Fighting Seattlest

“Belltown’s beginning to sound like San Francisco’s Tenderloin, a “herding” enforcement strategy and a concentration of social services creating a de facto dumping ground for people who struggle with addiction, mental illness, homelessness, and joblessness. Nothing we’ve read indicates that street people jumped Stoy, by the way. But where there’s an “anything goes” environment, “anything goes” people of all sorts tend to congregate.” - Seattlest

The only people I’ve ever had real trouble with in Belltown have been the frat packs trolling for hookers*. But way to generalize the poor and ailing. I mean, homeless or jobless or even addict is definitely a secret code for “anything goes”.

*I am generalizing, it’s true. I am referring to packs of twenty something men who are drunk and high on the feeling of being out in the big city with their buddies, and think that any female within a square mile is fair game for their advances, gropes, and other miscellaneous bullshit.