Seattle business owners left to fend for themselves on crime take matters into their own hands

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Seattle business owners who've witnessed break-ins and violence organized their own town hall to address crime issues in the city and demand action from local leaders.

outraged by the city’s crime trend put together a town hall-style meeting at a local barber shop to speak out about the violence and danger they face and to call on city leadership to take control.

Matt Humphrey, owner of Steele Barber and Spa in Ballard, said he organized the meeting to talk about possible solutions to crime issues as businesses contend with rampant break-ins, vandalism, drug use, violence and homelessness.Near downtown Seatte and along I-5, a homeless community of tents nicknamed The Treeline live on the edge of the freeway and boarder of redwood trees in Seattle, Washington Friday July 22, 2022.

"We've been broken into four times in the last couple of years, and when we're making our insurance claims, it's really hard because we're at the point where they could drop us," Karen Jahn with The Wax Bar said, according to KOMO News.

SEATTLE IS IN ‘A CRIMINAL AND HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY,’ BAKER SAYS AS RAMPANT CRIME FORCES BUSINESSES TO CLOSE"That's a painful conversation to bring up, and we want to stay here for a long time, but it has to make sense, for us, for our business," Burke Lyman with Ascent Outdoors said.to patrol the city on foot and reimbursing businesses when their stores are vandalized.

 

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Dems in charge of most cities and 2 branches of the Federal government want minimal law and order from the police and judges. They also want to block law abiding citizens from exercising their 2nd amendment rights. Need more grown ups in charge, less Dems.

Good, maybe they are following the wrong ideology.

So sad it's bad here in Sacramento also...;(

It's definitely a Democart paradise, They like it this way!

Time to step up and start defending ones self and their business.

Your reap what you sow!!! Isn’t that in the Bible?!?!?

Seattle imprisons any officer who tries to stop a rioter.

KenGriffinLiedUnderOath

What did they expect? They voted for this mess & chaos-they are getting it. The citizens of Seattle want to be woke. Now they get to enjoy & reap the rewards of their stupidity. Why should the hated police help them? They need to stop bitching & take care of business themselves.

Can you blame them? bruceharrell mayorofseattle

We do have to fend for ourselves when it comes to personal safety. I was “attacked aggressively” by a man on Twitter yesterday for simply stating that downtown was unsafe and that I don’t feel safe “anywhere” in Seattle. The far left don’t want people to know how bad it is here.

You get what you vote for

...another soon to be ghost city, people leaving to Texas, Florida and other livable places

WokeLiberalShitHole

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