It’s way easier and (initially) cheaper to criminalize it and strut around saying you fixed the issue than actually dealing with the circumstances that cause the problem and roll out solutions that’ll only see result in the next election cycle.
I live in an area with extreme high homeless population but we’ve all noticed over the past year that homeless people who had become familiar faces for years, are no longer there. They’re simply gone. Many of us speculate there is an unpublicized “ICE” type of program but directed at the homeless, the homeless are abducted by appointed govt workers and taken to another location and goodness knows where that other location is or if they’re even still alive much longer after being taken off the streets. But lemme tell ya the streets at night have been a lot emptier & quieter the past year. 😐
It’s way easier and (initially) cheaper to criminalize it and strut around saying you fixed the issue than actually dealing with the circumstances that cause the problem and roll out solutions that’ll only see result in the next election cycle.
I live in an area with extreme high homeless population but we’ve all noticed over the past year that homeless people who had become familiar faces for years, are no longer there. They’re simply gone. Many of us speculate there is an unpublicized “ICE” type of program but directed at the homeless, the homeless are abducted by appointed govt workers and taken to another location and goodness knows where that other location is or if they’re even still alive much longer after being taken off the streets. But lemme tell ya the streets at night have been a lot emptier & quieter the past year. 😐
No need to speculate. Cities have literally been bussing homeless people away for decades.