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1. Not being in favor of adding MORE police is not equivalent to wanting to defund the police.
2. Recounting a story about the failings of our programs/policies that leads to people living in tents is not equivalent to thinking that "homeless should be allowed to create tent encampments wherever they want."[/quote]

1. The police force had already shrunk by hundred last year, in part because of Council policies from 2020 where they said they were explicitly shrinking the police force as part of the effort to defund the police. If the the police force gets shrunk part of a defund the police initiative, and you say you want to keep the force at defund levels, then yes, you're in favor of defunding the police.

[b]It's amazing how how after just a year or two activists are trying to run from the positions they had just been espousing. All the more reason why no one should trust them. When there current policy proposal end up creating a colossal mess, they're going to come back a few years from now and claim they never supported those either.[/b]

2. The first Tweet explicitly says "DC’s no-tent zones are a moral failure and a policy failure." Keep in mind that this is after more than 8,000 people were given vouchers (more than the entire homeless population), and D.C. built new shelters across the entire city, in addition to many other initiatives like affordable housing that D.C. has been ramping up. And all this has only made the problem worse.

Activists: Just do X and the homeless population will go away.

Citizens: We believed you and did X, and the homeless situation got dramatically worse.

Activists: That's because you didn't do Y, it's your fault, you should let the homeless set up encampments everywhere because this is on you.[/quote]

Where did the bolded happen?

And you don't dispute that the tweet does not say that people should be able to build tent encampments wherever they want, right?  [/quote]

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