Seattle is paying to manage crime it refuses to stop

Seattle mayor spends $1.7 million on grocery store security instead of enforcing the law

It's easier to ignore the problem than to fix it

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is funneling $1.7 million in taxpayer money to hire security guards and patch up grocery stores battered by retail theft, a plan critics say treats the symptom while ignoring the disease of rampant crime.

Wilson announced the city-funded grocery-support initiative earlier this week as part of Seattle's 2026 budget. The plan targets 10 independent grocery stores, offering one-time funding for security upgrades and repairs along with a full year of business support. The city will also partner with the Independent Grocers Alliance to study eight neighborhoods as potential sites for new grocery stores.

The mayor framed the spending as a lifeline for neighborhoods losing access to affordable food. In a social media post, Wilson said that "keeping our neighborhood grocery stores safe and supported is essential to making sure every Seattleite has a reliable, affordable grocery store near them."

But the announcement landed in a city where larceny-theft is the most commonly reported crime in every police precinct, and where the police force has been gutted over the past five years. Wilson announced that she had hired 66 new police officers.

Critics say the city is paying to manage crime it refuses to stop.

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Recall Petition has been filed against Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson

Progressive cities keep running the same experiment and getting the same miserable results

Leaders with activist résumés and zero executive experience waltz into office, gut the tools that actually keep people safe, and then act baffled when disorder takes over.

It’s a governing philosophy that treats public safety as an afterthought – somewhere below equity task forces and camera-shy policing on the priority list.

Eventually, though, citizens stop shrugging. They stop waiting for the next election cycle and start demanding accountability now. That moment has arrived in one of America’s most famously left-leaning cities – and the vehicle is a rarely used democratic mechanism that should make every negligent mayor nervous.

From The Post Millennial:

A recall effort against Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is heading to court, with petitioners accusing the socialist mayor of being “derelict in her duties for public safety” following a series of controversies involving violent crime, policing, and surveillance cameras, including the fallout from the deadly Bite of Seattle shooting.

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Seattle Police Chief Fired

Asked to resign--he said "NO." He was then fired.

Seattle mayor fires police chief after mass shooting failures, then faces backlash from racial justice groups

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson fired Police Chief Shon Barnes after a botched response to a deadly food festival shooting, and now faces organized protests from civil rights organizations that call the move racially motivated.

Barnes, 55, was out of town at a law enforcement conference in Dallas when gunfire tore through the Bite of Seattle food festival on a Sunday evening, killing three people and wounding four others, including a two-year-old boy.

The Seattle Police Department then waited roughly five hours before holding its first public briefing, issued statements containing factual errors, and never activated AlertSeattle, the city's emergency notification system, to warn residents that at least one armed suspect remained at large.

By Wednesday evening, Wilson had seen enough. Fox News reported that the mayor called Barnes into a meeting and asked him to resign. He refused. She fired him on the spot, just hours after the two had stood side by side at a silent vigil for the shooting victims.

By Thursday, a coalition of racial justice organizations, the NAACP, the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle, Byrd Barr Place, and Community Passageways, had organized a rally at city hall to protest the dismissal. Speakers cast Barnes's firing in explicitly racial terms.

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Ideology over Stewardship.

Socialism's Venomous Sting

Watch closely as the venom of socialism spreads through America’s great cities. It promises compassion, equity, and justice for the working class. Yet in practice, it delivers only decay, exodus, and broken promises.

The evidence is no longer theoretical—it’s visible on the streets of Seattle and New York City, where socialist-inspired leadership is turning urban jewels into cautionary tales. And now, Los Angeles stands at the edge of the same abyss.

In Seattle, voters handed power to a self-proclaimed socialist mayor, Katie Wilson. Her response to reports of millionaires fleeing the city due to punishing taxes and far-left policies? A casual wave and a blunt “bye,” followed by laughter at a public forum. She dismissed authentic concerns as “super overblown.”

The reaction was swift and furious: “We’re doomed,” critics rightly declared. This isn’t leadership—it’s economic suicide. When you drive away the wealth creators and job providers who fund public services, you don’t build utopia. You accelerate collapse.

Seattle’s failures run deeper than one juvenile mayor. Massive spending on homelessness—hundreds of millions poured into authorities and programs—has produced audits revealing $13 million in unaccounted funds, massive cash deficits, and rising problems on the streets despite the investment.

New York City offers an even starker warning. Under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, the city confronts a historic $5.4 billion budget shortfall.

