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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 fine.



We have never done that.

It is also extraordinarily expensive to do that.


Yes, we had and enforced vagrancy laws. It didn’t use to be expensive.


Vagrancy laws were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court almost 40 years ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/05/03/s.... A bit of reflection will suggest the possibilities of abuse under them.


Indeed, but a bit of observation shows me the abuse that happens without them.


Perhaps if you were poorer or of a disfavored ethnic group, observation would show you the abuse that happens with them.


Find them homes or throw em all in the clink?




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