GAME OVER BALLARD: HOMELESS CRISIS OUT OF CONTROL IN THIS

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A few more days to go until the August 1 primary in Seattle. Sunday afternoon, I went to check in on the homeless crisis exploding in Councilmember Dan Strauss'(
@CMDanStrauss
) hood. Strauss remains vulnerable in District 6 and is fighting for his political life.
I assumed he would have figured out a way to clear some of the tents for the sake of optics. Instead, Leary Way NW is a wreck. I have never seen so many tents lined on this street. The side streets are pretty bad as well. You can walk to all 38 tents in a matter of minutes. I'm not even counting the dozens of RV's and structures. Just the tents!
Based on what I'm seeing, Strauss has clearly thrown in the towel on homelessness in Ballard. No end in sight. He's hoping his constituents don't notice. 🙃
Also, is the King County Regional Homelessness Authority(
@KingCoRHA
) still operational? What do they do again?
Unfortunately the fentanyl use remains rampant, trash is out of control, and some drug addicts hurled racial slurs in my direction. It's so annoying when they can't even get the racism right. BTW, I'm Korean American and not from CHYNA.🤣🤡
Otherwise, most of the campers here remain pretty chill. One guy let me watch him open boosted packs of Pokemon(
@Pokemon
) cards. For the true collectors, dude somehow found multiple packs of Evolving Skies in the wild. Rare find. 😀#Seattle#Ballard#homelessness#homeless#Fentanyl#Pokemon
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@Liberty2358 Год назад

How can this disgusting behavior be legal? Why do we pay taxes to the government if they cannot maintain law and order and provide public safety?

@youtubecensors5419 Год назад

We pay taxes to encourage this behavior. Why aren't you getting it?

@dellingson4833 Год назад

To much money involved to stop it.

@bluered3228 Год назад

Because they'll send men with guns to destroy your life if you don't. Meanwhile they want you disarmed and docile. STF up and pay your taxes peasant.

@user-ny7vz9fh5y Год назад

@@youtubecensors5419 im glad someone gets it

@sweetdrahthaar7951 Год назад

It’s time to take our country back. The best way to do that would be to quit paying taxes. They can’t jail everyone. If 100 million checks players quit paying taxes that would send a serious message. One small example of a rogue government: we sent a truckload of money to Pakistan for gender studies.

@standdown4929 Год назад

It's like walking into a psych ward, ppl shrieking and freaking. This is sick.

@wayneanderson8034 11 месяцев назад

Well I've been in the psych ward about 13 times & the conclusion I have come to is, give the permanently homeless a break. I used to only give homeless people food out of principle. Now I give them cash, cash that I had to labor for. That cash is most likely to buy a pair of socks or a loaf of bread. It might buy their next fix, that's not my choice. I am long term homeless as well, & don't expect to escape it. Homeless people are people, even if they have an addiction. They have basic unfulfilled human needs. We can ignore their lazy ass, or do something. I would rather do something, not pray for them.

@Crystal081093 Год назад

Thank you for your hard work, this is unbelievable. Dan Strass must be proud.

@samanthal1344 11 месяцев назад

This is a 2 block radius from my building. It’s absolutely mind blowing. It gets worse and worse every day. As a small business owner, I get to deal with this on a constant basis and it’s worse than this video shows. I can no longer feel the same amount of compassion that I used to have. Seattle needs to do better.

@aliciamonroe615 24 дня назад

I feel the same. My good will is evaporating.

@BallardBaller Год назад

Everyone of us who live or work within 10 blocks of that mess have had our cars broken into One buddy has all of the locks pulled out of his van doors. We all have kill switches in our cars, and don’t even bother calling the police when it happens anymore because it’s useless. We see more outreach to these people than police, and quite frankly it’s enabling them. Almost daily a group sets up a buffer table to feed these people.. Feed the wildlife, and you get bigger problems I say

@kjadfhgioaudbfvilaeu Год назад

Its absolutely enabling...

