Seattle is Dying | A KOMO News Documentary
KOMO Anchor Eric Johnson takes an in-depth look at the impact the drug and homelessness problem is having on our city and possible solutions in "Seattle is Dying," a news documentary that aired on KOMO-TV in March, 2019. You can read the full story and watch at KOMONews.com: komonews.com/news/local/komo-....
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Any politician who smiles while a resident is angry should be immediately removed from office !!!
I'd had been arrested and kicked his ass, guaranteed, if he'd smiled after I warned him...
But.... what's with the lack of empathy? The people want the Cops to break down on the homeless, but they're only homeless and broke because of the lack of social programs. Why is this program so weird to me as a Swede? It basically thinks that "locking people up" will solve the problems, but it's not like that in real life. All of homelessness, addiction and criminality is basically a result of the systems in place in the city. No help for homelessness causes more homelessness. No economical aid for people struggling = more homelessness etc. etc. Why is this program pretending like it's the problem of the justice system?
@Lynn Adamson We get this of course, but the American......... they've completely gone bonkers, believing that poor people are in that situation by themselves.
It is a involuntary nervous reaction many people have
@@Ree1981 How does Seattle handle the problem? Handing out needles. You are right, there are no programs to help the homeless in Seattle. You can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped. If you want to help the homeless man in Seattle first give him a fishing pole and a free fishing license. That's a start. I don't think the people in Seattle who are paying enormous tax on their highly inflated property, and paying on every purchase for someone to "earn" $15 an hour while possessing no "skills", can bear the added expense of programs on top of the huge incentives given to affiliates of the politicians in power (political favors).
“The government you elect is the government you deserve.” - Thomas Jefferson
ohh yes ! the father it's right ! vote sober !
thats funny, thats what tRUMPS sister & neice said
We get gaslighted by lies if people could do more due diligence and actually deal with people accused of things early on that would be great but their get protected they get second chances
@David Simpson I see your a communist. Good for you. You should move to China rather than trying to make America into China.
VERY TRUE BUT THE THING IS, MOST ARE NOT ELECTED. THE VOTES ARE RIGGED & WHOEVER THEY WANT TO WIN, WINS ! VOTES ARE JUST A DISTRACTION GAME.
What an excellent program. I am a recovering alcoholic/addict and this program was my meeting for today. Thanks for showing the ugly truth of addiction and the hope that comes with treatment and structure!!🙏🏿
I've just watched this after visiting Seattle as a tourist from the UK and being so shocked at how bad the place is. It appears nothing has changed since this documentary. I visited on my own and just felt downright unsafe a lot of the time. I just can't believe nothing is being done about this. It's a shame because the city seems to have so much to offer but I will never visit again nor would I recommend anyone else to. OK some places in the UK have their issues but I have never felt as uncomfortable as I have been in Seattle. I hope for everyone's sakes this is sorted eventually.
It was such a beautiful city, just as San Francisco was. Politicians have allowed this , very sad.
Same experience here, unsafe on edge feeling everywhere I walked
YOU GET WHAT YOU VOTE FOR YOUR F*CKING MORON PROGRESSIVES....TOTALY INCOMPETENT. THEY COULD MANAGE A LEMONADE STAND FOR A FOUR YEAR OLD.
I’m from UK and just experienced the same as you solo. I hope Manchester never ends up like this.
If you voted Democrat, you voted for this.
This documentary is FOUR years old. Nothing has gotten better. Heart wrenching.
When do you think people will start enforcing the laws that the cops aren't ALLOWED to?
@@troutfitter547 they won’t. And that BS is spreading - just look at Chicago a couple of weeks ago. The only thing that the overcorrection regarding police brutality has accomplished is to make every crime a possible death sentence. If law enforcement isn’t allowed to do their job, citizens will and they aren’t required to use any escalation of force. In my state, a person is justified in using or threatening to use deadly force if he or she reasonably believes that using or threatening to use such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony. Great bodily harm is defined as any harm more severe than minor or slight harm and could include wounds that bleed profusely or require stitches, broken bones, and injuries requiring surgery. For example, bruises generally won’t fall under this but shove someone down causing them to hit their head or chase someone with an axe or knife or box cutter would likely meet the elements. A forcible felony includes treason; murder; manslaughter; sexual battery; carjacking; home-invasion robbery; robbery; burglary; arson; kidnapping; aggravated assault; aggravated battery; aggravated stalking; aircraft piracy; unlawful throwing, placing, or discharging of a destructive device or bomb; and any other felony which involves the use or threat of physical force or violence against any individual. All that progressive policing has accomplished is to force people to defend themselves and they will do that with lethal force.
What kind of Question is that ? Looks like a Dilemma Question man !
Dude was just thinking the same thing.
It’s going to get a whole lot worse. A very small portion of those under 30 will ever own a home just because of ownership consolidation and low wages alone. Add the looming deterioration of the petrodollar and AI replacement of unskilled and clerical labor… the future in America is gonna be wild.
Portland is dying too. Only difference is our news stations here don't have the cojones to produce a documentary like this one.
At least there is no shortage of overpriced condo development!
Actually watched a documentary about Portland that was pretty much the same a couple days ago. Only difference was they blamed heroin more..
I know what you mean.. we finally left Portland after almost 20 years. It was just too much. Moved to the midwest.
@@dbkjacobsfamily2522 Heroin isn't the problem. If it was heroin the problem would fix itself.
@Cinnamon Girl Did you take a leftist mindset, which causes this insanity, with you?
This documentary needs an update, it's SO much worse now. I refuse to go downtown.
@nwminiaturesandmore. I can now see why Jerry Cantrell left his hometown. sad.
Wow. Worse than this is... horrific.
Is Downtown worth visiting as a tourist despite the situation or will be glad to leave?
