Posted on 10/12/2021 7:50:59 PM PDT by MAGA2017
Seattle Public Libraries (SPL) is reporting $434,000 in damage over the last 18 months, citing an increase in loitering, vandalism, and homeless encampments surrounding several of their branches.
SPL laid out the most recent data in a memo to Seattle City Councilmember Debora Juarez. That includes reports of $170,000 in damage to the Central library branch on Fourth Avenue, in the form of seven shattered window panels damaged by a pellet gun.
Other damage to that branch included one instance where an uninsured motorist ran into the building on its Madison Street side, breaking four large window panes and bending supporting steel beams. That incident cost SPL an estimated $85,000 in repairs.
SPL reports tens of thousands of dollars in damage to other branches as well, including Ballard/Fremont, Lake City/Northgate, Northeast/University, Rainier Beach/Beacon Hill, and South Park.
The bulk of the damage done to the Ballard/Fremont branch came as a result of a fire from a neighboring homeless camp burning and cracking a window on the north side of the building, which also damaged a grating. Repairs ended up costing nearly $60,000.
Lake City/Northgate also reported a series of smaller incidents where campers in the area broke windows.
In its memo to Councilmember Juarez, SPL noted that the increase in these incidents has its on-site staff members “extremely concerned for safety at work,” particularly at the downtown Seattle Central branch. It has also fielded similar complaints from patrons.
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Cuz books is like kryptonite to BLM.
Enjoy, liberal Seattle voters!
The city didn’t care when it was private property getting destroyed....
One of these days, it’ll be a redux of the Library at Alexandria.
Hey, the homeless have gotta “go”, too!
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I’ve been to the main library branch in downtown Seattle and it is a hideous structure and it largely serves as a hangout for the “homeless” and other vagrant-types.
That was almost exactly what I was going to post, but you beat me to it!
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people.
I drove by the library in Hollywood, California. The entire sidewalk in front of the building was filled with homeless tents. I doubt many people at all even go there. Might be cheaper to give everyone who wants to use the library a free Kindle subscription.
It looks like some kind of compromise where the homeless have agreed to camp out near walls and abandoned buildings, and the public buildings, but not in front of the open for business establishments.
Seattle loves crap in the streets, junkies shooting up publicly and sidewalks covered with tents. There’s no other rational explanation for how the city has enabled and encouraged homelessness. Liberals adore suffering.
Let me guess, the union pensioned librarians hide all the TRUMP books.
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I’ve always wanted to take a poo in a liberal library book, and it sounds like Seattle would let me do that.
Good. I’m sure every single person that works there is a communist. This is what you wanted, this is what you support, enjoy it, commies.
Settle is a sewer. And about 20 years ago the idiots replaced a charming old building with a glass teepee with no room for bookshelves. It’s a wonder loiterers can find a place to loiter there. Guess they don’t care about privacy.
It’s those damn white supremacists and Trump supporters!
so about $24,000 per month in damage from the antifa vandals....suck it up Seattle, you voted for it.
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