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This is a problem even in cold Alaska. Alaska is a Republican state. Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, is not some liberal bastion. It has had several Republican mayors through the past 40 years. There are still many issues with homelessness, alcohol, and drugs. Anchorage is #1 in America for rape too.
Anchorage has nowhere near the problems mentioned in other much larger cities.
As to being #1 in rape, what are you basing that on?
Maybe some type of per capita stat because so few people (i.e. women) live there?
As an FYI, the 3 cities I've been to recently that I negatively commented on, are all cities I actually like. I really hate to see what has happened to them in just the last decade.
Anchorage has nowhere near the problems mentioned in other much larger cities.
As to being #1 in rape, what are you basing that on?
Maybe some type of per capita stat because so few people (i.e. women) live there?
As an FYI, the 3 cities I've been to recently that I negatively commented on, are all cities I actually like. I really hate to see what has happened to them in just the last decade.
For a city of its size, it has some major homelessness issues.
Anchorage has the highest rate of rape of any U.S. city with 250,000+ people. Cleveland, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Aurora(Colorado), Columbus (Ohio), Tulsa, Wichita, Corpus Christi, and Philadelphia, they are in the top 10 for rape. If we exclude Aurora (it's a suburb of Denver), St. Louis would be in the top 10.
Anchorage has a rape rate of 171.6 rapes per 100,000. By the way, the man-to-woman ratio in Alaska, and Anchorage, is not as unbalanced as you think. Anchorage is around 49% female/51% male.
Anchorage has the highest rate of rape of any U.S. city with 250,000+ people. Cleveland, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Aurora(Colorado), Columbus (Ohio), Tulsa, Wichita, Corpus Christi, and Philadelphia, they are in the top 10 for rape. If we exclude Aurora (it's a suburb of Denver), St. Louis would be in the top 10.
Anchorage has a rape rate of 171.6 rapes per 100,000. By the way, the man-to-woman ratio in Alaska, and Anchorage, is not as unbalanced as you think. Anchorage is around 49% female/51% male.
Thanks for taking the time to link certain info which I will look into for my edification.
That said however, never link Wiki, even if it purports to substantiate my position, because it is inaccurate, biased and not worth a click. Fortunately many a college and HS are prohibiting it for research because of it's inaccuracies and bias.
Watch this short video by a respected journalist/author which in part covers Wiki and it's ills. The entire video is worth watching, but the Wiki portion starts at 3:55 ;
seems to me Wutitiz you just want to pretend Seattle is "bad" because it suits your agenda.
Again, people seem to miss the fact that this post is about the block JUST OUTSIDE THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, not the entire city of Seattle.
380 assaults in 9 months! That is 1.4 assaults per day, in a single block. Including the one on the county sheriff. And this is just reported assaults. Anybody in Seattle knows that assaults w/ minor or no injury often go unreported. I was myself once assaulted by a group of urban youths on 2nd Ave., and never reported it because there was no theft or serious injury, and it would have been a waste of my time to report.
51 robberies in 9 months comes to one robbery every 5 days. Shrug. Ho Hum.
The King County courthouse is in the heart of downtown Seattle, not far from Elliot Bay. On the block where the main entrance is, there have been 380 assaults and 51 robberies reported, just in the past nine months.
All of you deniers should read the Seattle Times link. There are 1467 comments to this op ed, which I believe is near record territory for the Times. It also has been posted at RealClearPolitics, which indicates they found it to be of notable significance.
Originally Posted by steven_h There's a line between doing good and just being bonkers under the guise of doing good.
West coast cities can't even begin to keep up with the homeless problem. It's more than a problem, it's at epidemic proportions. Los Angeles looks like Tijuana in may parts of the city, including the parks.
The homeless have doubled in 10 years, while our councilmen, Mayors, and state legislators are fixated on protecting illegal immigration at the cost of citizens who are suffering themselves.
It's absurd!
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Illegal immigration is not the cause of homelessness.
Please tell me where in my post I blamed Illegal immigrants for the homeless problems.
How is it that you can read the words and something entirely different computes between your eyes and your brain?
Is this done on purpose to sidetrack a message you don't like? Is it a natural reaction every time the term illegal immigrant is used?
The point I was making is that our politicians have their priorities confused. I'd much rather see a vet living on the street be helped than a pseudo refugee forcing us to protect and pay for their needs.
There are 40,000 homeless veterans and all the left care about are 800 central Americans escaping their craphole country and expecting us to cover them because of a loophole in our law they are exploiting, with the help of American lawyers who are exploiting them!
The King County courthouse is in the heart of downtown Seattle, not far from Elliot Bay. On the block where the main entrance is, there have been 380 assaults and 51 robberies reported, just in the past nine months. There is so much human waste on the sidewalk that crews have to pressure wash it on a daily basis, which of course is flushed down the storm drains. I'm sure the salmon appreciate that.
The former King County sheriff was once attacked outside the courthouse by a man with a pair of scissors. Jurors have been assaulted and threatened.
Seattle has been controlled by left-wing Democrats for decades. We now have a city council member who self-identifies as 'Marxist.' I don't think we have had a GOP mayor since James 'Dorm' Braman in 1964. I don't suppose the decades of far-left leadership could have anything to do with the above conditions. Nah, I'm sure the two are just random coincidence, totally unrelated. (/sarc)
Detroit, here we come!
I lived in Seattle for 13 years. The conditions outside of the court house are not new, as you have implied. It's always been that way as it's in a part of the city I don't consider "desirable" by any stretch of the imagination. Sure, there's nightclubs or bars there that people go to at night, and yes there are businesses in that area, but it's a run down, crappy looking area that has always had homeless people milling about on the streets and in the alleys, waste and vomit, urine smells, and fights.
I had to serve on a jury twice while I lived there, and I hated going there.
Back in the day, a group of people did go around at night time, after businesses closed, and handed out food left over from eateries to the homeless. I distinctly remember seeing a group with a huge stack of pizza boxes, handing them out to every homeless person they saw. But then someone had to go and ruin that by making it illegal to give them the food. Some BS about how someone might put poison in it and try to hurt the homeless, so let's go back to making them dumpster dive...apparently that is far safer than handing out food to them from established, clean eateries who just happened to have left overs.
Seattle is filled with idiotic politicians...well, the whole state is, really. The entire west coast is an embarrassment, and I can't believe the left is proud of what they've created.
In conservative Dallas Texas you are 3x more likely to be murdered or raped than in Seattle.
You compared one liberal city with another!!!
The mayor (Rawlings) is a life long Dem. Most of the supervisors and city council are Dems.
Dallas doesn’t just run Democratic — a poll conducted by the University of Texas at Austin determined that the entire county is actually the fourth most liberal in the entire state.
Basically you just made the case against yourself, and Dem managed cities. Good job
This certainly stands to reason. I wonder, then, what would explain this:
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Big homelessness problem in Anchorage,
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