Blue state ranked most dangerous state to live

[d_marsh]

I am confident we are ALL surprised by this news.



Article:

A new study shows that the Democrat-controlled state of Washington was recently ranked as the most dangerous state to live in for 2024 due to persistent crime and a major shortage of police officers.


A recent study from WalletHub, which ranked all 50 U.S. states for safety by considering the number of law enforcement personnel per capita, property crime statistics, violent crime statistics, and the number of traffic-related deaths, revealed that Washington state was the most dangerous state to live in this year.

The Post Millennial reported that Washington currently has the least police officers per capita in the United States. The outlet noted that the state began rapidly losing police officers following the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots sparked by the death of George Floyd.
In response to the Black Lives Matter protests, the Seattle City Council voted to defund the city’s police department, resulting in the lowest number of Seattle police officers since the 1950s, according to The Post Millennial.

To address the shortage of law enforcement officers, the Seattle Police Department recently announced that it would be allowing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients to apply for law enforcement positions following the approval of the state’s Senate Bill 6157 legislation. The Post Millennial noted that DACA recipients are individuals who illegally entered the United States as minors under former President Barack Obama’s administration and were able to defer deportation action.

According to The Post Millennial, the Democrat-run state legislature has approved multiple policies targeting law enforcement in recent years, such as restricting police pursuits. The outlet noted that the new policies have resulted in a significant increase in crime, resulting in Washington having one of the highest levels of car theft in the United States.

KUOW reported that Seattle also set a new record for homicides in 2023. Meanwhile, The Post Millennial reported that the state’s property crime rate is currently the worst in the country. The state also has high theft, kidnapping, abduction, and larceny rates.

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[LadyLocust]

Thank you, thank you very much
And you wonder why we want to leave. Granted we are nowhere near Seattle, but guess who makes the rules

 

[Amish Heart]

Yeah, our oldest daughter and her family live outside of Seattle. I think they're nuts and wish they would move. She freaks out about how normal things are here when she visits.

 

[LadyLocust]

Yeah, our oldest daughter and her family live outside of Seattle. I think they're nuts and wish they would move. She freaks out about how normal things are here when she visits.

We’ve been looking . Prices in the areas we are looking are finally beginning to come back down a tad. Not sure I could be a flat-lander and I like snow.

 

[Pearl]

Thank you, thank you very much
And you wonder why we want to leave. Granted we are nowhere near Seattle, but guess who makes the rules

And y'all have that crazy Texas hot weather!!

 

[Haertig]

Some of the most beautiful states are being (and have been) destroyed by liberal rule. What I don't understand is why they can't see what they are doing to the cities? Do they actually desire them to be like that? Do they think they've done good increasing crime like they have?

 

[Tirediron]

Some of the most beautiful states are being (and have been) destroyed by liberal rule. What I don't understand is why they can't see what they are doing to the cities? Do they actually desire them to be like that? Do they think they've done good increasing crime like they have?

the goal is one world government, and totalitarian control, self sufficient people are harder to control, chaos is the was to disrupt function, cause mayhem people move, but take their political values with them because so very few under stand what the vote for anyway, top that with pure corruption and you get any former 1 st world country

 

[Jen]

Thank you, thank you very much
And you wonder why we want to leave. Granted we are nowhere near Seattle, but guess who makes the rules

When I lived there it was in North Kitsap County - Poulsbo and Suquamish. That was in the late 1900's and it was safe in those two towns.

I have a son who lives in Mountlake Terrace - basically part of Seattle, and a nephew who lives in north Seattle. I hope and pray they stay safe.

East of the Cascades should still be a safe place to be.

 

[Jen]

Some of the most beautiful states are being (and have been) destroyed by liberal rule. What I don't understand is why they can't see what they are doing to the cities? Do they actually desire them to be like that? Do they think they've done good increasing crime like they have?

It is sad. Seattle is (or was) a beautiful city. It has been ruined by the Progressives who own it.

 

[Haertig]

It is sad. Seattle is (or was) a beautiful city. It has been ruined by the Progressives who own it.

We've only been to Seattle once. Back in 1986. We visited there for several days before we went on to the Worlds Fair that was in Vancouver that year. On the way back from the fair, we toured the Washington (and Oregon) coast areas and various national parks. I thought it was a great area. We had a lot of fun.

I haven't been back to Seattle since, but I did get close about five years ago when I drove a trailer with my daughter's stuff when she moved to - I can't remember where exactly. It was across the sound from Seattle - she worked at a nuclear submarine base and lived somewhere in that area.

From what I've read and heard about the Seattle area now, I wouldn't want to go back. But I do have good memories from the 80's. It was nice back then.

 

[Tommyice]

Some of the most beautiful states are being (and have been) destroyed by liberal rule. What I don't understand is why they can't see what they are doing to the cities? Do they actually desire them to be like that? Do they think they've done good increasing crime like they have?

And that right there is why when people go to vote they need to look at their local tyrants first before any of the federal crap.

At the local level popular vote is what determines election outcome. The town I live in property owners are fairly conservative yet our mayor and council are democrats. The population is around 15,000. More than half of the residents live in a mile long, two mile wide garden apartment complex. It seems difficult to make the correlation between property tax increases and rent increases. You essentially get mob rule.

 

[old tex]

Some of the most beautiful states are being (and have been) destroyed by liberal rule. What I don't understand is why they can't see what they are doing to the cities? Do they actually desire them to be like that? Do they think they've done good increasing crime like they have?

They don't leave because they have been educated by liberals & indoctrinated into that cult.

 

[old tex]

Years ago there was a study done about crime & big cities. Out of the top 20 crime ridden cities, 19 of them were run by democrats. Now I'm sure that has changed with current policies & they are all probably democrat run cities.

