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May 23·edited May 23

Sex crimes are considered misdemeanors?

We had a serial offender living outside our door through the pandemic, 1+years that we could not get ride of. He attacked women multiple times a week. SPD would "arrest" him, turn their backs (literally) and just let him walk back to his haunting grounds... We're family housing in what is probably one of the area that houses the most children, the projects near Yesler. After they finally arrested him for failure to register AND living too close to a daycare, they let him out, literally on the same block as the same daycare and let him register his address there. The City of Seattle just throws trauma on top of trauma on top of trauma in the name of "helping"...

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the mayor is “continuing to explore strategies that enhance safety” downtown, and that “contracting with new jails is not a required component of these approaches.”

Uh, then just what are you thinking, Mr. Mayor? More catch and release?

It seems like we have exactly two choices. Persuade King County jail to start accepting a wider variety of people (assuming they have the capacity) or use SCORE (and maybe encourage them to address their substandard practices).

We don't flog people in our society so we really don't have many other deterrence options apart from incarceration. The other option seriously is just tolerate the problem.

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Want to talk about the ongoing accessibility violations that lead to people having their rights violated before they die in jail?

My mind still functions the way it should for my neurology. I'm a late diagnosed autistic. But I am a lifelong anthropologist, ethnobotanist and human migration/ pre-settlement lifeway's researcher. I had to become an autism and neurodevelopmental disabilities researcher to even get a partial proper diagnosis (the comorbidities like selective mutism makes communication difficult)

I have so many accessibility violations ongoing. These systems do not provide redress of grievances and are literally racist (neuroracist we are genetically adapted to a pre-settlement world. Anxiety protects us from sabre tooth tigers, now called police) They exist to kill us.

Email me at BPSabelhaus@Gmail.com if you want to have a very enlightening conversation with someone who understands these issues from lived life experience and being able to relate to being in a position where I could get murdered over a panic attack.

At my childs pediatricians office.

It's scary out there for us. Always on edge due to not being evolved for a life of a domesticated animal.

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