I feel sympathy for any forum members in Seattle but this is really the chickens coming home to roost...first Seattle started taxing businesses in the city with their payroll tax, but now they are really forcing them out with the crime...

I don’t live too far from Seattle, but nobody I know, or work with, goes downtown for anything anymore. Definitely not the same place I was born in.

It was getting bad 5-6 years ago when they had to cut the bathroom stalls in Pike Place Market because of druggies shooting up. They are getting what they deserve and I’m hoping they wall the whole thing in and do an “Escape from Seattle” sequel. Such a beautiful part of the country no longer inhabitable for anyone that values freedom.

Who’s doin’ all this killing in the Woke city? All that made the news in WV is the Amazon move. Maybe I missed national news coverage, or maybe National tv news won’t call out urbanites and junkies.

Seattle. Portland. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Etc. etc. etc. Bastions of the woke left where there can be no doubt that their supported policies have destroyed their cities. And doubling down to defend this accepted behavior just reinforces the belief that leftist liberals are mentally ill.

https://www.thedenverchannel.com

DENVER – Prosecutors plan to drop the second-degree murder charge filed against an unlicensed security guard who shot and killed a man outside of competing rallies in Denver in October 2020, according to the man’s attorney and the district attorney's office.

Matthew Dolloff, 32, had pleaded not guilty last May to the murder charge, which was filed after he shot and killed 49-year-old Lee Keltner in October 2020 outside of competing political rallies near Civic Center Park.

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Matthew Dolloff, 32, had pleaded not guilty last May to the murder charge, which was filed after he shot and killed 49-year-old Lee Keltner in October 2020 outside of competing political rallies near Civic Center Park.

Douglas Richards, one of Dolloff’s attorneys, told Denver7 that Denver District Attorney’s Office prosecutors had told him they would move to dismiss the case at a March 21 pre-trial conference.

Carolyn Tyler, a spokesperson for the district attorney's office, confirmed prosecutors would dismiss the charge because there was not enough evidence to prove Dolloff is guilty of murder.

...because apparently a videotape of him shooting the guy in the head isn't considered evidence.

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unlicensed security guard

Then he's not a security guard. We don't call unlicensed doctors, "Doctor," so this thug ought not be called a security guard, even if they put the word "unlicensed" in front of it.

He's just a wanna-be. Nothing but a paid thug. He shouldn't have been there in the first place.

It appears that Colorado (and Denver) does require security guards to be licensed with endorsements for plain-clothes and another for firearms. This guy had nothing. Zero, Zilch. He's a moron.

https://www.denvergov.org/Gove...ty-Guard-Application

I would image there would have to be multiple lawsuits pending against whoever hired him as an "unlicensed" security guard.

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Originally posted by recoatlift:
Who’s doin’ all this killing in the Woke city?

Black youth engaged in drug activity.

Thank you, I figured such.

Not trying to drift this thread; this essay by Bari Weiss speaks to the issues of this thread illustrated by the behaviors and strengths the Ukrainian people and their leadership exhibit. Contrast against the things discussed in this thread:

https://bariweiss.substack.com...rth-fighting-for?s=r

This seemed to be the thread to post this in.

Kind of thinking they are limiting the solution space. Really, the solution exists, they just don't like it.

For the record, I disagree with the term "Gun Violence, but that's how the article is titled.

Portland leaders address gun violence, struggle to find solutions

https://www.opb.org/article/20...tinued-gun-violence/

Exasperated political and community leaders in Portland came together with representatives from local and federal law enforcement for a winding, hourlong press conference Thursday to acknowledge gun violence continues to rise in the city despite efforts to counter it.

“We’re already at 20 homicides for this year, 19 of which are gunshot victims,” Portland police Chief Chuck Lovell said. “For 2022, we’re averaging 21.9 shootings per week…If this trend continues, we’ll end the year with just over 1,500 shootings which would be a 14% increase over last year and a 266% increase over 2019.”

I guess this is a good thread to post this video of Texas Congressman Chip Roy laying out the litany of destructive Democrat policies in Washington and in Democrat run cities across the country.

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/20...ll-shrinking-n458199

Portland

The city is experiencing record levels of violent crime even as it struggles to maintain the lowest number of police officers it has had since the late 80s/early 90s when the population of of the city was much smaller than it is now.

Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell said for 2022, there have been an average of nearly 29 shootings per week in Portland.

If this trend continues, Chief Lovell says there will be a little over 1,500 shootings this year, which is a 14% increase compared to last year and a 266% increase from 2019.

the police force is now down to 777 officers. No one is saying the words “defund the police” but that’s what this is about.

the consensus in the city and in many other parts of the nation, spurred by progressive activists and Black Lives Matter protesters, was that we could have less crime if we had fewer officers.

n October 2021 Mayor Wheeler announced plans to rehire officers who’d retired. Rehiring those officers wouldn’t require background checks because they had already been checked and had worked for the city. But that effort was a complete failure. After reaching out to 81 former officers, exactly two expressed interest in returning to Portland and exactly zero actually returned

Chief Lovell explained that another wave of retirements was coming this July. He said as many as 80 officers would be leaving the force which would reduce the number of officers close to 700 for a city of nearly 650,000 people.

^^^^
The anti-gun whack jobs will be ramping up
The rhetoric over how evil gun owners are to blame for this. And their mentally I’ll base will flap their flippers in support. They will NEVER admit that leftist policies led to this.

Watching liberals learn is tedious.

Sorry Portland, you made your bed, now it's time to lay in it.

And they're not the only City in that situation.

I have a brother, sisters nieces, nephews, and another generation that live there-forever, since birth for most of the adult second gen. One sold out this week and is moving out. The others are expressing concern and have nothing to do with downtown Portland anymore. I think there is some sadness there too.

I'm not feeling smug either, I don't live in Seattle but I can see it from my house and I wouldn't go downtown for anything I can think of. Getting off the ferry and hauling buns to I-90 east is as close as I get and that's about once a quarter.

It's sad. I loved that city.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Watching liberals learn is tedious.

Yeah, but it would be just peachy for a change if they could learn that fire is bad without burning all of our homes down too. Mental illness...the true pandemic endangering this country. And for liberals there appears to be no cure.

Portland is at about 1/3rd of what it should be for cops. The Boston Police Department has approximately 2,015 officers and 808 civilian personnel, with patrol services covering an area of 89.6 mi2 (232.1 km2) and a population of 617,594. Roughly the same size city, and Boston is down 500 to 600 cops.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Watching liberals learn is tedious.

I think they enjoy ruling chaos, they are quite fond of it.
Many were anti-war protesters from the Viet Nam era