Several of our offices are around the 3rd and Pike area downtown and it’s pretty common to overhear colleagues saying they feel unsafe walking on sideways aroun

Several of our offices are around the 3rd and Pike area downtown and it’s pretty common to overhear colleagues saying they feel unsafe walking on sideways around the office. There is rampant and open usage of hard drugs, lots of people hawking used bus tickets or items stolen from Ross Dress for Less or Target, at least a couple instances a day of walkers being interrupted by visibly agitated homeless either shouting nonsense or aggressively begging. Once a month or so there’s an arrest due to a stabbing or shooting within 1-2 blocks of this area. Whatever they’re doing in policy terms at the moment isn’t working.