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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by nostrebored on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:49PM (#20780340)
Yeah, this minimizing comment and ones like it are one of the reasons I left Seattle to live in Cape Town, a city with one of the highest percentage of homeless people in the world. Guess what? I feel safer in parks here.

Volunteer park is fine, and some of the parks up the hill are fine, but I've seen multiple children get pricked with used needless and I've been threatened by people in the park. I've been on the bus with my son with people openly smoking meth. I've been on the bus with my son where a man was punched in the throat for being Indian.

I don't know how you can live in that city and do anything without being exposed to this.

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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by allana on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:04PM (#20780539)
We have real issues in Seattle, but having frank conversations about it has been quite troublesome, too many people want to talk about feels rather than facts, leading to local satire like this: http://theneedling.com/2019/02/05/magnolia-named-worlds-most...

Seattle Parks & Recreation has started adding Park Ambassadors to address what you experienced, and it has significantly improved the downtown parks: https://downtownseattle.org/about/careers/park-ambassador-pa...

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