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What is Redmond or the rest of the Eastside doing to help homeless people that Seattle has failed to do?
by drewrv 4y ago
What is Redmond or the rest of the Eastside doing to help homeless people that Seattle has failed to do?
- peanuty1 4y agoEastside is tougher on crime, more conservative, and actually enforces laws frequently unlike Seattle, which is more progressive and extremely soft on crime. A man bashed in the head of a female Amazon software engineer in Seattle and last I checked, they were considering letting him go free.
- drewrv 4y agoI asked what they’re doing to help homeless people on the Eastside. If you think crime and punishment are related somehow then please be more explicit as to how that helps because I don’t follow.
- schemester 4y agoBeing homeless is better when there’s less crime.
- drewrv 4y ago"Tough on crime" policies don't actually lead to less crime. If they did, the US would be among the safest countries on the planet. Seattle, which is "soft on crime", is a relatively safe city with lower rates of violent crime per capita than Phoenix, Des Moines, Denver, Corpus Christi, and more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... But getting back to my original question, I seriously doubt "tough on crime" policies in Redmond were implemented to help the homeless. More likely, they were implemented to keep poor people away. My theory is that most people complaining about homelessness in cities like Seattle don't actually care about the homeless people. What they care about is that they have to see homelessness. So long as homelessness isn't visible then it's not a problem and whether that's done through charity or relocation or incarceration is irrelevant. But I hope I'm wrong! I'd like to believe people aren't that cruel, so if Redmond has a solution that is compassionate and helpful I would genuinely love to know what they're doing.
- dahfizz 4y agoThese statistics are fundamentally untrustworthy. Nobody reports crimes if they know that the police and the DA don't care.
- drewrv 4y agoMurder and nonnegligent manslaughter is a pretty reliable metric, since police get called and they actually have to show up when there's a dead body. Seattle ranks 77th when you sort by that column!