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| Los Angeles criminalizes being homeless in the city |
| 2021-08-02 |
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Los Angeles, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s largest city, has over 66,000 unhoused people as of the last citywide count, a 12.7 percent increase over the previous year. After implementing the new rule, those thousands of homeless people will now face citations, fines, or misdemeanor charges for being homeless, The Independent reported. The Los Angeles City Council approved the legislation against the homeless people by 13-2 earlier this week. "That’s what it comes down to for me ... where can people go, where can people sleep when they do not have an alternative," council member Mike Bonin said in the meeting where they approved the ordinance. Bonin, who himself was homeless, was angry that the city only has shelter capacity to house about 39 percent of its unhoused population any given night. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. - Anatole France |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-08-02 08:57 |
| #3 Another gift of the judiciary striking down old vagrancy laws. The first steps on our road to decivilization. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-08-02 08:13 |
| #2 The Bird Feeder Analogy In Practice. Just like the analogy, the LA Bird Feeder, with a 21% illegal and growing 83,0000+ HOBO population maybe moving in the right direction? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2021-08-02 07:21 |
| #1 Time to fill up those hotels again. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2021-08-02 00:15 |