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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-29-10 01:03 PMOriginal message Crackdown on the homeless Local police have taken to the park to keep homeless people from sitting on the park benches. One officer told Mike, a homeless veteran, to pick up litter, earlier today. The cop said they might remove the park benches soon.Police now walk through the park and harass the homeless at least twice a day. "Mom," an elderly lady, said cops threw some homeless man to the ground and cuffed him yesterday, after accusing him of dealing drugs. No drugs were found in his possession.
Warpy (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-29-10 01:09 PMTHE DEFROCKED WARPED PRIMITIVE, #09 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009Response to Original message 1. Cops are under stress because budgets have been cut and their jobs are under the gun. While this doesn't excuse them for being thugs and bullies toward the citizens least able to fight back, it does allow us to understand where they're coming from and to try to deal with them if we spot this stuff.Local merchants think the homeless **** up the scenery and that's why their business is down. They're the real bad guys in this scenario, usually the ones who wail loudest for police to remove all those tacky people on benches and if that doesn't work, remove the benches so that no one will be able to stop and enjoy the park.It's just more of a string of utterly stupid and self defeating ideas because people on shopping trips who can't stop and rest are going to do a whole lot less shopping.Besides, the way this economy is going, merchants are in grave danger of joining the homeless sooner or later.If a homeless person is surrounded by litter and there's a reason to think he generated it, it's within the cop's job description to tell him to clean up after himself. However, hardassing them with the excuse of the drug war is not.
saigon68 (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-29-10 01:15 PMResponse to Reply #1 4. Obviously these cops have nothing better to do Ergo---- eliminate them and lower taxes
MineralMan (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-29-10 01:13 PMTHE ANTI-OSTEOPATHIC PRIMITIVEResponse to Original message 3. Sitting in This Park is Prohibited! Funny, except some places have actually implemented such rules. Even malls, these days, don't allow sitting on the nice benches they have there.I was once told to move on by a mall cop. I was sitting on a bench outside of the store where my wife was shopping. I told the mall cop to screw off and that I'd be leaving when my wife finished her shopping. He left.
anarch (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-29-10 01:20 PMResponse to Original message 5. I say raze all the parks to the ground, and cover the new vacant lots with broken glass or spikes or something, so as to assure that no homeless people might experience a modicum of comfort on the public dime.
And the bobbling primitive, the Nemesis of the Bostonian Drunkard, is nowhere to be seen here, nor on any of the other homeless campfires burning on Skins's island today.One wonders what's up with that.
How the hell could this be happening under the benevolent rule of Obama?
Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Tue Jul-27-10 02:58 AMOriginal message Hawaii's homeless to be sent back to US mainland Source: TelegraphHawaii's homeless to be sent back to US mainland The growing number of homeless people living on Hawaii's sun-kissed beaches is starting to concern local officials, who are considering offering them tickets back to the US mainland. Published: 7:00AM BST 27 Jul 2010A census taken earlier this year showed there were more than 4,000 homeless on the island. Officials fear homeless encampments on the beach could damage tourism, and they are considering several proposals that they say would help the homeless, while moving them from public view. The proposals include offering plane tickets to the mainland, creating a homeless "tent city" on less visible state land and providing more affordable housing in Honolulu, where rents are among the highest in the US. There were 4,171 homeless on the island of Oahu when a census was taken in January, according to the report released last month, an increase of 15 per cent from the same time last year. The most contentious of the proposals would use state money to fly the homeless back to wherever they came from, as long as they have family at the destination to take them in. Proponents say the program would cost far less money than what is spent on food stamps and welfare payments. Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandt...
