The Oldest Man posted:

True right now, but once you've got realtime facial recognition running on every cop's body cam, which is coming, it'll be open season

Mister Speaker posted:

Not quite the same thing, but it reminded me that someone just shared this in the [canada] thread:

Mister Speaker posted:

Not quite the same thing, but it reminded me that someone just shared this in the [canada] thread:

The Oldest Man posted:

beep boop risk of failure to care for self detected, lethal force is now authorized

Smythe posted:

it appears CA Prop 1 is passing. this gives me pause, since it was amended to include involuntary commitment(?)

i think this may be the beginning of earnest "forced removal" of "visible poverty" in urban centers. the endpoint of course being huge labor camps in the desert filled with an increasing number of economically abandoned, destitute americans, citizens and all.

Al! posted:

checked my local flyover municipal budget and cops were <1% of the budget

JesusIsTehCool posted:

Section 8 isn't amazing in my opinion. It depends on landlords, who are trash and often discriminate against the poor. I have known several unhoused people who have had section 8 vouchers for over a year. They often can't pass the credit test that landlords require. Even if they are fortunate enough to get in to section 8 there are no wrap around services. So if you do have a disability, mental illness, addiction, or just unresolved trauma you don't have any help addressing them and that can often result in people landing back on the streets.

Section 8 is better than nothing, but your not going to market your way out of a problem created by the market. Thats why i am such a strong believer in public housing, its the only way i see to make housing a right.

The Voice of Labor posted:

people say that the right wing can't create but can only appropriate the culture and ideas of others. nonsense. all of the right's creative enegergies are just tied up in the important business of stealing from the commons and making life miserable for the poor and minorities

https://www.ijpr.org/poverty-and-ho...public-property

the "evil libs" of portland will take 5 years to catch up on this innovation in cruelty

HashtagGirlboss posted:

Lmao they want them to reapply for permits every four months

HashtagGirlboss posted:

Lmao they want them to reapply for permits every four months

032024_2 posted:

AnimeIsTrash posted:

this lady was on the trillbilly's to talk about her article

https://newrepublic.com/article/181036/new-sundown-towns-grants-pass-v-johnson

its really good, also learned that kentucky passed a stand your ground law that allows you to blast a homeless person away

quote:

Recent reports show unhoused people account for a disproportionate number of arrests, even in liberal strongholds: one in six in L.A., and one in two in Portland.

quote:

Like Walker, Mayor Bristol described low-barrier shelter capacity in expedient rather than humanitarian terms: It creates “a place where people can go that is not the parks, so that we can have clean, safe parks again.” In 2022, when the city received almost a million dollars from the state’s Department of Administrative Services, Bristol campaigned to open a sanctioned encampment in Grants Pass. She was impressed by Medford’s “clean and orderly” facility. Medford police even supported the place. She related the idea to a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.: “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” But other officials bristled. Dwayne Yunker, a Republican real estate broker who serves on both City Council and the state legislature, joined the mission’s Bouteller in a conversation entitled “Low Barrier = Low Safety.” (Yunker has also suggested that the city privatize all its parks, so police will be free to remove people.) Fearful for their safety and their home values, locals resisted each site proposed. “There’s always a school or a day care or a playground,” Walker said. “It’s always near people.” They almost had a deal with one prospective landowner, who pulled out when the community intervened.

bedpan posted:

help I sold my parks to a saudi sovereign wealth fund and the lease fees just keep going up and the park is worse and worse

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The Friends of Waterfront Park has been heavily programming Pier 62, with activities like giant chess boards and mini soccer fields in place on most days, and fitness or dance classes and musical performances scheduled throughout the year. “Over a million people have come to Pier 62, and it has been a reminder of how parks can be transformative that they’re made for and they make for dynamic, democratic cities,” Shigaki said.

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Another sticking point has been the budget for operations, maintenance, and—especially—security. Friends of the Waterfront plans to supplement Seattle Police Department patrols and the city’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program with its own version of the Downtown Seattle Association’s Downtown Ambassadors—essentially, private staffers who keep an eye on the park, offer information, and help people in crisis—but property owners want more assurances that the city will enforce the city’s anti-camping laws. Former mayor Charles Royer, who co-chaired the waterfront committee and supports the LID, says that property owners are worried that “the waterfront could open and the first tents could go up the next day.”

Seattle Office of the Waterfront director Marshall Foster says the city plans to keep the new park secure and inviting through a combination of daily maintenance by parks employees, year-round programming in partnership with the Friends, the ambassadors program, and police. “Our focus is primarily on trained ambassadors and outreach staff who will be backed up as needed by SPD,” Foster says. “This isn’t about prioritizing exclusions” from the park, he adds. However, Foster said he couldn’t confirm any details about the LID negotiations, including whether the city has committed to spending more money on security in the park.

Ivar’s CEO Bob Donegan, who served on the Central Waterfront Committee that came up with the original waterfront plan, says downtown property owners said that they “would not support the creation of this park if there is not enough budget to do four things: Program, landscape, maintain, and secure the park.” Although Donegan says that ultimately, “I think the security is going to be fine,” others involved in the negotiations say the issue remained a sticking point last week.

According to the operations plan Foster and Office of the Waterfront Tiffany Melake presented to the city council’s public assets committee last Wednesday, the Friends of the Waterfront—a nonprofit that works with the city on waterfront planning, funding, and programming—will be responsible for social services along the waterfront through a contract with the outreach nonprofit REACH, and will employ “park ambassadors” to respond to minor issues.

Real hurthling! posted:

is there a guess at how scotus is going to reason?
are they going hogwild to say that the abstract idea of jail and fines as punishment is not cruel and unusual so punishing people with jail and fines for anything made illegal is not cruel and unusual punishment or are they gonna make an argument more specific to why homelessness isnt an 8th amendment issue at all?