@@konrad6995 Definitely worth seeing! Just stay to the main tourist areas and you'll be good.
@@nwminiaturesandmoreI feel sorry for the vets and mentally ill people who are homeless but they need to put the drug addicts in jail for at least 5 years no early release this is disgusting letting them do drugs in public and ruin public places
I used to be homeless I used to use drugs God help me get off of drugs I've been clean for 40 years.
The only thing that isn’t going downhill in Seattle is the cost of living. Absolute insanity.
5Minute Major right on
Exactly. And they wonder why we have a homeless problem even when 20 minutes north of Seattle in Everett they want over $1,000 for a one bedroom or higher. Even Marysville.That’s a average and I think I’m being generous. Cost of living skyrocketed but wages haven’t. Some California cities solved their problems with rent control.
Darth Revan My in-laws live in Everett. Every time we fly into Seattle I am floored by how it is such a disgusting city with pretty parts. So sad.
Luv2Dnce4 I was born and raised in Everett and yes, you’re right. Downtown Everett is pretty ugly. The most ugly part. Broadway is filled with homeless people on every street corner and half the city is just car sales lots. The entire city is propped up by Boeing and the Navy. I’d hate to see what happens to it if Boeing ever closes down the plant and the Navy moved elsewhere. I don’t think Everett proper would survive. You should see it right now, useless construction on Broadway right now that’s been going on for months and a few burned out buildings that’ve been “remodeling” for close to a year. It’s a shame that Marysville is becoming just as bad as Everett and I can only assume Stanwood will follow the same route.
Luv2Dnce4 Also, everyone complains about junkies but I hardly ever see people talk about all the alcoholics. Every gas station in down town Everett you have homeless people waiting at 6AM waiting just for the stores to open the freezers for the alcohol. I don’t know why anyone ever brings this up, as it’s also part of the problem but I’m not saying I have the solution to it either. Go to the Jacksons on Pacific Avenue near the freeway exit and I guarantee every morning you’ll find a homeless person there waiting to buy their alcohol.
"They live in filth and despair, like animals." Animals don't live like that.
Animals don't shit where the eat.
Those unfortunates sunk into the gutter from bad choices they made. Whether those choices involved drugs or alcohol or got depressed and gave up... they need to go to work and pull their own weight. Locking people up and feeding them is punishing the tax payer. Criminals need discipline and punishment not time out with a nice bed and meals delivered to them. If they prove themselves non rebabitable, end their suffering and the taxpayers at the same time by humane methods. They have had too many opportunities to change their ways at the expense of other good people.
VERY TRUE ANIMALS LIVE MUCH CLEANER ALL AROUND
@@ladyjayne77I'm a conservative/republican and believe in hard work and have done so for over 40 years but I would never kick a dog while it's down, most of these people have fallen into a deep hole that is very hard to climb out of, you don't know how they came to this point, it could be many tragic reasons, yes there are some who are just plain idiots but most have a sad history and just basically as you say gave up hope, giving up hope is a pretty sad feeling ..just saying edit... I would never kick a dog full stop by the way, but you know what I mean, and I really think firstly the dealers need putting away for 20 years and the homeless helped in these establishments ..93% who were helped stayed on the program, 93% is an amazing result and I respect their work
@@derek-press I'm what people would consider conservative too and I completely agree. These are our fellow human beings, and we can all get sucked down this hole, I've been there myself so I understand.
5 years later and it’s still bad :(
Here I am watching this 4 years later and I bet it's worse than ever.
Scoop everyone up in busses, hand them 50 bucks and drop them off on city councilors lawns to their new home.
AMEN!!!
People get the government they deserve! Send more deserving poor to Seattle! The people of Seattle are good carding people and they can obviously care for more !
Yes Joe good idea
Great idea...once they fertilize the front with piss and shit things will be done speedily.
@@mimiholand1063 The very least, it will wipe the smug smile off their faces.
The trash in Seattle is located in city hall. The trash IS THE CITY COUNCIL.
Starts with the governor....
They the councilors are the mentally retarded..or are they?.doing this purposely to destroy western christian civilization
@Michael RedCrow Kshama sawant - city council
Amazing that the city administrators in this video say "Call 911", and - TODAY - the same people are moving to defund the police. The real problem is that they will just vote for another Democrat, and the problems will continue. It's like someone telling you not to touch a wire because you'll get burned... then you touch the wire, and get burned... and you, and your family say "how did we allow this to happen?" You didn't "allow" this to happen. You INSISTED that it happen! Michigan's Governor, during the Covid nonsense, CHOSE to shut down the entire state, even though the statistical numbers were less than 1 in 15,000. She chose to shut down her entire State's economy for 3 months, including the rural areas that had almost ZERO cases of Covid-19. NOW, she is blaming the FEDERAL Government for not funding her budget shortfalls, as though money appears through "magic". She CHOSE to cut her hand off, and is now screaming "I've only got one hand!" This is how Democrats think! In truth, this is how they ACT, without actual thinking. And dullards just keep voting for them, over and over again. It's like drinking more poison, hoping the new poison will kill the old poison. You deserve what you get! You deserve EXACTLY the government you vote for!
tinka isn’t she the city councilwoman (and her staff) who unlocked city hall for occupation by Chazistanians?
Im an OTR trucker who runs West Coast . Seattle ,Portland and Oakland were the worst places I had to go to. Think about that for a minute.
As a Canadian for years starting in the 70s my wife and l spent a week every year in San Francisco...we stopped about 25+ years ago because we became so disappointed in the city... Seattle unfortunately looks the same....l lost my wife and looking around Canada l saw the problems surrounding high housing prices....the new garney state....cashed out and now live on a remote Pacific beach...l admittedly dropped out
Good thing there’s no plastic straws cluttering the streets
Yeah!!! That was the first thing I thought, too.😆
Haha 🤣 epic!!
