San Francisco Judges Dismiss 66,000 Arrest Warrants Against The City’s Homeless

[rangerrebew]

San Francisco Judges Dismiss 66,000 Arrest Warrants Against The City’s Homeless
December 12, 2016 | True Activist | www.trueactivist.com | 89 views


by Whitney Webb

The United States, despite often advertising itself as the world’s “most developed” nation, has a major problem with homelessness, with approximately 3.5 million currently living with no place to call home. Even though vacant houses outnumber the nation’s homeless by more than five to one, most of them end up sleeping in public places or out in the street. In cities around the country, the homeless are frequently criminalized as are those who offer them food and other forms of human kindness. Despite the widespread maltreatment of the homeless, judges in San Francisco have been dismissing thousands upon thousands of arrest warrants targeting the homeless because “it was the right thing to do.”

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/san-francisco-judges-dismiss-66000-arrest-warrants-against-the-citys-homeless_122016

[Fishrrman]

All this will do is encourage -more- homelessness in S.F., because those going there know that they won't be arrested or prosecuted.

But hey -- I don' mind.
Let them San Franciscans enjoy their company and the ambience they bring along with 'em...

[Oceander]

Query:  she compares US homelessness to other countries, at least implicitly.  But she doesn't take account of the degree to which other countries have stronger rules than the US does that allow people to be confined against their will if they appear sick.  One of the reasons for homelessness is that it is very hard to hold someone against their will if they are not a present danger to themselves or others, no matter how sick they obviously are.