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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Police are usually held back from enforcing all laws by the city government. They get in trouble for huge raids or roundups. Plenty of reasons why: don't want jails full of petty criminals, breaking up families, drugs are often a mental health issue, don't want to put money into other services to stop the poverty cycle, on and on.

I had a homeless man who used to threaten everyone on our block. He'd throw stuff at us, flash us, go through our trash and mail, and piss on our doorsteps. Cops told me they wouldn't do anything about him. My roommates and I got sick of it, didn't feel safe and moved out. I guarantee if a middle class man did any of that, he'd be arrested. [/quote]
So people think a surge of military will solve this?  I will say though that after the fact the military will find ways to twist numbers and data and charts to show that yes, since they increased their presence, the number of antagonistic homeless men increased to twenty, but there are not twenty-one, so technically the surge to the neighborhood was a success.  Now increase the military’s funding![/quote]

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