Appearing on KIRO Newsradio, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell says it is important to be tough on crime, but be compassionate as well.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell says it is important to be tough on crime. Appearing on KIRO Newsradio, Harrell said, “I make it clear that we have to be equipped and capable and have the tenacity to go after the bad people, the bad people who are selling drugs to our neighbors, who are committing crimes. We have to be able to do that.”
He said that the city does not want people on the sidewalks lying down. “We have to get that person up. If they’re sick, we have to get them healed. The challenge we have in politics is that people often want a public safety approach to a health problem. These people using fentanyl, are sick. They are killing themselves, and in our work now with the Health Department, which I remind people, is governed by the county, not to denigrate any of these fine people.
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