The suggestion that some of Norwich’s homeless have made their own choice to live on the streets is often met with disbelief and derision. “Absolute rubbish” and a “bigoted horrible suggestion.” But the homeless I spoke to insisted the decision to sleep rough was largely made of their own volition.

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Being issued a begging notice is hardly "being chased". There are ample resources for their survival; begging is not needed.

But there is this pervasive narrative that the police are always bad, the homeless are never to blame for anything, and logic and facts are rejected in favor of woke nonsense. I get it.