“actually vote in some supervisors/a mayor who will not allow drug abuse, dealing, or holding in public.”
The ACLU sued Ft. Collins, Co. and won in a case about pan-handlers. The police can no longer run them off. They’re everywhere now in Northern Colorado.
“The ACLU sued Ft. Collins, Co. and won in a case about pan-handlers.”
I have mixed feelings about panhandling. I’d like the freedom to ask someone, in public, for something (whether money, food, directions, a job, an opinion. . .). As long as it is not threatening or aggressive I tend to think it should be legal. Freedom of speech, expression.
But public drunkenness, public urination and defecation, public intoxication on any substance, threatening behavior, sleeping in public doorways or sidewalks unless felled by a sudden medical condition. . . I’d like to see laws against these things punishable with serious jail time.