That’s funny. But not really. I had no idea.
Well, yes that is good. NOW, work on bigger problems, start small , then work up.
Whilst they shoot up on the astroturf lawn
People mocked this documentary at the time of it's release. "No!! Seattle isn't dying!! It's thriving." Four years later and it's worse than ever. I used to love Seattle. We don't go there anymore and haven't for years. This *is* a long, slow and painful death. It's heartbreaking and shameful.
I feel the same about my home city of London UK ,London is being turned into a third world shithole !
The elite obviously like to control who & who does not get to work in society out here they put who they want on the streets by choice
Three simple steps to get rid of these problems: 1. STOP funding these homeless people, get rid of any sense of funds for it entirely. 2. Get rid of these soft on crime DA's. 3. Get rid of these communists policies
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What with the tent cities and the drugs if Seattle is thriving?it's in our faces that Seattle is not thriving.
Compassion becomes neglect when there is no support system or meaningful intervention. Thank you for this thoughtful and thorough reporting.
I live on the opposite side of the country and love this video. one of the best examples of journalism of all time.
ABC did this? *ABC did this!?!* It's actually _journalism_ . I almost forgot how to spell that word. Well, good job Eric. I hope they don't fire you.
abc affiliate , not the network
@@latin412It's actual journalism.
I was shocked too..however this is the same ABC affiliate that ran a story on fake news that was pretty good.
Sinclair media.
The homeless problem of Seattle & Portland is mostly Economic. While you do have drug addicted & mentally ill homeless, you also have a large number of employed, but working poor homeless. The working poor homeless used to live in vans & RVs until your policies had their vans & RVs towed away...
The Seattle city council and the state legislature have obviously confused compassion with stupidity.
No, they've confused compassion with enabling.
Dont feed the animals.
Its by design , no tin foil hat here google agenda 21 ,breakdown society and provide a cure , eventually
@@johnwallace1729 i get it. But im trying to tip toe around the snowflakes in seattle. I want them to actually absorb some facts with out shutting it out cause they're offended because someone didnt use the right imaginary word to describe a made up gender.
No, they figured out that enabling them will get them votes, and they can pocket more and more cash that is supposed to be helping these people. Just like all socialist politicians.
I was born in Seattle and raised In Washington state. I loved this city and everything it had to offer. I am ashamed to say I’m from Seattle. We Have politicians who are nothing but cowards to face the facts of what is going on. There are solutions, but they don’t want to hear them for whatever reason. Seattle is dying. It’s been dying for a long time. Seattle has turned into one big shit hole. I don’t go near Seattle anymore. Seattle is an embarrassment to the world of what our politicians allow to go on. Seattle RIP.
Meanwhile, in Spokane, my stepson, only 3 months out of prison relapsed on meth two times. He entered a house, stole only their phones and left. When the police found him, he begged them to shoot him. He was given 16 years in prison. The contrast is insane. He had no violent crimes and had never been to treatment. Just prison over and over again. Sad.
The people of seattle and portland voted this in. They got what they voted for. what seems to be the problem--- if you don't like it change the way you vote-period
You are spot on, that’s why it’s said that liberalism is a mental disease. They keep doing the same things over and over and expect a different result.
The problem is, the Republicans turned fascist. Fascism is not the answer.
Wheeler lost the popular vote. But now we've got Sam Adams back so all good 🤣
@@GH-oi2jf No-one in the West who was born after 1945 has seen a real fascist.
Hahaha You people deserve this you liberal sellouts
Seattle Mayor: “It is wrong to conflate homelessness with a rise in crime”. SMH 🤦♀️
It is wrong. Sociopathic republicans who think their shit doesn't stink
The mayors denial of the facts means that the problem will not be solved. Embracing failure is the 1st step towards a cure.
This is just propaganda .
Crimnalize homelessness now!
@@acbulgin2 And if you ended up on the streets, would you resort to stealing and other crimes jus to stay alive? I get the connection between homelessness and drugs and crime. Although I've not personally done drugs, I've hear it time and time again how people start as a means to escape the realities of the world. Seattle's mayor is in denial making that statement. But Seattle, San Fran and other major cities are fooling themselves to think that there is a single, simple solution to the problem.
This makes me so sad. I used to spend a lot of time in Seattle around 2005/2006 and i fell in love with the city. Last time i was there in 2018 i didn’t even recognize it anymore. I hyped it up so much to my family about how beautiful and amazing it was there, to call it "embarrassing" is an understatement.
I wanna go work with you wonderful people. Im so happy you are all proud and motivated to do this . Bringing people back to life is beyond amazing. So sad to see Seattle give up. Raising their hands to the challenge of facing this humanitarian crisis. Kindness heals those of us who feel undeserving. Bless you all for not judging.
Very well said
Somebody should be brave and discrete, pick up all of the garbage and dump it in the politicians front yards.
The politicians ARE the garbage.
Dump it on the steps of the capitol!
@TangoX cool bring it!
AMEN.
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I mean look at seattle now. The mayor seems like she doesnt care about that damned place.
@Hades She doesn't care, I also don't think she knows how to fix it.
@@johnswick4593 The trouble with a professional politician is that they know how to manipulate the system while the trouble with amatures is they have no idea as to what the hell is going on with the people caught in the middle. She is an amature.
@Eddie Coyle Yep pretty much
@Eddie Coyle She doesn’t care. “Mayor Jenny” is too busy enjoying her “summer of love.” She’s a laughingstock.
She probably doesn't. Why do you think she's there?
