In what was supposed to be the first homeless encampment sweep of the year in Seattle, Mayor Katie Wilson shut it down.

Now, we shouldn’t be shocked that Katie Wilson wants to continue to keep Seattle the heaping trash pile it has become over the years, but she, apparently, has her reasons.

It’s a “new” approach:

My team is doing a really thorough review of the city’s approach to homelessness as we figure out how to begin making improvements.

I think it’s really important that we have a policy around maintaining access to our public space that, as much as possible, works for everyone, right?

The change that I hope that people will see from my administration is that we’re gonna be moving aggressively to open new housing and shelter so that we can really begin to get people inside with the support that they need.”-Katie Wilson

A thorough approach, she says, along with really saying a whole bunch of nothing. “Access to public space” is more important to Mayor Wilson than crime, and theft and open drug use and trash. Their access to this public space and rights to do drugs is more important to Katie Wilson than families paying rent, concerned about their kids’ safety transiting to schools and businesses in the area. Noted.

And, let’s discuss this “move to aggressively open new housing”. What about the Civic Hotel?

By December, Seattle taxpayers were paying a hefty $4,200 a month per empty room — at a time when thousands of Seattleites were without a roof over their heads.

City officials described their decision to leave the rooms vacant as simply a “pause” while they evaluated what to do about an anticipated budget deficit.”-Ashley Hiruko, KUOW

A mess, indeed, which led to a lawsuit between the owner, The City of Seattle and King County:

Seattle took over the lease from the county and continued to use the hotel as a homeless shelter operated by the CoLEAD program managed by nonprofit Purpose Dignity Action. The organization said the program prohibited people from smoking anything inside the building and that staff enforced that rule.”-Greg Kim, The Seattle Times

I know what you’re thinking. Say it isn’t so! Some residents were not at all smoking fentanyl in the rooms! They were all fine, upstanding citizens that abide by the rules. Gotta give drug addicts the dignity and purpose they deserve and let them smoke their fentn in an hotel room. But Mayor Wilson is thinking about this approach, so she says.

Leftist: “She’s a visionary.”

— ThomfromAlaska (@ThomfromAlaska) January 15, 2026

Can’t have sweeps of a homeless encampment just yet. And, can’t have Seattle PD (SPD) arrest those living in the trash piles and defacating on the street for using drugs alfresco. Because dignity or something like that.

The recent naive, ignorant political decision to not arrest offenders for open drug use in the City of Seattle is horrifically dangerous and will create more death and societal decay. It embodies an enormous flaw in those in our community who think that meeting people where they are who are in the throes of addiction, is the correct path to lift them up. This is wrong and is commonly referred to as ‘Suicidal Empathy.’ Most cops know that the LEAD program supports this ideology and they don’t want to refer cases. It is a waste of time. We’ve all seen how our streets can be filled with death, decay, blight and crime when ideology like this infects our city. Now with this resurrected insane direction, death, destruction and more human suffering will be supercharged.”-SPD

Mayors do this because it’s safer for them — politically, legally, and ideologically — even when it’s riskier for the public. pic.twitter.com/kc50wCnUdu

— Cyber Hunter (@Gene_SD) January 5, 2026

Several weeks ago I published a vision for public safety, which begins with the commitment that “everyone in Seattle, of every background and every income, deserves to be safe in their homes, streets, parks, and places of business in every neighborhood across our city.”-Katie Wilson

So, while Seattle businesses continue to get broken into, thefts continue and owners quietly plan their exodus out of the city, Katie Wilson will be “thinking about” a plan. Winter continues and though it’s been mild, but we still may have a few cold nights. Drug addicts on the street will continue to use. Some may die in their tents. Dignity. Progress. Empathy. Inclusion. Equality. Purpose. Rights to occupy a space.

She’s a visionary in a Goodwill pantsuit! She needs to be “thorough” in this “new” approach”. The great plan! She’ll get right on it after she cashes a check from her mom and pops.

The truth is, Katie Wilson has no plan. Y’all don’t need to bundle up at all, Seattle. You’ve got all of the You voted for this sheer craptasticness.