Yes, things around here do seem to be deteriorating. Just when you think things can’t be any worse, they get worse, especially for local law-abiding citizens. Yeah, there are actually some left.
Man sentenced for hate-crime targeting Asians. We do seem to have more of our share of home-invasion robberies in our area.
23 University of Washington international students have visas revoked by Trump administration. We voted for Trump to send home students who demonstrate against America, while benefiting from an American higher education. We heartily approve of these removals.
City clears homeless camp in Seattle’s Kinnear Park, but tents return within days. Kinnear Park is at the top of Queen Anne Hill, and the view from there is often used in advertisements for Seattle. The city cares more about the homeless than taxpayers or tourists. Removing their tents without getting the occupants off the streets always leads to them moving back in. Seattle does not require removed homeless to accept any kind of help.
Man and woman arrested in Lake Stevens child-exploitation case involving four-year-old child.
Second teenage suspect arrested in Pierce County mass-shooting case. Gang activity at house party leads to shootings. This is quite common in this area.
Man sets fire, greets police like employees in Tacoma bank standoff. Our police are very polite to criminals. Maybe that’s why we have so many.
Man jumps into Green River while fleeing Tukwila police.
Seen enough? Well, so have we! This list of crimes is just the first page of the KOMO Web site. Just think about all the crimes that didn’t make this page. Property crimes aren’t even reported much anymore, because the police have much more emergent issues to be dealing with. Local residents are dismayed by the increase in law-breaking everywhere, but unfortunately they keep voting for Democrats, who care more for the perpetrators (whom they see as the real victims), than the taxpayers who pay their salaries. With all the new taxes and rules that the legislature in Olympia has planned for us, I think we can expect more crime, and less law-enforcement.
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The NC news always talk about the dropping crime rates, then turn around and discuss the recent murders, robberies, fires, stabbing. The homeless and drug use is a huge issue.
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I’ve been to Seattle once, in 2022. When I graduated from college in 1991, Seattle was held up as a sort of promised land of high tech genius and edgy creative culture. What I found was an utterly bland, overrated town (more like a handful of college campuses and “neighborhoods” strung together haphazardly into one of the most pedestrian unfriendly, un-walkable “cities” I’ve ever visited) full of smug self-important affluent, almost 100% white, neurotic liberals in million dollar homes.
There were more “black lives matter signs” than black people. The political statement identities were so bland and textbook – “Oh this is the latest ‘thing’? Sure get me my flag and window sign!” The newer parts of town with ugly modern glass and steel architecture were already looking shabby, the people were noticeably cold and unfriendly, and the city’s sense of its “cultural impact” went back as far as touting and lionizing its mediocre bands from the 1990s.
I’ve seldom gone to a city with such high expectations and come away more unimpressed other than how much a town made me laugh at its self-importance. I’ll pass on Seattle.
You should have seen it in 2020, with downtown a ghost town due to Covid restrictions, CHAZ on Capitol Hill (which I call homo-town due to the large homosexual population), graffiti filled everything, and boarded-up storefronts. Our “summer of love” made, and still makes, the national news. Since the WTO riots in 1999, Seattle has set the national standard for leftist upheavals, and 2020 didn’t disappoint. I was born and raised in Seattle, but I haven’t set foot there since 2021.
I walked through Capitol Hill and made the mistake of stopping for a beer at the Comet, with their goofy mural out front loudly proclaiming their politics. I haven’t been in the presence of more condescending, hipper than thou, pseudo-edgy “cool kids” since 8th grade.
Not moving to the Washington Oregon border after our marriage after a wonderful honeymoon there 37 years ago remains the best non-decision me and DaWife ever made