Mayor Wilson says there has been no change in policy. This will be a pretty intense narrative fight between Solan and Wilson over the next four years.

SPOG President, Mike Solan: "The recent naive, ignorant political decision to not arrest offenders for open drug use in the City of Seattle is horrifically dangerous and will create more death and societal decay. It embodies an enormous flaw in those in our community who think that meeting people where they are who are in the throes of addiction, is the correct path to lift them up. This is wrong and is commonly referred to as “Suicidal Empathy.” Most cops know that the LEAD program supports this ideology and they don’t want to refer cases. It is a waste of time. We’ve all seen how our streets can be filled with death, decay, blight and crime when ideology like this infects our city. Now with this resurrected insane direction, death, destruction and more human suffering will be supercharged".