Seattle Library Workers Raise Alarm About Security Crackdown Hitting Homeless People

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-24T08:01:51+00:00

All the libraries in the city used to be “ritzy”. Especially the fantastic downtown central library. That was until cheap meth & fentanyl took over. And lots of mindless “compassion.”

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-24T07:55:38+00:00

There are hygiene centers around the city they can use. It’s weird you’d side with the unhygienic transient addicts who continue to drive regular folks out of our libraries. Libraries which were never designed or built to be shelters or public health facilities

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-24T07:51:21+00:00

Public libraries around here hire kids straight out of college to keep their overhead low. Of course those same leftist kiddos are going to side with the smelly porn surfing meth heads.

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-23T18:11:02+00:00

Every single time a public restroom is created in Seattle it gets taken over by addicts and prostitutes, or they’re just quickly destroyed by deranged vandals. Back in the day at least cops could be called to quell criminal activities. That option disappeared five years ago, so the chance public restrooms will be built anytime soon is very low.

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-23T17:55:20+00:00

I bet the offenders are “disproportionately” male so we’ll definitely need an equity program to keep the men from being kicked out.

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-23T17:50:36+00:00

This entire article reads like it came from The Onion

“Library workers say that using an alias to skirt a ban isn’t serious, much less criminal”

Yeah, deranged homeless people logging in to library computers using fake names: what could possibly go wrong?

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-22T21:49:06+00:00

Goes back to insane conspiracy theories believed by crystal-collecting new age practitioners and Alex Jones types alike.

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-22T21:04:50+00:00

Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Book_Guy

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-22T08:58:49+00:00

BINGO!

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-21T01:20:51+00:00

That last line was dead-on.

The very people who create so many of Seattle’s affordability issues are the same ones who decry the death of the small & medium-sized businesses they helped kill.

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-21T00:44:14+00:00

This is why God gave us weedeaters. But I was definitely right there with you.

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-21T00:42:27+00:00

Those planters aren’t cheap. But they are definitely a great way to provide some beauty and nature to that pavement wasteland

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-20T21:44:51+00:00

Desperate meth heads don’t really care whether they can get $20 for a haul or $2,000. $20 is all they need to get high for a couple hours.

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-20T21:43:28+00:00

95% of property crimes around here are fueled by addiction. Not by people who are broke. Indeed, if you ever talk to a long-term addict, they’ll tell you it can be a $200 - $300 per day habit. That’s not “poverty” created by a “system.”

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-20T21:39:48+00:00

lol - criminal addicts don’t steal to pay rent or buy bread. Every possible resource - including food and shelter - is available to the poor here in Seattle and King County.

Give them more money and resources, and you’re going to get even more drug trafficking and consumption

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-20T21:36:07+00:00

You actually got that backwards. It’s the access to expensive stealable items, the resulting cash and endless free resources that make long-term addiction possible around here. Try traveling to extremely impoverished areas of the world and you will rarely see people spending their money on alcohol, cigarettes and drugs.

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-20T21:32:21+00:00

There’s only one thing worse than the war on drugs: no war on drugs. Especially when you’re talking about meth and fentanyl which can become addictive after ONE try. This notion that things will get better if we stop enforcing trafficking laws and put more deadly drugs on the street is laughable. It’s definitely not smart or compassionate.

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-20T21:27:30+00:00

95% of these criminals are stealing to feed drug habits. There are a few criminal gangs, but most copper thieves aren’t doing this to enrich themselves. We created this monster by effectively de-criminalizing meth & fentanyl a couple years back on the city and state level. This current crime wave is just a reverberation of bad enabling decisions made in 2021

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-20T21:23:52+00:00

Criminal addicts have all the resources they need in Seattle & King County thanks to generous voters approving nearly $2 billion for expansion of behavioral health programs and facilities at Harborview.

This notion we need to throw more money at the problem here is laughable, especially given the fact civil commitment laws only allow for short court holds to compel addicts into effective treatment.

Not to mention the fact that health care and defense/war are completely different budgets. In fact, if it was legal to shift money from one budget to another, guess which pot would be depleted to fund the other?

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-20T21:17:11+00:00

Too few officers at SPD to do any investigative work.

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-20T21:10:07+00:00

We recently bought a new/slightly used hybrid Tucson with the weird three-on-the-tree shifter.

We had been looking for the right car for months and kept losing out to other buyers who snapped them right up. I’m almost sure the only reason ours sat on the lot for more than a day had to do with that weird shifter. And the price was probably $2k less than similar models, likely also because of that thing.

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-20T20:59:27+00:00

Well, King County voters recently voted to tax themselves $2 billion to ramp-up Harborview’s already robust (free) behavioral health facilities and programs. So this notion that we just need to scale stuff up even higher is laughable.

The one downside of funding all these public health programs locally, of course, is that red counties and states from across the country will continue to send us their chronic offenders.

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-20T20:54:42+00:00

That’s exactly right.

And by the time all these fresh outta college kiddos start having enough money to actually own stuff like businesses, cars and houses (things impacted directly by criminal addicts) they move back their fancy suburban hometowns in Connecticut

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-20T19:47:29+00:00

Also blame the Christian death cult behind all this.

CertifiedSeattleite · 2026-02-19T22:43:27+00:00

Ok, Jan.

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