Posted on 03/02/2023 10:45:55 AM PST by Olog-hai
The “privilege” of public order, how nice.
So they bus them to other locations, lol.
In the eighties St. Pete decided to revitalize their downtown. The first thing they did was eliminate the homeless by arresting them, taking them to the processing center at the extreme north of the city then “discovering” they had nothing to hold them on and letting them go. The closest city was Clearwater. So, the homeless would walk to Clearwater. There was a lawsuit by Clearwater in progress when I left to stop this. When I went to visit a decade later the downtown looked amazing. There were lights, outdoor planters and outdoor cafes and businesses. I stopped and asked the clerk in an ice-cream shop with outdoor tables if there was a homeless problem. He said that the police patrols were constant and there were homeless, but the cops knew who they were, and all the cops would do is nod at them and the homeless would keep going without hassling the customers. The downtown area went from something resembling Detroit to something resembling a rich tourist area. Not one building was empty and all seemed to be prosperous. None of this would be possible with the homeless hassling the customers.
Amazing what you can do when you actually try to DO something.
This is a city for elites only. Those who serve them daily drive the Silver Strand or go over on the bridge. No one would dare disturb them.
Yeah...they find places where it’s easy. Around here, they’d just shrug and say “Arrest me.” And they won’t.
I lived in Coronado, I think I was the only local in my age group that still had a driver’s license, somehow I didn’t get busted that night of driving our orange van down the sidewalks.
People trying to exit the restaurants sure seemed startled before they jumped out of the way.
That reminds me, watching how the police in La Jolla dealt with the homeless, which was aggressively, I wonder if they are still relatively homeless-free.
Yup. Last I heard, locally, they were talking about opening up a park at the north end of town to “camping.” There’s a big bridge to jump off of, if suicide is your goal, but otherwise, it’s probably too far from “ services,” for many. In the plus column, it’s a park where the lib cyclists stop when they get to town. They could go in there to rest and relax, and see the results of their handiwork. Maybe got robbed.
Well now that the mayor has bragged on tv, the lawyers will be suing in 3, 2, 1...
When I was growing up in Santa Barbara in the late ‘70s - early ‘80s they too had an aggressive approach to the lawless homeless. The county Sheriff would round them up (usually by the “fig tree”) and drop them off at the Ventura county line 25 miles away. Since the city of Ventura was only 2-3 miles from the county line they just went there instead. Brilliant plan.
Now that the SB city council is full of left wing bleeding hearts and psychos, when I visit my family there I can’t walk down lower to mid State street without being accosted, yelled at or begged for money and drugs by filthy degenerate losers. Most of them able bodies young people.
That’s disgusting!
How is La Jolla? Do you know?
I haven’t been around there lately, but it would be hard for me to imagine that these “gypsies” would be allowed to squat anywhere near that area. I’ll have to take a ride down there soon to see what the area looks like as far as the druggies go.
There are still many locations in California outside of large city limits that have some semblance of normality and are attempting to keep the cretins out.
The sad part is, out in the “suburbs”, the bleeding hearts cannot seem to realize that giving these drug addicts handouts at intersections and off ramps is only making matters worse.
I have noted that my local Walmart, very close to an off ramp and thus the homeless, has resorted to stocking basics under lock and key. Can’t say I blame them when you consider these ex-suburbanite drug addicts use these stores as their fundamental access to free clothing, such as underwear, which they steal consistently. Our Sheriff installed tall lights in the parking lots near this off ramp just to deter these homeless pigs from breaking into cars of shoppers just trying to go about their business.
ALSO a NAVY BASE ???
Ok, please let me know after you roll through there.
Since we all know that whatever is subsidized, you get MORE of; it only makes sense (sorry about those two swear words) that if you do NOT subsidize it, it will tend to go away.
Image this country if it had a LLOONG and HIGH fence on our southern border!
You’ve noticed too; eh?
Well; you can lead a beach town to water, but you can't make a dead horse get up by applying more beatings.
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