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Kalamazoo, Michigan business owners are furious after city leaders voted to decriminalize public urination, defecation and littering among other offenses, all under the guise of "equitable changes."
Becky Bil and Cherri Emery spoke with "Fox & Friends First" host Todd Piro on Thursday, relaying their concerns about the devastating impacts that could result.
"I don't have a horrible time outside my shop particularly… but my neighbor has had human feces outside his door," Bil said. The Pop City Popcorn co-owner also stressed her neighboring store owner's struggle with an increase in littering, a struggle she says continues despite ambassadors coming to the area to help clean up.
Well, if it were here, we would "recall" the city commission members and then elect those that supported sanity as they did with some other issues here that people disagreed with.
This will destroy the city. I wonder if they have a fine for not picking up doggie poo as many cities do have a fine for that.
Anyone that urinates and poops on the city sidewalk is either stoned, drunk or mentally ill, so they should be put out of public sight.
It’s really bad for business when people have to walk by human poop in order to enter a store or restaurant which is also bad for sales tax revenue. It makes no sense to decriminalize these kinds of things.
Curious.......what are the gun laws like there? Are we looking at a situation where the elected officials are doing anything they want because they don't fear violent reprisals? That they will always be out of range of how far the sh*t can fly?
No one’s ever been on a walk home from a bar and had to pi$$ in an alleyway? Should people get criminal charges for that? Being homeless sucks too. You can’t just make homelessness illegal and expect the problem to go away. People need proper mental health and addiction support and access to affordable housing and a living wage
No one’s ever been on a walk home from a bar and had to pi$$ in an alleyway? Should people get criminal charges for that? Being homeless sucks too. You can’t just make homelessness illegal and expect the problem to go away. People need proper mental health and addiction support and access to affordable housing and a living wage
If you are the business owner who had the front door of your business peed on, I think you’d care as you’re hosing it off in the morning. Even worse when you’re cleaning up human poop.
You can’t make homelessness illegal but you can expect people to take some measures to pick up after themselves and not completely trash public areas without any consequences.
There are a lot of resources available but you can’t force people to access them. If someone doesn’t want to get clean, it doesn’t matter how many free programs you offer them. If someone prefers living on the streets so they don’t have to work and can do drugs all day every today, affordable housing won’t help.
The people who want help will take advantage of these programs and I am glad we have them for those who need them.
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