Exactly. It’s coming to light with the SF corruption scandals.
We’re about 100x more woke than SF.
If you follow locally, then you know this isn’t even about BLM. Antifa hijacked the protest weeks ago. All the protestors are white and harassing minorities. Now they are bullying the city into reducing police funding by 50% in the name of eliminating racial disparities. All they want is anarchy. Seattle city council is so concerned about appearing racist that they are going along with it. Seattle is on the path to becoming Detroit in a hurry. Houses in the suburbs are shooting up in value.
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Portland seems to be doing somewhat similar. The Black population in Portland is @5%.
Exactly. Antifa has a big presence in both cities and has taken over the protesting for their own purposes. I guess most white people have too much liberal guilt or are too busy to pay attention to who is actually pushing for these policies. The fact the protestors are now bullying minorities and gay people is complete BS. Imagine if Trump supporters were doing that and the coverage it would get. Antifa does it and no one even cares.
Here’s one more city. Democrats biggest election plank of 2020 is based in support of this. Biden’s VP pick is supposedly completely based on identity.
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Watched it over the weekend. Good one. It seems like SFO @10-15 years back(just cleaner and nicer). So, in answer to Qn ’ Will Seattle really become the next San Francisco?’ the ans is ‘Yes, it’s on it’s way’
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What surprises me is Seattle has not yet surpassed SF. From the video it should have already happened. That just goes to show my understanding of the severity of homeless issues in SF is still on the low side.
I think it’s a reporting issue. Nobody who wants to keep working in SF+Bay Area can make this report about SF and keep his/her job.
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Best announced her resignation last month after the city council approved a proposal to slash the police department budget by $4 million and cut as many as 100 officers from the force. The council had at one point considered cutting the budget in half.
“I believe 100% that they were putting me in a position destined to fail. Cutting a police department that already had low staffing numbers, that was already struggling to keep up with the demand,” Best said in an interview with NPR’s All Things Considered on Wednesday. “How are we going to provide for adequate public safety in that environment?”
Best said she was excluded from conversations around reimagining the future of policing, which made it “very difficult to move forward and make the changes needed to move the department in the right direction.”
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What does “rioting cities” mean? If there are 99 peaceful protests held in a city but one resulted in property damage, does that count as a rioting city?
Apparently I live in one of these “rioting cities” and for some reason I don’t feel threatened.
Yeah, nothing to see and no problems at all.
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That’s a real travesty. You’d think that a black, female police chief would be someone you want to support in reforming the PD.
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Hard to label/virtue_signal a black woman as ‘racist’ or ‘mysogynist’ when she points out the truth.
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Notice all your reports were from June. Yup, there have been some unrest back then but what about the last two months?
Again what is the definition of riot cities? San Francisco being San Francisco, there are protests here every single day. Most are too small to even show up on the news and they are peaceful.
Right now the only city on that list that has ongoing unrest is probably just Portland. Maybe Seattle as well? But certainly not San Francisco. Tune out Fox News and ask the people who actually live in SF if they feel unsafe walking on the streets.
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Do you realize there are cities which had no riots at all? Riots and looting shouldn’t be normal and just another cost of living in a major city.
Since when riots and looting is normal in SF?
I don’t dispute there is ongoing unrest in Portland. I don’t know about Seattle. I don’t live in Seattle and don’t know much about Seattle except when it hits national news.
There are no riots in 90% of that list right now. Hasn’t seen any riots for a while. Calling them “riot cities” is politicized fear mongering.
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Right, and how long will it be until the next round?
I’m legitimately curious which real cities have not had protests and/or riots, and why?
I was thinking about Dallas and Houston. Both have Democrat mayors despite being in a red state. Come to think of it, how many large cities in the US even have Republican mayors? San Diego and Fort Worth Texas are the only ones I could find.
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