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KOMO News special: The fight for the soul of Seattle
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John SextonPosted at 1:00 pm on December 21, 2020
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Nearly two years ago KOMO News in Seattle produced a special titled “Seattle is dying” which spent an hour looking at the problems of drug-abuse and homelessness and the impact they were having on the city. That special was a big hit. It was shown on television in the city and since March of 2019 it has been viewed more than 8 million times on YouTube.
Naturally, the special was controversial and a number of people came forward to argue that Seattle was not dying and that the special was misguided. But think about some of what has happened since then. Crime is up with the murder rate higher than it has been in at least 10 years. This summer an armed group of protesters set up an autonomous zone in the city, driving police out of one of their precincts. The City Council and the Mayor applauded this, at least until 5 peopl
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More than ten million people viewed the 2019 KOMO News documentary “Seattle Is Dying,” which chronicled the Emerald City’s march toward Gomorrah and chaos. Now the Sinclair Broadcasting outlet is back with a follow-up documentary, “The Fight for the Soul of Seattle.” Both documentaries chronicle the decay and hopelessness by the people caught up in homeless tent encampments that are open-air drug and sex markets. But moves in 2020 by official Seattle – the council, mayor, and police – that could seal the city’s lawless fate for decades to come prompted the quick follow-up report.
KOMO reporter and new host Eric Johnson skillfully weaves the data points, most of which have been chronicled by PJ Media, into a 90-minute show-and-tell of the lawlessness planned and executed by city council members, homeless advocates, and lawyers groups all in the name of “compassion.”
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Since George Floyd’s death in May, Black Lives Matter activists have demanded that their elected officials
“Defund the Police.” But many Democratic-controlled cities that followed through with these far-left demands are today witnessing an uptick in violent crimes.
Portland
“increase police accountability and reinvest in black and brown communities.”
Wheeler proposed that over $7 million should be
redirected from the Portland Police Bureau to communities of color. His
“Police Reform Action Plan” sought to dissolve the city’s Gun Violence Reduction Team in order to
“fundamentally re-shape” law enforcement’s approach to shooting prevention.
The city reported that although year-to-date shootings