Trump wants to evict homeless from Washington

Landon Caeli · Sunday at 8:02 AM

Hans Blaster said:
If it is a city thing then city officials should make policy and face the city press. Trump brought this attention on himself by messing around in city policy.

Your points are valid, but it's also true that DC is a special kind of city, with ties to the federal government like no other.

...Unlike say, Boston for example, where I happen to be right now.

Hans Blaster · Sunday at 10:01 AM

Landon Caeli said:
Your points are valid, but it's also true that DC is a special kind of city, with ties to the federal government like no other.

...Unlike say, Boston for example, where I happen to be right now.

And that's why Trump gets attention for this. Those of us who aren't in Boston (and have never been there) are unlikely to care much about what Boston does or who even the mayor of Boston even is.

Perpetual Student · Sunday at 10:13 AM

Oompa Loompa said:
Get them off the street so they will nolonger become a threat to themselves or others, and put them in a secure facility where they can receive food, shelter, medical treatment, and addiction treatment before they are psychologically evaluated. After they are chemically clean and their phycological state is sound, they can then be released with strict probationary instructions. Kinda like what is happening now.

And will this happen by their will? Can they leave when they want?
Don't answer, there is one phrase that says it all: "they can then be released".

So, it's incarceration.

ozso · Sunday at 8:15 PM

ozso · Sunday at 9:11 PM

Hans Blaster said:
And that's why Trump gets attention for this. Those of us who aren't in Boston (and have never been there) are unlikely to care much about what Boston does or who even the mayor of Boston even is.

There's no way Trump could possibly get more attention. Even while he was out of the White House he was still headline news and talked about nonstop. And I'll bet after his term is over and he's a permanent ex-president, he will still constantly be in the news.

SavedByGrace3 · Sunday at 9:19 PM

The US needs to bring back the mental health clinics and institutions.
A decade after doing this, I suspect people would find a way to maintain their sanity rather than find themselves in an institution.

Pommer · Sunday at 9:59 PM

ozso said:

I’m no legal expert

or anything near, but I’m fairly certain that this could be considered a “seizure” under the 4th Amendment.
(It’s probably a legal seizure, too, if the people whose property it is, are compensated…by not going to jail. Winning!)

Pommer · Sunday at 10:01 PM

ozso said:
There's no way Trump could possibly get more attention. Even while he was out of the White House he was still headline news and talked about nonstop. And I'll bet after his term is over and he's a permanent ex-president, he will still constantly be in the news.

I’m old enought to remember going months without thinking about Donald Trump at all.
Oh, what halcyon days they were!

Pommer · Sunday at 10:04 PM

SavedByGrace3 said:
The US needs to bring back the mental health clinics and institutions.
A decade after doing this, I suspect people would find a way to maintain their sanity rather than find themselves in an institution.

One needn’t be “crazy” to live on the streets, just poor “enough”.

BCP1928 · Sunday at 10:07 PM

Where are these homeless people actually going? Are they being bussed somewhere? Are shelters available for them? Anecotal evidence I see on the news suggests that they are just wandering around in DC or making their own way into Maryland.

ozso · Sunday at 10:29 PM

Pommer said:
I’m no legal expert or anything near, but I’m fairly certain that this could be considered a “seizure” under the 4th Amendment.
(It’s probably a legal seizure, too, if the people whose property it is, are compensated…by not going to jail. Winning!)

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ralliann · Sunday at 10:44 PM

BCP1928 said:
The other thing we must do is stop treating homelessness as a moral issue. Then maybe we can entertain practical solutions.

It is a moral issue . Is ours as a society.

ralliann · Sunday at 10:46 PM

rjs330 said:
Is there an issue with pointing out someone's self control problem that is destroying their life?

And often others than themselves.

Gregory Thompson · Sunday at 10:53 PM

So people are making a Trump list. It's a list of everything Trump bulldozed through during his term in office.

Once a new administration is established they will systematically undo all of the things on the Trump list.

ozso · Sunday at 11:09 PM

BCP1928 said:
Where are these homeless people actually going? Are they being bussed somewhere? Are shelters available for them? Anecotal evidence I see on the news suggests that they are just wandering around in DC or making their own way into Maryland.

They're transients. They move from place to place. They're often asked by the police and property owners to take it elsewhere, so they're used to moving around.

ozso · Sunday at 11:12 PM

Gregory Thompson said:
So people are making a Trump list. It's a list of everything Trump bulldozed through during his term in office.

Once a new administration is established they will systematically undo all of the things on the Trump list.

Don't count on there being a Democrat administration next election. It seems more likely that JD Vance or Ron DeSantis will be the next president.

FaithT · Sunday at 11:17 PM

ozso said:
They're transients. They move from place to place. They're often asked by the police and property owners to take it elsewhere, so they're used to moving around.

Where do they get the money for drugs? I don’t know where these people live but we have a lot of beggars at the intersections of our major streets. They can’t be making much money.

Lost Witness · Sunday at 11:27 PM

John the Baptist lived in the wilderness.

ozso · Sunday at 11:29 PM

Pommer said:
One needn’t be “crazy” to live on the streets, just poor “enough”.

It's the homeless people causing problems that's the main issue. Mainly in the form of throwing litter all over the place, relieving themselves on the sidewalks and committing vandalism. Like the one who put one of these through my windshield a couple of days ago.

ozso · Sunday at 11:39 PM

FaithT said:
Where do they get the money for drugs? I don’t know where these people live but we have a lot of beggars at the intersections of our major streets. They can’t be making much money.

Actually people can make a lot of money panhandling.

And then there's plain old theft. That's why if you leave anything in your car, like a backpack, you'll come back to find your window smashed and your backpack missing. That's why I never leave anything visable in my car and sometimes leave my glove box hanging open. Some folks go as far leaving a car window rolled down to hopefully avoid one getting smashed.

Edit: Good grief now they're even stealing airbags in DC.

The guy who smashed my windshield a couple of days ago got caught immediately because I was parked right by a police station lol. It cost me $324 to replace it which is not so lol.

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