For one thing, the city council voted to oppose war with Iran. That’s great and all, but who asked the city of Seattle for their thoughts on an international relations dilemma? I’m sure the vote only took up perhaps 15 minutes or less in government proceedings, but it shows where the council’s head is at. The city has very real problems with safety, policing, taxing, transit, homelessness, and so on. Instead they opt to be performative.

The homeless crisis and crime. It has gotten increasingly worse.

Edit: typo

Which kind of crime are you thinking of?

Property and violent crimes have both been stable at less than half the level from the 80s.

I have been living in the CD for about 25 years, and I have noticed an increase in drive-by shootings over the last five years. While it's not as bad as it was in the early 90s when Deuce 8 was more active on my block, the situation has deteriorated compared to 10 years ago

And the time, resources, and expertise required to solve those timeless problems are relevant to discrimination policy how? Could we solve homelessness and crime by repealing all discrimination laws?

The context of the question isn’t about how it’s related to the caste policy. Maybe I missed something?

Not addressing the homeless and crime issues is a kick in the face to us tax payers in her district. Not to knock on the caste system policy but there’s biggest issues to tackle before anything else. Just my .02

I guess you didn’t read my comment. How is discrimination policy detracting from efforts to reduce crime or homelessness? From where I sit you invoked unrelated issues that are irrelevant to a discussion on anti-discrimination policy. Is there a connection I missed?

I think you did miss something. Someone asked how Seattle is fucked and I had a simple response.

I've lived here almost 40 years. In the past 15 years homelessness has risen by 50% but so has population. Rent has doubled, but crime is falling.

In fact, we're seeing record low property and violent crime rates. The last couple years have seen some uptick from the record lows of the 2010s, but Seattle is much safer than it was at basically any time in it's past.

The statistics just don't back up your story.

I think that “record low of the 2010s” is the main driver of the perception that Seattle is declining. Many of us moved to Seattle in that era and the 2020s are dramatically worse than the 2010s.

It's not. It's a great city.