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Kirkland homeless hotel plans prompts large employer to exit, raising community concerns

by Ryan Simms, KOMO News Mar 1, 2025

“The addition of a soon-to-be homeless hotel is causing one of Kirkland’s largest employers to move out of town.”

“INRIX CEO Bryan Mistele made the announcement on X.”

“This week INRIX signed a lease which will move us out of Kirkland which has been our home for the past 18 years,” he wrote. “Why? (Because) the City of Kirkland made a decision to put a homeless hotel right across the street from our current headquarters.”

“Mistele went on to claim that no drug testing would be required at the facility and there would be no real supervision on-site.”

“Where this experiment has happened before in King County, crime rates have risen since according to reliable data, 70%+ of homelessness is the result of drug addiction and/or mental health issues,” he then added.”

In his Twitter post he said he attended the City Council meeting to speak on the issue, but the city did not let anyone speak.

 

Are Puget Sound area newspeople forbidden to ask questions related to Homeland Security funding and performance?

Has a $51.6 billion (every 12 months) US Dept. of Homeland Security been able to create any shortage of cartel product in the Puget Sound area?

Has any newsperson ever asked questions on this?

 

From KOMO comments:

“I am a 20+ year law enforcement officer in WA. If you do not already know almost all of Washington’s homeless are drug addicts. The rest are severely mentally ill. 1% is due to financial reasons. The drug addicts will all tell you the only time they are off drugs is when they are in jail. This problem will never get better unless you arrest every dealer there is and cut off the flow of drugs or your incarcerate the users after they commit a crime and force treatment. The reason crime has skyrocketed in WA are these same people a study done by NY determined that there would be an 80% reduction in crime if you were able to arrest all the drug dealers. They determined drug addicts would either get clean because there were no more drugs locally or they would move to another location which did have drugs. Since we know they will never incarcerate people to get them off drugs we need law enforcement to arrest every single dealer we can find. Put as many officers as possible out there arresting dealers. Reassign officers to catching dealers. Taking officers from other areas like auto theft may sound stupid but it isn’t because the people stealing the cars are drug users. I have studied this topic for many years and I am out there everyday putting my money where my mouth is. I see a dealer I put him in jail no matter what the political agenda is. Please spread my message. This is the way.”

Related:

Seattle – January 24 Drug Bust

More here:

“…saturated in fentanyl, meth, and crack cocaine.”

Big Fentanyl Success Story

 

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Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

 

 

 

 

 

 

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