They’re gonna use this to jail and subjugated the unhoused populations aren’t they?
I mean, I don’t disagree with the principle (haven’t read it to see if it’s actually feasible though).
Either a homeless person suffering from addiction and mental health issues seeks help, and gets better, or they can’t get better and go to prison where they are sheltered and fed and kept off the streets where they probably would die in a few years anyways, or commit a crime that may harm someone and go to prison anyways?
It depends if the state is willing to pay for that help, because if not it’s just a law to shuttle everyone into prison.
Federal courts have already ruled that you can’t throw people in jail for being homeless, so I don’t see that happening. The headline mentions treatment which doesn’t have to be in-patient necessarily.
I’m definitely on the fence here as I’m no fan of authoritarianism, but on the other hand I’m no fan of homeless meth addicts living in a clapped out RV on the side of the road, stealing catalytic converters by night and standing in the road shouting at cars by day. Something has to give here as people like this have been taking advantage of this messy situation.
Federal courts have already ruled that you can’t throw people in jail for being homeless,
No, that doesnt stop them from making up some bullshit charge though. This is America, afterall.
