Posted on 10/04/2025 7:17:14 AM PDT by Libloather
Seattle Democratic Mayor Bruce Harrell said during a mayoral debate Thursday night he has “no desire” to put repeat criminal offenders in jail, and he doesn’t know how to answer the question on whether the city is “too lax” on repeat offenders.
“So, let me make something very clear. I was the one that sponsored the ‘Ban the Box’ legislation when everyone opposed it because the criminal system has had a disparate impact on Black and Brown communities, let me lead with that,” Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said in a mayoral debate Thursday night when asked a follow-up question about repeat offenders in the city.
Harrell’s “Ban the Box” proposal in 2013 prevented employers from asking about an applicant’s criminal history on applications up front.
Harrell then said, “When this person is committing six or seven crimes, I don’t know his or her story. Maybe they were abused as a child. Maybe they’re hungry. But my remedy is to find their life story to see how we can help. First, I have no desire to put them in jail, but I need to protect you, and that’s the calibration that we have.
“I put police officers on the stand. I’ve cross-examined them. So, whether they commit seven or eight crimes, to me, is not the issue. The issue is, why are they committing these crimes? And so we have a health-based strategy.”
Repeat offenders have been a part of the national conversation with respect to crimes in recent weeks after several high-profile murders carried out by suspects with lengthy criminal records, including in North Carolina where Ukrainian Iryna Zarutska was stabbed to death on a train by a suspect with a long history of arrests going back more than a decade, including charges of felony larceny, robbery with...
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Stop feeding them bs. They’re living the leftist lie and going hungry.
Repeat offenders with multiple crimes are always either sociopaths or psychopaths.
There is no cure.
3 hots and a cot in prison. I heard walla walla is especially nice in January.
Eventually everybody there will be criminal, because why not?
Then, they have feathered their own deteriorating nests.
since the defining characteristic of the American poor is that they are almost universally obese, I doubt this.
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He makes you want to buy a house or open a small business in Seattle…
Bruce Harrell obviously has an IQ of about 80. What an EVIL MORON!!
HA! I wonder if HE has a RECORD!!!
Food is always the problem. Rapists stop raping after you make them a sammich
I know several other food giveaways in our area, we try to make sure we pick different weeks, and one of the problems they have in liberal areas is security.
People will assault and rob the volunteers handing out food.
Well, I’d say that the population of the city deserves everything that’s coming to it by having such a mayor ...
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