Seattle business owners host town hall to discuss crime, call for change

Seattle won’t help business owners, residents, or tourists. Rip Seattle.

If this council person is your best hope, you’re stuffed

It’s over Seattle, you got what you voted for

Wait didn't citizens of Seattle vote for this? 😕

The crime stopped me from freely visiting Seattle now. I feel like things drastically changed in 10 years. Last time I enjoyed Seattle was 2013-2014.

I left Seattle two years ago and never regretted

Before you can fix what is wrong, you need to acknowledge what went wrong and "how" things got this way. I think that would be a good start.

Sick of people saying they're sympathetic for these criminals.

Sorry guys no one is coming to save you. You have to save yourself. You are on your own. 🥺

Crime is so out of control in Seattle, I stopped going there. Dirty & dangerous.

I have a suggestion make drugs legal, allow public drunkenness, disband the police, don’t charge criminals for minor crimes, allow people to violate public and private property, hand out needles, let people crap and pee on the side walks. Ow 😮 wait you did that already! Maybe try the opposite?

I live just 45 minutes away from Seattle and I refuse to take any of my money (other than the taxes taken from me and funneled there) into that place. The city counsel IS the reason I refuse.

Feel SO BAD FOR LOCALS IN SEATTLE DEALING WITH THIS BS!!! GOD BLESS YOU ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

Sympathetic to people to people who feel they have to break a window? Peace and love is not the answer to criminality.

This was just a group therapy session. Otherwise Seattle seems very content with how things are going.

The matter is rather simple: criminal behavior is being tolerated by the city as evidenced by an outright refusal to arrest and prosecute lawbreakers. That is being taken as encouragement, resulting in an explosion of crime that's costing Seattle dearly. If you won't change that, starting with the understanding that a free, peaceful, and decent society is possible only through fair, firm, and consistent law enforcement ... and then making choices for your society in affirmation of that understanding ... then what are you expecting? I understand about being compassionate to the less fortunate, but that's a two-way street. When the "less fortunate" have no compassion to give you in return, what then? Your compassion is wasted on those who only see it as an opportunity to immorally exploit at your expense.

Police officers are not being let do their job! Many members from police force lost motivation when doing their job, the get the bad guys and take them to jail and the bad guys get out the next day to do the same exact thing again and again. People need to be helped to to get out of drug dependency. Many addicted to drugs do not have the ability to choose to stop anymore.

Some of these individuals should consider challenging elected official in future elections.

I live in Seattle for 26 years migrated from the Philippines my kids born here I told my kids don't go to Chinatown or downtown it's NOT safe anymore

It sucks for these businesses, but who voted for the chaos?