12 people arrested for feeding the homeless

[jnojr]

Nobody has passed a law against "feeding the hungry".

We have laws against illegal public assemblies (you cannot just take over public property for whatever cause you want), health, food handling (remember Hepatitis A, e. coli, salmonella, etc.?), sanitation (these "people" wind up very literally defecating and urinating out in the open) and all of the other ancillary problems the transients bring (garbage, fires, used drug paraphernalia, stolen property, aggressive panhandling, etc.)

The answer is NOT to incentivize more transients to come with shelters, food, services, beds, etc. The answer is to make staying here, even with the weather, so miserable that they'll choose to move on. Make it clear to them they will constantly be cited and their garbage removed and destroyed. Every time they start to colonize an area, clear it out. "But where will they go?" Don't know, just not here.

We cannot solve the problem, but we can solve our problem.

[LuvSouthOC]

Originally Posted by jnojr

Nobody has passed a law against "feeding the hungry".

We have laws against illegal public assemblies (you cannot just take over public property for whatever cause you want), health, food handling (remember Hepatitis A, e. coli, salmonella, etc.?), sanitation (these "people" wind up very literally defecating and urinating out in the open) and all of the other ancillary problems the transients bring (garbage, fires, used drug paraphernalia, stolen property, aggressive panhandling, etc.)

The answer is NOT to incentivize more transients to come with shelters, food, services, beds, etc. The answer is to make staying here, even with the weather, so miserable that they'll choose to move on. Make it clear to them they will constantly be cited and their garbage removed and destroyed. Every time they start to colonize an area, clear it out. "But where will they go?" Don't know, just not here.

We cannot solve the problem, but we can solve our problem.

This!