Flopper
Diamond Member
I think if you look at those cases, you'll find they are mostly petty crimes such as vagrancy, disorderly conduct, sleeping on public property, illicit drug use which carry a small fine or a short time in jail which is exactly what the prep is hoping for, a few weeks or months in a bed off the streets and out the cold. For the chronic homeless jail is not a deterrent. For the city it's a costly punishment that does no good at all. As one judge said, for the cost of prosecuting, providing a defense attorney, court expenses, and jail we could put these people up at the Hilton for 3 months and save the city money.Did the miss the part where 100 individuals are responsible for 3,600 criminal cases in the last 6 - 12 months?There is no reason to watch it. KOMO is owned by Sinclair Broadcasting whose been in bed with Trump since he started campaigning. It's a hatchet job. Sinclair's goal has been to counteract the bias by major networks by broadcasting biased programs at the local level. This is a good example.Typical. Since you can't articulate a thesis, then I am not watching your video. Just that simple.
Thank you OL.
Although the video continuously blames the city administration, mayor, and city counsel, and the courts, nowhere in the video did they interview the chief of police, the mayor, city councilmen, or anyone from justice. Nowhere in the video did they address what is being done to prevent homelessness.
The only solution the video offered was to jail the homeless, which include nearly 3000 families with women and children. Most of Seattle homeless have never been charged with a crime yet the video see the jail as the solution.
To continue and justify this is ludicrous! No one is denying they need help, but this isn't helping them. What you're saying is "It's okay to destroy the environment you occupy and the people who you affect it's just too bad for them", that's a recipe for disaster. The laws are to protect the innocent, in this documentary its quit clear plenty of innocent people are affected negatively and the elected leadership of Seattle is oblivious to their constituents. We will not survive as a nation with this lack of logic...
If these homeless people were put on work gangs to clean up their shit, they would go elsewhere.
Even if you could do that legally, it doesn't solve the problem. It only transfers it to another city.