KOMO News Special Seattle is Dying KOMO (cocaine, Alabama, felons)
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Anyone who thinks Seattle is going to hell (and it is) also needs to take a road trip through small town America in the midwest. It's not a party thing or a city thing. The entire country is going to hell as the rich keep taking/being given more and more of the pie leaving nothing but crumbs for everyone else. Trump called it "carnage", and it is not discernibly better since he said that.
I see this crap when I commute into Atlanta. I see homeless people and drug addicts everyday right outside where I work. I swa homeless people along the Riverfront in Nashville. I live in an exurban area about 30 miles west of Atlanta. I've seen syringes on the ground. Sometimes I've found them near nice subdivisions. Haven't found homelessness anywhere, yet. I've found signs of drug use where I live. Meth is a big problem where I live.
Homicide rate of all of Washington state is 3.1 murders/100K (source)
At 3.74, Seattle is only a little higher.
And here are Washington homicide rates by county (rounded off to the nearest single digit, using 2011-17 averages): http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/...actors/15/data
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For the counties they have data for, homicide rates range from 2 to 8 murders per 100K. Seattle is pretty much right in the middle of that range.
So once again, Seattle's homicide rate isn't "much" higher than the rest of Washington state.
Homicide rate of all of Washington state is 3.1 murders/100K (source)
At 3.74, Seattle is only a little higher.
And the state with the worst murder rate is.....Louisiana. Louisiana has been #1 for murder for the past 3 decades. And it isn't just New Orleans. Baton Rouge and Shreveport have problems too.
Washington state's most murderous city(of 100,000+ people) is Spokane.
Spokane used to be somewhat bad a number of years ago (it was nick-named Spo-Compton) but it's calmed down the last several years.
Well, that shows even more that the most murderous place in WA state isn't even in the Seattle area. East of the Cascades. That has puzzled me a bit. Spokane, now Yakima.
2. Like all major cities with millions of people there are extremely wealthy people and extremely poor people.
Conservatives love extremely binary answers - We are right, We win and liberals are wrong.
There are plenty of Republican run areas in the deep south and in rural America were most people are living off disability and the government and are on drugs.
That’s all of Appalachia. So sad what Fepublicans have done to that part of the country.
And the state with the worst murder rate is.....Louisiana. Louisiana has been #1 for murder for the past 3 decades. And it isn't just New Orleans. Baton Rouge and Shreveport have problems too.
That's a great idea. Send the drug addicts, criminals and crazies to Louisiana and let them 'take care of them.'
That's a great idea. Send the drug addicts, criminals and crazies to Louisiana and let them 'take care of them.'
Louisiana would appear to have problems dealing with its murderers. I'm not sure why you think they'd do any better with drug addicts, criminals and crazies.
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