@BigMikeDTW Год назад

These are called “O’Brienvilles” because former Seattle city council member and longtime Ballard resident Mike O’Brien led the charge for camping in public. His name should forever be associated with this shame, ESPECIALLY for tent clusters in Ballard.

@ballardbeav Год назад

Ty for bringing this attention. OUT OF CONTROL!!! I was going to ask you if you would! Your awesome Brother!! THANK YOU!! KEEP IT UP!

@b_uppy Год назад

Brought to you by local government and Blackrock. They really need to provide a sanikan in the neighborhood where there are several of tents instead of allowing sidewalk pooping, as well as a large refuse bin with sharps bins, too.

@terramarini6880 Год назад

Addicts won't use them, too difficult to get up and go to one when they can just mess where they sit. If the site is already clean and tidy they don't need them cause they have already sorted it out. The clean tent sites should be helped into some kind of housing, they appear able to handle the responsibility, I'd bet they have income and could pay rent if there was something available in their budget. Addicts don't want rules or order or anything like that if they have to contribute. They don't want to be clean, tidy or organized, they don't want to keep it down when others are sleeping, they don't want to pay for or maintain properly anything they use, in short they are unable to live with any but their own until they get themselves clean. I'm out of patience with that sort. The working homeless that try to keep their civility have all my sympathy. Low income housing, mental health and recovery programs are needed, not free meals and syringes.

@b_uppy Год назад

@@terramarini6880 And your proof of concept? Businesses often refuse to let people use their restrooms unless th÷y are paying xoncept, so what choices do they have?

@terramarini6880 Год назад

@@b_uppy Addicts deliberately foul porta potties to keep them available as their own personal shooting gallery, so it just turns into another stinking cess pit for locals to deal with. I watch a guy who's homeless in Philly, walks Kensington and he says that is what they do. That is why businesses won't allow them in and rightfully so. They are troglodytes who lack basic respect or civility and can expect to receive what they give.

@michaelbradley7621 7 месяцев назад

I thank our lovely neighbors to the south for this.

@Stonewallgaston Год назад

While I pay 1725 for an apartment on market street they get the same view as me for nothing! And my view out my apartment is homeless people

@vallee7966 11 дней назад

Time to move. I did.

@MKSBEMA 6 дней назад

Maybe it's because apartments cost 1725 + for one thing. For that price, it's probably a small 1br without parking. That and the fact there are ZERO mental health services available to those who need it most.

@aliciamonroe615 24 дня назад

Start putting people in Asylums and work houses and see how much of this improves. We have to so SOMETHING. Starting with the out of control rent pricing..

@TheDowers2 Год назад

Seattle was a cool place until it was known by the rest of the world

@itsallbusiness1 Год назад

Bro! You’re the only one shining light on this. Thank you!

@alphacharlietango969 Год назад

There used to be psych-wards. Enforce existing laws, incarcerate criminals, Institutionalize mentally ill. The rest will take care of themselves.

@peterschorn1 3 дня назад

"You need help?" "NASTY HOBBITSES STOLE THE PRECIOUS!"

@justsomeguy17199 Год назад

The counting and sound effects make this like a horrible episode of Sesame Street

@allytay208 Год назад

Jail would be more humane for these people. And they keep them alive and using drugs by handing out narcan and needles. So there is no rock bottom. There has to be a reason they want to keep this up because they have to know it’s not working. This is not compassion for anyone.

@KS-hj6xn 4 дня назад

"Theres flies everywhere!" Lmao.

@SovereignEllen Год назад

Well the rats are happy, so there's that.

@87clits Год назад

I feel so sorry for people who have to traverse this nonsense in a wheelchair. No one deserves this but people in chairs are really burdened with this crap when they can't even move through clear sidewalks because of all their crap.

@dp981 Год назад

In a state with so many unoccupied islands that are owned by the state, why in the hell are we allowing addicts to use their street drugs and create mayhem? Intervention and rehabilitation needs to occur in order to get an addict their life back.

@binx15 Год назад

Oh, like McNeil island?

