Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug possession
As someone living there right now the article really doesn&#x27;t properly cover the discontent in the city.<p>There is an overwhelming sense that Seattle has done too much to encourage homelessness (particularly with the expansion of policies like this one). &quot;Tent City&quot; has spread so far that it&#x27;s getting into the suburbs and from a residents perspective it&#x27;s getting far worse not better. I have routinely seen people shooting up and smoking glass pipes (not marijuana) in broad daylight in the Downtown and Pioneer Square areas. There&#x27;s shouting, theft, property crime at all hours of the night near my apartment (Though strangely compared to SF I know very few people who have had their cars broken into).<p>Regardless of the tone of this article, Seattle is not a model to follow, it&#x27;s a cautionary tale.