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Seattle’s ‘Stay Out of Drug Area’ legislation aims to enhance public safety (www.kiro7.com)

submitted 6 months ago by kinther to c/seattle

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[–] Alexstarfire 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How does this address the problem of drug use? Sounds like all this is going to do is give people longer sentences when they inevitably break this law.

Thought it was pretty well known that just giving harsher sentences doesn't really change the (re)offense rate.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

It doesn't do shit. This is merely something that will make it seem like Davison is doing something. All this is going to do is fuck things up for people who need help.