An excellent documentary which honestly and fairly represents all the issues.❤ and all these homeless situations have the same thing in common so you can replace it with any other City😢
Excellent documentary. The solutions you have laid out are so simple and so easy to do but they take the will of those in charge. Let's pray that those people heard you xx
I used to say Seattle looks like a clean San Francisco. Now it just looks like San Francisco.
datssumfunnyshit
keep voting devilcraps you stupid morons I hope your Seattle burns down
I motorcycle through Seattle to vacation in California. Go figure.
@@randykiomall8377 America is burning down not just Seattle..STFU and stop spreading Ignorance.
@@kwakoushakur1391 >Stop spreading ignorance >aMeriCA IS buRniNG DOwn!! kek
Anyone else watching this after the police chief resigned?
Anthony Brian Logan recommended.
I was in Seattle 6 years ago to welcome my 1st great grandbaby into this world. It was nothing like what I just saw of the current situation you guys are forced to live in or look at .idk how any mayor, aldermen, state rep up to the governor and any elected official underneath would ever let the citizens that elected them be subjected to all the hazards jeopardizing life or limb. This is the definition of failure and the evidence proving that millions just witnessed . The Blatant disregard for the health and safety of every citizen or visitor there in Seattle...where are codes officials? Why arent mayor and local city officials putting boots and overalls on cleaning up their mess??? Have all their payroll checks cleared in the past several years cuz if they have taken money for work they did not in fact deliver or even attempt doing in 1st place, uh theft by deception and fraud if they were any other contract labor. Looks like a big cluster fk of a mess and why revolution is the word of the day everywhere we turn nowadays..
and this video is a year old. Lmfao.
Wow after this revealing publication no political correction in the city’s direction(c.h.o.p.) whatsoever,amazing.The people of Seattle must be fuckin retarded not voting in leadership dedicated to eliminating this b.s.must be something in the water.
Mey sis lives there. She is die hard liberal! She never mentions this stuff!
When I was a kid I remembered the US was a dream country, now it is scary to even think about to go there, so sad about this
Im on suboxone, been clean for 6 years. Now i do the work to help others, im a peer support worker. My dream job is recovery coach, good job on this video
What do you do to help
If your on suboxone ,your not clean ,you have only switched one drug for another ,your still addicted to a substance
Why the personal history?
Your not clean if your on subs 😂
@@RodneyDangerfield-tg6tx it's behavior, routine and priorities that are the main focus. Being clean is a mindset. Suboxone is for the physical dependence and allowing time to make other changes. A poisoned drug supply kills you before changes can be made. It's a simple explanation. Anyone who doesn't understand this ..chooses not to understand. It's an explanation for dummies. Lol
Wow this is a year old. Probably could never imagine how much worse it has gotten in the last few months.
IT WILL BE WORSE IF BIDEN BECOMES PRESIDENT
The community ought come together without government money, buy acres of land, fence it then have each homeless person fill out a form and they move in the camp site.
Or community building, turn it in a mental ward.change laws leaning toward, adults not able to take care supporting, bathing for themselves, making forcing them to be committed to the ward of state.
Get weapons take out the people who can't be helped. If city won't take care of it the take them out. Clean they trash they had and plant some flowers. The body? Take it to the cemetery to incenerate all the bodies.
Change laws of arrest for any drugs, then execute via hanging.
If people of Seattle are fed up with what’s going on, why aren’t they voting out the Mayor and the city council??
Because they support an ideology that doesn't work...and then blame the police, Republicans etc...its insanity....its real life 1984 ...The Ministries of Love(hate), Peace(war), Plenty(poverty), and Truth(lies)
So true my friend.
It is hard to un-brainwash cult members. They are going to vote for Democrats no matter what.
Exactly!
because they are brain dead pu$$ies.
Yes,codac is amazing awsome program thank u so much for having this place around codac #1
What a thoughtful man. Heartbreaking 😢
Two years after this aired, Seattle is worse than ever
This guys an idiot and so are the rest of them until they run into hard times and end up homeless then only then they will be humble and understand how horrible it is to live under a bridge
I left Seattle 10 years, ago and it broke my heart to leave, now it breaks my heart to see the despair and misery....I really hope Seattle can be saved.....
And it wont improve. Till the liberal idiots running it are gone.
@@josephlewis7166 boo hoo is someone addicted to crack?
They defunded the police, didn't they, and it must be like a magnet on illegal immigrants.
Citizens, you don't have to accept this. Recall your city council person. Put someone in office who will tell the police to enforce the law.
I'm not from Seattle but love visiting. It pains me to see in come crashing down....
I live here. Vote constantly. There is too much money being funneled to moron democrats that keep pushing bullshit ridiculous policies
Check out the “rude Seattle city council member” video. They literally don’t give a F**k, and they are very difficult to get recalled.
@@honestacehole6172 Damn. and CNN doesn't give a shit.
Like a conservative. Doesn't have to be a Republican. Just not an extreme liberal.
Thank you for showing me that our cities, in Canada and the US, have similar problems and the solution is quite simple. Thoroughly enjoyed the documentary and would love to see more.
What an excellent documentary. We all need to do better. Few realize how close we all are in the comfort and security our lives to the streets and life of loneliness, self-medication, deteriorating mental health and death.
The elected officials of Seattle and Washington continue to take their salaries, benefits, per diems, and live in gated homes while not taking care of their city and state.
quit electing them people.....
The most insightful factual comment ever.
By doing what as a city official? There's no simple solution. If anyone suggested the solutions they find in like Denmark they'd be called a socialist. So we can't help them before and can't help them after cuz that's socialism but if we arrest them we're essentially giving them a room in the jail which would be even more costly
@@janetszymkowiak5294 - and the left count the votes too... count them until they get elected. Works like a charm.
@@j_ll7 no
The biggest landmark in Seattle is called "needle". That makes sense.
