The Seattle City Council will consider legislation to provide blanket immunity to misdemeanor crimes to any person who suffers from poverty, homelessness, addiction, or mental illness.
Here's how the legislation would work. 
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As a pretext, the councilmembers claim that "income inequality," "local law enforcement's killing of Black, Indigenous, and people of color," and "poverty, institutional racism, and systemic oppression" are the root causes of crime.pic.twitter.com/kbHLhaoNVc
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The legislation would exempt anyone with an addiction or mental health disorder from a wide range of crimes, including theft, assault, harassment, drug possession, property destruction, and indecent exposure.pic.twitter.com/AJwdcpAi0V
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The results would be disastrous. In 2019, the Seattle Police Department reported 50,609 thefts, assaults, property offenses, frauds, trespasses, and narcotic violations. If the ordinance passes, nearly all of these crimes could be permitted under law.
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Here's my full analysis for City Journal.https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-policymakers-untouchables-misdemeanor-crime …
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I'm sure this will apply to people defending themselves from said assaults...oh wait
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That’s nice of them that they don’t want to burden those with a criminal history and instead put the burden on law abiding citizens to suck it up and “get over it” when a misdemeanor offense is done to them by someone with a history. As usual prioritizing criminals over innocents
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Not sure that blanket pardons are the way to go, though how do we deal with people going through these severe addictions? I’m all for getting people into treatment, but I don’t see the federal gov ponying up any money
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Which well paid lawyers would use liberally.
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Indecent exposure? Assault? Wtf? I live in Mexico & I had a horrible neighbor who was a drug addict & he always sexually harassed me, destroyed my property & tried to break into my house. The police never did anything. Why people in Seattle want to live like that is beyond me.
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What is so weird is that they are including many real harms (not just mala prohibitum like possession) in the list.
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Ridiculous to begin with but assault, harassment, destruction and indecent exposure? Holy crap.
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