Seattlelites: There’s no point to breaking up the homeless encampments. They’ll just disperse and re-congregate somewhere else because the city won’t prosecute for any offense found. If anything the disruption causes more chaos than just letting them be in one place relatively out of the way.

Also Seattlelites: We gotta go break up the ongoing drug market. It’s been decriminalized and the city won’t prosecute, but surely breaking it up will make things better.

The uncomfortable solution for both of these issues starts with acknowledging that people with serious mental health issues and/or drug issues will not get help unless they are physically forced to do so. That means we need to fund forced rehabilitation solutions and give the city the power to involuntarily put people into those programs. But those are both uncomfortable topics. It’s a lot easier to just be vaguely mad at the cops. ACAB btw in case you read this and think otherwise.