I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was called

Re:I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was ... by xyzzyz on Thursday May 12, 2022 @11:35PM (#31363007)

> Do you think cops should be responsible for finding homeless people homes? You can't just throw them all in jail.

We used to do just that, and it worked just fine.

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Re:I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was ... by honkycat on Friday May 13, 2022 @12:26AM (#31363319)

We have never done that.

It is also extraordinarily expensive to do that.

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Re:I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was ... by xyzzyz on Friday May 13, 2022 @02:08AM (#31363925)

Yes, we had and enforced vagrancy laws. It didn’t use to be expensive.

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Re:I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was ... by cafard on Friday May 13, 2022 @06:13AM (#31365403)

Vagrancy laws were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court almost 40 years ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/05/03/s.... A bit of reflection will suggest the possibilities of abuse under them.

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Re:I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was ... by xyzzyz on Friday May 13, 2022 @02:11PM (#31370822)

Indeed, but a bit of observation shows me the abuse that happens without them.

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Re:I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was ... by cafard on Saturday May 14, 2022 @09:36PM (#31384470)

Perhaps if you were poorer or of a disfavored ethnic group, observation would show you the abuse that happens with them.

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Re:I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was ... by boppo1 on Friday May 13, 2022 @06:26AM (#31365519)

Find them homes or throw em all in the clink?

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