Wow!🧐🤓🤐🎭
Lol !!!!! You made laugh
Geez I just connected thaose dot right now, damn
that's dark man...
I was watching the sentencing and all that and I am from Sarasota Florida, and now I live in Orlando. And I can tell you the police do not act like that here, they are jack-booted thugs in Florida. And secondly the judges are all total Nazis. You will sit in jail for a minute over some of these small Petty ass shit. I know someone who got 6 months for stealing a Four Loko. Yeah he had priors and shit, but in Florida they do not play. And they'll come get your ass no matter where you're at. I actually think that's a good thing though. Because downtown Orlando is nowhere near the shithole Seattle is. That's because the cops can/will beat the shit out of you, and the judges will lock you up. 💯 the moral of the story is when you come here on vacation don't fuk up. Cuz they will totally fuck you. The system here is insanely brutal. It's draconian in Florida.
One of the best focumentaries I've seen. Heart breaking and hopeful at the same time. Polish the jewel again. Somebody, just care. Do the work.
I have just returned from Seattle where we stayed for 2 days following a cruise. I was the first time i had visited the USA for nearly 10 years, prior to that i visited at least twice per year since the mid 90's. I was shocked. I saw things in Seattle that i have never seen in the USA before. The level of drug abuse within the city centre (I stayed on Pine Street and 8th avenue) was shocking. Street dwellers, Open drug use and private security by dept stores and businesses was openly seen. I was so aware of it i consciously decided to limit my movements around the city. What struck me most was the willingness of the authorities to allow this to openly exist within the city. This clearly leads to less inviting areas for tourists and locals alike. It will surely mean that tourists in particular will avoid these areas, in my case i have already decided that i will not be visiting the USA at all in the foreseeable future, as i don't see it as being safe, or value for money when compared to other areas of the world. What will this mean long term for the income generated by tourism for the USA? Couple this with the current political turmoil in the USA and i don't see how anyone would visit the USA unless they have to, and believe me, they don't have to!!!
''Drug problem not a homeless problem'' I guess the Seattle Space Needle is the city icon for a reason.
@Dandan y6 you y he causeway go gggggggv in
Over population problems
OUCH!!!!!!!!!
THE VIDEO TELLS DIFFRENT
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I lived there, paid taxes, paid fees, I never recieved any COMPASSION, I sold everything and moved away. YOU can provide COMPASION, I'm out.
Sounds just like us here in NY
@@shmodzilla government compassion, yeah right, as if that were even possible. Governments operate by laws, rules, regulations none of which can anticipate anyone's unique situation.
@@svnorthstar5058 the only ones receiving compassion here in NY are felons and people not paying taxes. A girl we know worked two friggin weeks last year and just got an eight thousand dollar refund, has kids but zero custody. Totally user of this system.
Sorry Abuser of this system.
@Tee Zee What bro? Did you not see the case that just happened with girl and the Uber driver? What are you talking about "black guy"! "ANYONE" is capable rape don't categorize something that anyone has the ability to do. That is highly dangerous and illogical.
Wow, I was raised in the islands since 1959. Moved to Colorado in 1988. This makes me so sad. 😢
Mr. Johnson, what you said about McNeil Island is what would work, if Federal, State, County, community etc all work together. I’ve been saying this for years. It takes people to collectively help the lost souls. This is a great documentary, thank you for your hard work.
Seattle is being assaulted from within. Clean out city hall and then clean up the street.
yup, the police chiefs are in on it too.
white house?
@Chester Smith the word you are looking for is execution. Look at your kids and tell them they have to pay taxes so losers can live like parasites. Tell every child you see that we can't explore space because that money goes to single moms and drug addicts.
Thats why People in the world dont take Americans serious: the only way to solve social problems is for them sending out out the police and lock pople up or not. Its a lack of education. Because the educational system was destroyed by the right-wingers.
It's such a shame the police cannot beat "people" like Travis to death in the street.
So this is dated March 19, 2019, Seattle's problem is much older than chaz/chop.
It's systematic. The route of the problem is the leadership forced upon the city. No one is answering for the crimes committed in City Hall.
Yeah, Seattle's been fucked for YEARSSSSSS. The entire west coast needs to be walled off, they're all fucked off.
@Monkey Savant they would need entire new populations. The whole coast is a wash. Every person there thinks this same exact way. Take these officials out, and they'll put the same damn thing back in.
yup you can trace the root of the problem to leftist control over its policies and economics.
@@angelacrouch4129 That's what I was thinking. Can't change things by changing the leaders when this is the kind of life the liberals there fight for.
I learned to some degree or another how to "adult" in Seattle. I'm glad I got to experience and grow up in this city before the lockdown; I can't imagine myself there ever again.
You absolutely have to love Travis! What an honest, funny guy!!!
Simple way to fix the problem. The locals pool together and pay the drug addicts to live and camp outside the Mayor, the city council workers and Attorneys houses Watch it change overnight.
send then to Olympia too the idiot governor loves them just as much remember now vote demo rat over and over this is what you get !!!!
So effectively we have to make it "the big stink"
Reminds me of the time Rush Limbaugh bussed the homeless to Malibu.
Seattle has 2 clinics to watch drug users shoot up so they don't over dose. So a usrrrs uses clinic once the does it back in the streets. These clinics just promote drug use and that's what the Democratic government wants.
Outragesss....
The mayor and all the city council members need to get LOCKED UP 🔐
or chpped up...
If they locked up the real criminals, there would be no Democrats still in government.
Reason - If criminals and illegal border crossers were prosecuted, there would only be baby killers left to vote for Demonrats and they would lose.
Wait, won't they be released the next day?
@@itsmeagain8518 Right! Giving them a taste of their own medince should cure what ills them..
