Posted on 05/06/2023 6:28:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The death of Jordan Neely reveals a wide societal belief that “any homeless person is likely to be violent or likely to attack them,” one expert said.
Protesters gathered on crowded subway platforms across New York City and marched down city streets in the days after a subway rider killed Jordan Neely, 30, by placing him in a chokehold for several minutes on a train in the middle of the day.
Advocacy groups and Neely’s supporters are demanding justice, requesting social services for people with mental health issues and calling attention to local policies that, they say, further marginalize unhoused communities in the city.
Shelly Nortz, deputy executive director for policy at the Coalition for the Homeless, said negative stereotypes and rhetoric about crime stokes an unfair fear and a general disdain for unhoused people, which leads to violence against them.
“When this population is demonized, it is tantamount to giving vigilantes the opportunities and the blessing to take the law into their own hands,” Nortz said. “This poor man was standing there in desperate need of food and water and was so emotionally overwrought by his need that he was expressing it loudly, but in no way endangering other human beings. The person who used his military skills to kill him needs to be held accountable for that,” Nortz added about the 24-year-old Marine who allegedly put Neely in the chokehold.
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Like it.
It's the perfect response to idiot comments like the ones made by democrats.
Seems to be more and more scruffy street people babbling to themselves. And all you can do is consider the possibility they might get violent and what are you prepared to do.
Justly deserved negative stereotypes about crime stoke an normal and reasonable fear.
How about we turn some of these criminals loose in her home?
Why doesn't she take in some of these poor homeless and care for them herself on her dime?
No, it reflects the inhumane policies of Democrats in big cities that perpetuate homelessness.
gety them the help they need by taking away all the government handouts they get and take them off the streets into mental hospitals like the old days.
Most mentally ill homeless do not want to be “housed” or contained anywhere by anyone for any reason. That can only be countered by involuntary institutionalization. That is a rode we have gone down before in the past, and it was, or it became, fraught with problems of abuse, wrongful involuntary institutionalization and wrongful delay in release of persons that were actually rehabilitated from their mental issues.
Involuntary institutionalization has to return, but we have to be better at it than we were in the past.
I meet a lot of homeless in my job and most of them are jerks with defective personalities that no one could live with.
I meet a lot of homeless in my job and most of them are jerks with defective personalities that no one could live with.
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