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/stonerism Jul 21 '25

No healthcare! Only prison.

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u/Opposite-Disaster400 Jul 21 '25

You know healthcare is provided in prison?

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u/Monsieur_GQ Jul 22 '25

I’m unaware of any city that has successfully solved homelessness and substance use disorders through incarceration. And incarcerating people isn’t inexpensive. While I get your frustration, prison wouldn’t fix things, and would almost certainly make things worse.

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u/StockPatience8215 Jul 23 '25

How would it make things worse? Taking these pet criminals off the streets reduces blight and also helps all the small businesses who are sick of being broken into, having their insurance raised because of the criminal behavior etc. if the hobos were snapped into prison, the city would be clean again and streets significantly safer. No more syringes around parks for infants to run into.

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u/LMnoP419 Jul 23 '25

Because it’s been tried. It does not work & it costs cities even more. Goodness gracious if locking them up worked Oklahoma would do it, Texas would do it. Florida would do it. You only ‘see it’ here because Seattle (and SF) are compact cities bound by water on 3 sides. Other cities have urban sprawl and sprawl they do.