Posted on 03/30/2023 8:02:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The city of Denver is facing criticism from homeless advocates after removing encampments near Coors Field ahead of the Colorado Rockies' opening day.
"It’s disgraceful, and they’re not trying to solve the problem," Grant Francis, with the homeless advocacy group Mutual Aid Monday, told Denver7. "They’re just trying to provide some optics that make it look like they’re trying to do something."
The Colorado Rockies will play their home opener next Thursday, April 6. The city started sweeps this week on Larimer Street near Coors Field, according to Denver7.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, a Democrat, has been criticized for sweeps in the past — especially ones that appear to coincide with sporting events. His administration stepped up sweeps in 2021, just before the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, The Denver Post previously reported.
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My friend lives in Fort Collins and is getting weird up there also.
A beautifully apt assertion, telling the truth of the politicians' decades long game. Isn't it interesting when other Leftists actually notice and end up telling a truth they would otherwise obscure?
If .2% of the population is homeless, then it probably is the fault of the .2%.
The majority seems to manage to find housing. Sus ilictos even find housing.
There are lots of affordable cities. They don’t have names like New York, Boston, LA, etc.
How about building some psychiatric institutions to care for the sociopaths and psychopaths?? The homeless people are demonstrably proving they can not care for themselves and need to be remanded into the custody of a mental institution. So, do it!!!
Work (harder), or move to an affordable place.
Braddock, PA is affordable.
Mr. Francis would not like the solutions because they would end his homeless gig “fighting homelessness.”
1. Reopen thousands of mental hospitals with involuntary treatment
2. Militarize the southern border and get serious about stopping the drug flow
3. Authorize beat cops to keep the bums moving and roust them out of town
Spending more money on bums is not a solution.
How is this different than cleaning up an area prior to a president’s visit?
facing criticism from homeless advocates after removing encampments
No Problem, compile a list of their addresses and relocate the camps to THEIR STREETS!!!
Tell you what, things here in Phoenix are the worst I have ever seen. I have lived here since 1994. Downtown PHX is a shit hole.
They did the same thing with the homeless during the Super Bowl. Just moved em out...
Dem mayor...
Next, b) after we admit this is just a bunch of degenerate addicts, give them the Sheriff Joe treatment. Build tent cities surrounded by chain link fences, barbed wire, etc. Make them work. No more dope. That's what they need.
The reason the homeless are being moved out is simple: money.
St. Louis is a crime-ridden, liberal ****hole, but if you ever go to a Cardinal’s game you’ll see a huge police presence making sure the fans enter and leave Busch Stadium safely. The Cards and their customers bring in a lot of money to the city and the city government doesn’t want to lose out, which it will if people perceive that visiting Busch is risky.
I imagine the same is true of Denver, Coors Field and the Rockies.
“So, do it!!!”
USSC says no.
Sorry. The Lawyers got after that in the 1970’s. Closed the mental hospitals as unfair to the mentally handicapped.
You’re putting the cart before the horse. The homeless become psychotic AFTER becoming homeless.
The real problem is that the homeless has become a cottage industry for activists. They pressure cities to enact “fair housing” which makes it nearly impossible for developers to build.
“..Closed the mental hospitals as unfair to the mentally handicapped...”
Maybe it’s time to run another case through the courts and give the justices a chance to correct their error!!
“Liberal city’s ‘disgraceful’ move before baseball’s opening day has activists furious”
There’s that word again “activists”.
They rule the world... and they’re mostly leftists.
The homeless problem is easy to fix.
Have the city buy a large farm (either within the city limits or outside it).
All homeless get bused to the ag location and are put to work—hard agricultural labor.
If volunteers want to go out there and provide social services—great—but no public funds.
After one year the homeless are released—if they end up homeless again the next “tour of duty” is two years...
So Missouri is affordable
Eastern Tennessee is affordable-—NO STATE INCOME TAXES
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