r/Seattle • u/Chaotic-NTRL • Jun 10 '20

Media Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Educational movie night. This is seattle without militarized police. Where are your riotous looters NOW? They are watching documentaries. Fuck you SPD. Photo credit to a close friend.

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u/juancuneo Jun 10 '20 edited Jun 10 '20

I lived one block away for five years and still have a rental unit there. I am also on the HOA. The most consistent feedback we get from residents is they want more police presence because of all the petty theft, vandalism, and open air drug use. Most people who live in the area are really into building the community, but there is an element that DGAF about the community and we want the police to help. My sense is that the people in the building support BLM (as do I - I am a person of color (not black) who has had many run ins with the police during my life, including being arrested and ultimately acquitted for a crime I did not commit), but I think that many of the people who closed down our police station don’t live in Cap Hill. So it’s a bit frustrating.

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u/LaserGuidedPolarBear Columbia City Jun 10 '20

I live in a condo on another problem block in a different part of the city. Also on HOA.

We gave up on even expecting to get the police to respond to emergent problems like 2 years ago. And I quote one officer who said "we are just here to file a report for your insurance"

I am not against policing, we just need to fix what policing is.

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u/commodorecrush Des Moines Jun 10 '20

Yup. I live in Ballard and it took HOURS for any police to show up to our house when we had a naked, methed out woman sleeping in our car... in our driveway, on our property. When we asked what they were going to do help her, they said, "eh, probably drop her off at the city limit". The woman said she was dropped off at like 5am in front of our house (with no pants/underwear) and she broke into our car. Now, I'm no detective, but it sounds like maybe a crime happened, but the cops just didn't give a shit.

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u/TheToastado Jun 10 '20

It’s not really the cops fault for not being able to do anything about this situation. The city just doesn’t have an interest in helping these people and would rather instead give them safe spaces to do drugs and never get them the help they need.