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> Do you think cops should be responsible for finding homeless people homes? You can't just throw them all in jail. We used to do just that, and it worked just
by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Do you think cops should be responsible for finding homeless people homes? You can't just throw them all in jail.
We used to do just that, and it worked just fine.
- honkycat 4y agoWe have never done that. It is also extraordinarily expensive to do that.
- xyzzyz 4y agoYes, we had and enforced vagrancy laws. It didn’t use to be expensive.
- cafard 4y agoVagrancy laws were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court almost 40 years ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/05/03/supreme-court-strikes-down-vagrancy-law/a3fc2b52-f0f2-4f42-82a0-0b64836fe685/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/05/03/s.... A bit of reflection will suggest the possibilities of abuse under them.
- boppo1 4y agoFind them homes or throw em all in the clink?