I love this. I’ve been feeling this way too. Maybe our light can help save it.
Your prayers aren't working...
What darkness specifically "hovers" over Seattle, and how will embracing Absurd Ancient Mythology and talking to yourself in your head help it.
Great video keep making them do what you like do your own New Day
i hope the city will be safe to walk and enjoy...it is a beautiful place. I choose not to have a car so making the streets safe is a huge plus for me :)
Gonna document what I notice too: I see a janitor... I hope that new businesses come in or older ones return after this clean up happens (Going on the idea that it's successful...), Yes. The mayor sounds angry at the BS that's been running rampant in this once relatively safe town. Hopefully it is successful and hopefully Portland can adopt the same thing. Portland was a completely safe and playful town when I was a kid (minus a few select areas...) I'm impressed with how empty the pike and 3rd area looked compared to the night of December 22nd... I know it's too early to pat anyone on the back yet but I certainly am impressed by the "so far" progress. I just hope his message of "We will NOT tolerate this in our city" is getting echoed and the message is being received. Just sucks that it A: took this long especially with stabbings, muggings and shootings and B: that it's tainted a lot of peoples perception of this city. Not that some other cities haven't gone through similar but... Ok so heres my take on the homeless: I've met a lot of cool dudes that were unfortunately homeless. I've met a lot of people that were genuinely great people and all that. THAT RIGHT THERE is what makes this even worse because when the crack headed people or the angry people lose control of themselves, they tend to do VERY bad things to others. VERY. And you never know who it could be! The mayor of beaverton is under investigation for child p*** possession. When I talked to him at the Christmas tree lighting event, he seemed like a very genuine hardworking dude, who even told me "If more people paid their taxes we could do more awesome stuff like this!" So... No. It's not homelessness or even drugs really. It's public intoxication. It's violence and crime. It's whats being exposed to our kids (Literally and figuratively.)
Thank you for your walking tour of my once-beautiful and -bustling hometown that I left long ago. There is only one right side. The wrong side is the urban decay you now see and all the deaths that could have been prevented with more policing, treatment facilities, and less misguided compassion. I've known a couple of people who OD'd from heroin on the streets up there while the city and residents simply enabled them to death instead of offering real solutions to the root cause of unsheltered, chronic homelessness: heroin, the new meth, and now fentanyl. I hope the new mayor can turn this around and make Seattle the Emerald City it deserves to be. He has a mountain larger than Mt. Rainier on his shoulders and the country is watching. Seattle is now the example of the gross failure of progressive politics. Other cities need to take heed, including mine.
Pretty ballsy of you. I miss walking Downtown
I think the corridor is probably safe enough during the day, bad rime of day would be at night when rgey deal fentanyl in the cover of darkness
Hey friend. When was this filmed? We are coming there in April.
This morning
Thank you. Well done.
From the comments it seems like people would prefer to pay for people to be locked up, instead of paying to have them in housing/treatment. Do i have that right?
What's the name of the coffee shop?
Moore Coffee Shop
@@LaoOcean thanks!
Just means they pushed the problems to a different part of town.
People gonna people. Just live your life Lao and run channel how you want. it's yours after all!
the trash on 3rd is terrible, a bad reflection of the times, no pride or respect our city, past time to take back our city, operation new day deserves our suport
I miss my boyfriend even more by watching every single new video come up 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭❤❤
You are brave
#2 Correction for comment below. Erased was suppose to be raised. My computer's broken & makes up it's own sentences.
It looks dead in part because it's 8:30 on a Saturday morning. And the pandemic. I trust it will largely come back.
This looks a lot more passive than it actually is. Drug use is high with the homeless. I've had a homeless dude start "clubbing" me with his arm (he had no hand so it was literally a nubb at the end of his arm). The shootings are making me re-route how I get to work using public transportation - in the daytime I think it's okay, but at night and on weekends is when particular "characters" come out making you feel unsafe. As long as you look like you are going somewhere, you are fine, but as soon as you stop or look "lost", that's when I've noticed you become a target.
This was early morning and police were there, so yeah.
There's a lot of ideas out there about why Seattle has changed so much and some areas that were once vibrant now seem empty or even unsafe. I'm not sure that anyone really knows for sure, but there are also a lot of misunderstandings. For example, while a lot of businesses have closed along 3rd avenue, there are other places in the city that are thriving (Like Capitol Hill, Ballard, U-District.) Even Pioneer Square has kind of waffled a bit. It was showing signs of decline many years ago. Now it seems like it's beginning to come back a little bit. And Magic Mouse Toys is impressively still going strong! So while things have certainly changed a lot, it isn't necessarily that everything is getting worse. Things are just shifting. I suspect that much of it can be explained as growing pains from the population explosion, largely riven by the tech industry, which has brought not only brought more people, but specifically people with higher incomes. This has driven up housing prices much faster than residential construction can keep up, especially with all the low density zoning we have in this city. Add to that the effect that we are an Amazon town and the general impact that online retail has had on brick-and-mortar retail everywhere, but maybe more such in such a tech-savvy city. Finally, there is the huge impact of the pandemic these past few years, which has probably been the biggest driver of retail businesses folding. And of course, following that was layoffs and job losses for people who were already low income. Change is hardest on the poor.
Thank you for taking the time to share your assessment. 👊
I’d kill to move there fyi you past the moor Theater a few bands I like have played that place
Your videos depict some pretty sad shit about a one time great city with great people living their. Its trashed now! Maybe if people return to love the area all will be good again. Good Luck!
East coat resident. Never been to Seattle, have not read a single comment to this video be for I post this comment. 1 there was nobody there, it was totally dead. 2 if we are trying to fear unfortunate people, they were not there either. 3 I don't know Seattle's politics but it from your video it sounds like the new mayor wants to just move the problem to out of sight out of mind, and it sounds like your OK with that 4. The addiction and homelessness problems are not simple, they need a massive investment in UBI, social housing, transitional housing, old school rooming houses, etc
It was 8:30 am. Maybe read the description next time.
Wow! That is so sad. Was the young man killed part of a gang thing or do you know. Hate to see beautiful Seattle looking so old and trashy. Hope the police chief can do something, but what do you do to the many people that are homeless. They need help too. I think when you give factual information I don't know how people can get mad but people are so weird no days, it doesn't take much. So sad. Again Dennis, you are never going to please everyone. Do what you do and they can watch something else if they don't like it! Unfortunately, if you do something like this, you need a thick skin. Love your video's, keep informing us of what's going on.
people of Seattle care and will prevail back to a better town
Good idea man.
Documenting trash areas is not being negative
Oh my god. It's not that bad at all. I've lived here for twenty years. I'm from inner City Chicago. Trust me. It's not that bad at all. Memphis, Atlanta, Tulsa, Miami, Little Rock are all way more dangerous. Even including the recent uptick in crime Seattle remains one of the safest big cities in America. Oh no! Downtown has crime! Really? What a shock. Good thing 90% of the city isn't DOWNTOWN!
Careful on 3rd and pike/pine might get stabbed or shot, numbers of victims have been rising the last couple of weeks
🙏🏻👍🏼
Doesn’t look as bad as when I was last there (2019)
Police are there now that’s why… due to shootings