Starting to see this everywhere
Ich lebe in der Schweiz und wir haben das Methadonprogramm nachdem es vor 30 Jahren eine offene Drogenszene gab. Es ist traurig was in Seattle passiert und doch hoffe ich dass das Methadonprogramm sich auch dort durchsetzt.
city council should be arrested and thrown in prison
They should dragged in front of a firing squad .....
That man in the Ballard City Counsel was laughing!!!! He has a very warped sense of humor.
Vote out these city Council members if you want to see change
They send their kids to private schools, live in gated neighborhoods, get benefits and pensions while the average MIDDLE class citizen has to live this way. VOTE THEM ALL OUT.
@Wendel Bolide Vote them out .But the problem with that is that people are stupid .They knew who they were voting for in the first place . Washington is a blue state , and unless this state wakes up we will be continuing down the same road that California is going. And the end result is a shithole state .!
voting is immoral and will not fix this.
I visted seattle for 10 days and was soooooo ready to get the h*** out of there. It is GROSS.
Eric and team did a good job on this documentary. There's no simple way out of this mess, but one thing is certain: ignoring the law and its enforcement is exacerbating the problem.
The only cure is to replace the politicians that are ignoring the problems or outright denying that the problems exist.
Hopefully, the people of Seattle will eventually get sick of all of this and vote these people out.
, , and the citizens who voted for them are just as culpable of their problem.. . or , maybe the politician were voted in by smartatic /dominion ?
So they will replace their low IQ liberal politicians with other low IQ liberals.. Yep. That will solve the problem.
This is what happens when elections at all levels become stolen: banana republic poverty
Yes the problem exists for these people but do you think it's right to do what they're saying they want to do for them you might want to check your damn head or you're one of them criminals
I am born and raised the PNW. Seattle is about 20 minutes from me. Between the insane housing costs and the homeless, I don't know anyone who plans to live in Seattle. It's sad. I won't be bringing anymore of my friends to Seattle.
This what we get when we vote for democrat leadership.
@@kathleensampat2379 Republicans and Democrats are cut from the same cloth---make the rich richer, and the poor poorer.
Have you noticed who is buying the real estate? Here in Dallas, parent companies are from Germany. Like really? People are selling their property and property management companies to other countries. Wtf?????
The only people moving to Seattle are middle class people who got tired of the rent in San Francisco. Now they're here to drive up rent prices again.
Denver is following on Seattle’s coat tails.
5 years ago. And look at it all now. Born in San Diego. Served in the Marine Corps. I kept my standards but realized this is the way civilians are by nature. I hold myself above all of that because I am a Marine Corps veteran whether I am down or up in life.
My nephew was schizophrenic and I saw him go to jail, then to treatment, then back on the streets and then the cycle would start over
first real journalism i have seen in years thank you
You mean from the mainstream media. KZhead has lots of actual journalism.
Its bias ..Seattle has a big housing problem not a criminal problem however homelessness can cause these people to commit crimes ie:shitting in the bushes and just being in plain sight...Why is there a housing crisis all over Nth America and here in Toronto as well where i live...These locals voted there Government in obviously they voted for the wrong people...Period !!
@@vagabondwastrel2361 exactly
@paul reboca please link the lawsuit
Presumably the journalist will be fired.
I lived in Seattle for years. Used to be a beautiful place. I was so disgusted and left.
Vancouver, BC is the same, and for the same reason. Liberals.
Mary McEwen I am about to leave and feeling disgusted.
@@shane99ca sounds like a bunch of idiotic f/n Republicans always to blame someone else, go figure.
@@charlesjohnson674 That's not a window; Charles; it's the mirror. It's liberals who always blame others and never solve anything themselves. If Republicans had their way, these people would be in mental hospitals, prisons, or the ground. I know it and you know it. So you may dispense with the posturing; you don't even believe it yourself.
@@shane99ca Oh, I believe everything I mentioned, sorry.
Absolutely superb and right on point. As a former state narcotics treatment program director, I agree that it is a tough fight but that we will be measured by how well we fight to save the lives of the addicted in despair.
Excellent documentary reliable, objective and with facts. Hard to find nowadays.
San Jose, San Francisco,Oakland and all Bay Area Cities have same issue. Problem is Elected Officials!!
And to prove liberals are insane they keep voting in more liberals thinking a new liberal will be a good liberal but what they can’t figure out is it’s not their IQ its the philosophy
The drug addict homeless out smart the liberal party.
Robert Maxwell problem is unelected officials who cheated their way into office.
It isn't just the elected liberals, it's the voters too.
@@jharvey9898 It's the elected officials and their liberal constituents who ask not what they can do for their counttry, but what their country can do for them, people like you. Save the environment, get a job, stop taking drugs, do not buy from China, and stop racism, but quit being a progressive communist.
HOW does that guy flipping out NOT get tazed??!! Allowed to spit? And still no consequence? Spitting alone is an act of assault. Very perplexed.
I'll explain: Step 1: convince the populace that voting for libtards is good Step 2: let the libtards take over the city Step 3: libtards take away the authority of cops Step 4: take over the justice system so the criminals are always let go Step 5: once the criminal knows both the police and justice system are toothless he is free to do what he wants Remember, it all began from step 1, once it's done, all the subsequent steps will follow automatically.
The cops are trying to reason with him like he is a child having a tantrum. They offered him a chocolate bar?! WTF? They have either zero power to do anything OR they have no idea how to deal with it. Either way is disastrous for all. The entire county is going to hell.
Democrats will never taze their voter base...
sevencolours Nice said!
@Elm TreeABC🤣 lol, there was a quote I remember. "You care about these people, but none of them care about you."
