The 337-page report, “‘You Have to Move!’ The Cruel and Ineffective Criminalization of Unhoused People in Los Angeles,” documents the experiences of people living on the streets and in vehicles, temporary shelters, and parks in Los Angeles, as they struggle to survive while facing criminalization and governmental failures to prioritize eviction prevention or access to permanent housing. Law enforcement and sanitation “sweeps” force unhoused people out of public view, often wasting resources on temporary shelter and punishments that do not address the underlying needs. Tens of thousands of people are living in the streets of Los Angeles; death rates among the unhoused have skyrocketed.
Nah it’s more so police and politicians can look like they’re 'doing something about the issue" without actually doing anything but wasting everyone’s time. I’d say it could be cruelty but they probably don’t even think about these people as “people” but rather a way to boost their polling numbers.
It’s just icing on the cake that cruelty is more profitable for the entities being contracted out to service the various elements of our oppressive policies against the homeless.
The cruelty is the point.
Nah it’s more so police and politicians can look like they’re 'doing something about the issue" without actually doing anything but wasting everyone’s time. I’d say it could be cruelty but they probably don’t even think about these people as “people” but rather a way to boost their polling numbers.
This describes almost everybody in LA. That’s how cruelty becomes official policy.
It’s just icing on the cake that cruelty is more profitable for the entities being contracted out to service the various elements of our oppressive policies against the homeless.