 

[UserNameTaken]

We once considered moving there, then they went Cali with their unconstitutional anti gun laws. Frankly other than a handful of cool places, it's not that great. The beaches suck, Vancouver sucks, traffic on the I-5 sucks. I carried two pistols going to dinner in Tacoma, the fish market in Seattle was fun. Spokane reminded me of Fresno. And sooner or later another volcano will blow up. I'll pass.

 

[Jen]

We've only been to Seattle once. Back in 1986. We visited there for several days before we went on to the Worlds Fair that was in Vancouver that year. On the way back from the fair, we toured the Washington (and Oregon) coast areas and various national parks. I thought it was a great area. We had a lot of fun.

I haven't been back to Seattle since, but I did get close about five years ago when I drove a trailer with my daughter's stuff when she moved to - I can't remember where exactly. It was across the sound from Seattle - she worked at a nuclear submarine base and lived somewhere in that area.

From what I've read and heard about the Seattle area now, I wouldn't want to go back. But I do have good memories from the 80's. It was nice back then.

The submarine base is in Bangor, WA. It is near Silverdale and Bremerton. Your daughter probably lived in one of those areas. Bangor is basically a rural area. It's not much of a town. My husband worked on the sub base there from about 1990 - 1997. He wrote tech manuals for the Navy. All of that is on the Kitsap Peninsula that gets left off of many maps of Washington.

There are two bodies of water that are parallel going north and south: The Hood Canal and the Puget Sound. The Kitsap Peninsula is between them. The peninsula has a small connection to the mainland down near Tacoma. The sub base is on the Hood Canal.

I know. More information than you wanted. It is absolutely peaceful and beautiful there. If I went back to Washington, I would want to live somewhere in North Kitsap. I don't think it's been ruined at all.

 

[Haertig]

The submarine base is in Bangor, WA. It is near Silverdale and Bremerton.

Yes! Now that you mention it, I remember Bangor was where the naval base she worked on was. My daughter trained dolphins there. I remember Silverdale being the first place we ate, and the first place we looked for housing. When we were looking, housing was almost non-existent. I just went to Google Maps to refamiliarize myself with the towns in the area. Kingston was the closest town to where my daughter eventually ended up. She was a little south of the town. Not all that close to the base, but the best she could find.

 

[Jen]

Yes! Now that you mention it, I remember Bangor was where the naval base she worked on was. My daughter trained dolphins there. I remember Silverdale being the first place we ate, and the first place we looked for housing. When we were looking, housing was almost non-existent. I just went to Google Maps to refamiliarize myself with the towns in the area. Kingston was the closest town to where my daughter eventually ended up. She was a little south of the town. Not all that close to the base, but the best she could find.

Kingston or near there is where I would go. Sure it's a ways from the base but the traffic in that area isn't terrible. I have a dear friend who makes blankets, aprons, and other things and sells them at the Kingston market during summer season. She was the 5th grade teacher for my sons and she teaches high school math now. She is a wonderful person. There are a lot of really nice people who live in that area. I know many of them. I think I said I lived in Pouslbo and Suquamish... a little south of Kingston. Just a lovely quiet place. One of the nicest places in this world.

Is she still there? If so she should check out the Kitsap Dahlia Society. https://kitsapdahlias.org/

When I was there, I could go to a dahlia farm and pick as many dahlias as I could carry, put a couple of dollars in a toy cash register and have beautiful flowers in my house. There were literally acres of dahlias. All sizes, all colors and just stunning beauty. I think they are better organized now than they were then, so don't expect $5 to get you a load of dahlias, but it got them for me.

 

[Haertig]

Is she still there?

No, she moved to Hawaii a few years ago. You lived in Pouslbo? I remember eating lunch there one day. We didn't stick around to tour the town much. We were on a quest to find housing, and prior research told us that nothing was available in Pouslbo (not in the price range we were looking for at least). I think it might have been Pouslbo where we ended up renting a storage locker to hold all her possessions. I'm not sure about that though. Pouslbo was kind of in the center of all the areas we were looking at for housing, and if I'm remembering correctly that's why we chose it (or somewhere very near to it) for the storage locker. We wanted a location where her stuff would at least be semi-conveniently located no matter where she ended up. We definitely liked the area from Silverdale north much better than south of Silverdale. Bremerton - at least the part of it where we found potential places to live - was not to my liking. It was ... a city. And reasonably priced housing in a city is usually not in an area where you'd want to live. At least not what we found in Bremerton. There may have been fine parts of it, but nothing my daughter could afford fell into that "fine part" description.

 

[Jen]

No, she moved to Hawaii a few years ago. You lived in Pouslbo? I remember eating lunch there one day. We didn't stick around to tour the town much. We were on a quest to find housing, and prior research told us that nothing was available in Pouslbo (not in the price range we were looking for at least). I think it might have been Pouslbo where we ended up renting a storage locker to hold all her possessions. I'm not sure about that though. Pouslbo was kind of in the center of all the areas we were looking at for housing, and if I'm remembering correctly that's why we chose it (or somewhere very near to it) for the storage locker. We wanted a location where her stuff would at least be semi-conveniently located no matter where she ended up. We definitely liked the area from Silverdale north much better than south of Silverdale. Bremerton - at least the part of it where we found potential places to live - was not to my liking. It was ... a city. And reasonably priced housing in a city is usually not in an area where you'd want to live. At least not what we found in Bremerton. There may have been fine parts of it, but nothing my daughter could afford fell into that "fine part" description.

No. Bremerton wasn't the place to be. None of it is good. Really, neither was Silverdale. Poulsbo north is what anyone would want. I don't know the cost of homes there now. They were reasonable then they suddenly skyrocketed. Poulsbo is a beautiful little Norwegian town.