“So cities are hampered in doing anything because, unless they can cite homeless for committing some other crimes, police will be impotent to deal with problems created by homeless.”
So ordinances against vagrancy are unconstitutional?
I’ve heard there have been court cases on the subject. Laws against vagrancy have to be written very specifically and enforced in certain ways, is what I’ve heard.
Given that so many cities have homeless camps, set up by homeless wherever they want to go, I have to believe that officials are told they can’t just break up these encampments.