Seattle cops explain how to stop Seattle crime. Mayor, City Council, & Prosecutors ignore them.
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mynorthwest.comPosted Jan 29, 2020, 11:31 PM UTC
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mynorthwest.comFrom the Sheriff's Deputy:
Stop and frisk has worked for New York, now they’ve walked back that policy back and the streets are even more dangerous.
Yeah, that policy was bad from the start and led to systemic mistrust of police by black residents of NYC. They're basically telling the public: "Hey, let us profile just a little bit, it'll be fiiiiineeee..."
I'm not saying that what we have is all fine-and-dandy, but replicating Stop and Frisk is not the answer.
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And yet New York got cleaned up.
Don’t miss the fuckin forest for the trees.
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But it’s “””””””racist””””””.
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Oh MyNorthwest and your fear mongering headlines.
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But why male models?...
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Quickly, Mayor Jenny Durkan turned this into another opportunity to blame the generic, catch-all of “gun violence.” She’ll never pass up an exploitable opportunity to attack our constitutionally protected right to bear arms. Ironically, the gang violence we see in Seattle is exactly why we should consider arming ourselves.
I stopped reading here. I miss the days when bias in journalism was a legitimately bad thing and was discouraged.
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Every Rantz column is an opinion piece, just like George Will or Paul Krugman.
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Kinda sucks that 'opinion' or 'op-ed' aren't anywhere to be found on the page.
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The brand header is for a conservative talk radio station. They made some confusing choices about hosting 770 under their domain, but anything under the 770 logo should be considered opinion. I wouldn't expect any different from, say, Air America, or whatever passes for left-wing talk these days.
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That explains that, then.
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If you stop reading as soon as you see "by Jason Rantz" you will save yourself a lot of eye rolling.
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Alrighty then.
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MyNorthwest is a right wing cesspool ( I often read the comments there, my gods do they loathe Seattle with few living here ) but if you get past Rantz frothing at the beginning, the 3 cops takes are quite interesting.
Most of what I got from it are: enforce existing laws. Cleaning up the crime at 3rd and Pine will reduce crimes elsewhere in the city, and cleaning up 3rd and Pine from an open air drug den will reduce the possibilities to relapse on people getting clean which again, improves everything else.
Most of which isn’t rocket science to me. Especially the last one. I know drugs are a complex issue but at least make it harder to enable the addicts.
What you call "enabling the addicts" should be more accurately called "enabling the drug dealers".
Give the drugs for free, and surprise, the dealers are out of business.
Yes, the same applies to prostitution I believe. Surely this solution works for any problem. Just make things free.
Isn’t this how they solved the issues with prohibition after all? /s
And this is the reason we are unable to solve these problems, because you dismiss a reasonable and completely workable solution because you have some moral outrage about the means, and start to pull out strawman arguments.
Making prostitution legal would indeed solve a lot of problems around prostitution.
Understand, there is a very big difference between legalizing things, making them available to people who need them... and simply making them free. Which is what you advocated.
I might want drug addiction treated as a public health issue. ( I do ) but I can also use logic to deduce that removing dealers from the most easily accessible part of the city would immediately make it harder for addicts to score, if they were faced with a potential relapse. If you make things harder, it helps.
This is an immediate part solution. You’re talking about much more expansive things which are currently pie in the sky.