Safer Seattle

03/20/2019

This is a must read article about how local hate groups like Safe Seattle are rebranding and transmogrifying into other groups and coalitions to spread their fear-mongering and scapegoating.

Groups like Speak Out Seattle and Unified Seattle repackage the same conservative rhetoric, hoping to reach a more moderate audience.

03/20/2019

We've been dormant for a while, but the hate campaigns from Safe Seattle, SoS, and now from KOMO 4 News with programs like "Seattle is Dying," certainly haven't stopped. If anything, they've only gotten worse. Case in point: candidates like Ari Hoffman spreading actual hoaxes meant to demonize, fear monger, and spread hate in our city. It has to stop.

Here's your latest Seattle election news.

09/17/2018

WATCH: Sabrina Tate died in her RV at the age of 27. Five months later, her parents, Tommi Tate and Kellie Sevier of Spokane, continue to grieve. (Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times)

08/22/2018

Housing solutions and climate change often intersect because it is the unhoused that experience the grotesque and suffocating impacts of climate change the most - like the smoke that has settled here in Seattle over the last few days. If you have the resources, grab a few 3M N95 masks for your less privileged neighbors. Stay safe Seattle 💕

by Carolyn Bick On the morning of Aug. 21, Seattle’s more than 6,000 unsheltered homeless individuals awakened breathing air deemed unhealthy for everyone.

06/28/2018

No, Safe Seattle - this isn't "gaslighting." Fighting back against hysteria when: crime in the city is low and it is wrong to single out the crimes of one group of people only to use it to over generalize and stoke fear against said group of people is not gaslighting. Gaslighting is a serious form of abuse that happens all across the world everyday - asking that we drop the histrionics and treat these situations fairly...is not that. Crime happens and is committed by all sorts of people everyday. But the fact is that crime is statistically likely to go DOWN in neighborhoods with encampments for the houseless. Inviting these individuals to be our neighbors is what makes all of us safer, not ostracizing them.

A number of Progressive voices do not want me to report on stories where homeless individuals commit acts of assault or vandalism.

06/28/2018

New research shows that no matter how hard Safe Seattle and the the Harley Levers of this city try to play with our fear and stoke the fire of discontent: Seattle is a safe place to live already (unless you are poor or otherwise marginalized of course.) Their fear tactics are based in lies and deceit. Be a good neighbor today. Lend a helping hand if you can. We're all in this together and

How fearful of crime is your Seattle neighborhood? An analysis of crime data and a new survey shows some residents' fears are at odds with reality.

06/19/2018

Please show up if you're able to. Let's make this as big as possible. The more people that show up, the bigger of an impact we have!