The fact of the matter is the police have to knock some heads. This has always been the way of things. Fair bit of jail, fair bit of help/charity, little bit of smart law (drive drug use indoors for starters,) a fair bit of involuntary mental confinement, little bit of head knocking. That's how you kickstart the virtuous cycle. *Naturally this will be "distasteful" to the naive, to the many Pollyanna fools native to Seattle.* Too bad. Keeping civic order is not simple. It's complicated, and the easiest way to keep civic order without jailing 2% of the population isn't always pleasant.
Ever since the chop protest seattle pd is playing games. They want to act with impunity and the people of seattle said no and as a result response times and enforcement are jokes. I don’t believe in defunding police but police leadership is punishing the voters for wanting accountability. We need new leadership and to properly train and compensate pd. Not defund them.
Hi Kimberly, Seattle is actually quite safe and plenty of fun. Nobody has rain forests, tall mountains, oceanfront, lakes, and beautiful desert all within a 2 Hour Drive. Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting channels 4KOMO and 13 KPCQ make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
Everybody keeps talking about how "Seattle was so great 10 years ago" and all but I went once about 15 years ago and it was a dump then if you ask me lol
@@chucksneed5405agreed. This was never a decent city. I live in south Seattle because its the only place I can afford in the city and the lawlessness is obscene. Just last night I had guns pointed at me. I'm shocked it happened and extremely lucky I was left alone
In 2011 5 things drastically changed seattle forever: liquor was made retail at the grocery stores, marijuana was decriminalized, the occupy movement brought in an influx of displaced youth and Big City crime, and oxycontin was discontinued, thereby making drug dealers develop what is known as “pure heroin” or smokable heroin which later evolved into the fentanyl epidemic. This confluence of changes rocked our city and we’ve been reeling ever since. I love Seattle, always will, it will always be home, but the chaos of complexity physics will eventually end with all our demise. Better become a nihilist now and save yourself some grief. 🎉
There is a difference between "not perfect" and "absolutely awful". What a lot of apologists for the state of the city don't seem to get is it's possible to just want things to be better, or "alright". If you've been in a city for 10-15 years and only seen it get worse... it's obvious and logical you'd want it to at least improve, because you know it used to be better and wasn't hard to be better, and it's depressing for it to only get worse. It's not that we're asking for it to be a utopia, we're just asking for it to be basically functional.
Hollywood and the music industry have not helped. Little to no expectations of good behavior. No snitching policy for people being shot in the streets, all you conservative liberals are advocating Anarchy. The reason some songs and rap music give you chills as because it was a human sacrifice and there is a dying man on his last breath bleeding to death gasping for air and sucking blood into his lungs. You paid for it, and you allowed it to happen. Black lives matter only when police misconduct isn't question? What a ridiculous notion black lives should matter when criminals are shooting innocent black folks in the street no matter the color or ethnicity of the assailant. And we're talking about something that's frequently and happening daily. Peter Parker Spider-Man paradox. Don't expect lawlessness to stay in one area. The laws are already on the books police and politicians need to enforce them one way circumvent all the bull crap is to file a lawsuit against the city and the police department it's not a strike it's a slow down and police need to be held accountable
@@lonebikeroftheapocalypse9527 Ignorance is bliss, huh? Ronald Reagan shut down mental hospitals. Fact! Since the 80’s you had crazy people creating havoc in our communities, thanks to republicans.
Hell no. If you loved here long enough WE ALL KNOW why the city is the way it is..from the dumb laws on the books that let continual offenders out to the homeless issue that the city counxil/mayor put kid gloves on so the activists don't call em out as less than progressive. At the end of the day its the over progressivism/liberalism killing Seattle
Hell no. If you loved here long enough WE ALL KNOW why the city is the way it is..from the dumb laws on the books that let continual offenders out to the homeless issue that the city council/mayor put kid gloves on so the activists don't call em out as less than progressive. At the end of the day its the over progressivism/liberalism killing Seattle
Seattle p.d. has been playing games since the last huge protest/chop. They’re mad there is no more mollie wopping people without recourse. They are taking it out on voters which is smart of them.
I have a suggestion make drugs legal, allow public drunkenness, disband the police, don’t charge criminals for minor crimes, allow people to violate public and private property, hand out needles, let people crap and pee on the side walks. Ow 😮 wait you did that already! Maybe try the opposite?
The matter is rather simple: criminal behavior is being tolerated by the city as evidenced by an outright refusal to arrest and prosecute lawbreakers. That is being taken as encouragement, resulting in an explosion of crime that's costing Seattle dearly. If you won't change that, starting with the understanding that a free, peaceful, and decent society is possible only through fair, firm, and consistent law enforcement ... and then making choices for your society in affirmation of that understanding ... then what are you expecting? I understand about being compassionate to the less fortunate, but that's a two-way street. When the "less fortunate" have no compassion to give you in return, what then? Your compassion is wasted on those who only see it as an opportunity to immorally exploit at your expense.
I live just 45 minutes away from Seattle and I refuse to take any of my money (other than the taxes taken from me and funneled there) into that place. The city counsel IS the reason I refuse.
@@theminister1154 Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
@@ashlyknapp1798 Nothing about what you just said changes the tragedy that is Seattle. You're just trying to "whataboutism" your way to feeling better about the _GARBAGE_ policies you voted for. I don't care what your crap religionpolitics are Ashly. I don't even care if you are right about Sinclair, which you probably are. *I don't care if you are Che Fucking Guevara, you are still an IDIOT to vote Democrat in a West Coast city.* I told this to my family at Christmas, and fortunately they mostly listened: vote however you want State and national, but unless your town always goes Republican at the city council / town manager level, _YOU VOTE REPUBLICAN FOR CITY GOVERNMENT._ Every time, every position. Furthermore when your city a. decriminalizes dealer size possession (couple grams+) of hard drugs + b. outdoor drug use is tolerated + c. a tent camp appears & perseveres you _sell your houses._ All of them. To do otherwise is literally the definition of insanity. And you know it Ashly. You'll probably give me more whataboutism bullshit, but somewhere inside you know I'm right.
That is a good description, I was wondering why the tone of the discussion was so odd to me. Why are they not much angrier? This is just a bunch of carefully phrased exchanges, though some of those business owners seem quite desperate, understandably.
Police officers are not being let do their job! Many members from police force lost motivation when doing their job, the get the bad guys and take them to jail and the bad guys get out the next day to do the same exact thing again and again. People need to be helped to to get out of drug dependency. Many addicted to drugs do not have the ability to choose to stop anymore.
@@arronbrown7753THESE PEOPLE GOT WHAT THEY ASKED FOR. I TOLD THESE PEOPLE WHAT WOULD HAPPEND NOW THEY ARE CRYING ABOUT THE CRIME IN BALLARD. YOU DO NEED THE POLICE SOMETIMES SILLY PEOPLE
WHY???? THEY ARE THE ONES THAT ASKED FOR THIS SHIT!!!! YOU CANT JUST BE SO QUICK TO RUN AND MARCH OR PROTEST FOR SOMETHING AND NOT THINKING OF THE DAMAGE THAT IT WOULD CAUSE. YOU KNOW THESE PEOPLE IN SEATTLE LOVE TO MARCH AND PROTEST JUST TO FEEL LIKE THEY ARE A PART OF SOMETHING LOL
Addiction services???!???!!! How about punishment? Incarcerate the druggies and get them OFF THE STREETS AND PROTECT THE PUBLIC FROM THESE DANGEROUS CRIMINALS. Provide treatment for addiction in jail, but demand that the addicts get off their drug of choice and don’t release the inmates until they are not actively addicted. What the authorities are doing now harms both the addicts (they simply stay addicted and create crime and nuisance) and the public.
