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A comment on “No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landmark Homelessness Ruling. Parent comment

Re:“No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landma... by bifrost on Sunday April 25, 2021 @07:34PM (#26937757)
Its not an incredibly small number of people exploiting the system, its 95% of people in this system.
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Re:“No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landma... by tomnipotent on Sunday April 25, 2021 @07:40PM (#26937806)
> its 95% of people in this system

Pulling numbers out of thin air doesn't make them true.

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Re:“No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landma... by bifrost on Sunday April 25, 2021 @08:01PM (#26937935)
That number came from an expert.

They also asserted that if our local DA actually did something about dealing on the streets we'd lose that same number of homeless people and they'd return to wherever they came from before SF, or go to Oakland. SF has turned itself into an "attractive nuisance" due to our unchecked open air drug markets.

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Re:“No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landma... by tomnipotent on Sunday April 25, 2021 @08:28PM (#26938103)
> That number came from an expert.

I'm sure it did, and it's not just completely made up with absolutely no corroborating evidence to back it up.

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