Chilling 911 Audio
Chilling 911 dispatch call over the weekend in response to some sort of gruesome incident at DESC’s Northstar building in Seattle. The operator describes a trail of blood coming from a room and leading to the elevator. It’s unclear what happened but the operator goes on to say the female resident has a history of the son abusing her. These emergency calls for crime, drug overdose deaths, and health related incidents are common at “low barrier” facilities like the Northstar. That’s because they house the chronically homeless with severe mental health issues and there are virtually zero requirements to get addiction treatment. They also regularly give out drug paraphernalia like needles and meth pipes via the “harm reduction” strategy being used by the King County Department of Health. Yet drug overdose deaths continue to skyrocket even behind closed doors. Anyone keeping track? A similar DESC building is opening next month in Burien, and another one should be going up in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood real soon. Millions in taxpayer dollars are going into warehousing the homeless.
Thank you to citizen journalist “CampSiteSeattle” for flagging this. Why aren’t more reporters covering this ongoing human disaster?
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