Why waste tax dollars? Putting them in jail solves nothing.... The solution is to stop wasting tax dollars on narcan, if people want to kill themselves with nasty drugs let them. We shouldn't be giving narcan to anyone, not even Hunter Biden.
@@derek5333 Putting the druggies in jail separates them from the public, protecting the law abiding citizens from harassment on the streets, theft and other crimes perpetrated by addicts in search of money to support their drug habit.
@@Bernharp1 ... No it enables them to re offend , over and over and over again, our jail system keeps them addicted while they are locked up, then releases them to re offend, keeping the tax dollars flowing through the corrupt system, stop giving them narcan when they overdose, and enact death penalty for dealers of meth, opioids. Not many people would sell opioids or meth if they knew they would get a speedy trial followed by death, not many young people would try hard core drugs if it was properly associated with death.... Dealers are dealing death, users are commiting slow sometimes instant suicide/death. Politicians and prisons are getting rich, tax payers are suffering. I'm a father my children will never try meth or opioids because I raised them properly, my children shouldn't have to pay tax dollars towards the corrupt revolving door of incarcerated junkies, neither should you or I or our grandkids. This bleeding heart virtue signaling towards the scum of the earth has to stop... Let nature take it's course with users, and let the death ☠️ penalty take care of the murderous dealers. That's the real solution's.
My business is protected by my friends Smith and Wesson. If government won't take care of the problem then you either give up and leave or stand your ground and deal with the problem in a manner that works and cleans up the situation.
The city council should be doing more to help the city, not the criminals. Criminals should be in prison, not homeless on the streets. Make it a felony to sleep on the streets. i know it's hard to accept. But the streets need to be cleaned up to help. Make thefts a felony again.
Very sad but so many have been saying these same things for years. Nothing ever changes. These liberal policies obviously are not working. I’m totally apathetic at this point. Seattle gets what it deserves if they keep voting these officials.
That’s very stupid of you to say that. Crimes are really high under conservative policies too. Look at Huston, Texas, it’s famous for child sex trafficking, look at Jackson Mississippi, you can even go out safely after dawn. It’s nothing to do with liberal or conservative politics. A lot of these criminals and homeless are not even from Seattle or Washington States.
Oh seattle dems are the worse, sure they parade around saying they give a @##$ about disenfranchised people but they really don’t. . A huge chunk of wa dems are like old school republicans (republicans who were motivated by fiscal policy and not r@cism). Look at our tax policy. It ain’t “liberal” I’ll tell you that much. I say this as a liberal. Some liberal issues make me wince but we do have a problem with racism, police brutality, and income disparity. Things have gotten worse ever since seattle pd has been playing games since chop protest. Seattle pd wants a carte Blanche when it comes to their policy and ever since the people of seattle has said no response times have become unacceptable.
These owners are the type of ppl who condone “reducing harm” initiatives, so here ya go. Ppl today are taking advantage of the loose enforcement of Seattle laws in the past. The homeless class is eating this “small business” owner class. Small changes won’t lead to impactful change.
I worked as a security guard for a few years in town. I quit after the second time I had a hypodermic needle pulled on me. Good luck to the rat hole that that place is.
I love Seattle. I wish the city cared about its tax players as much as it did its criminals. And I wish its law abiding citizens would stop allowing themselves to be victims.
Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting(channels 4 KOMO and 13 KCPQ) make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
I'm rooting for yall. Just please stay there... but for real please don't move somewhere else- it's actually worse everywhere else I swear no reason to leave just stick it out it should be turning around any time now
This panel is like an aging Lefty hipster lineup. "Number 4, take two steps forward and vote against the safety of your women, children and livelihood." Thank you, step back, Number 2...
It’s FkD up that the insurances that these businesses pay *THOUSANDS* of dollars into will drop them. Also, this conversation needs to be had in every major city right now.
I doubt anyone likes insurance companies. But in the end, they're looking to make money. If the money coming in are less than the money going out, that's bad business.
20:30..."this is not about property crime"...uh, honey, YES IT IS. Safety or no safety, property being destroyed , vandalized, stolen, whatever...is the problem. That property then has to be replaced, repaired, or secured WITH THE BUSINESS OWNER'S OWN MONEY. Wake up, lady.
When I moved here in the mid-1970s it was impossible not to get in a discussion with someone at the bus stop. Everybody greeted you with a smile and welcome people from away. Now all cities have a homeless problem and few people want to become police anymore. Besides that Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
This City Council needs to go! They don't understand business nor the safety of citizens living in or visiting Seattle. I say that as a liberal Democrat, though enough is enough. They are driving business out of the city and making our beautiful city into a national punchline. The City Council have failed Seattle. The homeless crisis hasn't been dealt with at all, instead they treat the homeless as if they're paying the taxes and visiting the city building the economy.
So sad what’s happening in Seattle 😢 I feel their frustration! I always enjoyed a good beer in Ballard area, but these days it’s too risky to be in any area in Seattle. We need to pressure the legislation to fund the police, social services, affordable housing, and really a law that prohibits homeless in the city streets. Many come from other states because they know Seattle is an “easy” city to camp 😡
They've had 2-3 years to do it, only costs a $300 bus ticket to come from all over the country. Oh and people in Seattle are probably the easiest people I have ever meant to walk all over.
Sharing this video ...hope the judicial system enforces laws that act as a deterrent to people coming to Seattle for drug use. Seattle needs to bring the citizens out to vote in the primaries for candidates who say, "Not here, not in my hometown" We all know teenagers go to the house where no parents are home. It's really that simple. But is not a one-man job...and the newest mayor cannot achieve this alone! If you're not voting for laws to be enforced , you're not helping Seattle.
Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting(channels 4 KOMO and 13 KCPQ) make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
The council member is full of crap. Everything the council mentioned is not working. It’s time to get heavy handed - nothing has been said about those who do not want help.
"I'm sympathetic to people who feel like they need to break into a place to get something." Really? You shouldn't be. This group delusion is why it got this bad in the first place.
These Deep Blue areas get no tears from me. Nothing will change. They will continue to vote for the same policies that caused these problems so eat up. You made the sandwich, so Bon appétit🎉
I don't feel sorry for any of these people. I really don't. You GET WHAT YOU VOTE FOR and next election you will vote for the same people who keep doing this to you.
Let these businesses withhold their taxes from the city so they can hire their own security. In my Rainier Valley neighborhood policing consists of officers driving around in paramilitary vehicles responding to 911 calls. No patrols, no traffic enforcement, nothing more. Sara Nelson is a train wreck.
What do you suggest to stop crime now against small shopkeepers? I have never known police to stop a crime in action? I never see police, anywhere on walking patrols. What happened to walking the beat?
