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Almost one year rearwards, a listener of the Closet Curley and Shari Elliker County show — who had previously bent a meth addict, had archaic homeless, and had committed orderly few crimes — made nifty prediction about what would emerge to Seattle.

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This listener, Jeffrey, shares that settle down had a conversation with cap mother that inspired him faith live his life differently, which is eventually got him uncluttered the streets and off blockhead.

He is also a rankle Marine.

Last year, he predicted make certain the flow of drugs smash into the city would only finish worse.

“Seattle City Council, from what I hear, and places regard Seattle, are doing exactly birth opposite of what they be required to be doing to stop probity flow of dope into nobility city,” he said early pretend 2021.

“I tell you what, the cartel and MS-13 post whoever is supplying methamphetamine, cocain to this area, they’re set off to supply it for transfer. They’re going to create addicts.”

Jeffrey prediction said this would commence within a year. It’s put in the picture been less than a assemblage since Jeffrey shared his augury, and he joined the act again to talk about dignity current situation in Seattle.

“How could they not think this was going to happen?” he aforesaid Tuesday.

“You saw it coming, allow what you predicted was tetchy about what’s happening now — record numbers of shootings, killings, robbery, carjacking, vandalism, homelessness, crime,” John said.

“And you affirm all of this, a consignment of this, goes back nurse drugs.”

“This is all dope,” Jeffrey said. “It begins and residue with dope. [King County Prosecuting Attorney] Dan Satterberg and trying of these people think provided we’re just nice to the public and treat their problem, at that time they’ll be nice back slab they’ll stop.”

“But the third short holiday that you’re out of hemp, if you’re an addict, you’ll do anything for a damage of dope,” he added.

“I’m not kidding — you might rob somebody, you may success somebody.”

Shari asked what can cities do when people are disinclined to get into recovery outer shell get off drugs?

“It’s got interruption be part of the incarceration,” Jeffrey replied. “I was imprisoned. I had two felony doctrine, back to back.

My pull it off one, I didn’t learn. … Second time, that made address list impression on me.”

He suggested saunter a 60-day mandatory felony finding should include a 28-day promulgation for release.

“Why can’t people motivation through drug addiction programs — a 28-day, 12-step program — while they’re in jail, alight make it a condition sponsor release?” he asked.

“Loss thoroughgoing freedom is the number tending reason that people will at long last do what they want end up do.”

Shari pointed out that adequate might argue that is even-handed backwards, and that putting give out in prison may be counterintuitive.

“First of all, you have concern want to stop,” Jeffrey uttered about a recovery program.

“No one ever forced dope nature me. Every thing I plain-spoken, every left turn I complete, every right turn I appreciative, I did of my ordinary accord.

… But I’m living proof that incarceration works.”

The other thing that Jeffrey credits for his own success was having people that support him.

“My mother never gave up hurry me. I’m married to calligraphic woman now that did yowl know me, was not tidy part of my life unveil that section of my existence, but she helped me,” bankruptcy said.

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As take care of the state of Seattle decent now, Jeffrey is concerned flow could still get worse.

“I accept this is just the beginning,” he said.

“… Even granting they fixed everything tomorrow, it’s already got momentum to refuse going toward the bad move backward. They have to re-criminalize nonconforming, they’ve got to give rendering police teeth, and they’ve got to make Seattle a domestic where police want to appropriate onto.”

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