Posted on 05/19/2019 1:38:05 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Seattle is overwhelmed by garbage and filth, but the city’s leaders won’t admit it.
Over the past few years, Seattle has become a dumping ground for millions of pounds of garbage, needles, feces, and biohazardous waste, largely emanating from the hundreds of homeless encampments that have sprouted across the city. Now, the Emerald City is on the verge of a full-blown public-health crisis. Last year saw a 400 percent increase in HIV infections among mostly homeless addicts and prostitutes in the city’s northern corridor. Public-health officials are sounding the alarms about the return of diseases like typhus, tuberculosis, and trench fever. Even the region’s famed mussels and clams have tested positive for opioids.
While anyone who travels through Seattle can see the trash and litter along the roadside and green spaces, I wanted to understand the scale of the problem with more quantitative precision. Last month, I requested from the city all public complaints about trash, needles, tents, feces, and biohazardous waste from 2018. I then geocoded each complaint to create a data visualization that I call the Great Seattle Trash Map. The map documents more than 19,000 citizen complaints, from mundane reports of abandoned appliances to more serious pleas to clean up dangerous waste. Each data point on the map demonstrates that homeless encampments, opioid addiction, and mental illness have created significant disorder in almost every corner of Seattle.
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It’s no longer the pesto of cities?
I have great pity for those who have lived there and endured the decline!
Concentration camps.
It is absolutely criminal what municipal leadershipo has allowed to happen in San Francisc and Seattle. And I understand LA is not far behind.
It’s a damned shame.
Our son lives there and is looking to get out.
You get what you vote for!
It is insanity.
...You get what you vote for
“elections have consequences” and “I won.”
Obama
October 25, 2010
Bump
In the early 80s, I lived between Gasworks Park and Green Lake. According to the map, that area is now homeless-, drug-, trash-, and disease-infested. I used to worry about gas thieves.
Not when about 9,900 of them are on contracts that prevent their being asked to work on code enforcement/sanitation, and the job of the other 100 is to keep citizens from organizing to do the cleanup themselves.
A local TV station (KOMO) ran a documentary “Seattle is Dying”. It spoke to the homeless problem and all the problems that brings. I recommend the documentary (available on line).
The city government, in response said the documentary was unfair and slanted. They said KOMO did not show the good the city has done, like (honestly, they said) bike lanes and the $15 wage.
The city spends $14M a year on homelessness. They are quite proud of this. This $14M does not include the cost of police and aid calls caused by the homeless.
The decline is not generalized. There are awesome developments taking place but not as the result of city politics but as the result of those that still love the region. Boeing is still a good benefactor ad presence although serious people are pissed at the reduction in prestige caused by foolish, reckless decisions over the 737 MAX crapola.
The liberals, for the most part, are ignored and ‘tolerated’ because why pick a fight with morons? Who is ignoring them? Practically minded business people, what’s left of them. And their patience is now quite thin.
I mean the reality is you get up in the morning, you got 5, 6 things on your mind that you’re gonna get done and screwing around with liberal dumbasses is not a high priority. I mean what are you gonna do? You going to call the Mayor’s office and scream “Today and every day I dream of coming downtown and kicking your *zz!” Or how about walking the city street and cussing out some liberal loser? Is that going to happen? No. But what is getting to good folks is the crap that’s growing. More on this below.
Still, the liberal pukes get the attention of local media. It doesn’t help that the CIA kid (Bezos) is an a-hole. But he’d be an a-hole no matter where he decides to sleep and pee.
And then there’s the odious Gates III, who the rank and file of local business working stiffs ignore the same as they ignore whacky libs in the street. Hey Bill G! Hey stupid! Go eat your billions and just go away, stay out of sight.
The problem is the City Council and Mayor’s office. They get paid with fed and state money to sustain homelessness and drug addiction. Kid you not.
It goes like this.
The City receives funds for its ‘homeless’ problems. God forbid should anything ever be done about it, the revenue stream would dry up!
Yeah, what you read there.
The general consensus up and down the ranks of good folks in Seattle (and there are plenty of good folks) is that the City Council must go, all of them. So that’s a good sign. The Trump effect is happening even in cities with a lib taint like Seattle. People are just fed up and starting to think confrontational like Trump. Music to my ears. So, Seattle could see a sea change in politics and Boeing could be quite instrumental in it if they hadn’t been so reckless with their software development. But that will pass and as it passes we might see good things happening politically.
The real problem with Seattle and its region is caused by its success. Decades of tech and engineering success has created an urban and suburban sprawl which has brought horrifying glimpses of Los Angelization to the quality of life. Hordes of people moving into the area have created sprawl that ruins why people want to live here to begin with. So Seattle has adopted a high density, high rise building plan, whereas the counties don’t know what the eff they’re doing, they just putter along slowing things down and pissing off builders.
The result is land prices are soaring and housing along with it.
What happens next, we’ll just have to stay tuned. We have some very good ideas, business ideas, but I’ll stay mum about them for now.
Denver is trying for the SF of the Rockies. Fortunately the Denver citizens voted down letting the homeless camp out in public parks. Ofc that will not stop the Bolshevik mayor and city council who are in the pay of the developers.
Here it is:
Excellent work. The "activists" were furious.
DO NOT FORGET PORTLAND !!! NUMBER 2 IN POOP !!!! AND COMING UP FAST ON THE OUTSIDE TO CLAIM THE NUMBER 1 SPOT AWAY FROM SF.
What happens when you open the door of absurdity and keep it open with a legal doorstop.
“It is absolutely criminal what municipal leadershipo has allowed to happen in San Francisc and Seattle.”
and yet the majority of those who voted selected these criminals on purpose, so does what does that say about the populace in general approving of these criminals?
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