Seattle, WA
Rantz: Mayor Harrell offers Seattle a bandage for crime surge — it needs sutures
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell retains providing the town bandages when it wants sutures. The town is bleeding out.
Harrell introduced a program to assist small companies cowl the prices of injury dedicated by the criminals that Democrats enabled. The town ceded the neighborhood to homeless addicts who ran guests away from companies that when thrived. And so they fought to maintain prolific criminals out of jail as a substitute of behind bars the place they’d cease victimizing harmless Seattleites.
Let’s cease pretending that is even remotely sufficient.
Actually, the least the town might do is pay for among the harm they precipitated. But native media retailers, staffed with left-wing reporters, editors, and information administrators, have allowed this small gesture to get in the best way of what must be relentless strain for an precise plan to cease the disaster.
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Harrell is all discuss, no motion
Downtown Seattle has been below siege by COVID because of Democrat-passed insurance policies and laws enabling criminals. At first, Democrats blamed the crime surge on COVID, a declare so silly sane individuals rightly laughed it off. Then they pretended there was no crime disaster, regardless of knowledge that proved in any other case.
Now, they’re lastly acknowledging the disaster, however not really doing a lot about it.
After a sequence of shootings within the College District, Harrell once more did all he was able to doing: speaking. He stated he’ll deal with the issue, however claims to don’t have any fast options.
“We’ll do an evaluation of the fast drawback, see what options must be put in place, once more I’ll work with the college to determine it out, however I have no idea if there shall be fast modifications,” he informed KING 5.
When a Lyft driver was murdered in Belltown, Harrell informed a gaggle of involved ride-share drivers that they have been the one ones who might provide you with options to make their jobs safer.
One ought to surprise when the Mayor will really begin doing his job.
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The place’s the media?
Moderately than foyer the state legislature to reverse its anti-police, pro-criminal legal guidelines liable for the crime surge, Harrell is lobbying them to permit cities to ban weapons.
This can be a lazy and uninspired transfer, after all. Harrell is aware of banning weapons would do nothing to cease the present disaster. Nevertheless it permits him to inform the media he’s doing one thing. And like-minded reporters don’t want a lot to hold a Democrat’s water in Seattle.
In a metropolis with goal and severe media retailers, Harrell can be pressured to supply a plan. However they’re bored with urgent him for an answer. Reporters who don’t even dwell in Seattle faux there’s no problem. Others inexplicably interact in bad-faith assaults towards Republicans who name out the crime disaster. It’s embarrassing.
Until it will get approval from Black Lives Matter activists, KING 5 received’t put strain on politicians. KOMO removed reporters who held politicians to account, now they do transactional reporting. They inform us what occurred, however not why. The Seattle Occasions reprints Washington Democrat Celebration or Patty Murray press releases and speaking factors memos however does little extra exterior of the occasional Danny Westneat column that provides a sober evaluation of the dire state of affairs.
Harrell’s media technique
Perhaps it’s not all of the media’s fault. Maybe some reporters are attempting to get solutions however discovering themselves on the unsuitable aspect of Harrell’s media technique.
Harrell runs one of many state’s least clear and least accessible workplaces. Beneath communications director Jamie Housen, they merely don’t reply to requests for remark or context. When you’re prepared to transcribe their press releases, you may get some entry. However in the event you’re reporting on one thing they’d desire you didn’t, you’ll be ghosted.
It’s not simply KTTH that will get this remedy, both.
It’s in stark distinction to the communications technique of King County Govt Dow Constantine, Seattle metropolis councilmember Andrew Lewis, and even anti-police state consultant Jesse Johnson (R-Federal Means). To their credit score, their workplaces at the very least reply to questions.
Harrell has remarkably skinny pores and skin and a scorching mood, often yelling at individuals who query him. Perhaps Housen doesn’t need to be yelled at for talking out of flip? Or perhaps he realizes the media right here received’t press them too exhausting, making it a lot simpler to disregard media.
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