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There's a couple of things - First, Seattle PD was taken over a couple of years ago by the Feds because of how they were handing things specifically several high profile shootings.
Second - there's a huge difference between double parking and living in a broken down vehicle illegally parked on the street. The latter is where homeless people have caused fires that can result in damage to critical infrastructure:
https://www.seattletimes.com/s...
http://mynorthwest.com/1034801...

Ultimately Ford is a fiscal conservative and leans social libertarian.

So what GP said: a Trumpette. "fiscal conservative and leans social libertarian" is an apt description of the basis of most Trump policies that could be compared to Ford (I mean, can't exactly compare's Trump's military policy and foreign policy to a provincial leader)

Or are you some kind of racist who thinks any mention to Trump is just a slur on the person's character and not his policies?

Safe injection sites don't help the poor, they hurt them, increase crime, and spill over into other neighborhoods.

I love how you accuse the other guy of spewing talking points, but these sound like talking points to me. Do you have any citations? A quick search landed me quite a few links saying the opposite.

https://www.themarshallproject...

https://torontosun.com/2016/07...

Ask BC how it's working out.

One of the first links from my searches: looks like they think it's great and wants to expand it
http://mynorthwest.com/869125/...

And it's not just BC that's been doing it. Rest of the world has been experimenting and researching the results.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...

The Forbes article mentions that in absence of government action, private groups are trying safe injection sites themselves. Read: the idea isn't some from big bad government top down, there's a grass roots free market movement for it - so I think a social libertarian like Ford would approve.

But keep going and telling everyone how it's all Ford's fault, not McGuinty or Wynne.

I don't see GP blaming Ford for what happened (the past). He's saying what will happen under Ford (the future). I don't know if his accusation/prediction will be true, but I see no relevance in the rest of your post rambling about the past.

More about Seattle:

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers.

These are the real reasons for Seattle's terrible traffic.

"The rich control everything in Seattle. Bill Gates ... wants obedient little workers that never, ever, EVER ask questions."

More quotes:

"Now there's Jeff Bezos and his army of autistic sociopaths at Amazon. Their corporate culture is an absolute rejection of all human qualities..."

"Seattle lacks culture due to all the neurotic, arrogant, immature, rule obsessed, passive aggressive, conformists who couldn't socialize or drive to save their lives..."

"Seattle: Hateful people. People who never smile. People here always seem mean. No one ever seems happy here. Lots of bullies here. Lots of ... people here with weird neurotic hang-ups. People here lack ANY social skills... Socially retarded is the word."

Our Social Dis-ease: Beyond the smiles, the Seattle Freeze is on

Yes.
It.
Does.

The Seahawks stadium is designed to be loud. It tends to focus noise rather than dissipate it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CenturyLink_Field#Home_field_advantage

http://www.businessinsider.com/seattle-seahawks-stadium-loud-2014-1

http://mynorthwest.com/25/702605/Why-NFLs-new-noise-rules-may-hurt-the-Seahawks

I guess the fans like to do loud things like stomping as well. So this really is the right place for this sort of experiment.

Our smug-as-hipsters-in-a-coffeeshop Seattlite neighbors aside (yeah, I live in one of those suburbs), we actually have really good, reasonably priced water here, unless you're of the opinion that fluoride is poisoning your kids, I suppose.

Our water is very soft and some of the best tasting water around. Whenever our family drove our RV down to California (this was obviously years ago when gas wasn't priced like now - it was cheaper than flying + renting hotels), one of our most precious resources was our on-board supply of Washington water. We couldn't stand the hard stuff you'd get down there, especially in the LA area.

One day, as we drove the RV over a driveway curb, the water cap got knocked off. We panicked, trying to put the cap back on to save our precious water as though it were liquid gold. Our hosts, who's driveway we were watering, couldn't understand our consternation. Don't worry, they said, you can just refill your tank with our water. But, we protested, this is Washington water! They looked at us like we were nuts.

A while back I caught a local story about a company making tsunami survival pods that are being sold in Japan now. After that disaster, I guess it doesn't seem like such a far-fetched thing to be prepared for one of these if possible. It would be nice if the price could come down to the point that ordinary people could actually afford them. Unfortunately, there's just no way to run far enough with so little warning like they had back then.

http://mynorthwest.com/11/2297725/Mukilteos-tsunami-survival-capsules-are-selling-in-Japan

Here's hoping the people affected by this tragedy are starting to put their lives back together. I can't do much more than wish them well, unfortunately.

Mom and pop, even with obscure titles, probably can't survive either.

Scarecrow a local video rental store that specializes in odd titles, foreign films, and regular movies is still struggling.

Oh you think the free market is responsible for the price increase? Guess again.

"Initiative 1183 adds a new 27 percent tax on liquor in addition to the current state liquor taxes of 20.5 percent, plus $3.77 per liter"

It is very easy, and there are many cases like this.

Here is an interview with this particular girl, the questions and answers are good. Part 1, part 2

That map I linked to contains dozens of examples, if you can't be bothered to read the data provided, I'm not about to sit here and cut and paste it all for you. The example I cited was just that - if you want to read the full list, then you will, and you're welcome to - I'll not recite it for you.

Interestingly, I notice that you omitted this part of the story about Ms. Sense-Wilson:

Why is this book still an issue? Sense-Wilson wants other high schools in Seattle to stop using it in their curriculum too. The Seattle School board is meeting this afternoon to discuss the use of the book Brave New World.

Oops, guess you missed that part, huh? No, she doesn't want to ban it - she just wants to make sure that teachers can't use it in a classroom setting anywhere in the Seattle School District. I guess if we don't use ugly words like "ban," what she's trying to do doesn't constitute "banning" the book. No, it's just "a perfectly reasonable request that an entire municipal public school system change it's curriculum by pretending the book doesn't exist." There are numerous other examples on the list I provided where "racial insensitivity," are cited as the reason for wanting to ban the book - feel free to read, or not. If expanding your worldview to understand that people seek to ban books for ALL KINDS of reasons - not just because they're backwards hillbillies, or conservative - is more than you're willing to do, then I'm done trying to have a rational discussion with you.

Also:

Didn't bother to source

The links - to ALA, and the NPR writeup on the ALA's map, are my source. Again - if you can't be bothered to explore the data points on the map, I'll not do your homework for you. You wanted to chime in and tell me how wrong I was that seeking to ban books is a phenomenon that can be witnessed on both sides of the political aisle, but you've refused to offer any counter-evidence of your own, and you've obstinately refused to read the fucking data I've provided to you.

distinction between "ban" and "complain"

The distinction between the two is simply that a "complaint" precedes a "ban." The complaint in the case of Ender's Game, and the complaint in the case of Brave New World, BOTH sought to effect the removal of the book from school curriculum. You seem to think that a situation where "you can always find it in a bookstore, or a library, if you already know about the book and go seeking it out, but the teachers aren't allowed to mention the existence of the book anymore, despite their feelings on its value as a teaching aid," doesn't constitute a ban. If that's the case, may we also conclude that you support the parent in this case, and agree that Ender's Game should be banned from the curriculum, and the teacher should perhaps even be fired for bringing such "shocking" material into the classroom? I mean, people who want to read Ender's Game can always find it somewhere outside the classroom, so nobody's proposing we BAN the book - right? It's just a perfectly reasonable "complaint"!

I can only hold your hand so far, friend. I'll lead you to information, but I sure can't make you think.