@Aikibiker
I know exactly who they are. Some were residents in my ward. Yes, they had addictions, but if you let them out, they were back in days or weeks and treatment was back to square one. Most committed a full range of crimes, including murder. Yes, many on the street can do menial work but is it worth paying someone to closely watch them 24/7? That depends on how much crime you want to put up with. The job was a good gig for college students wanting to make money rather than take out loans. The three of us worked night shift, studied and went to classes in the morning or evening before going to work again.

Its not a homeless problem

Its a drug and a mental health problem

Very few homeless are actually sober and right in the head.

That would be more humane than Russia. Putin would just kill them when they failed boot camp. I know, what boot camp.

No, it wasn't govt created. Then addicts created it. The families who threw them out on the street created it. The do-gooder wackos who closed the mental facilities and again threw them out on the street. They also knew they would sell their drugs on the street or commit crimes to pay for their habits. The do-gooders just sukered the govt to foot the bill.

So, all this begs the question, why are we legalizing the drugs? The homeless are still committing crimes for their addictions and we are creating more addicts. We are making our own problems.

The prisons are much more expensive, both to build and maintain. The LE salaries will also be much higher. Rehab programs rarely work with these people. The brain damage can't be reversed. Every resident I had was there for life. Have you ever worked in a ward for the criminally insane? I have. Most people can't imagine that job, much less work there. Turnover is always high. Forcing a mental patient into rehab is far more complicated than just locking a door behind them. I have seen them smoke grass clippings believing it is MJ and drink water thinking it is gin and get high and/or drunk with all the real reactions. It was normal for 30-40% of staff to call in sick on full moon nights. It is hell night. Who wants to wrestle with residents covered in feces all night? You have to hose them down and then dress them, put them to bed, and pray they stay there. Some did. For most of them, it was a rinse and repeat. The minimum wage pay scale won't work there either.

There should be talks of slashing legal immigration too. There is no need to keep bringing 3+ million "legal" immigrants a year as though it's a religious requirement, when millions are unemployed and millions may be sleeping out in the street.

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