20 cops at the beck and call of a major corporation, but let your car get broken into and good luck getting even one to respond. And some people still think the issue is we haven't thrown enough money at them.

What human being is worth $98,000,000? This country is being bled dry by socio-pathic oligarchs. Anyone who patronizes Star..ucks is complicit. There is always an alternative. Support local businesses or endorse the oligarchy with every sip.

Get a real job, then you can join a union.

@1 Well, the car prowler doesn't let everyone know when they are gong to show up and then stick around waiting for the cops to arrest them. But other than those pesky "facts", great analogy! You're really on top of your game!

If they don't like working at Starbucks and think the wages and benefits are too low, why don't they go to another coffee shop or fast food restaurant where the benefits are better than Starbucks?

I would guess they don't go to another coffee shop down the street because Starbucks already pays more and has better benefits than 99% of other coffee shops

No one is chaining them to Starbuck, but themselves.

Maybe these people struggle to contain they're entitlement and annoying personalities?

@4 you're missing the point: do they have a staffing crisis or do they have 20 cops free to sit around for hours just watching striking workers? Can't be both.

@1/6 what’s the problem? Sounds like they are doing exactly what you and your fellow acab crew wanted. Haven’t you all been telling us these are crimes of poverty and shouldn’t be pursued? I’m sure they were just checking to see if there was some day old bread in the car.

@6: It is odd, but maybe there's more to the story we don't know about about what the police were doing.

@7 well I just thought people who do care whether police respond to their calls might be interested and upset they apparently had plenty of available officers for this bullshit. Obviously people who only cry about the "staffing crisis" as an excuse to perpetually raise police spending won't be bothered. Which are you?

@6 JoeTourGuideMcCarthy is totally for putting striking workers under police surveillance since he is probably certain that Putin and the "far left"are behind the strike

@7 "Haven’t you all been telling us these are crimes of poverty and shouldn’t be pursued?"

Nope. That's what you repeatedly claim to tar progressives. Progressives actually say that although public safety is always an issue, crime overall is at a near ~30 year low so your hyping crime incidents as if they were rampant like never before is fearmongering demagoguery

@9 as was pointed out above its much easier to have officers available to deal with a known event that will most likely result in the need for police intervention than it is to deal with an isolated incident well after the fact. SPD is has one of the lowest officer ratios in the county so it is not surprising that they do not send an officer out to look at something they have little hope of solving.

@10 This is such a bad faith argument. Crime can be down on average but that doesn't mean we don't have issues here in Seattle. It's like saying poverty is historically at an all time low so why should we bother spending money on poor people. Try harder.

Buried in one of the linked stories is why the workers wanted Starbucks to provide more protection:

“She’s witnessed people in the store on drugs, having mental health crises, and—less frequently—becoming violent.”

In other words, they wanted Starbucks to hire more security because they couldn’t get the city to protect them from random incidents. Oh, the irony…

Funny thing is, Starbucks is simply following the letter of the law. Labor contracts take a long time to negotiate, far longer than most baristas will stay at their jobs. I mean, it's not like you're building ships, airplanes or laying commercial pipes. You're slinging coffee FFS.

@4 at my last job we had a crazy person with a garbage can lid walking around the playground next to us with a knife, and the teachers at the school literally had to lock the gate so he couldn't get in and the cops took six hours to get there... so... maybe shut up?

the garbage lid was on his head and he was scraping the knife along the fence like a horror movie while screaming... six hours. SIX hours. With 15 children a few feet away. We (the managers at the grocery store) each called to report it and so did multiple customers. They kept saying they were on the way. SIX HOURS.

Protect and Serve*

*Property and Capital. Courts said human beings don't make the list.

Well, when you make the businesses pay all the taxes, who do you expect to get the services?