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East Hill residents urge tougher response to crime and different approach to shelters during public comment
Summary
Two Kent residents used the council’s public comment period to link rising crime, business closures and homelessness, calling for treatment-or-jail options, more visible policing and relocation of shelters to county-level facilities for long-term rehab.
Two East Hill residents used the council’s public comment period on Sept. 2 to press the council for stronger responses to crime and to criticize local shelter siting and homelessness policy.
Pauline Harry, who identified herself as a 37-year Kent resident, argued that government funding has enabled chronic drug addiction and called for compulsory choices for people she described as enabling neighborhood crime. “I'm advocating evaluation for these people and that people be given 2 choices, either enter treatment or go to jail,” she told the council, and urged the city to consider an article she said would “end the homeless…
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