Finding the correct solution to a problem can be challenging, but identifying a disastrously wrong one is often pretty easy..
In the case of homelessness, allowing tent encampments in the middle of towns is an egregiously wrong one. Outside of napalm, is there any faster way to ruin a city?
While city leaders bear most responsibility, the court system has made their jobs harder by legally barring them from cleaning up homeless encampments. The Supreme Court may reverse this.
City leaders bear most of the blame for their failed policies, of course. Their approaches too often ignored human psychology, creating urban nightmares in the world’s richest economy. The courts have made it worse.
Through a series of legal rulings, notably one against Grants Pass, Oregon, the courts have partially handcuffed city officials,, preventing them from taking action to clear these encampments. The Supreme Court's decision to review this could be a game-changer.
The 2018 ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court, often criticized for its left-leaning interpretations, is a case in point. This decision twisted the protections of the Eighth Amendment, declaring the prohibition of sleeping on public property as "cruel and unusual punishment" unless adequate, accessible, and free housing options were available. This ruling even stipulated that such housing options be within city limits, disqualifying nearby shelters if they happened to be just across a border.
Governing, inherently, is about balancing competing rights and interests. But under the banner of compassion, this ruling has hurt all sides. It led to a scenario where the homeless live in conditions that can only be described as subhuman, while at the same time destroying businesses and the quality of life for everyone else.
Politics, as always, plays a part. High-profile figures like California's Gavin Newsom and San Francisco Mayor London Breed have finally found themselves on the right side, calling for a reversal of the Ninth Circuit ruling.
Of course, this finally gave them an opportunity to point fingers elsewhere. Given the complete absence of conservatives running major cities, they can now blame someone else besides themselves. We should welcome their turnaround, but neither forget nor absolve them of their horrible policies that brought us here.
These court fights are sponsored by homeless activists, who also share in blame for allowing this ongoing misery on our city streets. They’re part of a homeless industrial complex that has, under the banner of compassion, helped destroy thousands of lives. It’s as if the firefighter lobby did their best to make homes more flammable.
This month, the Supreme Court announced its decision to review the Grants Pass case, a long-overdue move. Their upcoming decision, expected later this year, could bring some much-needed common sense to the issue.
– Ken
Our current justice system, and too many of our elected political leaders, quite clearly illustrate. and unfortunately exemplify, that Talmudic dictum that goes … “He who is merciful to the cruel will end up being cruel to the merciful.”
Our elected leaders and judges are continuously showing compassion and are even rewarding those people who break our laws, and make life unbearable for honest law abiding people who just seek to live out their lives in peace and quiet. Illegal aliens invade our country at will at our borders; homeless addicts commit larceny, assaults, and other quality of life crimes with impunity; roving bands of thieves steal at will on an industrial scale.
A prime case-in-point is NYC’s Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran who is facing a murder charge for restraining a menacing combative homeless man on a New York subway; the homeless man, a repeat felon, tragically died.
Closer to home … look at the epidemic of property crimes, store lootings, car break-ins, etc., that occur without any consequences. Twisted criminal sympathizing district attorneys like Manhattan’s Alvin Bragg and L.A.’s George Gascon epitomize this all so true Talmudic dictum.
This list also includes our national leaders, including Joe Biden and Alexander Mayorkas who willfully and illegally allow millions of unknown people into our country, turbocharging the human and sex trafficking trade and illicit narcotics trade. This results in even more people living on the streets as well as sanctioning what can only be described as a 21st century system of slavery (sexual and otherwise) and countless numbers of American fentanyl deaths.
These elected lawyers are in fact anti-justice … they perpetrate and promote injustice, and their prosecution policies further spread chaos and fear throughout America.
Reference: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/chief-rabbi-lau-halimi-case-an-abominable-injustice-calls-for-retrial-666557
It's called "quality of life" issues. A civil society doesn't have to be exposed to public drunkenness, drug use, prostitution, defecation, public nudity, homelessness Infront of families, children, women etc. This stuff was never legal.