It ain't just Seattle.
or just San Francisco.
Suburban life doesn't get much more pristine, that the OC, California. Home to just over 3 million well behaved, diverse, middle class residents.
Seldom mentioned is the fact, after San Francisco County, OC is the next most densely populated coounty in CA.
And there became a colony of homeless, settled on an urban river trail, in the shadow of Angel Stadium.
Authorities failed to crack down fora time. But eventually they did crack down.
And sincecracking down, it seems to have started the "cracked window" mentality for civic authorities. Any homeless colonies getting started, are dealt with.
But the underlying facts are not really changed;
--increasingly lax voter attitudes, about drug use, about minor crimes, about jail/prison sentences, about public behavior.
I have talked with police officers. They say their hands are tied. They say the public votes for the lax treatment towards, homeless drug addicts.
BTW the Seattle film states that 100 percent of the homeless are drug users, NOT single Moms down on luck.