Drug use, encampments, and disorder persist. Progressive taxes and anti-business attitudes chase out the productive, leaving fewer dollars to solve the very crises socialism claims to fix.

The city that once symbolized innovation now warns the nation: chasing “equity” through redistribution chokes growth and abandons the vulnerable.

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The Mamdani of Seattle

Katie Wilson the Mandami of Seattle

Seattle's new socialist mayor declares solidarity with Somali daycare operators

Seattle’s political landscape just took a hard left turn with the inauguration of Katie Wilson, a self-proclaimed socialist mayor who’s already stirring the pot.

On her first day in office, Wilson, 43, delivered a fiery speech that pledged solidarity with Somali childcare providers while taking sharp jabs at Donald Trump and the Republican Party over a daycare fraud scandal in Minnesota, as the Daily Mail reports.

Wilson’s rise to power came after defeating incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell, riding a wave of promises to tackle affordability, homelessness, and tax the wealthy with no intention of softening her radical proposals.

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Anti-Americans protest Navy's Blue Angels after 53 years

Climate activists demand end to US Navy's 'Blue Angels' airshow in Seattle

Protesters say Navy jets cause pollution and local woman sues squadron over cat's death

In Blue Sanctuary City Seattle, climate activists are protesting an upcoming U.S. Navy Blue Angels airshow, claiming the jets pollute the environment, while a local woman filed a lawsuit on Monday claiming the military jets traumatized her ailing cat.

The Blue Angels, the elite military flight demonstration team consisting of 140 active-duty Sailors and Marines, aims to "showcase the excitement, precision, and power of naval aviation" with their performances, now in their 79th year, the Blue Angels website says. The squadron has been performing at Seattle’s Seafair festival since 1972.

The Airshow Climate Action Coalition put up a billboard in Seattle this week declaring, "Say No to Blue Angels." The coalition, made up of members from local climate groups as well as the radical global climate group, Extinction Rebellion, is planning to march and hold a rally on August 2 in protest of the Blue Angels airshow that weekend.

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Attack on Christian Prayer Event in Seattle

FBI launches investigation into violent disruption of Christian prayer event in Seattle

A Mayday USA Christian prayer event in Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park was violently disrupted by counter-protesters, leading to over 30 arrests and injuries to both attendees and police.

Democrat Mayor Bruce Harrell faced backlash for blaming the peaceful worshipers and launching his own probe into the event’s permit, while left-wing groups accused police of inciting the violence.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced a federal investigation under Director Kash Patel into alleged targeted attacks on Christians, framing it as a First Amendment protection effort.

Mayday USA’s event drew hundreds of members of Antifa and other left-wing activists to counter the prayer event. Violence broke out when Antifa and others began to attack the Christians at the event.

“Today’s far-right rally was held here for this very reason – to provoke a reaction by promoting beliefs that are inherently opposed to our city’s values in the heart of Seattle’s most prominent LGBTQ+ neighborhood,” Mayor Harrell said.

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It seems that violence only is initiated by Left-wingers. Seattle and Tacoma rank among the least safe major cities in the U.S., according to a study by WalletHub. Seattle is the 5th most liberal city in the United States as of May 1, 2025.

White Woman files Discrimination lawsuit

Jewish Cancer Counselor Got Fired For Objecting to an Anti-Trump DEI Assignment. Now, She’s Suing

A veteran social worker, specializing in cancer patients for “almost 23 years, was fired for expressing concern over racial harassment against her as a Jewish woman and political harassment over her ties to the Trump administration is suing for wrongful termination.

Tammy Weitzman last week sued her former employer, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, located in a BLUE city, now known as the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, for racial and political discrimination and for retaliating against her when she spoke up about it.

“I was called a white k*ke, and I was harassed over knowing a high-ranking Cabinet member in the Trump administration,” Weitzman told The Daily Signal in an exclusive interview, using an offensive term for Jewish individuals. She was also harassed for being a White woman. [DailySignal]

If I were she, I would be suing for a heck of a lot more money than $75,000 and attorney fees.

Seattle Police Falsified reports about Proud boys

Seattle Police Officers Falsified Reports About Proud Boys Moving Toward ‘CHOP:’ Watchdog

Seattle police officers falsified a report of armed Proud Boys members heading toward the autonomous zone in the city in 2020, a watchdog found.

The Seattle Police Department abandoned a precinct on June 8, 2020, and activists soon after established an armed protest zone in the area known by some as CHOP.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• It was alleged that Named Employee #1 may have overseen the inappropriate use of a ruse during the 2020 protests.

