See shocking decline of ‘queen city of the Northwest’
It’s known as the “queen city of the Northwest” and the “emerald city,” but Seattle’s decline into lawlessness and squalor amid a homelessness crisis and the more recent efforts to defund police and soften the punishment for crime is evident even to visitors in the city’s downtown shopping district.
On 3rd Avenue, only three blocks from the Seattle’s iconic Pike Place Market, videos from KOMO News reporter Jonathan Choe reveal the squalid conditions, with homeless people openly using drugs and trash covering the street, Townhall reported, in front of storefronts still covered by plywood some 18 months after the 2020 riots and the takeover of a city neighborhood.
“Hundreds of people” are “just taking over store fronts,” Choe wrote.
“No wonder businesses are leaving.”
“You see what they’re doing out here. I don’t need to say what they’re doing out here,” a security guard for a store told Choe, referring to the open drug usage. – READ MORE
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