Nothing will change if crime is enabled and there are no consequences. Incarceration costs taxpayers, 60-100 thousand a year per prisoner. Additionally new prisons will cost millions and nobody wants them in their backyard.
The only way for Seattle to have change is to change who is in office for Washington state.....learn a few things from Florida's governor. And I said a few have to start small .
Hope this meeting will help! I feel that Mayor Harrell should be present. However it may do little to no good since the Dem's defunded the police because police can't protect the businesses being damaged. Watch 'Fight for the Soul Of Seattle' that bicyle owner was told straight up by police 'we can't protect your business'. That poor guy had to close up shop & move.
Despite massively high taxes, gov't is not doing it's most important job, guaranteeing property rights (which includes personal safety). Some would argue that after administering free and fair elections, guaranteeing property rights (including personal safety) is the ONLY thing gov't should be doing. But in Seattle, we're doing just about everything EXCEPT this. Everyone on this panel, and the city council member knows exactly what needs to be done, but they won't say it, they can't bring themselves to say it, because it is verboden. Hiring more police won't help if you're going to continue to neuter them and tie their hands behind their back. Removing these regulations won't help if prosecutors aren't going to prosecute, or there aren't enough of them to do their job. Hiring enough prosecutors who will actually prosecute won't help if judges/juries won't convict and impose meaningful sentences. Meaningful sentences won't help if criminals will just be released after serving a fraction of their sentence. And throwing all the money in the world at all the drug and addiction counseling imaginable won't help if the addict doesn't genuinely want to quit, and the vast majority of them don't. Anyone who truly knows addiction, knows this. The system is broken on so many levels it's absolutely shameful. And so again, despite some of the highest taxes in the country, the most important thing, arguably the only thing gov't should be doing, it is failing to do.
AGREED! The hilarious thing is that these people really believe that coddling criminals and drug addicts is the right thing to do - but this is exactly what CAUSED their problems! SMH
Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
@@Jb-ib6yz agree but shouldnt we start with the biggest criminals first like walstreet, bankers, realtors, foreing investors, debt-sellers, tax-dodgers, bomb-droppers, insider-traders, corrupt politicians? The entire lower & middle class america needs mental asylum beacue of what capitalism did to them ie enslavement and abuse.
You're dreaming if you think the big criminals will go quietly or quickly. Clean up the low hanging fruit. But honestly it should all be happening at the same time. If justice were truly blind.
I love our state. I do not like the people who are running this state into the ground. Our election system is pathetic! Soft on crimes, no good. Bring back real education, Prayer, pledge of allegiance to our flag because we LOVE our country.
Not. One. Solution. Nothing offered, no plans, no ideas. Parrot what has been said by the business owners, nod your head and agree with them. Then speak vapidly about the fact that you aren't, in fact, even able to respond to simple emergencies. No solution offered, no explanation, nothing. Multiple business owners asking, "who do we call in real time, during a crisis?" Answer? Call the hotline that doesn't answer the phone, where you can't leave a message, and tells you NOT to call 911. Do that, ok? Or, call the folks who says they'll be there in a week. Maybe. Do that, ok? Super sorry 'bout all your problems or whatever you were saying, but you're welcome for all we've done for you. Any more questions you'd like me to not answer or avoid?
@@ashlyknapp1798 I do, but I myself am not an elected official, tasked specifically with, and being paid money for coming up with a solution. That is LITERALLY why they have a job, and collect a paycheck. However, that simple obligation is clearly far too much for the people who, again, got the job and continue to collect a paycheck, that you and I pay, while not doing said job. So, while I appreciate the attempt to, as quickly as possible, change the subject away from these simple facts, I myself can't skip over the fact that the people taking money from you and I, specifically to solve this problem, refuse to do so. At our expense. I am not interested in turning that around on someone in a diluted form of what-about-isms and "what's your idea then?", however far too many others are. What is the point of ANY plan, if the city won't carry it out, no matter who's plan it is? Laws unenforced, business needs ignored, along with the safety of the people, neglected every single day. Maybe, just maybe, we could START there? The simple act of people who are being paid to DO a job, actually doing that job. How much lower of a bar would you like? Should we chew their food for them as well?
We all live in an area where only 5% is middle class or better. The great sea of desperation is going to breed crime. Drugs and homelessness are just the most visible part of the problem and the easiest to blame. This is a systemic problem, not a policy issue.
Yeah bro we should give everyone needles and checks to buy drugs and let them keep robbing businesses until everyone moves out of the hell hole that is downtown Seattle. And maybe then we can sing kumbayah and do fentanyl together!
@@pieswimmer1 Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting(channels 4 KOMO and 13 KCPQ) make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
You CAN'T solve people's problems if they don't want your help! WORRY ABOUT YOURSELVES! Feeling sorry for criminals is what got you in this predicament in the first place!!
We can’t forget how lucky we are as Washingtonians and Seattlieites to live in such a special and beautiful part of the world. We are some of the most warm-hearted, loving and caring people and we cannot let our obstacle change us and obscure us from continuing to be ourselves. I love our state and I have faith that we will rise again and rise above our challenges. Stay strong Washingtonians and Seattleites, we will reclaim our beautiful cities.
"We are some of the most warm-hearted, loving and caring people" Seattleites really do like huffing their own gas. The Seattle Freeze exists for a reason...
@@MK_ULTRA420 introduce yourself to your neighbors. Say hello and wish good afternoon or good morning as you pass people on the street. Let the other car go ahead of you. Walk with a smile. Keep defrosting our city.
I live in Seattle 26 years i love Seattle and American i just sad the government and sad for some working hard Americans i come here 26 years and the shop and restaurants are open right now the crime broken anything the government encourage people no working and give the people money i so sad for the American
@@ashlyknapp1798 i would do 2 things to start: A) ban forein and institutional investors buying up housing and force sale them within 6 months. B) ban empty units. All units must be rented out or sold. I would only allow investors to invest in businesses and mandate they hire US citizens and raise taxes on large companies and stop sending money to foreign countries.
I hope the crime never stops, and I hope the crime drives them out of business. I hope the stress so much about the situation as they develop terminal illnesses.
Sometimes people won't change until ,they are truly suffering. The people of Seattle have clearly declared that they need to suffer horribly in order to see the light.
Sarah Nelson...like a therapist...I hear you...nothing else. she has no ideas because it wouldn't be PC enough for her. It's called police presence. There used to be an island, McNeil Island... that had services food, counseling.
Oh dear we are travelling there for a few days in September after a cruise. We are coming from Australia and was really looking forward to it but now I feel like we should stay in our hotel 😢.
Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage. Most crimes are relegated to the south end of town and somewhat the center. Seattle is 1 of the newest most dynamic cities on the planet Earth. Most crime against people happen late at night often after midnight. For the most safety and best location stay around Queen Anne Hill around Seattle center. Before you go cruise or home please stop at many of our wonderful stores and take-home plenty of trinkets and all of our delicious legal intoxicants.
So many people here are destitute, living in despair. It's not hard to figure out why there's crime and drug use. Would have liked to hear the perspectives of unhoused folks...
Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
Sip&ship is the goat. Love how they don't blame others for their problems they just continue to uplift and support the community. I love how they aren't afraid to stick up for the disenfranchised. I remember when they they stood up for the homeless while every other business was blaming the homeless for the robberies. The karma was real when homeless that camped at the church across the street stopped sip&ship from being robbed after closing. Greenwood had a big up take in robberies by people with trucks and forklifts, things I'm sure homeless don't have access to, every break in I saw was a clean cut clearly not homeless man. After the homeless helped stop a robbery the cities response was to remove the church sanctioned homeless camp.
Simple fix, put up a fenced-in compound, and charge up (then convict) people for vagrancy.....90 days at a time. Make it clear....either you leave Seattle or you get locked up. If you have reluctant prosecutors/judges/city council members....help them fill out a resume and find 'work' elsewhere.
Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
The blue jacket guy in the screen cap looks like Professor X from Xmen but he's undercover as a west coast guy being interviewed about his trashy city going down the drain lol.
Really disappointed in Sarah Nelson. Absolutely not one substantive thing she could offer up for what the council might be working on to help. She was tongue tied. Seems there wasn’t any preparation on her part for the gathering. Wow.
After listening to the part of the record about the solutions’: guys, there is no solution offered here. No one wants to do what it takes to relieve some of the problem. We’re gonna keep spending more, and attracting more drug addicts. It will only go worst. Good luck guys with your business ! My opinion is: the downtown of Seattle, and the city is not an appropriate location for people who have no desire to participate into the city. Drug addicts are only there to be taken care of, because they know that Seattle is providing everything for free. If my child was a drug addict, the only thing I would want for him is to be cured. The only solution is to get rid of drug, and get everybody out of those addictions. Obviously, in this system, many people have no interest whatsoever to get those drug addicts getting better. Many people would lose their title and their jobs if suddenly, they were no more drug addicts in the city. The first thing would be to create incentive in finding real solutions. But for now, the leaders have too many interest in managing the problem- Instead of solving it.
Seattle won’t help business owners, residents, or tourists. Rip Seattle.
The fact of the matter is the police have to knock some heads. This has always been the way of things. Fair bit of jail, fair bit of help/charity, little bit of smart law (drive drug use indoors for starters,) a fair bit of involuntary mental confinement, little bit of head knocking. That's how you kickstart the virtuous cycle. *Naturally this will be "distasteful" to the naive, to the many Pollyanna fools native to Seattle.* Too bad.
Keeping civic order is not simple. It's complicated, and the easiest way to keep civic order without jailing 2% of the population isn't always pleasant.
Lousy leadership.
Nah, let it burn.
Ever since the chop protest seattle pd is playing games. They want to act with impunity and the people of seattle said no and as a result response times and enforcement are jokes.
I don’t believe in defunding police but police leadership is punishing the voters for wanting accountability. We need new leadership and to properly train and compensate pd. Not defund them.
Seattle is only willing to help the homeless and criminals
The crime stopped me from freely visiting Seattle now. I feel like things drastically changed in 10 years.
Last time I enjoyed Seattle was 2013-2014.
Hi Kimberly, Seattle is actually quite safe and plenty of fun. Nobody has rain forests, tall mountains, oceanfront, lakes, and beautiful desert all within a 2 Hour Drive. Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting channels 4KOMO and 13 KPCQ make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
Everybody keeps talking about how "Seattle was so great 10 years ago" and all but I went once about 15 years ago and it was a dump then if you ask me lol
@@chucksneed5405agreed. This was never a decent city. I live in south Seattle because its the only place I can afford in the city and the lawlessness is obscene. Just last night I had guns pointed at me. I'm shocked it happened and extremely lucky I was left alone
In 2011 5 things drastically changed seattle forever: liquor was made retail at the grocery stores, marijuana was decriminalized, the occupy movement brought in an influx of displaced youth and Big City crime, and oxycontin was discontinued, thereby making drug dealers develop what is known as “pure heroin” or smokable heroin which later evolved into the fentanyl epidemic. This confluence of changes rocked our city and we’ve been reeling ever since. I love Seattle, always will, it will always be home, but the chaos of complexity physics will eventually end with all our demise. Better become a nihilist now and save yourself some grief. 🎉
There is a difference between "not perfect" and "absolutely awful". What a lot of apologists for the state of the city don't seem to get is it's possible to just want things to be better, or "alright". If you've been in a city for 10-15 years and only seen it get worse... it's obvious and logical you'd want it to at least improve, because you know it used to be better and wasn't hard to be better, and it's depressing for it to only get worse. It's not that we're asking for it to be a utopia, we're just asking for it to be basically functional.
Before you can fix what is wrong, you need to acknowledge what went wrong and "how" things got this way. I think that would be a good start.
Hollywood and the music industry have not helped. Little to no expectations of good behavior. No snitching policy for people being shot in the streets, all you conservative liberals are advocating Anarchy. The reason some songs and rap music give you chills as because it was a human sacrifice and there is a dying man on his last breath bleeding to death gasping for air and sucking blood into his lungs. You paid for it, and you allowed it to happen. Black lives matter only when police misconduct isn't question? What a ridiculous notion black lives should matter when criminals are shooting innocent black folks in the street no matter the color or ethnicity of the assailant. And we're talking about something that's frequently and happening daily. Peter Parker Spider-Man paradox. Don't expect lawlessness to stay in one area. The laws are already on the books police and politicians need to enforce them one way circumvent all the bull crap is to file a lawsuit against the city and the police department it's not a strike it's a slow down and police need to be held accountable
Voting democRAT is the cause.
@@lonebikeroftheapocalypse9527 Ignorance is bliss, huh? Ronald Reagan shut down mental hospitals. Fact! Since the 80’s you had crazy people creating havoc in our communities, thanks to republicans.
Hell no. If you loved here long enough WE ALL KNOW why the city is the way it is..from the dumb laws on the books that let continual offenders out to the homeless issue that the city counxil/mayor put kid gloves on so the activists don't call em out as less than progressive. At the end of the day its the over progressivism/liberalism killing Seattle
Hell no. If you loved here long enough WE ALL KNOW why the city is the way it is..from the dumb laws on the books that let continual offenders out to the homeless issue that the city council/mayor put kid gloves on so the activists don't call em out as less than progressive. At the end of the day its the over progressivism/liberalism killing Seattle
If this council person is your best hope, you’re stuffed
She says so much while proposing absolutely nothing. Basically her message is "I'm not doing enough. Sorry." Unreal.
Sick of people saying they're sympathetic for these criminals.
Crime is so out of control in Seattle, I stopped going there. Dirty & dangerous.
I stopped going there 20 years ago when I got a $30 parking ticket.
@@johnherr158 I love getting parking tickets as a tourist. It's always funny to me.
I left Seattle two years ago and never regretted
Where did you move? Nice government?
Wait didn't citizens of Seattle vote for this? 😕
Yes they did.
yep they sure did
Seattle p.d. has been playing games since the last huge protest/chop. They’re mad there is no more mollie wopping people without recourse. They are taking it out on voters which is smart of them.
