‘Empathy gone wrong’: Former city attorney says Seattle should follow San Francisco’s tougher approach to drug use

San Francisco’s mayor signed legislation to arrest drug users and put them in the city’s Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation, and Triage (RESET) Center, ABC 7 reported Tuesday.

Former Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison told “The John Curley Show” on KIRO Newsradio that she liked the idea and urged lawmakers in Seattle to use police power to clean up the streets.

“It isn’t arresting your way out of it, but you have to say accountability is a different form of compassion,” she said. “When someone is not able to be their own guardrails for their own behavior, what they’re doing to themselves, to the public, in our shared resources, when they cannot be that for themselves, we should give a damn.”…

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