Seattle is Dying | A KOMO News Documentary

Caption notes

KOMO’s documentary builds a policy argument from selected accounts by Seattle residents, business owners and police officers. It turns to Rhode Island to describe how addiction treatment in custody was linked to community services after release. The narration sums up its takeaway as “enforcement and intervention” and imagines a facility in the Seattle area that people could not freely leave. That facility is the film’s proposal. This guide follows how the documentary moves from interviews and individual cases to that proposal. Its causal claims about crime, housing and drug use, and its figures on treatment outcomes, have not been independently checked.