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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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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SF voters even passed a measure making panhandling illegal, with penalties of jail sentences or stiff fines.pic.twitter.com/1hSTYTZkGA
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Then there was the plan to take away people's carts.pic.twitter.com/W4Q8eNugvZ
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This was ostensibly in exchange for a bed. But of course there were not enough beds.pic.twitter.com/tPeWlNUcdt
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(There are still not enough beds.)https://twitter.com/samklew/status/1200961342615642114 …
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sam #FreeThemAll @samklewAs it rains in SF for the next 10 days, today, there are 1001 people waiting for a shelter bed. The oldest person on the waitlist is 88 years old. 22% are seniors. 21 people are over 75 yrs old. All will wait 4+ wks to get into temporary shelter. This is unacceptable. pic.twitter.com/6Y0aPn15zF2 replies 7 retweets 12 likesShow this thread -
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
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And into the Western neighborhoods.pic.twitter.com/ykEgrknqlM
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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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