Faux compassion is only worsening homeless crisis

Oh my, scary!

 

Oh the politics of fear.
Cute, but nonsense

 

It would be worse than Yemen

 

Starving people are not polite

 

Scary, really

 

You would be happy to go to Syria for vacation

 

Why not jut have a hunting license, for controlling the human population. You right wingers would enjoy finally being able to use your guns like they were designed.

 

It us hilarious that these guys have no clue what would happen

 

No, just let em starve.
Maybe they'll prepare themselves in their next life

 

Yeah....they will just die quietly. Lol

Mass mobs of rioters everywhere

 

They're too drugged up emaciated

 

Nope. America would be a war zone

 

The guy who said I don't know what I am talking about is backing his claim with "I talked to lawyers!" I have real live experience, but I am no match for someone who had a conversation with a Social Security employee and a lawyer!

The next time you speak to that lawyer, ask why the number of those on disability is skyrocketing and how this can happen if it is difficult to get?

 

Good post but I said 'one of the reasons' was the mood of the time and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' definitely had a social impact.

And the closing of these facilities crossed party lines as fewer people were admitted over decades. Yes, the expense of housing these people was great but too often the budget was allocated to other areas that offered cosmetic changes but didn't consider the source problem. Free housing won't help those with mental disorders; often they just walk away to the streets again to be with their new friends in familiar surroundings.

Now we're all paying the social costs of ignoring these people, as well as those who suffer from this abuse the most. |Too many politicians build walls around their homes, and minds, in order to avoid decision making and subsequent controversies.

 

Actually no. Housing first often works best on the mentally ill

 

So one of the issues is that there was also a restriction on people being involuntarily committed, including a supreme court ruling in addition to a MASSIVE decrease in institutional space. Combine that with many communities being unwilling or unable to fund mental health services for those in need in their community and suddenly you have people who previously would have been treated for mental illness going without services.

Additionally because it is cheaper to jail, many communities jail individuals with bad problems, instead of getting them the treatment they need.

So, as was said earlier, there is no simple fix. There has to be a large committment by the community to provide treatment for those who need it. Job placement and housing placement for those who want it. After that you should only have the small number of individuals who are homeless by choice. But this requires far more work and realistically money to deal with then most communities will spend. America has always been a have our cake and eat it to society, now we are having the problems associated with underfunding services come back to bite us.

 

It is far far far more expensive to jail the homeless

 

Yes, they invented a term "Chronic homelessness" and came up with a 91% success rate for that specific group. Shelters are still overflowing on cold days.

 

Yes they have eliminated long term homelessness .

Why do you hate their success?

 

There really doesn't need to be much nuance at the forefront of the process.
- comply with the law or be subject to the penalties of law
- those reaching the bar of arrest can be placed in temp. facilities outside of the city


where triage of services can be determined. At no point should the law be subjectively meted out due to a situational sense of futility or exceptions made based on emotion. Sorry, that's the harsh reality of having/striving for a 'blind' & impartial justice system.
(living on the streets / homelessness & being a law abiding citizen are NOT mutually exclusive, btw)

 

population is graying duh.

 

thank god

 

Meaningful change doesn't come without effort & sacrifice. What U might not be taking into consideration is the cost to the economy, the local businesses, the exodus from the community (people like myself) who realize too late the depreciation, the working class employees and owners having to move out of the area due to < tourism and employment. The "unintended consequences" of turning a blind eye and having a double set of LE / Justice standards is more fundamentally deleterious to our society than your cursory glance might indicate.

Let me reiterate here...

Many who have accumulated enough warnings, ticketed fines & / or reaching the threshold of arrest should be taken off the streets processed & triaged for the purview of services that might be required. Sheriff Joe Arpaio's (AZ tent cities) controversial vis a' vis punitive methods and degradation, however, the model of the actual layout would work quite well in SoCal.

 

HEre it is. People gonna try to live ONE MOAR DAY. And first off, it is immoral to make that harder, but it is dangerous, to make that harder.

PEriod. Penny wise pound foolish.

 

Guyzilla, I submit that U're making some rather wild 'leaps' in drawing your conclusions, lol.
- what part of affirming the universal & blind application of the law & triaged rendering of tax payer services PRN, leads U to conclude that there is any validity to what U are asserting here...?