@BallardBaller Год назад

I’d like to see them on Rykers Island

@kjadfhgioaudbfvilaeu Год назад

Because INSLEE decided to close McNeil Island so he's dumping all the trash back into our neighborhoods...

@LetsTalkAboutPrepping 11 месяцев назад

Ooh yes throw them on an island with few resources and lots of drugs. Film it all to make back some money for all the damage they've done

@dp981 11 месяцев назад

@binx15 Why not? It has facilities that our millions of dollars invested into outreach programs could be diverted into rehabbing the island to become a modern facility. I'd rather my tax money went to a needed rehabiltation facility than a nonsense transportation project, or "non profit" agencies and companies that act as competing brokers to rehouse homeless addicts.

@BasementBerean Год назад

Ballard was Bedlam the last time I was there in 2018. I never, ever wanted to go back there.

@AuroraBoarder1 Год назад

This breaks my heart. When I lived in Seattle over 20 years ago, I used to go to contra dances at Ballard Eagles Hall. I'm relieved that they moved the dance elsewhere, but it greatly saddens me that charming Ballard has descended to this.

@apriltorres3684 11 дней назад

Please Hand out flyer's saying that tent's, chair's, sleeping bags are illegal to put on the city streets. Give them information on shelter's, drug's alcohol, and mental health treatment. The city might have a empty lot that's far away from the public so the homeless could sleep and only sleep. The rules would be enforced such as getting up by 10 am and then leaving the lot by 12:30 pm or perhaps 1 pm. No excessive garbage to be left around,no drug's or alcohol. Enforcing anything else such as getting treatment or a job might be to tall of order though. I can't say for sure how many are homeless in Ballard but if the city doesn't put the brakes on eventually, the homeless will win and that cannot be tolerated !!!!

@LiveSilkies Год назад

Ewwww those flys😶‍🌫️. Stay Safe 🙏🏻

@dellingson4833 Год назад

Well i suppose a flame thrower is out of the question as it may start a building on fire. But people who are disabled should file a ADA (American Disability Act) lawsuit for blocking the sidewalks. You will win without a doubt. Get started and file them with an attorney people.

@kai-jm7bb Год назад

That happened in Portland, as you likely know. The city settled and agreed to clear sidewalks. Seattle should do it before the taxpayers are forced to pay for city officials to defend finding drug addicts more important than people with disabilities. Allowing these tents hinders everyone's freedom of movement because many people, especially women, are going to feel too unsafe to walk near the tents. A decent citizen is going to get hit by a car because s/he walked in the street to give the tents a wide berth.

@dellingson4833 Год назад

@@kai-jm7bb They get what they voted for. Just hope they don't flee what they voted in and keep voting the same way expecting different results. But unfortunately many will. Hence their millions of new voters and cheap labor pouring across the border. And don't forget the poor sex, labor trafficked children.

@kai-jm7bb Год назад

@@dellingson4833 I take it you don't live in Seattle. What people on the outside don't seem to understand is we are often left between a choice of left-wing and utterly bonkers left-wing. Sometimes we do vote for the more conservative choice, but conservative here is still left-wing. Regardless, it is clearly not working.

@dellingson4833 Год назад

@@kai-jm7bb I've been there years ago before the enablers appeared by the dozens to suck up the tax money. That's how they turned it into a homeless industrial complex. They money would dry up without the 10's of thousands of clients. My son moved to Seattle over 10 years ago. But due to taxes, rules and laws destroying law abiding people he moved to Utah and loves it.

@forrestspencer9932 Год назад

Foodbank there keeps them very fed

@skybot9998 Год назад

The reason we have a homeless crisis is because we have an addiction crisis.

@michaelbradley7621 7 месяцев назад

And we can think our lovely southern neighbors for supplying the fuel for that.

@Andy_Holmes 2 месяца назад

And addiction would be affordable if drugs weren't illegal, causing inflated black market prices. The war on drugs directly increases criminality in order to pay for them.

@LilmissJ111 Год назад

Thank you Choe! Don’t forget to send Brandi and Mike a congratulations note too! Lots of love always!

