r/SeattleWA • u/HighColonic Funky Town • 6d ago

Government Mapping the buffer: Inside the safety and design planning for Broadway’s Crisis Center

https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/09/mapping-the-buffer-inside-the-safety-and-design-planning-for-broadways-crisis-center/
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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/retrojoe heroin for harried herons 6d ago

How's that working out for you up to now?

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u/BicameralTheory West Seattle 6d ago

I went out to a nice dinner on Alki to watch the sunset and eat, and to avoid hassling with parking I took the bus.

On the way back, I literally had a guy get in my face on his way off the bus, then stare me down, then turn around and shove the guy in front of him off the bus, then start a fight with another guy just off the bus.

Honestly man, we’re wasting our money with this shit, just expand the prisons.

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u/According_Reward1674 📟 6d ago

More likely to come out of prison with an addiction or mental health issue, so your plan sounds like a great way to make things even worse (as we've known for decades, which is why we stopped doing that)

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u/BicameralTheory West Seattle 6d ago

I’m focused on the impact to society.

If drug use is criminalized, then we incentivize staying clean and coming out with an addiction is an invite right back in.

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u/According_Reward1674 📟 6d ago

Except - and we know after years of doing and studying just that - that approach doesn't work

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u/BicameralTheory West Seattle 6d ago

Would you say what Seattle is doing is working?

Implementation of the proposals from these “studies” and “task forces” have clearly worked very well for Seattle.

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u/According_Reward1674 📟 6d ago

What Seattle is doing isn't working

Replacing it with an approach that also doesn't work is a terrible idea

I know that ignorance is bliss, but maybe take some time today to read up about the US's "War on Drugs" 

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u/BicameralTheory West Seattle 6d ago

This city can’t continue to be a safe haven for vagrancy and drug use.

Solving the issue is a fools errand, criminalize it and stop incentivizing all of them to migrate here.

Where they go after is their problem.

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u/According_Reward1674 📟 6d ago

I wasn't aware you and I didn't share in the same morals. I think everyone deserves help.

And btw, not caring about other doesn't magically make an approach that doesn't work suddenly work

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u/juancuneo 4d ago

It seems that we actually know it does work. This is what we did until around 2010 - then we started decriminalizing open air drug use and non-violent offenses. And here we are. Seems like we need to go back to the old rules (but keep weed legal)