Amazon shuts small Seattle office after spate of crimes in area
There is a weird thing among Seattle residents where they get extremely defensive about our social problems and act as if nothing is wrong and these are &#x27;normal city problems&#x27;. They&#x27;re not. I am a longtime resident and while this area has never been the greatest in the last 5 years it has turned into an absolute shithole if I can speak honestly and frankly. I&#x27;ve seriously considered whether or not Seattle is some sort of progressive social experiment where we&#x27;re all the lab mice blissfully unaware of our surroundings.<p>Just a month ago an engineer at AWS, a young Asian woman, had her skull <i>cracked open</i> when a random assailant <i>hit her in the head with a baseball bat</i> completely unprovoked. This was in the same neighborhood by the way.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;article-10492101&#x2F;Moment-homeless-man-attacks-Amazon-deliverer-baseball-bat-leaving-fractured-skull.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;article-10492101&#x2F;Moment-hom...</a><p>The assailant had 26 offenses on his rap sheet, another graduate of our &quot;catch and release&quot; program of combating crime. This story was buried in the media rather than creating the widespread outrage it deserved.<p>The amount of social disorder this city tolerates is untenable. It <i>was</i> once a beautiful city that in the span of a few years was destroyed under the watch of a small crew of activist politicians. Many stores have closed because it&#x27;s become too dangerous for the employees. The whole situation is very sad.<p>Yet the city squanders resources and prides itself on absolute nonsense like making plastic grocery sacks and straws illegal while the amount of trash on our streets or in our parks continues to increase. I&#x27;m not just referring to general litter either, we&#x27;re talking syringes, feces, and toxic waste from derelict RVs that are allowed to park wherever they wish without fear of reprisal.