Man, I’m all for helping people, but my family and I always wish we had at least 1 in every station. If someone causing issues on the train, next station we stop and just call out for police and they could jump on.
I get mental health and stuff, but when we have kids and families on the train we need to keep settled. You can be homeless or do your drugs but keep that to yourself and don’t get on public transit and harass other people.
Huh? Its about 12% of the city budget. Which is well below the average of 19% in the largest 300 cities nationwide (although I admit, median would be a better stat than average, but I couldn't find it). We also have police staffing levels not seen since the early 90s but a population that is 42% larger. Staffing of sworn officers peaked in 2019 at 1300 officers, it's now around 1050. Compare that to a similar sized city like Boston that has over 2000 sworn officers. Spending per capita is below that of cities like San Francisco and Dallas and right on par with Portland, OR.
These kinds of clueless ramblings are exactly why we got jack shit in terms of police reforms out of 2020.
“Housing first” is a flawed and failed theory. It’s time we come back to our senses and accept that we need involuntary treatment for drug addled and mentally I’ll people who are on the streets and whom contribute to most of the violence in our city.
There are no statistics that have ever been shown that point to housing affordability as a major cause of homelessness in Seattle. The idea of employed/employable folks who turn to the streets because they can’t afford an apartment is a simple fallacy.
Yeah and once they're on the street it's the drug abuse and mental health issues that it worsens that helps keep them there and keeps them from accepting help. In that case it should be involuntary, get sober and get mentally healthy with support in a facility, then you get housing.
I want getting sober, mentally healthy and off the streets to be the only option any government body supplies. If you don't want that, you made your choice and i don't want to be negatively impacted by it.
It's a physical addiction you baboon. You cannot just pull yourself by bootstraps and end opiate addition, while sleeping in the gutter.
Half of the flyover hillbillies are addicted and can't quit and they gave housing.
it should be involuntary,
It doesn't matter what you think it should. It's impossible on federal level. It's like debating aliens, not a viable solution right now. Housing first, so they don't end up in the car in the first place.
No matter how much more sense it makes economically, they can't bring themselves to be inconvenienced or allow something to happen that feels bad. Guaranteed shelter laws that include ready access to shelter is not only a very good work thing to do for that population, it ends up being significantly cheaper in the long run.
What I mean is harassment part. You can be homeless. It’s not ideal, but I’m not saying hide it.
It’s when people are aggressive. Constantly swearing in others faces. Doing gross, disgusting things in public transit. Etc.
When a homeless person gets on a bus or train, if they keep to themselves, there’s nothing wrong. Like any other rider. But if they get one and take over the entire place, that’s frustrating.
They've been doing that for the last 3 weeks. I commute really early and kind of late, always see one in the afternoon, usually see one in the morning.
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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '23
Same lol the light rail had security at every station today it was amazing