Clueless!! Seattle CITY COUNCILMAN complaining about police response in the Chinatown district of the city

Anyone familiar with Seattle is aware that the Chinatown area on the southern end of downtown is an open-air drug market, where junkies and dealers clog the sidewalks, along with numerous homeless tents and other temporary structures. Thousands of low-income elderly live in the many local apartment buildings, and they have been complaining for years …

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World Cup Soccer is coming to Seattle. Preparations underway.

Seattle is well-known for its prodigious homeless camps, open-air drug markets, police shortage, and Aurora Avenue prostitution. Seattle is also known these days for its Socialist Mayor, Katie Wilson, who was elected with zero political experience and a history of depending on her parents for support even after marriage and a child. Here are some …

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Smart Neighborhood. Public Safety Drones. Real Safety, or the beginnings of Smart City Open-air Prisons?

Yesterday, I noticed a story about a senior apartment complex in south Seattle, that was being renovated into a "Smart Neighborhood". This apartment complex has been around since the 1960s, and it started out as a "low-income" complex. We all know that those "low-income" apartments always suffer from lack of maintenance and that upgrades are …

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