Current Events > Damn Rikers island yo.

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That place sounds really bad. And there is talk and ideas about replacing it with smaller areas. And letting less people enter. Without clarifying any of that.

Didn't know anything about it till today. Yeesh. I knew living in Seattle that there's a lot of shady stuff. But nothing compared to that. At least on a scale level.

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Seattle? Huh?
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Cornmuffins posted...

Seattle? Huh?

Yeah my whole life. When I was a supervisor for a store location. I called and filed reports with the police every other day. It was a headache. Especially with all the robberies. Ballard area connected with Seattle,(west or south west I think). not looking too great these days.

There's article you can find where at this point police won't even take them to jail. Because they don't have the room anymore. So they just go back out. I remember we had one fellow who several times over several different occasions threatens violence. And the police would be like, "yep, we chased him away".

Come back next morning, and place is robbed. Very common situation. I remember my last day there. Before I guess being promoted. I showed up early to get everything going. And the store had been robbed again. Last day there had to do two different reports that had taken two hours of my day up.

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treewojima posted...

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treewojima posted...

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Read about Rikers Island on the wiki page. Blew my mind. About the events that occur and have had occured there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikers_Island

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SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1f3V0s7l6z8

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Ive lived in Seattle my whole life and never once thought it was a top place for crime

worked in Ballard too, worst thing that happened was my boss told us to be careful walking home as there was a KKK meeting somewhere which honestly surprised me. He had to walk the waitresses to their cars.

like any city stuff will happen, but Ive never got the feeling it was really that bad of a city and what does it have to do with rikers island isnt that a prison????

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SubwooferKing posted...

Ive lived in Seattle my whole life and never once thought it was a top place for crime

worked in Ballard too, worst thing that happened was my boss told us to be careful walking home as there was a KKK meeting somewhere which honestly surprised me. He had to walk the waitresses to their cars.

like any city stuff will happen, but Ive never got the feeling it was really that bad of a city and what does it have to do with rikers island isnt that a prison????

It's a prison I just read about it. And when I saw mentioning of releasing inmates early on account for space. It made me think of previous experiences I've had. I'm not sure if you watch news or not. But there's usually one person shot daily or every other day.

I remember before 2010 I'd hear about it like twice a year. If that. Crime has gone up an insane amount in comparison. I guess you've been lucky. Which is good. I lived in maple leaf most my life. The word wouldnt even be in my vocabulary.

Fast forward to today. I've lost count how many times. I've read a news report of someone getting shot and killed on Roosevelt, lake city, Aurora, even Northgate.

Honestly I doubt Seattle is even in the top Ten for U.S cities crime rate. But it's a big deal for me.

I mean I literally stopped a rape scenario on Roosevelt near Northgate, about five years ago. With the assistance of another person. I thought it was insane. Right next to the damn mall. Or what used to be the mall.

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Oh yeah its getting worse for sure here, i can tell. But I think COVID and the hard times has to do a bit with it.

yeah my co worker worked at bell town before coming back to my work. A downtown pizza place.

some dude came into her restaurant, went INTO the womens bathroom, and waited with his dick out and a condom on it basically waiting to rape the next chick that came in. What the actual fuck bro

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rikers island is what they call

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That place is shit. That place have always been shit. And that is coming from me as former CO. Not me as the bleeding heart that I am now. No one should go in the place. Remember many people there are not convicted of anything.

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SubwooferKing posted...

Oh yeah its getting worse for sure here, i can tell. But I think COVID and the hard times has to do a bit with it.

yeah my co worker worked at bell town before coming back to my work. A downtown pizza place.

some dude came into her restaurant, went INTO the womens bathroom, and waited with his dick out and a condom on it basically waiting to rape the next chick that came in. What the actual fuck bro

That is really bad. Hope your friend wasn't affected by that too much. That is some psycho
stuff right there. Really are no words to describe that. Other than I hope everyone is alright. And the crazy has undergone some serious rehabilitation.

I know exactly the area your talking about. I think recently they had a pretty bad scenario. An ex co worker got it on camera. I just can't remember what it was.

And I absolutely agree with you about COVID not helping at all.

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CountDog posted...

That is really bad. Hope your friend wasn't affected by that too much. That is some psycho
stuff right there. Really are no words to describe that. Other than I hope everyone is alright. And the crazy has undergone some serious rehabilitation.

I know exactly the area your talking about. I think recently they had a pretty bad scenario. An ex co worker got it on camera. I just can't remember what it was.

And I absolutely agree with you about COVID not helping at all.

she was fine just kicked him out basically she was just more mad than scared

I mean its downtown she says ridiculous stuff happens every day there she was only gone for like 3 months or something

I was honestly shocked to hear that someone would be that stupid to try that in a public place

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SubwooferKing posted...

she was fine just kicked him out basically she was just more mad than scared

I mean its downtown she says ridiculous stuff happens every day there she was only gone for like 3 months or something

I was honestly shocked to hear that someone would be that stupid to try that in a public place

Good on her for being a bad ass.

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This topic makes me feel like Im high.

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CountDog posted...

Good on her for being a bad ass.

shes like 52 very cute but yeah pretty bad ass of her

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