DA Sues Sacramento Over 'Collapse Into Chaos'

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DA Sues Sacramento Over 'Collapse Into Chaos'
Story by Newser •
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ASacramento prosecutor is suing California's capital city over its failure to clean up homeless encampments. Sacramento District Attorney Thien Ho says his office asked the city to enforce laws around sidewalk obstruction and to create additional professionally operated camping sites. He announced the suit Tuesday during a news conference in Sacramento. Ho said the city is seeing a "collapse into chaos" and an "erosion of every day life," the AP reports. Sacramento County had nearly 9,300 homeless people in 2022, based on data from the annual Point in Time count. That was up 67% from 2019. Roughly three-quarters of the county's homeless population is unsheltered.
 
Homeless tent encampments have grown visibly in cities across the US but especially in California, which is home to nearly one-third of unhoused people in the country. The prosecutor had threatened in August to file charges against city officials if they didn't implement changes within 30 days. At the time, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg said Ho was politicizing the issue instead of being a partner with the city. Ho, elected in 2022 after vowing on the campaign trail to address the city's homelessness crisis, said he's asked the city to share real-time data about available shelter beds with law enforcement.

"This is a rare opportunity ... for us to effectuate meaningful, efficient means of getting the critically, chronically unhoused off the streets," Ho said. Ho said he supports a variety of solutions including enforcement of existing laws and establishing new programs to provide services to people facing addiction or mental health issues. He said he supports a statewide bond measure that would go toward building more treatment facilities. Voters will weigh in on that measure next year. Ho's news conference included testimony from residents who say the city is not providing resources to deal with homelessness.

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[Kamaji]

Sometimes, you do actually get what you voted for.

[Smokin Joe]

The curse of a pleasant climate year-round.

[PeteS in CA]

Sacramento is not in the SF Bay Area. Summer temps are usually in the 90s, except when temps are in the low 100s. While less hot than Arizona's Valley of the Sun, the Sacramento and American Rivers (which come together in Sacramento) bump up the humidity.

Sacramento is different from SF, in that many Sacred Homeless largely do their encampments on the trails and in the parks along the Sacramento and American Rivers instead of on sidewalks. One can literally look along the rivers using GoogMaps Satellite View and see the tarps and bum trash of encampments. They trash up the parks and trails, urinate and crap into the rivers - or wherever they roam - and they roam into neighborhoods near the parks and trails, stealing, crapping, and assaulting (not all do criminal stuff, but it's not SPD's and SCSD's job to sort out who does and does not).