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Quote Originally Posted by nightmarefish View Post

How do you explain Seattle? One of the most liberal cities in the country, Comparatively very few poor people or black people but their homeless population is completely out of control. My buddy that lives there (big liberal) says all the liberals are even getting sick of how the liberal politicians are running things. Portland the same, LA rats and human feces all over the streets, SF the same. Since I’m a moderate conservative I won’t say anything about Baltimore too avoid being called racist.
I don't know how to explain Seattle.

How do you explain it?
From my buddy’s perspective (remember he’s very liberal), the liberal politicians’ approach to dealing with these people is too lenient. For example, the jails/prisons are full so there seems to be a push all over the country to avoid putting nonviolent criminals in jail. That’s great and all but there needs to be a plan to deal with those people then. They seem to be ending up on the streets and the homeless populations are exploding. I live in San Diego, our problem isn’t quite as bad but not great either. I worked downtown for several years and the majority of the homeless I saw seemed to be mentally ill but that is changing to more drug addicts and criminals. We have what is called the “HOT” program where cops and social workers go around the city daily and offer help to the homeless. I assume other cities do this as well but not 100% sure.