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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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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This sounds like what is going in San Francisco with crime out of control and no prosecution of real crime
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People will be fleeing Seattle, just as they have been NYC.
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But if you defend your person or property you will be prosecuted.
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I pray it fails.
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I do believe they're going to get it soon!
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Isn't this just legislating the status quo? Seattle's City Attorney's Office hasn't been prosecuting "minor" property crime for years, and that's informed police responses.
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Am I wrong to sort of want it to pass? It seems like a useful experiment, something we can point to as an example of what happens when leftists get control.
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I’m also rubbernecking here. It’s not clear from your report if there are programs or systems being set up to address the root causes of crimes of desperation or stemming from mental illness. Is there more to it or does it stop at decriminalisation?
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