Seattle in 1995 was a blue-collar city built on Boeing, coffee, and pragmatism. Thirty years later it became a cautionary tale — record homicides, a police department at 1970s staffing levels, major retailers fleeing downtown, and open-air drug markets on the streets. This episode traces exactly how it happened: the tech boom that priced out the working class, the radical progressive politics that rushed in to fill the void, and the CHOP zone summer that broke the city’s relationship with its own police department. Seattle tried a course correction — and then voted for a democratic socialist to undo it.