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Seattle City Council is rightfully being criticized by their city attorney, their business community, and most of their residents for failing to adopt a drug ordinance consistent with state law. A drug ordinance would have explicitly allowed Seattle’s City Attorney to prosecute drug possession crimes in Seattle that have recently been classified as gross misdemeanors under state law.
Seattle City Council recently voted 5-4 not to pass a drug ordinance, and one of those who voted against it wrote an entry on a Seattle City Council blog attempting to explain the decision. The explanation ignores the fact that drug possession has been demoted from a felony to a gross misdemeanor, and therefore now falls under the authority and responsibility of a city to enforce it. In their argument the Seattle City Council reveals that they are unwilling to spend the resources necessary to enforce gross misdemeanors in their city, and instead expect all the residents of King County to pick up the tab for them.
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