@jaylehn4342 2 месяца назад

When you hang out every day thinking you are getting away with something by not going to work and when you get old you suddenly realize why everybody is working so they can get a house so they will not have to sleep on the streets by not working you are only hurting yourself a job is easier than trying to survive on the streets when you get old.

@alexhegedus2588 Год назад

Time to invest in the tent business Somebody's paying for them

@anthonydavis5993 Год назад

Bro, I don't you ask these people where they're from... I bet most are from out of town. Everone of them ask are...

@benzjugg Год назад

Starting to look like skid row

@cadevaughn7596 Год назад

The amount of trash that is redistributed from garbage cans and left on the street is unacceptable. Pure disrespect.

@jtee4865 Год назад

WALKING DEAD.

@MrsKarenprivateproperty Год назад

Some of the tent can be count as 3 or even 4 tents .

@gjerrildkro Год назад

Ballard got hot with the plague

@BrinkyLV Год назад

My office is right down the street from this, I’ve literally screamed and chased that meth head lady off our property because she was smoking crank and trying to break a lock with her hand, I’m over this bs, they just literally kick them out and then this crap re appears just in a different street over.

@user-ny7vz9fh5y Год назад

u voted for this

@beachbaby7 Год назад

@@user-ny7vz9fh5y Selections, not elections.

@BallardBaller Год назад

I watched her drop pants, and take a dump and piss in the middle of a crowded bus stop, with people not even noticing. It pretty much said it all

@BrinkyLV Год назад

@@user-ny7vz9fh5y I sure as hell did not vote for this!

@boootybounce420 10 месяцев назад

1:10 you got owned 😂

@blackquiver Год назад

Watched it. Monday.

@toddburgess6792 11 месяцев назад

As long as drug use is subsidized by the government, this is what you get. When I was in the depths of my addiction, I wanted nothing to do with "help". It took a life shaking situation to open my eyes to what I was doing to my family. That was 30+ years ago, but those demons have never left, they just wait. My drug of choice wasn't nearly as fast acting as fentanyl is at getting a body dead.

@neverendingmods Год назад

Force the homeless into assisted living facilities and watch them disappear FAST. They wont stay inside anywhere that has rules. Rules like in by 10pm. No drug or alcohol use inside. No entry if they been drinking. Everyone assigned a chore like kitchen duty(breakfast, lunch, dinner). Lights out by midnight. Up by 8am. Proof they are looking for a job ( sign off on paperwork by interviewer). 90% of the homeless wont do it. They wanna steal to pawn items and buy drugs\alcohol. Wanna sit around in groups and share their drugs for other drugs and not do anything else. The other 10% are grateful to have anplace to stay and eat and wanna get on their feet. But most living illegally in these tent cities just wanna get high and be left alone by normal society. Living and doing drugs in front of businesses, homes, and school bus stops.

@kimwilliamson3615 Год назад

Exactly

@Crystal081093 Год назад

You’re right

@robertcoggins8545 Год назад

Game over Washington!!!

@traviscartwright3950 2 дня назад

The woman in the thumbnail reminds me of someone l encountered in Portland. She would rant for 10 seconds then start punching herself in the head.

@aluckyman9308 Год назад

Wow, building permit dept. must be swamped

@larryj1048 Год назад

Ah, another beautiful morning in Straussville!

@olikat8 Год назад

Come see Ballard, the Scandanavian neighborhood in Seattle...see its "Charm"

@joesimons7387 Год назад

Wow, I lived in this area years ago....I don't even recognize it anymore.

@user-wh4eq3ws8d Год назад

1:09 the impunity and entitlement of grifternet

@janncoons7445 Год назад

There is no excuse for the filth.

@jsb1100 Год назад

I have seen this clip a couple of times now and I do sense a little bit of sadness in her respond when she first is asked if she needs help. I know she has put herself there but I honestly do feel sadness and pain in my heart when seeing this old lady sitting there on the ground. I am halfway across the earth and knowing that this woman is suffering really is gut-wrenching

@samanthal1344 11 месяцев назад

She has been offered help, many times. And she refuses it. She is actually scary as she yells and screeches at people all the time. She urinates, defecates and leaves trash on private property.

