Let the insane out of the asylums and turn them loose in the streets. Pay lip service to helping people by giving them clean needles and feeding them and letting them camp in the park/streets/vacant lots. What did these people expect to have happen? Crazy people will act like, well, crazy people. Angry crazy people are even more dangerous. Angry crazy people on drugs are a quantum leap in mayhem.
As usual, the liberal feelgood solutions aren't solutions at all, but only encourage and reward behaviour which is finally reaching the point in places where it is unbearable.
Time for a sea change in how the problem is dealt with.
Thankfully, here, we have Winter, which severely limits the average street crowd. The churches, the Salvation Army, and others can help those who want to get back on their feet, and there are jobs to be had as well.
However, in Leftist/Liberal Amerika, I keep reading how things aren't so good.