Pioneer Square workers uniformly want Schell's head. I interviewed a number of the latter last week. They're so freaked out after their horrible response to WTO that they don't know what to do. I think Paul Schell should resign. He thinks he's the mayor of Carnation.
Apologists cite the difficulty of pleasing everyone.
If someone's dying, act. It's really not rocket science. No politician produced the people who committed these crimes. But politicians' decisions can give violent kids the opportunity to act out on a mass scale. This isn't a question of ideology or my disliking developer kissy-kissy.