Redditors slowly starting to get it: r/unpopularopinion - I’ve lost a lot of tolerance for the homeless. Note that it took being in their face for years and affecting them personally to finally understand what's going on. Previous to thisyou're an istaphobe if you don't want to step over poop.

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[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Nope, the ACLU sued to close them all. Can't imprison people who have committed no crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Patricia_Brown

Basically, the ACLU and the usual left-wing suspects went to court to fight for her right to live in a subway grate and throw her feces at passerby.

They won.

[–]notafed 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

and then everyone wonders why there's been a massive uptick in "hostile architecture".

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's a number of crimes you could get them on. Drugs being one of the main ones.

If you sent the cops around to arrest the public drug users and masturbators and whatever you've got a crime to get them institutionalized on.

The non-offensive ones it's probably not effective to force them into institutions, though I think if you provided the option of going to a sanitarium over sleeping on the street many would take it.

The random bum that just wants to sleep on the street but otherwise doesn't do drugs, vandalize, or traumatize citizens in some way isn't a problem really. The problem is when you get loads of them and all the crazy ones.