"citizens of Seattle" is a generalization... Stupid argument
Lol yeah 😂
I have a suggestion make drugs legal, allow public drunkenness, disband the police, don’t charge criminals for minor crimes, allow people to violate public and private property, hand out needles, let people crap and pee on the side walks. Ow 😮 wait you did that already! Maybe try the opposite?
The definition of insanity....
you forgot tell everyone they are a victim of someone else's actions.
What drugs have been legalized? Marijuana? Nice... Don't think that's the problem tho...
@@TheSwissChalet what is democracy but two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner?
@@squaeman_2644 meth and heroine on public , police don’t care I mean the ones who control police don’t care
It’s over Seattle, you got what you voted for
And YET they will continue to vote for the same failures? Dumb losers
The matter is rather simple: criminal behavior is being tolerated by the city as evidenced by an outright refusal to arrest and prosecute lawbreakers. That is being taken as encouragement, resulting in an explosion of crime that's costing Seattle dearly.
If you won't change that, starting with the understanding that a free, peaceful, and decent society is possible only through fair, firm, and consistent law enforcement ... and then making choices for your society in affirmation of that understanding ... then what are you expecting?
I understand about being compassionate to the less fortunate, but that's a two-way street. When the "less fortunate" have no compassion to give you in return, what then? Your compassion is wasted on those who only see it as an opportunity to immorally exploit at your expense.
Spot on!
hell yea
Sorry guys no one is coming to save you. You have to save yourself. You are on your own. 🥺
I live just 45 minutes away from Seattle and I refuse to take any of my money (other than the taxes taken from me and funneled there) into that place. The city counsel IS the reason I refuse.
Who do you suppose elected the city council?
@@bocajrs7628 if you take a stroll around that city you’ll understand who elected them and who pays for it. Sadly
@@bocajrs7628 The people who get what the fucking deserve. And that's exactly what they are busy getting. Buhbye tax base. Hello vicious spiral.
@@theminister1154 Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
@@ashlyknapp1798 Nothing about what you just said changes the tragedy that is Seattle. You're just trying to "whataboutism" your way to feeling better about the _GARBAGE_ policies you voted for.
I don't care what your crap religionpolitics are Ashly. I don't even care if you are right about Sinclair, which you probably are. *I don't care if you are Che Fucking Guevara, you are still an IDIOT to vote Democrat in a West Coast city.*
I told this to my family at Christmas, and fortunately they mostly listened: vote however you want State and national, but unless your town always goes Republican at the city council / town manager level, _YOU VOTE REPUBLICAN FOR CITY GOVERNMENT._ Every time, every position.
Furthermore when your city
a. decriminalizes dealer size possession (couple grams+) of hard drugs
+
b. outdoor drug use is tolerated
+
c. a tent camp appears & perseveres
you _sell your houses._ All of them.
To do otherwise is literally the definition of insanity. And you know it Ashly. You'll probably give me more whataboutism bullshit, but somewhere inside you know I'm right.
Sympathetic to people to people who feel they have to break a window? Peace and love is not the answer to criminality.
This was just a group therapy session.
Otherwise Seattle seems very content with how things are going.
That is a good description, I was wondering why the tone of the discussion was so odd to me.
Why are they not much angrier? This is just a bunch of carefully phrased exchanges, though some of those business owners seem quite desperate, understandably.
@@costeris35 They all sound vaccinated to me...that could be the problem. Literal brain damage over decades.
It's a fake, scripted t r a n n y show...look closely at the actors.
Yeah they’re stupids they were programmed
next election people need to re-think their voting choices - that's including my choices
Police officers are not being let do their job! Many members from police force lost motivation when doing their job, the get the bad guys and take them to jail and the bad guys get out the next day to do the same exact thing again and again. People need to be helped to to get out of drug dependency. Many addicted to drugs do not have the ability to choose to stop anymore.
our liberal politicians don't support SPD our law enforcement, police
Let's support our police SPD !
Feel SO BAD FOR LOCALS IN SEATTLE DEALING WITH THIS BS!!! GOD BLESS YOU ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
Why feel bad? They voted for exactly this, pigs aren't purple and they don't fly. Vote for poor leadership get poor results.
THESE ARE THE SAME FOOLS THAT MARCHED TO DEFUND THE POLICE I TRY TO TELL EVERYBODY WHAT WOULD HAPPEND
A majority of Seattle locals voted for this.
@@arronbrown7753THESE PEOPLE GOT WHAT THEY ASKED FOR. I TOLD THESE PEOPLE WHAT WOULD HAPPEND NOW THEY ARE CRYING ABOUT THE CRIME IN BALLARD. YOU DO NEED THE POLICE SOMETIMES SILLY PEOPLE
WHY???? THEY ARE THE ONES THAT ASKED FOR THIS SHIT!!!! YOU CANT JUST BE SO QUICK TO RUN AND MARCH OR PROTEST FOR SOMETHING AND NOT THINKING OF THE DAMAGE THAT IT WOULD CAUSE. YOU KNOW THESE PEOPLE IN SEATTLE LOVE TO MARCH AND PROTEST JUST TO FEEL LIKE THEY ARE A PART OF SOMETHING LOL
Seattle needs to decide who’s side are you on? The drugged out criminals or the law abiding citizens. You can’t have both.
I live in Seattle for 26 years migrated from the Philippines my kids born here I told my kids don't go to Chinatown or downtown it's NOT safe anymore
It sucks for these businesses, but who voted for the chaos?
Nice generalization...
Addiction services???!???!!! How about punishment? Incarcerate the druggies and get them OFF THE STREETS AND PROTECT THE PUBLIC FROM THESE DANGEROUS CRIMINALS. Provide treatment for addiction in jail, but demand that the addicts get off their drug of choice and don’t release the inmates until they are not actively addicted. What the authorities are doing now harms both the addicts (they simply stay addicted and create crime and nuisance) and the public.
Why waste tax dollars? Putting them in jail solves nothing.... The solution is to stop wasting tax dollars on narcan, if people want to kill themselves with nasty drugs let them. We shouldn't be giving narcan to anyone, not even Hunter Biden.
@@derek5333 Putting the druggies in jail separates them from the public, protecting the law abiding citizens from harassment on the streets, theft and other crimes perpetrated by addicts in search of money to support their drug habit.
@@Bernharp1 ... No it enables them to re offend , over and over and over again, our jail system keeps them addicted while they are locked up, then releases them to re offend, keeping the tax dollars flowing through the corrupt system, stop giving them narcan when they overdose, and enact death penalty for dealers of meth, opioids. Not many people would sell opioids or meth if they knew they would get a speedy trial followed by death, not many young people would try hard core drugs if it was properly associated with death.... Dealers are dealing death, users are commiting slow sometimes instant suicide/death. Politicians and prisons are getting rich, tax payers are suffering. I'm a father my children will never try meth or opioids because I raised them properly, my children shouldn't have to pay tax dollars towards the corrupt revolving door of incarcerated junkies, neither should you or I or our grandkids. This bleeding heart virtue signaling towards the scum of the earth has to stop... Let nature take it's course with users, and let the death ☠️ penalty take care of the murderous dealers. That's the real solution's.
I don't hear any problem solving going on here. Why don't you just admit there isn't anything you will do to help business owners.
