Berkeley, Targeting Homeless, Proposes Ban on Sidewalk Sitting - NYTimes.com

ErasmusMRA · 2012-10-20T18:26:54+00:00

In case it's not obvious, 75-90% of homeless are men (depending on how it's defined). This law essentially criminalizes homeless, which are mostly men, and you can be sure that selective enforcement is to follow. I'm against such bad laws.

Bro_Sephiroth · 2012-10-20T19:05:47+00:00

What. The fuck. Do they expect them to do about it? Stop being homeless? Sleep in dumpsters so people don't have to look at them?

I guess they could round them up and throw them in jail, at least they would get to eat in there.

Or, here's a thought, instead of pumping that money into the prisons to keep them housed, use that money to open and maintain a shelter. But that's crazy. Spending money to support men? Fuck that!

Bartab · 2012-10-20T19:01:47+00:00

Yeah except Berkely, the most liberal city this side of SRS dream transutopia, is not banning sidewalk sitting because of homelessness. They're doing it because potheads, some of whom happen to be homeless, sit in the main city retail business district all day every day.

San Francisco did the same.

Article clearly has an editorial slant disconnected from reality that's been transferred to this posting.

chavelah · 2012-10-20T23:29:23+00:00

At last count, Berkeley had some 680 homeless people, far exceeding the 135 beds available year-round in local emergency shelters.

That seems like a pretty easy problem to solve. Provide enough shelter, and anybody who chooses to sleep on the street regardless ends up spending the night in a cell (or being admitted to a mental health facility, which is probably what most of them need).

I mean, 680 people? This a not a large-scale homeless problem. But issuing citations to people who can't pay them is probably not going to be an effective measure - to say nothing of how cruel it is.

C0CKPUNCHER · 2012-10-20T16:42:54+00:00

Stolen from truereddeit.

Title	Berkeley, Targeting Homeless, Proposes Ban on Sidewalk Sitting - NYTimes.com
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