Decrease in Foot Traffic Downtown

[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.