• HubertManne
    link
    fedilink
    2422 days ago

    How are these sweeps allowed if there are no laws on the books not allowing the public camping?

    • @ironhydroxide
      link
      English
      3222 days ago

      Because cops don’t actually have to know the law, they can enforce what they believe the law to be.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      121 days ago

      The Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, is evicting any homeless on state land and heavily pressuring the cities to evict anyone on city land. He’s threatening their state funding if they don’t do it.

      There aren’t enough shelter beds though. This is possible because of trespassing laws and the recent SCOTUS decision wiping out a lower court order saying they needed more beds before they could do it.

      We’re going to have concentration camps in this country and it will be the homeless. That way we can keep blaming them for capitalism exploiting them right out of their homes. While we force them to work.

      • HubertManne
        link
        fedilink
        121 days ago

        seriously. Are shelter beds more expensive than prison beds? This makes no sense.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          321 days ago

          Less profitable. Which is what conservatives are trying to change by stigmatizing the homeless. Force them into shelters, force them into jobs. Anyone who resists goes into the prison system.