What junkie wants to get high in an office?

Bezos is guilty of murder. His working conditions have caused the deaths of many. People dropping dead on the warehouse floors. In the company bathrooms and on their way home from work.

If we had any real justice he would be on trial right now for murder.

I think someone took a wrong turn on their way to the Slog AM comments thread

@3, I hope so but who knows these days, Amazon is to blame for all heroin ODs of course.
@4, Good luck with that! Wherever homeless camps are near, needles and thievery abounds. Who would have thought that shooting smack would cause you to lose your job, cause you to spend whatever money you get on drugs rather than rent or bills, leading to poverty and homelessness... soon to be a defense for theivery ...and so the circle of victimization goes round. An ageless story by now but one apparently not easily learned.

@4 I strongly believe in the full legalization of all drugs. That being said, I wonder if cops would have more time to hunt down your stolen car if they weren't focusing so much time on drug law enforcement? I know SPD attempts a hands off approach on drugs but it still seems to be something they are still too focused on. So I propose no more drug stings, or prostitution busts for that matter, just get my stolen shit back and maybe solve a murder or two.

"There are certain locations where [safe consumption sites] can be supported. We don’t want to just place them—having it next to the school? Is that something we want?"

I've seen the Methedone clinic in Oakland and it's a dreary site. It's precisely the type of thing I would want my children to see before they started using drugs. Would she rather Hollywood teach her children about what drug addiction looks like?

@6: "So I propose no more drug stings, or prostitution busts for that matter, just get my stolen shit back and maybe solve a murder or two."

It's a rational position many share, but you have a better chance of getting a drink out the the hands of a shaky drunk than getting the criminal system to go cold turkey from the easy cash lifestyle enforcement brings in for them. Politicians and the criminal system are addicted to the easy fix of government grants, overtime, and asset forfeiture and in some cases direct bribes by private groups to an extent that would make a crack addict blush.

Stopping murder, rape and theft doesn't pay the mortgage, which partially explains why despite skyrocketing police budgets over the past 30 years, serious crime enforcement in Seattle has cratered:

In 1990, 1,271 SPD officers handled 65,053 serious (FBI Part 1) crimes and cleared (a proxy measure for “solved”) 13,425, equal to 51.1 crimes handled per officer and 10.6 cleared.

In 2019, 1,371 SPD officers handled 39,055 serious crimes and cleared 3,447, equal to 28.5 crimes handled per officer and 3.2 cleared.

You can't expect prosecutors and police to focus on serious crimes when all their resources are consumed with multi-year long overtime intensive lifestyle crimes like this:

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/03/11/39551922/seattle-police-rescue-26-sex-workers-but-did-they-want-to-be-rescued

and this:

https://www.thestranger.com/news/2017/09/26/25434273/city-attorneys-crackdown-on-johns-has-dire-consequences-for-immigrants-defense-attorneys-say
City Attorney’s Crackdown on Johns Has Dire Consequences for Immigrants, Defense Attorneys Say

We can't afford to waste our limited police resources on irrelevant crimes like this:

Nearly 6,500 rape kits sit untested statewide, Washington attorney general says
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/washington-attorney-general-identifies-nearly-6500-untested-rape-kits-statewide/

Can Dr. Nelson Salim have extra Fentanyl in his next fix please? A whole bunch?