One of the problems with creating a housing community, even with tiny houses, is it will require a lot of policing also
Pay homeless to clean up the city, have city assigned bags, tagged for fill, homeless takes said bag, goes out and fills it, then you pay by weight. Even if they are emptying the city trash cans, it's less work for city workers, and you can also have assigned housing for those that are doing work relief.
Who’s watching this after Oregon decriminalized coke, heroine and meth?
They’ll be making “Portland Is Dying” in a year or two.
@@schatzeeone6230 ice cold take. Oregon's pretty bad already but the measure they passed uses money from weed taxes to fund treatment centers. it certainly wont solve the problem 100% but im willing to bet Oregon will do some great things in the near future. and only small amounts of drugs are decriminalized so big movers can still get felonies while people like Travis get sent to rehab and not jail
I hope the DEA arrests Gov. Brown.
@@americancitizen748 ok, narc. you do realize the war on drugs has been a complete failure, right?
@@normaldude41 Travis is dead, drowned himself after he murdered his girlfriend
I'd bet those on the city council live in protected, gated neighborhoods, and never go downtown Seattle. They don't care about anyone else.
Rats run the show, and people constantly vote for them!
@GoldenState Like the Democrats that have been running your state for decades....
Ab Dul Just like those Congress fat cats and Senators
GoldenState Trump and his cronies are not the ones wanting the drug cartels coming in via Southern border towns. Are you lying under a rock Golden State? It is a disease called liberalism and globalization allowing migrants drug cartels and human traffickers to walk in because all the liberal Democrats made their money on the corrupt money from El Chapo and drug cartels. Did you hear that Trump wants a wall and Golden State are stopping it. They lie to you and blame Trump and dumb people swallow the garbage people like Pelosi Newsome Schiff Maxine Waters KamalaHarris live in mansions and don’t give a damn
@GoldenState no, scumbag like Hitlery rotten felon and her cronies that make every demonrat run city turn into a third world SHIT HOLE!
Amazing report/documentary!!
We traveled to the coast last summer from Idaho and we used to love Portland, Seattle, San Francisco but this year we avoided all of them. I won't go near any large metropolitan area anymore if I can help it. Very sad we used to love going to the Seattle fish market when our kids were young and the Space Needle. We would show the kids that there are many types of people in the world and how cool it is when they work together. The culture and art shows were amazing. Not anymore 😢
CHOP or CHAZ was the boiling over of local govt’s incompetence. Criminals taking over an inept city by force. It was pathetic.
How do those boots taste?
It is an absolute shame
libturd moron idiot devilcraps Seattle is a shithole
@@YerDad632 better then whatever the fuck im watching...... wtf did I just see?....
Great old school journalism. Badass. Thanks for making this
except the documentary conspicuously leaves out the root cause of the problem - regressive liberal/progressive policies.
15:32, embedded-media manipulatiion of cops for sensationalist ratings. When a large squad of hi-tec policemen can't promptly and humanely restrain and detain one unarmed inadequate causing a public disturbance.
@johnathon it shouldn’t have to spoon feed you the answers. It’s pretty fucking obvious to anyone watching
Human nature was an amateur term created to fill the void about the misunderstanding about humans. Genetics are predispositioned towards certain behaviors that adapt to what works within our environment. There are no predetermined genes, all genes can be manipulated and all behavior is learned through environmental adaptation. This means that human nature is adaptability and we are molded by our environment and when you put this train of thought together, everything starts to make sense. If you have an economic system based on scarcity, you have a recipe for competition. If you have a recipe for competition, you get war, labor exploitation, social imbalance, inequality, unsustainability, survival of the fittest, classism, power consolidation, owners of everything. We have to change the underlying precondition of our society using technology and science to a post-scarcity society. We are not running out of anything but the resources we are using and depleting that keep this current economy going yet we are destroying the Earth in the process. Resources are as abundant as the efficiency and renewability of the design itself. The mechanisms that tell us whether our economy is good or bad are the same mechanisms that reward behavior that goes with the grain of the Earth and it's preservation, with collaboration and care for each other and everything that keeps us thriving. Peter Joseph details all of this better than I ever can.
Finally real journalism. Shocked it came from Seattle but Bravo.
Was there last week in Seattle and looks it gotten 3x as worse
Nice work. I hope more people see this.
Seattle and San Francisco are almost identical at this point.
Portland and Nashville are going down the same road.
Well keep voting for progressive socialists. Fuck all these liberal shitholes
Don't forget Portland, OR. Bunch of needles near the shore...
SF is definitely worse. But when you're in hell who cares if it's 1600 degrees or 1615 degrees? It's all hell.
It's sad some ones asleep at the government of Seattle and San Francisco &Portland also Nashville wake up Governments make a plan and stick to it.
If Seattle is dying then LA is already a zombie
And SF is pure hell. I fled back in 1970.
San Francisco is. LA is close on its way. All because those cities have no justice system, o law enforcement allowed. Bad judges and courts are to blame ! And lousy mayors ! There is no leadership in the cities that have this problem !
LA is a shithole. But yea I think SF is worse and then maybe Seattle. People shitting on public sidewalk in SF and LA.
that's what I was thinking. Looks like downtown LA.
Baltimore and Detroit are already dead. For the same reasons. Can we just learn already? I appreciate the compassion of the liberal voters, but what you are doing, is not working. It is causing more problems.
When the movie came out, "When Harry Met Sally", with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, everyone wanted to move to Seattle. I believe they filmed it on location in the 80's. It looked beautiful, his house literally right on the water. That would be cool if you Nick could find that location and see if it's run down too.
