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Eventually a junkie will commit a serious crime against one of the tech luminaries that live in and around Seattle. I’m guessing that the lax enforcement envir

Eventually a junkie will commit a serious crime against one of the tech luminaries that live in and around Seattle. I’m guessing that the lax enforcement environment will be gone within about a day of that incident. Seattle is playing with fire here. I wouldn’t set foot in a city where hard drug use is tolerated, and seemingly celebrated, by many of the people that live there. Junkies will do whatever is necessary to get their next fix. It seems like a bad idea to be anywhere near a city with policies that both attract and help create them.

pnw_hazor 7y ago
I dunno, may be you are right -- that the "right" person hasn't been assaulted, raped or killed yet. Certainly, the high profile stabbing in front of Nordstroms didn't do much. Nor, did much change when the homeless guy was stopped from throwing a women on her way to work off an I-5 overpass. Or the lady who was raped by the homeless guy at the U-district car dealership after dropping her car off for an oil change on her way to work in the morning. I assume it would have to be someone connected to the local government. It took about five seconds to change the 2nd Ave bike lanes when a city employee was killed riding her bike down there.
- chrisdhoover 7y ago
  I am still heartbroken that Mia Zapata was brutally murdered.
- rlucas 7y ago
  Your last graf implies that there was some nefarious favoritism that gave a turbo boost to Seattle's 2nd Ave bike lane project, due to the connectedness of the woman killed shortly before it took effect. If you are referring to the well known tragic death of Sher Kung in August 2014, just before the September 2014 scheduled opening of the 2nd Ave bike lane, you are very wrong. The project had been underway long before that.
  - pnw_hazor 7y ago
    Good point. And, this victim was not a city worker, but a civil rights attorney at a large well-connected law firm. It sure seemed to me that after her tragic death the call for bike safety was turned up to 11. We haven't reached that point yet re homeless/junkie assaults. It will take the right person to get killed or raped for that to happen.
rdtwo 7y ago
There was a video of a man in a Seattle target last year. Guy goes on a 15 min rampage in downtown and nobody shows up to stop him. That’s the state of decriminalization we have hit. https://youtu.be/KA3KQCYI17U https://youtu.be/KA3KQCYI17U

pnw_hazor 7y ago

I dunno, may be you are right -- that the "right" person hasn't been assaulted, raped or killed yet. Certainly, the high profile stabbing in front of Nordstroms didn't do much. Nor, did much change when the homeless guy was stopped from throwing a women on her way to work off an I-5 overpass. Or the lady who was raped by the homeless guy at the U-district car dealership after dropping her car off for an oil change on her way to work in the morning. I assume it would have to be someone connected to the local government. It took about five seconds to change the 2nd Ave bike lanes when a city employee was killed riding her bike down there.

chrisdhoover 7y ago
I am still heartbroken that Mia Zapata was brutally murdered.
rlucas 7y ago
Your last graf implies that there was some nefarious favoritism that gave a turbo boost to Seattle's 2nd Ave bike lane project, due to the connectedness of the woman killed shortly before it took effect. If you are referring to the well known tragic death of Sher Kung in August 2014, just before the September 2014 scheduled opening of the 2nd Ave bike lane, you are very wrong. The project had been underway long before that.
- pnw_hazor 7y ago
  Good point. And, this victim was not a city worker, but a civil rights attorney at a large well-connected law firm. It sure seemed to me that after her tragic death the call for bike safety was turned up to 11. We haven't reached that point yet re homeless/junkie assaults. It will take the right person to get killed or raped for that to happen.

rdtwo 7y ago

There was a video of a man in a Seattle target last year. Guy goes on a 15 min rampage in downtown and nobody shows up to stop him. That’s the state of decriminalization we have hit. https://youtu.be/KA3KQCYI17U https://youtu.be/KA3KQCYI17U