Seattle 10 years ago was a different city than what it is today. While The beautiful skyline, surrounding mountains and bodies of water still peacefully exist on the outskirts of the Emerald City, a rotting stench lurks from within.

Look closely as you travel I-5 and you will see it. The trash, the tents, the despair, all with a nod to a (very) liberal Seattle City Council that has championed the slow and painful death of a beautiful city. Seems they, too, are tired of seeing addicts defecating al fresco and doing “Blues” on the bus. Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison, and members of the City Council are now seeking new criminal penalties to ban certain people from zones of drug-related crime and prostitution.

Davison said Thursday her office supports creation of two new SODA (Stay Out of Drug Area) zones in the downtown core and the Chinatown-International District. These locations ‘are strategically created,’ in that they are meant to allow people to still access addiction treatment and social services, she said.”-Amy Radil KUOW

And drugs.

So … an autonomous zone… again.

— Laura Johnson (@LauraJo89865001) August 2, 2024

The Seattle City Council is proposing three “exclusion zones”: one in downtown Seattle stretching from Stewart Street to University Street and from 6th Avenue to 1st Avenue. The second is in the International District, which extends from S Main Street to S Dearborn Street and from Boren Avenue to Rainier Avenue S. What will these “exclusion zones” be (AHEM) effective at doing? Glad you’ve asked. They will, according to this, exclusion zones would allow a judge to prohibit people from entering a designated zone if they commit a drug-related offense in that same area. The length of the ban would be up to the discretion of the judge but could be in place for up to two years.

So, yes, the person “banned” from his favorite Fent-smoking spot can effectively…go somewhere else and smoke Fentanyl?

Why, yes. Of course he can. But Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison said, “no problemo.” Addicts can “still readily access addiction treatment and social services”. This is all part of Seattle City Council’s “holistic” approach to fight addiction on the streets. How about those who prefer the needle? Sure, King County still offers clean needle exchanges as a form of “harm reduction“. None of these geniuses realize that an addict needing a fix is not waiting around to exchange dirty needles. Nor do they care about “harm reduction”. “Harm reduction” would be preventing people for injecting poison into their veins for good.

But, Seattle City Council has got to at least try. We are in an election year. Have to keep the useless twits who did nothing all of these years in office by allowing them to put on the facade of actually now doing something, right? And, cracking down on drug use with arrests and jail time does not remedy the issue holistically. Addicts just go out to use again. Perhaps if the heroin addict who has been locked up for using sees her old stomping grounds is now an “exclusion zone”, she may not enter and, by some miracle, decide to go clean, is the logic here. Again, there is no reasoning with an addict. Now, she will just go elsewhere. It’s a giant game of whack-a-mole.

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The war on drugs threw people in jail on trumped-up felonies for years and years and years.”-Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson

And now, criminals get thrown in jail for drug crimes only to go out onto the street and use again days later. Catch and release. It’s been this way for years and years and years in Seattle.

The proposed ordinance for the drug zones says the Seattle Police Department must track and report the number of orders for each SODA zone, the number of arrests made for violating those orders, demographic information on those receiving orders and/or violating orders, and analysis of illegal drug trafficking and drug use in SODA zones, including 10 year-over-year statistics of drug-related crimes and whether dispersion of illegal drug trafficking and public use occurred in surrounding areas.”-Amy Radil KUOW

Yeah, good luck with that, Seattle City Council. Perhaps you all should have thought about that when former City Council member Khsama Sawant was working to defund the police in the city of Seattle. Remember Jessica Taylor?

Does SCC realize no one expects this to be enforced? Does Seattle even have the man power to enforce it?

— Joseph Kolber (@JosephKolber) August 2, 2024

And, the answer would be a resounding “no”.

The Seattle Police Department has lost more than 700 officers in the past five years and is at its lowest staffing level since the 1990s. Currently, the department has 913 actively working police officers.”-KING 5, March 2024

So, these “exclusion zones” are the latest and greatest ideas from the Seattle City Council. Didn’t stop people from using in front of schools. Didn’t stop them from using on sidewalks in broad daylight. The exclusion zones will for sure put an end to this ongoing nightmare that is Seattle.

It's almost as if decriminalizing hard drug use is causing a lot of problems. Perhaps if we didn't do that?

— SHTFisComing (@qqnoob1) August 2, 2024

They did, then reversed, but the damage is already done.

Holistic solutions at their best in the city of Seattle. Proposals for these “exclusion zones” will be heard in the council’s public safety committee on Tuesday, Aug. 13.

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