As for me, 39 and and i doesn't take drugs/alcohol/tobacco smoking anymore(i had in the past)....positive results = no unmanageable problems (life is already difficult about so many points for all people on earth, so don't add new more hard problems), no depression, no horrible withdrawal, no useless suffering, no prostitution, no shoplifting, no justice problems, no prison, no big money issues, no too often stress and fear of not finding your dose and becoming mentally/physically sick... No problems with family, no problems with girl/boy friends (and after when married too), no fear of causing a car accident, or violent behavior, and possibly killing or injuring innocent people because of my vice, no economics issues, no developing diseases (sometimes incurables or too much expensive to cure), not looking/seeming idiot, retarded to others people you meet and give a bad image to all your community/neighborhood🤥😔 The list is so so long...too much long for the quick highs and time of pleasure that doing drugs could give you in your life.... life and good health id precious...don'waste it for few time of fake pleasure....
You would be hard-pressed to find a single conservative among the prosecutors, judges, and city council members.
Good. Those fuckers are psychopaths.
@@Anon2150 states run by conservatives are the only livable places left, and its where people are migrating to. But I really love that you'll probably head the other way, to the hell that your belief system has created.
@@Anon2150 lol you enjoy being fleeced dont you? the crap you denounce is the very crap you enable with your democrat idiots not understanding that a standard has to be. But keep on enjoying your fleecing for nothing. As that council man smiled and laughed at legit issues...i now do the same to you.
Yup. Seattle has been run by degenerate communists for 40+ years...but somehow Trumps fault. Vote for idiots, but yet they have NO IDEA why Seattle is a shithole
@@kuberanproperties3069 Sadly, i fear that we have learnt nothing from the Trump era. I hope he gets reelected just to keep the spotlight on these things but sadly too many will back off cause of the recent issue and sadness of current events. Who knows, Trump aint the greatest but he was like a fire that caused the chaff to float to the top...even only we can scrap it off lol
Being in LA I always thought Seattle was a great city. I had no idea Seattle is suffering like the quiet cousin who's hooked on drugs but no one noticed.
It used to be a great city, I remember the way it was years ago. Sad that it has sunk so low. I don't much like going there anymore.
Jealous Barry Obamas decade transformed America
Oh if u walk by it obvious
No City is Exempt from this Crisis ...SAD !!! We can Do Better !!
@@elouise5593 Is the problem the people and drugs or are the drugs a result of a bigger problem?
i have a job interview coming and i know they will not offer a rent level salary. if i were to ask for a base wage to simply cover rent, i would be denied. when they ask my wage expectations i will reply " Quadruple or at the very least triple my rent " If they cannot afford this rate of pay I will decline the job. This should be everyone's attitude. I am fortunate in that my landlord is a true christian, and charges sub market rent. he is a true angel.
I'd love to visit the Seattle science center with my kids but Seattle is so dangerous I don't want to go there
If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention! Bravo, KOMO and Eric Johnson!
You don't realize it is the agenda. From the ashes AI rises to the top of the triangle or pyramid watch "I, Pet Goat II" where (AI)lucifer rises from the working class... it is the agenda for the "profane."
@@jamessidaway8934Wtf are you talking about?
Vulgar& Profane,Indeed. Walking Dead Automatons . Towers 5/6G Human Acceleration . Fiber Optic cables in the ground Radiating the masses,LED Streett Lamps Smart Meters. If you Live in America you dont have much time left. The gadgets and those tapped into the gadgets are accelerating the lifeforms into extinction. 2025 they announce most people in America only have so many years to live because they were exposed to a certain radiation composition and will only have til 2030. In major Grocery Stores now 70% Bionengineered Food , what type of life expectancy you think you arw going to have eating food with Zero Information in it ? Destruction of America was Engineered for A Long Time. It took Treasonous Traitorous Cowards at the top to do it. LEFT OR THE RIGHT , Same Dead Bird. America is Gone, Invaded with No Defense Numbers
Outrageous those politicians laughing at the citizens.
I've watched a few videos on Seattle's government...this is exactly how they all are. They all laugh and giggle amongst themselves like a clan of narcissists and constantly ignore the people...and its mostly because they're inept (but love the paycheck and living a good life in the nice parts of Seattle) There's multiple videos of this. How they voted in an entire group of them...i dunno...like it doesn't seem like a single decent one amongst them....
@@justtrollinalong977 Seattle has fallen to the Communists. It should now be renamed "HELL!"
I wonder how did they get elected
Why I am no longer a democrat. My family has been for generations but I am not any more.
@@gregj831 quick to complain but slow to offer a realistic solution.
meanwhile in San Fransisco. and Seattle... sucks cause the birkgil is an awesome trail to walk, run, jog, and/or bicycle on.
Thank you for the warning! I will NEVER visit Seattle.
Never thought I'd say this but I'm glad to be old today, having seen a much better world many years ago.
thanks for your honesty. i know that is how you old farts feel but they usually don't say so. it's obvious.
@Simon Linser “old farts” is that really necessary? What exactly did the OP say that is so bad? Perhaps they did grow up in better times (it’s simply their lived experience and opinion) and you’re upset with that for some reason. Sad
All this, ALLof this, was and is caused by nancy piglosi, and the focus should be on her. She's evil.
@@simonlinser8286 jo need to be agressive, even me as a 30 y o always talking about good old days, this age is so F'ed up
My parents both passed right before corona I consider them lucky. My dad worked across from the street from 4 seasons I thought it was cool. I am 60 am and right next to you.
They need to fire every politician involved in this mess and get people who aren't afraid to take steps to rectify this situation. This is beyond crazy.
Nope, they need to look in the mirror and realize their own politics brought this upon them.
@Sean Steele free dope till yer dead. Problem solved.
This video is 5 years old and people started complaining that time and in 2020 they have voted for same people and government…😢
So very sad! I grew up on Whidbey island and loved Seattle until I moved out of the state in 1994 when I was 30 years old.
Wonder what’s it like now in 2024 anyone?