What are you thinking, Seattle?

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Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>What are you thinking, Seattle?</h1>
                <h2><p>Homeless people should not be able to camp on public property — at least according to the 56 percent of Seattleites surveyed in a KIRO7 TV poll. Of survey respondents, 35 percent said the homeless should be able to camp on public property and 10 percent said they “didn’t know.</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Feb 6, 2018</time></p>
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            <p>Homeless people should not be able to camp on public property — at least according to the 56 percent of Seattleites surveyed in a KIRO7 TV poll. Of survey respondents, 35 percent said the homeless should be able to camp on public property and 10 percent said they “didn’t know.”The poll, released late Wednesday, also surveyed city residents about other hot-button issues. Asked whether more social services for the mentally ill or more aggressive policing would reduce crime in Seattle, 58 percent of respondents said social services, 32 percent said more aggressive policing and 10 percent said they didn’t know. Other questions touched-on home grown marijuana, speed cameras and whether police are enforcing the law. The full poll results<a href="http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/kiro-7-poll-what-do-seattleites-think-about-cops-p/nbQKW/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org"> are posted on KIRO 7’s website</a>. — B.L.</p>
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Homeless people should not be able to camp on public property — at least according to the 56 percent of Seattleites surveyed in a KIRO7 TV poll. Of survey respondents, 35 percent said the homeless should be able to camp on public property and 10 percent said they “didn’t know.”The poll, released late Wednesday, also surveyed city residents about other hot-button issues. Asked whether more social services for the mentally ill or more aggressive policing would reduce crime in Seattle, 58 percent of respondents said social services, 32 percent said more aggressive policing and 10 percent said they didn’t know. Other questions touched-on home grown marijuana, speed cameras and whether police are enforcing the law. The full poll results are posted on KIRO 7’s website. — B.L.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi