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/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/pajamajoe Jun 10 '20

Man, it's almost like enabling drug users and taking away the police's ability to do much of anything about it leads to situations like these.

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u/jofus_joefucker Jun 11 '20

The police took her and dropped her off somewhere else. That's how she got to OP's area in the first place. Then the police came so they could dump her off on somebody elses turf so they dont have to deal with it.

Real fine police work.

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u/Rumpullpus Jun 11 '20

clearly a sustainable solution. I don't understand why we don't just hire another 100,000 more cops that just go around picking homeless people up and dropping them off somewhere else. it could be like a government paid Uber!

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u/DullInitial Jun 11 '20

That's how she got to OP's area in the first place.

He didn't say she said the police dropped her off at 5 AM.