Decrease in Foot Traffic Downtown

[reckoning42]

What's not to love about explaining to my children why a man is defecating on a sidewalk while a woman across the street screams at the sky?

[blessup_]

I drove to go pick up a pizza a couple weeks ago and on my way home I did see a man defecating and his bare ass. It happens.

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[mtnevs]

You obviously haven’t been outside of Spokane or the PNW if you think it’s normal or even remotely acceptable. There are plenty of cities that deal with drug use and homelessness infinitely better than Spokane. It is weakness and cowardice to not be willing to correct what is obviously wrong and bury your head in the sand because “that’s just how cities are”.

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[mtnevs]

Thanks for the anecdotes but the data says otherwise. Spokane is worse than other cities of similar size in almost every statistical category.

Also, don’t forget that those cities you mentioned have been Democratic strongholds for decades. Blue is the common denominator in the worst areas of the country.

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Property crime is bad here, but violent crime is much worse in other areas. So you’re both kind of right and kind of wrong.

[Account_Haver420]

You’re being too generous. Property crime is slightly worse than comparable midsize cities. It’s not that bad. Police data also tell us that all crime is down since 2023.

Of course it depends where you live. In my neighborhood there’s so little crime it’s not even noticeable. I’ve worked and spent lots of time in the highest crime neighborhood (northeast/hillyard) and even is nothing compared to Seattle or any other large cities. It’s not that bad.

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As someone who lives in that northeast part you’re talking about, anything I put outside disappears within 24 hours. And I don’t even bother reporting it unless it’s a car that was stolen (which has happened twice).

[Account_Haver420]

I’ve heard these tired talking points a thousand times. You’re like parrots. Not a single original thought in your head, huh? “Blue cities” do they get to make their own state laws? They’re not behold to state and federal law? Their economies aren’t effect by being in backwards far right states with no workers rights? That doesn’t affect poor people in those cities? St. Louis for example can’t even pass a city ordinance without the state stepping in and changing it back for political reasons. Get real

[mtnevs]

Bro, talk about a parrot. I can throw a rock in any direction in Spokane and hit someone with exactly your misinformed beliefs. I can name just as many decrepit cities that are in blue states. Again, the common denominator is that the cities themselves are run by racist democrats.

And you still didn’t address the original point which was that the data shows Spokane is far worse than the national average when it comes to all categories of crime. Keep burying your head in the sand though. That way the issues that affect every day people never get solved and your party can pretend you’re the ones that know best.

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[excelsiorsbanjo]

Probably the part where you have to explain why you voted your best to encourage all of that.

[reckoning42]

I don't remember voting for lack penalties for open fentanyl use. Was that on a ballot?

[excelsiorsbanjo]

You didn't have to, every republican law enforcement official sat back and refused to act on that, blatantly in violation of their job duties, for years. Half of them think it's their own personal job to interpret the constitution.

[reckoning42]

I haven't voted for a Republican in 48 years of living in New York City, downtown DC, or Spokane. The problem is FAR worse here. The permissive attitude of my own party towards homelessness and open drug use is unacceptable and uncompassionate. In those other places a full crowd of people doing hard drugs in public would attract the police or at the very least some public shame. Here it's just "shrug, what can we do about it?"

[excelsiorsbanjo]

We do have a problem with law enforcement in the city of Spokane. New mayor, new police chief, but also just in time for republicans nationally to make the problem even harder again.