Amazon shuts small Seattle office after spate of crimes in area

Re:Amazon shuts small Seattle office after spate of crimes i... by krnlpnc on Friday March 11, 2022 @08:42AM (#30639751)

Unprovoked? Neither “class” has realistic access to social services or health care in the US, so the mental health and addiction issues that often lead a person down this road go unaddressed.

Further, the US legal system (and US society) heavily stigmatizes “offenders”. Once a person is down its extremely hard to get back up, and people need money survive.

Not saying that violence is ok, but in many cases people just need help instead of punishment.

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Re:Amazon shuts small Seattle office after spate of crimes i... by hayd on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:45PM (#30678028)

Agreed, we need to treat addiction much much more aggressively.

Here in CA/SF the current policy is to simply ignore low-level crime (which funds their drug addiction aka "to survive")... instead let's take people off the street (and take them off drugs).

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