getcereal wrote:
j p o wrote:
getcereal wrote:
davec wrote:
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/exclusive-amazon-moving-thousands-employees-seattle-relocating-key-division-nearby-city/
And so the exodus continues. Not good for me. I live east of Bellevue and this just worsens already bad east side traffic. I just watch this video. Really pathetic, the progressive and their good intentions are letting a great city, slide into a shit hole.-
I'm 15 minutes in and I'm giving up. Does it ever offer any solutions beyond "give the police more authority" or is it a Sinclair attempted hit piece on liberals in Seattle?
It is one thing to acknowledge that a city faces issues when it becomes a draw for homeless people. And it is easy to take potshots by saying "somebody should do something". But it is another to find actual solutions other than criminalizing homelessness.
Yep hard to watch and it is a very complicated problem but it seems Seattle is doing it wrong (along with San Francisco). Skip to 44:00 for a solution.
There are a lot of factors in play. And it is something that has been building for quite a while. The root cause of crime is something that I have studied and been interested in since I switched to a philosophy major in 1992. And I think the US does a really really bad job of addressing it.
In the '80's we decided to cut federal funding for mental health (I could take a potshot at Reagan but after almost 40 years and 16 years of holding the presidency I haven't see the Democrats trying to change course either). At the same time we were reducing housing funding. And the states had no interest in upping funding for either.
And for years people have been freaking out if prisons have robust education systems because "why should they get free education for committing crimes?"
And prison systems have not tried very hard to do real drug rehab like what they are attempting in RI.
Make me king, because only I can fix this, and we'd try something different in prisons and sentencing. Drug treatment and education would be at the forefront of prisons. A lot of sentences would be much more indeterminate and if you didn't complete drug treatment and education you aren't getting out very soon.
I hate when I hear people complain about making prisons too soft. It is stupid. Make them hellholes and treat the inmates like animals and that is how they will come out. All but a very few are coming back into society. Do we really want them coming out a lot worse than they went in?
And I think as a society we need to find a better way to treat the mentally ill. I don't have that answer but it is easy to see what we are doing is not working for a lot of people.
I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.