How bad is the homelessness around UW?

UCBUSCalum
Mon, 15 Apr 2019 19:54:53 +0000

The UW campus area has visible homelessness. They are many on University Ave. (the U District). There is a small encampment down the hill toward the stadium not too far from the fraternity row area. Like any urban campus, you have to be on your guard. A few years ago, around 11 to 12 in the evening on the way home from the library, S (who just graduated from UW) would have gotten rob near fraternity row if he did not make the first strike. 2 guys were coming toward him and shouting racial slurs and one reached into his pocket for a weapon. While the guy was reaching, S decked him before they could rob him. S walked away clean.

If want to see how prevalent the homeless problem is in Seattle go to You Tube and view the documentary titled “Seattle is Dying” narrated by KOMO, the Seattle news station.

Basically the documentary discusses, the problems with drugs, shop lifting and property destruction caused by the homeless and the police officers, by orders from above, are ignoring or doing nothing to stop it. We were in the downtown Seattle area and we witnessed a transient shooting drugs in his leg in a Target Store’s lightly travelled stairwell, shop lifting at a Walgreen (the shop lifters walked in and out casually and no one tried to stop them), and some transient throwing Pepsi at some tourist ladies walking behind my wife (in the Pike’s Market area).