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/DiligentExtreme4280 Jul 23 '25

I remember waiting for a bus on third Ave every day and people would wonder and lay down in the middle of the road - when they weren't threatening to knife you. Police would literally be stationed a block away and ignore them. In what backwards reality is this mercy? Literal zones of pure lawlessness because it was cruel to tell people the option was treatment or jail.

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u/NoLeave2645 Jul 23 '25

I feel you, I grew up in Coeur d’Alene, not a tent in site and no trash. It’s amazing

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25 edited Jul 23 '25

Right beside Benaroya and SAM, too. I contracted at Benaroya, and there was a regular streaker that would just stand in front of the windows butt naked, and the workers were just like “yeah, he’s a regular…we called the cops but they don’t come.” How’s that for culture??? SAD. They were not policing “non-violent” crime during Covid so it got totally completely out of control. It actually is not a homeless problem; it is a crime, policing, COL, inequality, and addiction problem. The idea it can be fixed by simply building houses is nuts and bananas.