*ron howard voice* it was, in fact, not at all commonhttps://twitter.com/BPD_MN/status/1411040144426209281 …
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if someone's taking all the books and then reselling them (where, on the street? "psst, hey, kid, you wanna buy a used paperback?" or for piddling change to a used bookstore?) then that's someone who's desperate for a little money to get by. the books are not the big problem!
but I'll bet the Bloomington PD has not engaged any city resources or social service agencies to help make sure that person has safe permanent housing, adequate food and healthcare, reliable transportation, and sufficient income.
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long ago I worked at a used and antiquarian bookstore in downtown Boston, and there were a number of unhoused people in the area who would come in every so often with a sack of dingy paperbacks. staff would make a show of appraising them, and give them IIRC $0.50 or $1 each.
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(I was too low-level an employee to be involved in that process, I just stocked shelves and such.) I doubt we ever sold many, maybe any, of those books, they'd circulate to the clearance racks and eventually to the dumpster.
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