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Posted on 05/25/2026 8:39:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Democrats will tell you crime is getting better in blue cities around the country. Does anyone actually believe that? Just ask residents of Los Angeles, where Mayor Karen Bass touts statistics showing that crime rates have lowered when, in reality, there’s been a home invasion wave, and street takeovers are as regular as the sunshine.
Or you could ask the beleaguered residents of Seattle, where some residents feel forced to put up barricades to keep the perps out. They argued that they were getting no help from the police in the rainy leftist enclave where a Democratic socialist with virtually no résumé, Katie Wilson, was elected mayor in November 2025.
These folks had to take matters into their own hands:
HAHAHAHAHAH. Seattle residents are now building WALLS on their blocks to keep out criminals. pic.twitter.com/s0wEoKxxel— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 25, 2026
In the above video, residents tell reporters about the constant fear of living under these conditions:
I’m glad they feel safer, but it’s beyond ridiculous that they felt forced into this position in the first place.
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What led to their feeling that such a bold move was the only way forward? Bullets flying seemingly every night:
Frustrated by recurring gunfire tied to Aurora Avenue’s long-running and increasingly deadly crime problems, some North Seattle residents have begun barricading neighborhood streets themselves.
Supporters call it a safety measure, though it is also raising concerns that the makeshift barricades could delay ambulances and fire crews responding to emergencies.
In recent days, neighbors near North 97th, 98th, and 102nd streets hauled in large metal planter boxes, dirt, and gravel to partially block residential roads feeding into Aurora Avenue North, one of Seattle’s busiest corridors.
The barriers are intended to stop gunmen from speeding through side streets during shootings connected to turf disputes among people involved in prostitution and human trafficking activity along Aurora.
The barriers have their critics, however. Watch this wokester in the required Seattle ponytail trying to tell one of the builders that “I just don’t know that I feel like this is the right fix.” What’s your solution, pal?
Contrast that with the footage of the shootings in the same video, which is from a KING 5 Seattle report, that regularly plague the area.
🚨THEY VOTED FOR IT: Seattle residents are forced to build DIY barricades to protect themselves from roving gangs shooting up their neighborhoods after defunding their police, harboring dangerous illegal aliens and electing radical Leftist @MayorofSeattle Katie Wilson. pic.twitter.com/kUjAoFAUOO— Dapper Detective (@Dapper_Det) May 25, 2026
"It's not a fix for sure," says one of the builders. "It's a Band-Aid. This is Tylenol for Stage 4 cancer."
This cancer has a name: progressivism. Leftist policies have failed in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and, of course, Seattle. Ponytail dude undoubtedly voted for them every single step of the way. The progressive policy in cities like these seems to be “managed decline” — and barely managed at that. People seem to be waking up to the massive failures, proven by the fact that LA Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt has gone so viral, and Steve Hilton is leading gubernatorial polls in the Golden State.
It may just be too late for Seattle, though. It would be a long, long road back to normalcy for the Emerald City.
Good luck to these residents — at least they’re trying to take a stand.
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Elect a clown, expect a circus
Now I feel like moving to Seattle. Bring it, bitches!
Policeless in Seattle.
We need Batman
At some point they will learn that the purpose of the police is to protect criminals from the general public.
well, they are actually correct. Crime is getting better in 'blue cities'.
It is the odds of living peacefully and un-victimized that is getting worse.
By "police" here they mean a short overweight DEI African-American woman squeezed into
polyester stretch pants. She is so heavy and out of shape that she gets winded riding the escalator
at the mall.
“HAHAHAHAHAH. Seattle residents are now building WALLS on their blocks to keep out criminals.”
They need to take it to the Florida level.
I grew up in that neighborhood. As a taxi driver, I’ve carried hookers and dancers up and down Aurora for 20+ years. This level of violence is something new. It’s gangs fighting it out for control of the hooker and drug trade.
How Dare They!
Time to form another "Nonprofit" to deal with these upstart Aurora residents taking security into their own hands.
Let's see.....
The Barricades and Barriers Equity Project and Nonprofit.
Once a nationwide search has scoured the planet for the most experienced and expensive Nonprofit CEO, the uppity Aurora residents will be given notice that they must tear down their self made barriers in the name of safety and crime equity.
It is completely unfair and unsustainable for only some neighborhoods to be more safe . In the name of everything that is good and right in the Marxist world, this assault (the physical barriers) on crime and safety equity must be corrected. Only when every resident is equally safe, or unsafe, will any barriers be considered.
Once the Nonprofit CEOs and upper management have pocketed enough $$$, with the usual and customary 10% for the Mayor and City Council, any money leftover will fund the Barrier Equity Removal Project.
Another biped added, "We are afraid." When asked to respond, an individual expressed concern. As of this time, a member of the species Homo sapiens could not be reached for comment.
Regards,
The CHAZ blockade didn’t turn out well, but those barricades were to keep cops out, not criminals.
I really shouldn’t laugh but your post was so clever I can’t help it. Great one.
My mind filters everything through a filter of politics, as Pat Buchanan’s sister Bay once said.
“Seattle has not voted for a Republican presidential nominee since Ronald Reagan in 1984. While local elections are officially nonpartisan, most of the city’s elected officials are known to be Democrats.” Dem percentages 87%, 88.45%, 84.22%....
“Seattle’s politics lean famously to the left compared to the U.S. as a whole. In this regard, it sits with a small set of similar U.S. cities (such as Madison, Wisconsin, Berkeley, California, and Cambridge and Boston in Massachusetts) where the dominant politics tend to range from center-left to social democratic. Seattle politics are generally dominated by the liberal wing...”
—Wikipedia.
Thus, if they vote for soft on crime they get softness on crime. No sympathy until they form proper “well-regulated militias”.
As long as Washinton insists on calling them “crime problems” they’ll never aprehend or destroy the criminals. Crimes don’t commit themselves.
In the Owl and the Pussycat with Barbra Streisand as a prostitute in lingerie and George Segal as a mild mannered unpublished writer now dressed in a skeleton Halloween suit to scare Streisand out of hiccups, go into the hall of their apartment building after a loud few minutes of commotion that cause the neighbors to come out, an elderly couple stand their ground in the hall.
The old man holds a broom pointed like a rifle, and the man’s wife says sternly:
“Stay where you are. My husband has a broom and he’s willing to use it on you.”
That’s what leftist people of Seattle must look like to the criminals.
What Soros and his ilk do is simply not report or prosecute most crimes committed by their preferred demographic groups. So when you complain about crime they can say “Crime? What Crime? We don’t see any crime! Crime is way down!”
As a bonus for them, these miscreants retain their voting rights so more felons (or should-be felons) can step right up and cast their vote for the communist of their choice.
This game has gone on at least 20-30 years and you can see the fruits of it Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles, not to mention Chicago, New York, Detroit, Minneapolis, D.C., Philly and Boston. It won’t stop until someone can get in their and stop it.
That bothered me too. What’s wrong with m*n?
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