Posted on 06/01/2023 7:25:12 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Portland officials are mulling a proposal to ban daytime homeless camps in most public spaces as the West Coast city struggles to get a handle on the ballooning number of people living on the streets.
Homeless people would need to clear their camps every morning by 8 a.m., picking up all their belongings and trash before they could settle down again at 8 p.m., according to the proposal.
The ban would extend to city parks, near schools, day cares, construction sites and some sidewalks, according to the plan brought forward by Mayor Ted Wheeler.
“There are currently hundreds of unsanctioned, sometimes dangerous and often squalid homeless camps across all 146 square miles of the city of Portland,” Wheeler said at a Wednesday City Council meeting.
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So where are these homeless losers going to go if banned in the daytime?
I would bet businesses and retailers are trying to stop it from going full San Francisco.
And trying to make it at least possible for these companies to survive during daylight hours.
I'm sure that this would work, considering how responsible the homeless are.
It’s a baby step back towards normalcy.
Good luck with all that.
Why not just between the hours of 10-2pm?
No, it’s trying to tick off every part of society into “revolutionary violence” so they have an excuse to “lock down” our society.
How about City Hall.
Or the mayor’s mansion.
It all began, long ago, with “Dignity Village.”
If confused you’ve not been paying attention to the rampant stupidity and corruption in Portland. The mayor is an idiot. Makes BeijingBiden seem sensible.
So…. who’s Portland going to hire to enforce this? Does anyone think the Portland PD will be able to clear 50,000 people every morning? Are they going to jail all the bums, loons and druggies who don’t comply and seize all their junk?
They’re getting tougher on the homeless in the Portlandia Thunderdome. It has taken them awhile to see the light.
Every six months I tour the area and have notice that the bums are being run out of many areas they like to frequent.
Basically the liberals that ‘run’ the city are being forced to take action or risk the consequences of increasing amounts of vigilantism.
In the minds of the idea-people, the guilty party would just walk around/linger....near their push-cart or shopping cart. Then re-camp as night falls.
What I’d suggest is a $20 nuisance-camping fee on public property at 6 PM. You send out 20 nuisance officials (with ample police) to collect the fee each night. You argue or refuse....cops take you for a 96-hour stay in jail (where you get zero access to drugs). People would then vacate the city within a month because of the cost involved.
“Homeless people would need to clear their camps every morning by 8 a.m...”
LOLOLOL - they’re still stoned out of their minds and will be zoned out until past noon. I see 0% compliance with this.
That works, too.
They need to make a law, banning something which is already illegal.
I’m on the Oregon coast. The area of town that attracted the vast majority of the homeless had a big crime problem...theft, arson. The local lefties could have given a damn, until one of them left a party in that part of town, late one night, and noticed some people walking a patrol with AR-15s.
It's simple really.....
Let me explain ..
All the “unhoused” will simply wake up at 6:00
They will then have breakfast, shave and brush their tooth.
At 7:00 they will begin gathering their sleeping bags,tents,shopping carts, eye phones, old tires, broken stolen bicycles, wooden pallets, piles of extra garbage, and drug paraphernalia.
At 8:00 they will all proceed in an orderly fashion to their assigned intersection where they will faithfully display their “I am poor ..don't you feel guilty sign” until they have squeezed the price of a good high from passerbys.
At that time they will begin their orderly migration to the next designated evening camp.
Have dinner and in engage in some good rowdy fun fellowship.
At 9:00 it's lights out for a good nights sleep.
.... what could possibly go wrong...?
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