On bizarre result of these “laws” is that most of the victims of the “non-crimes” are other poor folks.
The poor will be quickly divided between the “takers” and the “victims without recourse”.
The next step (to the extent it is not there already) is that the “victims without recourse” will need to form (or hire) neighborhood gangs to protect them.
There will be neighborhood policing—but it may be gangs that do it.
The gangs won’t bother with messy stuff like rules of evidence or lengthy trials....
Stores like supermarkets will suffer and shut down. Then poor neighborhoods will be outraged that they suddenly live in a "food desert".
Italian mobs used to take care of neighborhood policing in NYC. I wonder eho will be doing that in Seattle? Bloods? Crips? MS-13?
I lived for a long time in an area that was heavily Mafia dominated. Petty crime was almost zero.
Shopkeepers and small business owners paid protection money, which most considered a second level of property tax, and the part that public opinion always gets wrong is that they really did get protection for their money.
When bunch of teens started hanging around in front of a girl friend's father's dry cleaning store, scaring customers away, the police explained to her father that the kids had civil rights and the police could not make them move. The Italians explained to the teens that they could have an accident if they did not move on, and they were gone in minutes.
If there wasn't a safe, attractive business district, there would be no small business to extort...
Expect a surge in contract killings and vigilante justice.