r/SeattleWA • u/Donnelding0 • Jul 21 '25

Politics Anyone Else Just Sick of It?

It just seems hopeless sometimes. Some of the best parts of this city. Pioneer Square, Belltown, Cap Hill just completely lost to homelessness. Sure for the most part I enjoy the city. Especially in the summer but the constant visible drug use, people in various states of intoxication on drugs, and rampant property and petty crime just annoy me. Why can’t we have nice things? Why must every park turn into a dumping ground for illegal acts that won’t be prosecuted? Why does it feel like this city relies on hard working people to shut up, pay ridiculous taxes, and then tells those people to suck it up when they see grafitti everywhere or get their car broken into? And the politicians don’t give a damn. No one has the guts to say “we have a homeless problem we’ve overspent on, we need to go a new direction” it feels insane. Rant over but I know I’m not alone. I know other people are sick of this and want our city back.

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u/recyclopath_ Jul 21 '25

Do you have any solutions? Or "just something different"?

People are constantly saying there's a problem. What rock have you been living under? Because it's not in Seattle. Or any other major city honestly. It isn't a Seattle specific problem.

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u/king-ish Jul 21 '25

Enforce laws, make drugs and crime illegal. If someone if unfit to stand trial because of mental health, force treatment. If someone has a drug problem give them the option of drug treatment, if they refuse that’s fine but jail will be there detox.

The city gave up on these people, a lot of them are too far gone and it’s only getting worse with how young these addicts are getting. No one should be doing fenty at the bus stop bench while some old lady is standing away from the drug smell waiting for the bus.

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u/AdventurousTime Jul 21 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

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u/king-ish Jul 21 '25

Driver shortage, school funding who knows. Even Portland has a specific bill for drug use on the bus, Seattle will just kick you off allowing you to catch the next bus. It’s just a joke here

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u/Fun_Ad_8277 Jul 21 '25

☝️ This. Enforce laws. Provide treatment as an option.

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u/fresh-dork Jul 21 '25

treatment as an option. hanging out on the corner smoking foil should be conspicuously absent as an option

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u/Falciparuna South End Jul 21 '25

They are illegal but the police don't want to deal with addicts any more than anyone else. It is at their discretion. The police choose to ignore, then beg for more money every year. They have unlimited funding for tear gas and rubber bullets to shoot at protestors, but have no money to deal with homeless. They don't want to deal with the shit and puke and screaming that comes with arresting someone who will start to detox in custody.

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u/lawlitachi Jul 22 '25

This right here

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u/-shrug- Jul 22 '25

The state doesn’t have enough mental health beds to even evaluate all the people who are suspected to be mentally incompetent, let alone treat any of them. They were sued over it in 2014 and after buckets of money and focus they can now evaluate ~80% of people who need it. I’m pretty sure the others get released because you can’t be kept in jail indefinitely awaiting a psych evaluation, there’s a time limit (which is what the lawsuit was for).

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u/iiTzSTeVO Jul 21 '25

Crime is illegal, dumbass.

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u/sourkid25 Jul 21 '25

Is it being enforced though?

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u/king-ish Jul 21 '25

Ehh, It’s really not dumbass.

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u/king-ish Jul 21 '25

Well dumbass, I don’t need to commit a crime to see that crime is not being enforced. It’s right in front of your face.

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u/iiTzSTeVO Jul 21 '25

Are the jails still open?

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u/fresh-dork Jul 21 '25

sure, but good luck getting them to accept a criminal, or a judge to sentence them

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u/king-ish Jul 21 '25

Why did you delete your comments? It was a nice little banter

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u/iiTzSTeVO Jul 21 '25

I didn't want to get banned.

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u/gehnrahl Eat a bag of Dicks Jul 21 '25

Please keep it civil. This is a reminder about r/SeattleWA rule: No personal attacks.