Never give a panhandler more than $1.
Give less in prime panhandling locations. Never give out money near a drug store.
The homeless are almost invariably in my rather extensive experience non-violent.
A violent homeless person is almost surely on drugs.
Your $2 isn’t enough to rent a NYC hotel room, but it is enough to get very high and die.
“Never give a panhandler more than $1.”
Give any panhandler a penny and you are sentencing them to death. Every time you give a dollar to a panhandler some other fool is doing the same thing. Just stop giving them money! You’re not helping them one bit.