@jsb1100 11 месяцев назад

@@samanthal1344 I never said it should be tolerated or allowed and I really want this person to be put to rehab Center and off the street and the city needs to change their laws so a person like this can have a harder time getting it so bad. But it doesn't mean that I don't have sympathy this person has been coerced to the point where she now destroys herself by her own admission and again she's going to die out there on the street with nobody knowing her at all that's what I'm meant when I said it's sad.

@Cheesetoastthecrispy 2 месяца назад

Sucks for those who don't want to be homeless to be put into the same basket as the losers

@look8766 Год назад

Gronk Tours with special Pokemon card opening!

@simpson3048 Год назад

umm, bring back the van and two orderlies in white pressed uniform armed with a plan and straight-jackets .

@user-we2ym5lq1n 11 месяцев назад

The lady at 1:45 is a lost cause. I've seen her for years and all she does is terrorize people.

@user-vx8fk9pc4z Год назад

Isnt Ballard supposed to be a nice neighborhood? lol

@rubyduma6238 11 месяцев назад

It’s across the whole damn country

@206guy5 11 месяцев назад

No, it's not. You don't see this in Miami.

@APsGTG Месяц назад

Mass psychosis

@Frink108 Год назад

I still don't understand how people on meth can function properly, doing basic things like finding food and eating or drinking water.

@Frink108 Год назад

@user-gk9lo5fv1f but she's still alive so she is doing thise things, which is my point.

@BallardBaller Год назад

They sure know how to break into cars and set buildings on fire

@gjerrildkro Год назад

Hey, it's summer in Seattle.

@Verse357 Год назад

That's fine. The residents of Ballard would want more tents and not be demolished. Of course I won't visit there.

@onibas5743 Год назад

You got to give thanks to the socialist Democrats for the out-of-control state that we're all in. And thank you choe for showing us the truth!

@buttdreads Год назад

''Game over'' more like let the games begin

@ChaNnArD-mD Год назад

''Go back to China'' 1000's of years ago when the Pacific Ocean was much lower the Chinese walked across and became Indians.

@cadevaughn7596 Год назад

Get an RV count in the SoDo/Georgetown area.

@michaelhart5070 Год назад

Some of those tents are pretty nice honestly. big and spacious 6P+, like a crackheads mansion!

@Gary-lj7pi Год назад

Maybe kinda way people are saying , I'm not paying 1500 for a one bedroom apartment ?

@mjones1665 Год назад

Vote blue, no matter who ...

@BallardBaller Год назад

And you didn’t even walk the Burke Trail

@sarahbovee8257 Год назад

Can you do interviews if the ppl you come across

@john-mf1qm Год назад

Bro you need to looking into pepper spray and a CPL

@IUSTITA Год назад

I used to say, "Look at these Democrat policies, you get what you vote for." What I have come to realize is that political affiliations have more to do with population density specifically in America. If a homeless man is laying face down in the street in the city, both Democrats and Republicans will just step over him. Now place that same homeless man in a small town and both will be more likely to help him.

@papalolo3769 Год назад

How is that better than jail

@jasongrooming36 Год назад

Still taking all that tax money and doing nothing in exchange.

@finddeniro Год назад

Camping Season sponsored. By Real Estate Trusts. Drugg Users Digital Divide.. and Governor ofice..

@Liamnissan22222 Год назад

Choe didn’t show the entire Pokémon opening. He is hiding something! Why won’t you release the footage!? 😂

@Strawhat_Pirates3D2Y Год назад

It is uncertain if these two events are connected.. However, Matt was reported as missing later, that very same afternoon.

@GPTMagana Год назад

I wanna walkthrough this in a Bremerton 7th avenue Neighbourhood. I like that SFX when *therese* tent spotted! Dis sounds like an *Open World* Video game of a combination of hide & seek and scavenger hunt!

@MastRk Год назад

I moved from there to Texas, Specifically Manette.....in November 2021 the homelessness started to really ramp up...I was there last month and was surprised to see less homeless until my brother told me they just congregate on that street now, not a surprise to me...that street has always been a shit hole.