Some of these individuals should consider challenging elected official in future elections.
My business is protected by my friends Smith and Wesson. If government won't take care of the problem then you either give up and leave or stand your ground and deal with the problem in a manner that works and cleans up the situation.
agreed but unfortunately you’ll get blamed when you try to protect yourself
The city council should be doing more to help the city, not the criminals. Criminals should be in prison, not homeless on the streets. Make it a felony to sleep on the streets. i know it's hard to accept. But the streets need to be cleaned up to help. Make thefts a felony again.
Yes we have a winner 🏆
I bet the police laugh at you now. You reap what you sow
Very sad but so many have been saying these same things for years. Nothing ever changes. These liberal policies obviously are not working. I’m totally apathetic at this point. Seattle gets what it deserves if they keep voting these officials.
That’s very stupid of you to say that. Crimes are really high under conservative policies too. Look at Huston, Texas, it’s famous for child sex trafficking, look at Jackson Mississippi, you can even go out safely after dawn. It’s nothing to do with liberal or conservative politics. A lot of these criminals and homeless are not even from Seattle or Washington States.
Oh seattle dems are the worse, sure they parade around saying they give a @##$ about disenfranchised people but they really don’t. . A huge chunk of wa dems are like old school republicans (republicans who were motivated by fiscal policy and not r@cism).
Look at our tax policy. It ain’t “liberal” I’ll tell you that much.
I say this as a liberal. Some liberal issues make me wince but we do have a problem with racism, police brutality, and income disparity. Things have gotten worse ever since seattle pd has been playing games since chop protest. Seattle pd wants a carte Blanche when it comes to their policy and ever since the people of seattle has said no response times have become unacceptable.
These owners are the type of ppl who condone “reducing harm” initiatives, so here ya go. Ppl today are taking advantage of the loose enforcement of Seattle laws in the past. The homeless class is eating this “small business” owner class. Small changes won’t lead to impactful change.
You know them personally?
I worked as a security guard for a few years in town. I quit after the second time I had a hypodermic needle pulled on me. Good luck to the rat hole that that place is.
Security guard, and you didn't expect something like that that happen. You know this sort of thing would only happen in Seattle.
I love Seattle. I wish the city cared about its tax players as much as it did its criminals. And I wish its law abiding citizens would stop allowing themselves to be victims.
Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting(channels 4 KOMO and 13 KCPQ) make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
I'm rooting for yall. Just please stay there... but for real please don't move somewhere else- it's actually worse everywhere else I swear no reason to leave just stick it out it should be turning around any time now
This panel is like an aging Lefty hipster lineup. "Number 4, take two steps forward and vote against the safety of your women, children and livelihood." Thank you, step back, Number 2...
It’s FkD up that the insurances that these businesses pay *THOUSANDS* of dollars into will drop them.
Also, this conversation needs to be had in every major city right now.
I doubt anyone likes insurance companies. But in the end, they're looking to make money. If the money coming in are less than the money going out, that's bad business.
@@RaduBRM insurance is a scam. Especially if by law I'm required to have it...
What you've done isn't working.
Do SOMETHING else.
yeah, like enforcing the law
20:30..."this is not about property crime"...uh, honey, YES IT IS. Safety or no safety, property being destroyed , vandalized, stolen, whatever...is the problem. That property then has to be replaced, repaired, or secured WITH THE BUSINESS OWNER'S OWN MONEY. Wake up, lady.
Born and raised here. 66 years. That Seattle is long gone, and probably never coming back. I don't know how you ever turn things around now.
When I moved here in the mid-1970s it was impossible not to get in a discussion with someone at the bus stop. Everybody greeted you with a smile and welcome people from away. Now all cities have a homeless problem and few people want to become police anymore. Besides that Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
This City Council needs to go! They don't understand business nor the safety of citizens living in or visiting Seattle. I say that as a liberal Democrat, though enough is enough. They are driving business out of the city and making our beautiful city into a national punchline. The City Council have failed Seattle. The homeless crisis hasn't been dealt with at all, instead they treat the homeless as if they're paying the taxes and visiting the city building the economy.
Yes we have a winner 🏆
So sad what’s happening in Seattle 😢 I feel their frustration! I always enjoyed a good beer in Ballard area, but these days it’s too risky to be in any area in Seattle. We need to pressure the legislation to fund the police, social services, affordable housing, and really a law that prohibits homeless in the city streets. Many come from other states because they know Seattle is an “easy” city to camp 😡
They've had 2-3 years to do it, only costs a $300 bus ticket to come from all over the country.
Oh and people in Seattle are probably the easiest people I have ever meant to walk all over.
how come there's NO representation from SPD police department officials?
Why would you have nazis at this meeting SPD are those the guys wearing the armbands.
They all quit, retired early, or MOVED AWAY.
Blame the City Council not the Police.
I agree 👍 I don't blame the police I support our police not our corrupt liberal city council 😁
Sharing this video ...hope the judicial system enforces laws that act as a deterrent to people coming to Seattle for drug use.
Seattle needs to bring the citizens out to vote in the primaries for candidates who say,
"Not here, not in my hometown"
We all know teenagers go to the house where no parents are home. It's really that simple. But is not a one-man job...and the newest mayor cannot achieve this alone!
If you're not voting for laws to be enforced , you're not helping Seattle.
So silent! The people and the city government in general, don’t know what happened to Seattle. So sad.
Bury your head in the sand and pretend like you don't know how this happened. Keep voting blue no matter who though!
Kept voting for more extreme progressives. It will get worse.
Seattle is right behind San Fran as a shitty city riddled with crime. Brought to you by Gov. Inslee.
The city leaders know exactly what's happening they sold Seattle 🤷
Don't allow bad behavior. Police feeling sorry for themselves is not working. There has to be a consequence. Crime is actively being encouraged.
Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting(channels 4 KOMO and 13 KCPQ) make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
Can you say DIMocrat? I thought you could.
Now these small business owners will be CANCELED!
The council member is full of crap. Everything the council mentioned is not working. It’s time to get heavy handed - nothing has been said about those who do not want help.
If you really cared about the business owners you would have handed out free water hoses.
"I'm sympathetic to people who feel like they need to break into a place to get something."
Really? You shouldn't be. This group delusion is why it got this bad in the first place.
HERE LIES THE PROBLEM...DUH, dude! SMH
Dude might as well have said "come steal from me". These psuedo-intellectuals douches get exactly what they deserve. Let them suffer.
I think you guys should turn in all your guns! Further defund police! And above all make sure you support your democratic party with your votes.
Councilperson seems like her hearts in the right place, but something tells me she's not going to do a thing.
Nope this is smoke and mirrors she is at this event for PR. She won't do a thing.
She’s just placating and politicizing. I’ve lost all confidence in any politician on our City Council .
she’s incompetent
@@kellymac2404 .... Completely.
These Deep Blue areas get no tears from me. Nothing will change. They will continue to vote for the same policies that caused these problems so eat up. You made the sandwich, so Bon appétit🎉
I don't feel sorry for any of these people. I really don't. You GET WHAT YOU VOTE FOR and next election you will vote for the same people who keep doing this to you.
The crow consumption is off the charts here. Must be tough conversation at dinner parties
what are you talking about? I didn't hear a single person eating any crow.
