Or you messing with dynamite.

People of the city have gathered on 12th and Alder to rightly protest King Country Proposition 1...

The main point made by Ariel Wetzel, an organizer of the Festival of Resistance and a PhD candidate at University of Washington:

Sneaky sales of public land are reason enough for me to vote no, but that aside, I am not convinced we need a new juvie because jail diversion programs in King County are working. The county has reduced the average daily number of incarcerated youth from 191 in 1998 to 72 in 2012. Presumably this trend will continue, with support and investment. Do we really need to spend $210 million to house fewer than 72 young people, many of whom committed nonviolent crimes? Additionally, the current jail may be operating at less than half capacity, but who is to say the county wouldn’t fill up a fancy, state-of-the-art jail to capacity?

As the protestors on 12th will make clear all day (with workshops, music, discussions) we must not criminalize our youth. Youth do not fail youth; society fails the youth.