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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Enforce drug and vagrancy rules[/quote]

We've been enforcing laws for hundreds of years and that hasn't worked.[/quote]

I disagree. Things deteriorated last year when the police understaffing hit a critical mass and when council made it impossible to enforce certain laws and made it clear they didn’t care and would prefer to pander to the insecure but loud minority [/quote]

Can you show me some data that backs that up? Lots of disinformation and dramatization out there.[/quote]

Uh, murders way up, carjacking way up, retail theft way up, tents popping up everywhere and no place to go downtown without getting accosted. You tell me.[/quote]

I don't find I get accosted as I did in the 90s. In the 90s a lot of the panhandlers were men in their 20s who were intimidating. Now they are just really disturbed mentally ill who should be in hospitals. But they leave me alone unless you count strewinf garbage and human refuse all around the sidewalk. It's awful in a different way. I guess the tent cities have a lot of criminal behavior and you might get accosted there, so I am glad the mayor is clearing those. They should clear every tent as soon as it goes up [/quote]

I'm surprised.  I don't remember getting accosted in the 90s.  Some of the panhandlers who were coke/crack addicts would come up with some really over-complicated scam that they tried to sell you on (I lost my wallet, and I've got to get the North Carolina to help my sick grandma who is in hpspice and I tried to call my brother but his phone is broken so he can't get there and.....).  But I've had a few incidents recently with the really disturbed mentally ill where they were yelling threatening things at me because they imagined I had done something I hadn't.  And there was one woman who ran up and tried to punch me, but lucky for me (and not for her) she was so out of it that she missed by quite a bit.  I'm really not sure what the solution is for people that are that far out of it.  Institutionalization is probably necessary.

I'm also not sure the Mayor is actually clearing the tent encampments.  Aren't they just moving around?  They closed the one at Franklin Park and it looks like most of them just moved over to McPherson Square.  [/quote]

Of course people who refuse housing will move around. But it's a step in the right direction to offer resources and close camps. Now the council should be making hospitalization not optional, rather than declaring more protections on doing WTF you feel like in you incapacitated state[/quote]

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