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In April a comment on a post here contained this sentence:
Cops should be giving 100% of their attention to violent crime, not making things look shiny and hiding the realities of poverty. Why do so many people complain about this? I fail to see the logic, and no, I’m not high at the moment."
Leaving aside the unfounded assumption that drunks in the street are really just unfairly targeted poor people rather than drunks who are poor because they’re drunks, there is the wonderfully helpful concept of "The Tipping Point". Five years ago, there were no "homeless" in my neighborhood. Then they began to appear. And once they were there in numbers, trash began to appear everywhere, car break-ins went up, and drug dealers started to appear on the street. In the previous 15 years of living at my address, I had never once seen a drug dealer or drug deal in that neighborhood. But I watched a drug deal the other day at the corner of Page and Gough. It happened at a bus stop in front of me and three other law-abiding citizens. The dealer, his look out, and the customer were not worried at all at being seen. And this dealer is always in the neighborhood and has been for months now.
The person who posted that comment and all the rest of you who insist these people are just poor and causing no harm need to learn that they are precursors to far worse conditions.
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August 14th, 2007 at 4:31 am
AGREED!