It doesn’t have to be this way many small cities have great police departments. It’s just that large cities and especially liberal cities like Seattle and SF have failed police departments that can’t be salvaged
Seattle is no where near that bad. Also the liberalness of a city is a red herring and doesn't have to be related to crime (most big cities are liberal, its part of being a big city). Being a big city means that unless you have enough officers, you just can't handle every case.
Seattle is a city with very little crime like homicide or theft or drug trafficking, but lots of homelessness and many people see that and assume there is lots of crime. Homelessness may or may not be a crime, but its not the same sort of crime, its pretty victimless.
> very little crime like homicide or theft or drug trafficking
Which part of Seattle do you live in? I lived in north Seattle for the last four years before recently leaving.
Drugs were being sold in broad daylight at the end of my street, and the only time it let up for a few weeks was when one of them crashed their stolen car a block away and died.
We left after a run of shootings and stabbings near the closest library.
It might not be Chicago but it's within an order of magnitude. Chicago has about 5x more shootings per capita per year, although Seattle is trending in the wrong direction with shootings up 30% yoy.
My wife and I briefly returned to Seattle for a work event, and she said the two times she stopped by the CVS across the street from the Belltown hotel there was a mass shoplifting in progress with someone emptying shelves into a duffle bag. The week we moved out of state I-5 had multiple incidents of bricks being dropped into traffic. It is getting pretty bad.
Before moving, the maintenance man at her prior concierge job was sadly killed by a tenant who had made violent threats, because police resources were not available to accompany evictions due to the ongoing riots and CHAZ nonsense.
