If the Supreme Court rules on this, well, all I can say is it will be a really bad ruling that emboldens criminalization of the poor all across the US. (And it won’t be particularly effective.)https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1201999584316264449 …
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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
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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
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It also wasn't particularly cost-effective (or actually effective at all) to jail people for short periods of time.pic.twitter.com/cucgBO2Mmq
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So Frank Jordan was voted out of office for Willie Brown after a single term.pic.twitter.com/62fr14WeGX
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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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