Nothing will change because you keep voting for the same delusional people.
Call for change?!?! It’s what they VOTED for!!! You can’t throw bread at the beach and complain you’ve attracted seagulls.
they did not attract seagulls, they attracted RATS by the thousands
Stop paying taxes! If all businesses stopped paying until the government provides basic safety services the city would wake up
Then these owners will get arrested and their businesses shut down.
Born and raised in Ballard. Our city is in caious.
Chaos!?
Mlk quote really... they will use him for anything but standing for what he stood for smh
I have a dream, that a man can see a lady of the night without stigma! Even if he's married!
I would very much like a schedule of Town Hall events of any sorts in Seattle Washington near 8th Avenue.
Regards,
Saihina S. Misango.
You can attend I encourage you . I went there hoping to have my say seems reasonable right. Waste of time the Council does not care 😢
Exactly what should we do now to stop crime now?
Let these businesses withhold their taxes from the city so they can hire their own security. In my Rainier Valley neighborhood policing consists of officers driving around in paramilitary vehicles responding to 911 calls. No patrols, no traffic enforcement, nothing more.
Sara Nelson is a train wreck.
What do you suggest to stop crime now against small shopkeepers? I have never known police to stop a crime in action? I never see police, anywhere on walking patrols. What happened to walking the beat?
@@ashlyknapp1798 defund the police happened
Love how CM Dan Strauss isn't even here at an event in HIS OWN DISTRICT. THANK YOU SARA FOR SHOWING UP FOR SMALL BUSINESSES!
Absolutely spot on that idiot DS is MIA.
Small business only functions to nourish big business. To advertise anything more in-depth about this dynamic would be against the paradigm.
Poor liberal business owners want quick relief. This is just too much.
Nothing will change if crime is enabled and there are no consequences. Incarceration costs taxpayers, 60-100 thousand a year per prisoner. Additionally new prisons will cost millions and nobody wants them in their backyard.
If law and order was encouraged and enforced, all would be good. However in liberal Seattle that is not acceptable. RIP Seattle.
The only way for Seattle to have change is to change who is in office for Washington state.....learn a few things from Florida's governor. And I said a few have to start small .
Hope this meeting will help! I feel that Mayor Harrell should be present. However it may do little to no good since the Dem's defunded the police because police can't protect the businesses being damaged. Watch 'Fight for the Soul Of Seattle' that bicyle owner was told straight up by police 'we can't protect your business'. That poor guy had to close up shop & move.
Hello - the police were not defunded.
I have family in Bremerton, WA, but this crime has prevented me from visiting that area.
Is Bremerton bad like Seattle?
Better stop voting blue
Our insurance agent told us to expect to be dropped . Small business in Green Lake District 😢
I don't want pay for the stupidity of people breaking windows ect
Despite massively high taxes, gov't is not doing it's most important job, guaranteeing property rights (which includes personal safety). Some would argue that after administering free and fair elections, guaranteeing property rights (including personal safety) is the ONLY thing gov't should be doing. But in Seattle, we're doing just about everything EXCEPT this. Everyone on this panel, and the city council member knows exactly what needs to be done, but they won't say it, they can't bring themselves to say it, because it is verboden. Hiring more police won't help if you're going to continue to neuter them and tie their hands behind their back. Removing these regulations won't help if prosecutors aren't going to prosecute, or there aren't enough of them to do their job. Hiring enough prosecutors who will actually prosecute won't help if judges/juries won't convict and impose meaningful sentences. Meaningful sentences won't help if criminals will just be released after serving a fraction of their sentence. And throwing all the money in the world at all the drug and addiction counseling imaginable won't help if the addict doesn't genuinely want to quit, and the vast majority of them don't. Anyone who truly knows addiction, knows this.
The system is broken on so many levels it's absolutely shameful. And so again, despite some of the highest taxes in the country, the most important thing, arguably the only thing gov't should be doing, it is failing to do.
Exactly what would you do to stop crime now? Do police ever stop a crime in action? Do you ever see 2 police walking a beat together?
AGREED! The hilarious thing is that these people really believe that coddling criminals and drug addicts is the right thing to do - but this is exactly what CAUSED their problems! SMH
or Maybe not, looking at Sarah Nelson I can see why these businesses and the citizens of that city are in serious trouble.. wow. Not good
Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
Who made this life coach a chairman? Empathy is not the solution, taxing big business to solve small business and homeless seatilites is the solution.
Wrong. Punishing criminals and opening mental asylum is an actual solution.
@@Jb-ib6yz agree but shouldnt we start with the biggest criminals first like walstreet, bankers, realtors, foreing investors, debt-sellers, tax-dodgers, bomb-droppers, insider-traders, corrupt politicians?
The entire lower & middle class america needs mental asylum beacue of what capitalism did to them ie enslavement and abuse.
You're dreaming if you think the big criminals will go quietly or quickly. Clean up the low hanging fruit. But honestly it should all be happening at the same time. If justice were truly blind.
@@Jb-ib6yz good and provocative
WRONG! Putting criminals in jail is the solution. Not coddling criminals is the solution.
I love our state. I do not like the people who are running this state into the ground. Our election system is pathetic! Soft on crimes, no good. Bring back real education, Prayer, pledge of allegiance to our flag because we LOVE our country.
Not. One. Solution. Nothing offered, no plans, no ideas.
Parrot what has been said by the business owners, nod your head and agree with them.
Then speak vapidly about the fact that you aren't, in fact, even able to respond to simple emergencies.
No solution offered, no explanation, nothing.
Multiple business owners asking, "who do we call in real time, during a crisis?"
Answer? Call the hotline that doesn't answer the phone, where you can't leave a message, and tells you NOT to call 911. Do that, ok?
Or, call the folks who says they'll be there in a week. Maybe.
Do that, ok?
Super sorry 'bout all your problems or whatever you were saying, but you're welcome for all we've done for you. Any more questions you'd like me to not answer or avoid?
Thank you for your offering. Do you have more thoughts towards a solution?
@@ashlyknapp1798 I do, but I myself am not an elected official, tasked specifically with, and being paid money for coming up with a solution. That is LITERALLY why they have a job, and collect a paycheck. However, that simple obligation is clearly far too much for the people who, again, got the job and continue to collect a paycheck, that you and I pay, while not doing said job. So, while I appreciate the attempt to, as quickly as possible, change the subject away from these simple facts, I myself can't skip over the fact that the people taking money from you and I, specifically to solve this problem, refuse to do so. At our expense. I am not interested in turning that around on someone in a diluted form of what-about-isms and "what's your idea then?", however far too many others are. What is the point of ANY plan, if the city won't carry it out, no matter who's plan it is? Laws unenforced, business needs ignored, along with the safety of the people, neglected every single day. Maybe, just maybe, we could START there? The simple act of people who are being paid to DO a job, actually doing that job. How much lower of a bar would you like? Should we chew their food for them as well?
@@buringairline good thank you for sharing. I be chewing on your thinking
We all live in an area where only 5% is middle class or better. The great sea of desperation is going to breed crime. Drugs and homelessness are just the most visible part of the problem and the easiest to blame. This is a systemic problem, not a policy issue.