@jasonames3700 Год назад

And over half of those people don't have work on their agenda !

@mikerilling6515 Год назад

😂 y’all keep voting for the Marxist socialists 😂

@fredgardner2870 Год назад

All democrat run cities are like this.

@youtubecensors5419 Год назад

Quick question: Of the few encampments that have burned down recently, have they been replaced by more?

@chasewexley8095 Год назад

Absolutely unreal. Keep making these videos Jon. God knows nobody else is.. This is how leftists define compassion.

@feelsb4reals_ Год назад

You get what you vote for.

@eugenesteenhuisen4065 Год назад

Quite an indictment on these cities

@Sid8383 Год назад

Seattle🤮

@flickoftheswitch1054 Год назад

I worked in the Ballard area all thru the 90's & into the early 2000's. To see the deterioration over the last 20 years is insane. I never visit anywhere in the Seattle area anymore unless absolutely necessary.

@buckskin64 24 дня назад

Keep voting blue 🤮🤮🤮

@craiglittlefield9956 Год назад

Most of these people need medical attention as we all walk by and do nothing but mock their condition

@sweetdrahthaar7951 Год назад

I am forced to visit Seattle a couple times every year. I always wind up in Ballard a few times during my stay. I wish I didn’t have to go.

@Stonewallgaston Год назад

Ballard is great! What he isn’t telling you is this one block

@sweetdrahthaar7951 Год назад

@@Stonewallgaston I haven’t seen any of that myself, but I guess that’s not the norm on the main drag where all the shops are.

@I-canMakeTheGlobeShift Год назад

But "Ballard" has no problem With homelessness and homeless encampments as long as it's in other neighborhoods and not "in thier privileged hipster Ballard neighborhood"... I hope a big stadium of Encampments grows over there...

@CornellBentley Год назад

Homelessness is horrible especially in a country to rich #PrayForGodsKingdom everyone will be rich and have a place to live

@kerpal321 Год назад

this is joe bidens america

@bombaybeach208 Год назад

This was happening under Trump as well, so dont give me that.

@kerpal321 Год назад

@@bombaybeach208 it happened under trump in democrat run cities who want the policies that make everything worse, when trump wanted to build the wall these democrat run cities declared themselves sanctuary cities just to spite him, this is definitely the version of america that biden and his voters want

@beachbaby7 Год назад

@@bombaybeach208 Right. There is only one party. They wear different color ties to trick the people. Selections, not elections. The two party system is an illusion.

@gregenhersu Год назад

Hi, I am reminding you that at the community initiative we are have a project whereby if anyone has any unused tents or tents that they no longer want they can drop them in to the community initiative and we will distribute them to the homeless. Thanks everyone oxoxoxo

@BallardBaller Год назад

Enabler ! Your making life worse for us

@gregenhersu Год назад

@@BallardBaller hows that? Sorry you feel that way we are just trying to make the community a better place at the community initiative

@bonedaddy7297 Год назад

@@gregenhersu Well, as a property owner and property manager of a condo in Ballard, it's not working for the rest of us. You really want to help these people then get the City to do the right thing and get them into treatment and away from their supply.

@BallardBaller Год назад

@@gregenhersu feeding rats doesn’t make the rats healthy and go away… it brings more Rats!!!! You sir, are an ass to us working and living in Ballard

@gregenhersu Год назад

@@bonedaddy7297 I am sorry this isn't working for you. I cannot be of any help to you. The only way to make the significant portion of these people go to treatment would be to use force E.g. restrain and physically move them to a treatment facility. Unfortunately there is no legislative framework to facilitate this so the City cannot do anything. If you feel someone is presenting a risk to you or others please contact 911 and the police may be able to move them on if a crime has been committed.

@blueishxx Год назад

you have such a hostile agenda and that's your right, we all know that this situation is a disaster , I'm curious about your anger , that you would devote your time to attacking patients in an insane asylum , sick patients trapped in a living hell