Whether installed by rich sods in the UK http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/homelessness-spikes-outside-london-flats-spark-outrage-on-twitter-9506390.html … or the govt in China http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/pictures/spikes-under-chinese-overpasses-to-prevent-sleeping-homeless.html … anti-homeless spikes are fascist
Google 'chengguan' for a glimpse at Chinese policing tactics, undoubtedly to be emulated in the west, as fascist tactics always percolate.