We tried this approach in San Francisco in the early 1990s under former mayor Frank Jordan, who was previously a police chief. He argued people should be sent to jail if they slept in the streets.pic.twitter.com/qvXBm3Irki
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We tried this approach in San Francisco in the early 1990s under former mayor Frank Jordan, who was previously a police chief. He argued people should be sent to jail if they slept in the streets.pic.twitter.com/qvXBm3Irki
SF voters even passed a measure making panhandling illegal, with penalties of jail sentences or stiff fines.pic.twitter.com/1hSTYTZkGA
This was ostensibly in exchange for a bed. But of course there were not enough beds.pic.twitter.com/tPeWlNUcdt
(There are still not enough beds.)https://twitter.com/samklew/status/1200961342615642114 …
So all the crackdown did was move people from Downtown into the Western part of the city and into Golden Gate Park.pic.twitter.com/5fqxayNbbN
Homeless advocates sued, argued it violated people's civil liberties, due process and the right to equal protection under the law.pic.twitter.com/CM9FhpiZlI
In the end, it ultimately wasn't popular. (Voters always rate homelessness as a top concern. But they never want to adequately support services -- especially in their backyard. Yet they don't want to see poverty. And so, they support de facto criminalization -- up to a point.)pic.twitter.com/cYEW6uwtpz
It also wasn't particularly cost-effective (or actually effective at all) to jail people for short periods of time.pic.twitter.com/cucgBO2Mmq
So Frank Jordan was voted out of office for Willie Brown after a single term.pic.twitter.com/62fr14WeGX
And the city had to clear 40,000 citations and warrants, that were obviously never going to be paid by people who didn't have the means to pay for them.pic.twitter.com/3YNsPGsSqC
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