Harrell included some blunt criticisms of the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA), the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program, and two city council members.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell blasted homeless activists, county groups, and “inexperienced” city council members in meetings with police officers. He argues they’re getting in the way of his plan to remove encampments, implies he may pull funding from the regional homeless plan, and plans to back certain challengers to current councilmembers.
Harrell also criticized the bureaucracy. He said he personally experienced the hassle it created when he hoped to sweep a sidewalk downtown. He complained that he had to go from department to department to get a solution. It took too long, and departments weren’t all working in unison.The mayor has increased the number of encampment sweeps since becoming mayor, despite criticism from the KCRHA.
Harrell said he is trying to lobby the KCRHA to start conducting more sweeps. He vowed “to hold them accountable,” while wishing he had the investments back to spend on his own plan. “Quite candidly, although I have all due respect for Lisa Daugaard, I’m just not convinced that that is creating the outcomes we want,” he said.
“A couple of them… their resumes are quite thin. I say that as a nice way to say they’re inexperienced,” Harrell said while noting they’re now “smart enough to realize what the city wants” regarding the police.
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