Seattle Residents Report Encampments in Record Numbers

> “If people are simply being relocated from one public space to another, it is not accomplishing anything for anyone’s benefit,” Clauss said.

> Still, she said she plans to continue reporting them.

> “I think if people simply stop reporting them, the implication could be, ‘Oh, well, people aren’t complaining. I guess it’s not a problem anymore.’ ”

I empathize with this dilemma. The same data that might be misused tomorrow could be important for true reform in a month.

It is so strange to read, they dehumanise and treat homeless as treating a symptom.

Knowing that homeless will just move to another place, yet still report them. The entire article is like threading water, there’s no shelter for homeless yet people report them, they move, again and again…

It’s a good article that explores explanations and implications of how Seattle has changed its treatment of homeless encampments.

I wonder if Seattle has a lax attitude towards drugs?