Michael Stoops
Michael Stoops
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Rather than arresting and jailing homeless people for violation, let's find out why they're homeless in the first place. There's a lack of day shelters, and affordable housing.
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People think that homeless people are not human beings and that it's OK to hurt them and, most importantly, they think they can get away with it.
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When people see the guy with the panhandling sign, that's the tip of the iceberg.
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They (Sarasota) could have been taken off the mean list if they would have just done away with that ordinance. They continue to push and push and push, and push homeless people out of the city.
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The most common law that targets homeless people is some version of a panhandling law, whether it's aggressive panhandling or saying you can only panhandle in certain areas of a city.
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That's like a form of social Darwinism, if you cut off food to force people to get help, and it really doesn't work that way.
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The overwhelming majority of perpetrators are teens and young adults. We need to start with young people in public and private schools.
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Homeless people just take it on the chin and move to a more secluded area. We know that this is underreported.
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The videotape is our dream come true. It's putting a face to the issue. What happened in Fort Lauderdale will happen again in other parts of the country, and we know that it will happen again.
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Just because there aren't official reports doesn't mean attacks don't happen. This sort of attack needs to be classified as a hate crime, so statistics can be compiled, but nobody does that.
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Las Vegas needs to move forward on this quickly ... because the issues are still out there.
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Las Vegas has always gotten an F (in those areas). Someday I hope the city will quit criminalizing homelessness and they'll get off the list.
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What happened in Holly Hill and what happened in Fort Lauderdale will happen again. It's just a matter of when and where.
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What happened in Fort Lauderdale will no doubt happen again. It might not be caught on videotape the next time, but I can assure you it will happen again.