It was further alleged that Named Employee #2 improperly supervised the ruse and that Named Employees #3 through

• #6 violated policy by participating in the ruse

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Republican City Attorney wins 58/41 in Seattle

Seattle Elects Republican to Become City Attorney

Historically Democrat-leaning Seattle made a smart choice by electing a Republican city attorney who supports police.

Ann Davison beat Democrat opponent Nicole Thomas-Kennedy to become Seattle’s first female city attorney. Davison’s victory is especially remarkable considering the city voted to defund the police last year.

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Black Pride Event making Whites pay reparations to attend!

Whites told they must pay $50 'reparations' to attend city park event

'Keep this event free of cost for BLACK AND BROWN Trans and Queer Community' they cry

Well, who in the heck would want to attend if you are straight?

A radio talk-show host has revealed that organizers of a black "pride" event at a public park in Seattle are insisting that white people pay a "reparations" fee of up to $50 in order to enter in a race-based manipulation that has the endorsement of mayoral candidate, twit Lorena Gonzalez.

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The entire western coastal states of our country are nuts.

Former Seattle Police Chief Exposes Media Lies

Former Seattle Police Chief Exposes Lies in Media Coverage of "CHAZ/CHOP"

In the summer of 2020, Seattle police chief Carmen Best resigned as local Marxist radicals called to defund the police.

The calls came as Antifa and BLM destroyed the once beautiful city and created the infamous CHOP zone where police were forbidden.

Adding insult to injury, the police department had to walk on eggshells to avoid looking like the racist bullies they were accused of being by activists and the leftist media.

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Seattle is in another World

Seattle Suggests Legalizing Misdemeanor Offenses Including Assault, Drug Possession, Theft & More…

Seattle Crime has been on the rise, but after pressure from the PC mob and concerns over the pandemic, specifically for lower income families, they are now suggesting certain crimes (assault, theft, drug possession, property damage, indecent exposure, etc.) that were once a misdemeanor now be legalized.

Ballots found in Garbage Bags in Seattle Suburb

Garbage Bags Full Of Stolen Ballots Found In Another Democrat Controlled City

Every single week we’re hearing more reports of tampering with the election in some fashion.

It’s mostly coming in the form of mail-in ballots being thrown out somewhere and someone finding them in a ditch or in a dumpster.

Well, it’s happened again, this time it’s in a suburb of Seattle. It’s even being reported that this particular suburb tends to lean more Republican than the rest of King County.

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Seattle police handle "protester"

Seattle Rioter Lays Down in the Street to Stop Police on Bikes, Cop Just Rolls Right Over Him

Convicted Pimp hired in Screwball Seattle

Seattle hires convicted ex-pimp as ‘street czar’ to work on police reform, paying him $150k

No kidding!

According to reports, the new hire, Andre Taylor, has been contracted by the city to provide “expertise and support services in de-escalation, community engagement, and alternatives to policing.”

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Black Lives Matter Anarchists Suing Seattle

The Reason Why Black Lives Matter is Suing Seattle Will Make You Furious

It's a topsy turvy world and in Seattle it is spinning out of control.

Five "protesters" are suing the city claiming they want to be reimbursed for something they are being forced to buy.

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Even Liberals in Seattle want Law and Order

Seattle Residents Voting for Trump After Democrats Refuse To Stop Rioting

In a viral video, Turning Point USA’s Katie Daviscourt found some residents in ultra-blue Seattle willing to say they were considering their options on Biden vs. Trump due to recent events in the city.

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Seattle Councilwoman wants to fire White Police Officers

Seattle councilwoman proposes firing white officers

They truly are all nuts on the west coast of our country!

"Seattle City Council member Lisa Herbold has people in both parties rolling their eyes after she suggested firing Seattle police officers because they are white. While the proposal has its political allies, it has also been soundly criticized for seemingly violating federal law and Supreme Court precedent barring racial discrimination. The issue stems from the Seattle City Council’s pledge to cut the police budget in half, a move that would require the termination of a substantial number of police officers."

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Man yells, "I'm sick of this Sh*t"

Watch Man Tear Apart CHOP Barricade, Implore People To Go Home: 'I'm Sick of This S***'

Says man in CHOP, once called CHAZ, as he tears down barricades.

He grabbed one barricade while a different observer actually tried to stand in front of him — but to no avail: "Move the f*** outta my way!"

But what are people to do when the fundamental principles on which the country was founded are looked upon with indifference by those in government Apparently in Seattle, the answer is to take a cue from the anarchists and use their methods against them. [WesternJournal]