Seattle wants city’s police to crack down on drug users in effort to save downtown

The blocks at the center of Seattle’s drug crisis are surrounded by everything that should be driving the city’s economic recovery. Just west of the fishmongers at Pike Place Market and the tourists lined up at the original Starbucks, the streets for years were marked by squalor: boarded-up doorways, littered sidewalks and open drug use.

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