Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell Sides With Career Criminals

Portland is not the only Left Coast city run by Democrats who openly side with criminals. Seattle is close behind on the road to ruin with kooks like Mayor Bruce Harrell at the wheel:

Harrell said during a mayoral debate Thursday night he has “no desire” to put repeat criminal offenders in jail…

Harrell boasted of pushing Ban the Box legislation on racial grounds. This prevented employers from asking about applicants’ criminal history.

Barked Harrell:

“When this person is committing six or seven crimes, I don’t know his or her story. Maybe they were abused as a child. Maybe they’re hungry. But my remedy is to find their life story to see how we can help. First, I have no desire to put them in jail… [W]hether they commit seven or eight crimes, to me, is not the issue. The issue is, why are they committing these crimes?”

The reason according to liberal ideology is that they are the real victims. The reason they are in a position to murder innocent girls like Iryna Zarutska and Logan Federico is that Democrats like Harrell side with them against the rest of us.

Harrell confirmed his stance by calling upon the liberal answer to Jesus Christ, career criminal fentanyl victim George Floyd, who we have been falsely told was killed by police:

“I’m not going to give an opinion on the attitude of my officers. I look at them, and I tell them this is my vision. George Floyd was murdered, purely and simply, and I need you to recruit culturally competent officers, and we created the CARE Department, which is an unarmed response, the largest city in the country to do this.”

The existence of a CARE Department underscores that Harrell et al. do not care what happens to the victims of crime.

The good news is that Harrell faces opposition. The bad news is that — almost inconceivably — it comes from even further to the left:

Harrell … is running for re-election in a November election where he faces off against longtime progressive activist Katie Wilson, who has faced criticism from the mayor for past calls to lower police staffing.

Wilson has been compared to NYC’s communist candidate Zohran Mamdani.

When asked about her plan for addressing repeat offenders, Wilson touted the city’s “diversion” program “where if someone is arrested they have the opportunity instead of going through that booking and jail process to be diverted” into case management processes for drug treatment and shelter.

Wilson has advocated cutting the police budget by 50%. Remember CHOP? If she wins, the whole city will be CHOP.

Any Americans left behind enemy lines in Seattle are advised not to wait for November but to leave ASAP.

On a tip from Jack D.

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