A Californian's Impression of Seattle

[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by wlw2009

I figured, does anyone like them?

Plenty of fans in the East Bay and LA

[tifoso]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

I'd agree that the homelessness in Seattle is worse than most parts of the Bay Area. In Seattle, the homeless are in several neighborhoods, while in Berkeley, they're only downtown and around the SW side of the university, which is adjacent to downtown. And even then, they're generally concentrated within a couple of blocks of downtown. In Seattle, they're all over downtown, as mentioned above, they're in the U District, and Ballard. And they're aggressive wherever you encounter them. They follow students onto the university campus and threaten them or try to grab them. This is rare, on the UC campus in Berkeley.

The last time I was in San Francisco, the homeless were miraculously gone from downtown, though I think this has changed. Still, in SF, they're pretty much confined to a couple of neighborhoods. There aren't large numbers of them scattered all over town, as in Seattle.

Seattle used to have a law against aggressive panhandling, but I gather from this forum that it's off the books now...? They should bring it back.

It's not off the books, but it's not being enforced either. At a recent mayoral candidate forum, Councilmember Bruce Harrell siad that of 18,000 "pedestrian interference" incidents, there were only 20 arrests.

[CarawayDJ]

Originally Posted by wlw2009

Well I think as a whole Seattle's judges let pretty much any criminal walk free. Hell, a group of kids killed someone and then 2 of them killed someone else and all they are looking at is 20 years I believe.

Its pathetic.

Read the Seattle Times today, two losers pimping out girls in fife, theyve already been convicted before and with other charges...yet, here they are!

Sometimes the news can be very timely. This article talks about a home invader who was released because the detectives didn't provide a completed case file to the prosecutor. There is uncertainty as to whether the guy has a mental illness or was just faking it. Nonetheless, a person goes through a window and enters someone's home while people were inside, he is arrested and had to be released because the detectives didn't do their paperwork. Go figure that the property crime rate is attrocious Burglar wearing scrubs found inside Wallingford home | KING5.com Seattle

But then again, another timely article reports an impressive drop of 19% over 10 year averages in property crime. http://www.komonews.com/news/local/A...211191561.html