Yeah bro we should give everyone needles and checks to buy drugs and let them keep robbing businesses until everyone moves out of the hell hole that is downtown Seattle. And maybe then we can sing kumbayah and do fentanyl together!
@@pieswimmer1 Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting(channels 4 KOMO and 13 KCPQ) make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
Thank you for your good thinking
@@pieswimmer1 You haven't responded at all to my comment.
You CAN'T solve people's problems if they don't want your help! WORRY ABOUT YOURSELVES! Feeling sorry for criminals is what got you in this predicament in the first place!!
Yeah well y’all accept liberalism now embrace the children.
We can’t forget how lucky we are as Washingtonians and Seattlieites to live in such a special and beautiful part of the world. We are some of the most warm-hearted, loving and caring people and we cannot let our obstacle change us and obscure us from continuing to be ourselves. I love our state and I have faith that we will rise again and rise above our challenges. Stay strong Washingtonians and Seattleites, we will reclaim our beautiful cities.
"We are some of the most warm-hearted, loving and caring people"
Seattleites really do like huffing their own gas. The Seattle Freeze exists for a reason...
….I lived in Seattle for 24 years. The crime, stupid city council, moronic governor, and HORRIBLE weather made me MOVE AWAY FOR GOOD!!
@@MK_ULTRA420 introduce yourself to your neighbors. Say hello and wish good afternoon or good morning as you pass people on the street. Let the other car go ahead of you. Walk with a smile. Keep defrosting our city.
@@eddieg6436 and where did you move?
@@ashlyknapp1798 Monterey / Pacific Grove, California. ……Heaven on earth! Always sunny, beautiful weather, gorgeous beaches. approx. 74 degrees. Expensive, yes. But worth EVERY penny.
You guys got the leadership you voted for.....good luck.
What would you do now to stop crime now? I have never known police to stop a crime in action?
@@ashlyknapp1798 get rid of habitual criminals
@@kevinfox1780 good thinking I have no idea how to do this do you have any idea how we can get rid of habitual criminals?
@@kevinfox1780 you all talk Fox
And what has Seattle City Council done? All council members should be made to walk in these business owners lives.
I live in Seattle 26 years i love Seattle and American i just sad the government and sad for some working hard Americans i come here 26 years and the shop and restaurants are open right now the crime broken anything the government encourage people no working and give the people money i so sad for the American
Thank you
She had no solutions just body animations and counseling lol
Exactly what would you do to stop storefront break-in crime now? I have never known police to stop a crime in action?
@@ashlyknapp1798 i would do 2 things to start:
A) ban forein and institutional investors buying up housing and force sale them within 6 months.
B) ban empty units. All units must be rented out or sold.
I would only allow investors to invest in businesses and mandate they hire US citizens and raise taxes on large companies and stop sending money to foreign countries.
This seems funny that the same people who demand change are the same ones who voted these officials in. You get what you vote for.
I hope the crime never stops, and I hope the crime drives them out of business. I hope the stress so much about the situation as they develop terminal illnesses.
Sometimes people won't change until ,they are truly suffering. The people of Seattle have clearly declared that they need to suffer horribly in order to see the light.
The city treated the police....they need to make sure that doesn't happen again.....VOTE APPROPRIATELY
Sarah Nelson...like a therapist...I hear you...nothing else. she has no ideas because it wouldn't be PC enough for her. It's called police presence. There used to be an island, McNeil Island... that had services food, counseling.
Oh dear we are travelling there for a few days in September after a cruise. We are coming from Australia and was really looking forward to it but now I feel like we should stay in our hotel 😢.
Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage. Most crimes are relegated to the south end of town and somewhat the center. Seattle is 1 of the newest most dynamic cities on the planet Earth. Most crime against people happen late at night often after midnight. For the most safety and best location stay around Queen Anne Hill around Seattle center. Before you go cruise or home please stop at many of our wonderful stores and take-home plenty of trinkets and all of our delicious legal intoxicants.
So many people here are destitute, living in despair. It's not hard to figure out why there's crime and drug use. Would have liked to hear the perspectives of unhoused folks...
Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
Sip&ship is the goat. Love how they don't blame others for their problems they just continue to uplift and support the community.
I love how they aren't afraid to stick up for the disenfranchised. I remember when they they stood up for the homeless while every other business was blaming the homeless for the robberies.
The karma was real when homeless that camped at the church across the street stopped sip&ship from being robbed after closing. Greenwood had a big up take in robberies by people with trucks and forklifts, things I'm sure homeless don't have access to, every break in I saw was a clean cut clearly not homeless man.
After the homeless helped stop a robbery the cities response was to remove the church sanctioned homeless camp.
Sip&ship is building a community meanwhile the city is on fire.
Nice try they just haven’t got here yet .
The officials have no response at all. They just beat around the bush.
Insanity.... Voting for the same politicians expecting different results.....
Simple fix, put up a fenced-in compound, and charge up (then convict) people for vagrancy.....90 days at a time. Make it clear....either you leave Seattle or you get locked up. If you have reluctant prosecutors/judges/city council members....help them fill out a resume and find 'work' elsewhere.
NO ! Leave the trash right where it is. You voted DIM so you can reap the rewards of your poor choices.
Why don’t you put the council socialist’s on?Let them address your pain.
26:59 Nope, but you do have a lot of desperate people. You guys ruined a beautiful city while you slept.
Television stations owned by Sinclair broadcasting make great money by sensationalizing crime on local news. They make a fire in a barrel look like a city block is burning. I have lived in Seattle over 40 years and the biggest crime change I see is local news broadcasting more crime to make more money because there are more cameras to catch the crime. Corporate crime causes more damage.
Ballard needs law enforcement presence at all times.
The blue jacket guy in the screen cap looks like Professor X from Xmen but he's undercover as a west coast guy being interviewed about his trashy city going down the drain lol.
Seattle business owners complaining to local government about crime is like a person visiting Texas asking WHY everyone is wearing cowboy boots.
Lady taking notes has livid facial moves.
Too many jabs
A nigga really just quoted MLK for this 😂
I thought the same exact thing
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Lol. They voted for it and they’ll continue to vote for it. What do they expect?
Really disappointed in Sarah Nelson. Absolutely not one substantive thing she could offer up for what the council might be working on to help. She was tongue tied. Seems there wasn’t any preparation on her part for the gathering. Wow.
After listening to the part of the record about the solutions’: guys, there is no solution offered here. No one wants to do what it takes to relieve some of the problem. We’re gonna keep spending more, and attracting more drug addicts. It will only go worst.
Good luck guys with your business !
My opinion is: the downtown of Seattle, and the city is not an appropriate location for people who have no desire to participate into the city. Drug addicts are only there to be taken care of, because they know that Seattle is providing everything for free.
If my child was a drug addict, the only thing I would want for him is to be cured. The only solution is to get rid of drug, and get everybody out of those addictions.
Obviously, in this system, many people have no interest whatsoever to get those drug addicts getting better. Many people would lose their title and their jobs if suddenly, they were no more drug addicts in the city.
The first thing would be to create incentive in finding real solutions. But for now, the leaders have too many interest in managing the problem- Instead of solving it.