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Reviewed by Alicia DeBerry for Readers' Favorite
Is there a way to help the downtrodden in our society and keep everyone safe? David Lloyd Atkinson makes this a reality in Secure, Washington. Best-selling author George Stoltz recounts the story of the creation of the city of Secure. It is the city's 10th anniversary. He interviews the people responsible for launching the citizen initiative I-1719 that helped create a place that is part prison and part convention to help the misfit citizens. A misfit citizen is classified as a repeat criminal convict, people suffering from severe mental illness with no means of support, and the homeless, but only those who volunteer to go. We get his personal experience of Secure and a before-and-after synopsis of the Seattle and Puget Sound region.
Secure, Washington is an amazing book that readers who enjoy political, legal, urban, social issues, and realistic fiction will love. David Lloyd Atkinson did a great job of helping readers understand how the initiative process works. One theme became clear: politics does not start with electing the president. It's the citizens with state-by-state, local-level movements that affect the policies, and it is not accomplished overnight. He highlights the social issues of mental illness, drugs, homelessness, and crime and their immediate and long-term effects on society. I loved the documentary flow. As we went through each interview, more details of how political movements get on the ballot to get voted in were revealed. I was left with an understanding of how the world runs.
