Jail.
That's the answer.
You'll sleep in jail. Possibly for the rest of your life.
Also the cop will beat the shit out of you now for mouthing off.
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Jail.
That's the answer.
You'll sleep in jail. Possibly for the rest of your life.
Also the cop will beat the shit out of you now for mouthing off.
and in jail each resident will cost tax payers approximately $80,000.00 per year on average.
Sure, but it will make a private security contractor and private prison company have great returns for investors!
Who will pay their ~~bribes to secure a healthy pipeline of human suffering because that's good for their investors~~ donations to encourage more great policies and responsible governance.
More in the first year if they manage to fight the charges in court for a little while.
Yes but then we're punishing them and letting some corporation buy their labor(not from them, and not in such a way that covers the costs) and pay them in top ramen. Which is morally better, Jesus says so.
... It's funny that inflation makes that feel like a steal in most sub-urban places now.
We need armed citizens groups to keep these thugs off our streets.
But prison is so much more expensive... Looks at political donations from prison companies Ah - that'll do it.
Why bother with representation and good policy when you can have corruption, graft, and all the wonders of late stage capitalism.
Jail.
That’s the answer.
The answer to what question though? If it is what's presented here in the comic, I.e. "what to do instead of sleeping on the street", then that's a remarkably American answer, and requires significant stupidity and/or malice.
There are much better approaches.
Yeah we're not talking about ideals, we're talking about the present. Stupidity and malice is pretty much it.
Very unrealistic. How come he's still alive after talking back to a cop while being black?
Didn't you see the last panel - he's rich.
Wait y'all have cops that don't just start wailing on that guy for not moving? Cops in my city absolutely call backup and go squad deep when homeless people stand their ground.
Or when they dont. In my twenties I worked with unhoused populations, and someone who I was kind of point of contact for came inafter being missing for a couple weeks. She had really weird injuries. I recognized a few of them, not all, and I'm pretty familiar with broken bodies so that was surprising. Apparently she'd been kidnapped and tortured by cops for at least a week. I found out basically everyone has a few of those. The cops just do that. Theres no reason, There's no jusrification; they just take who they can.
And why should someone who's been thrown away like that give a shit about your comfort? I know when I was thrown away and ended up homeless, I lost a lot of respect for my environment and 'normal' people. I didn't get as bad as a lot of people.
Do you have a good reason for them to care? To care about something other than the next fix? Maybe a future, or a chat with a friend? No? Then maybe shut the hell up about how icky the actual living human beings you let get thrown away like trash make you feel when you have to walk through their fucking homes.
Who the heck is downvoting this? This is such a reflection of our society.
The cop in the comic, probably
Open sufficient shelter and then ban camping.
Sorry, but I’ve worked in SF and Portland and getting yelled at while avoiding shit and syringes is not great.
They want free prison labor instead of helping people. All programs that gave people shelter and UBI had high success rates of getting people off the streets. If you give people resources and real help. They can be housed, it isn't unsolvable at all.
Some say there is a missing panel where a acorn hits the cop and he unloads a full mag on the guy.
I love that the cat just joins the rats playing poker.
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And then in a few years, after making no efforts to create a space where homeless people can live the way they want or a path for them to get a job and a home, the enforcement of these laws will loosen up and you'll be back to stepping over people on the sidewalk.