IMO finding the homeless a safe place to sleep shouldn’t be the job of the police. You don’t call the police when there’s a fire, you call firefighters. You don’t call the police when someone’s injured, you call an ambulance. Why would law enforcers be involved in helping a homeless person find shelter?
Maybe in this case you could expand the scope a bit. Police are responsible for public safety, and it’s unsafe to sleep on the streets. OTOH, policing is law enforcement, deterring and investigating crime, etc. Homeless people are often committing crimes, either trespassing, loitering, using drugs, etc. It would almost certainly be better for them to be helped by someone who doesn’t care about that part, and just wants them to get a safe place to sleep and a warm, healthy meal.
Instead of giving more jobs to police, shrink the police budget and hire new people to do those non-policing jobs.
IMO finding the homeless a safe place to sleep shouldn’t be the job of the police.
Completely fair. Their job should be to call a social worker whose job it would be to find the homeless a safe place to sleep. This is in contrast to what police presently do.
IMO finding the homeless a safe place to sleep shouldn’t be the job of the police. You don’t call the police when there’s a fire, you call firefighters. You don’t call the police when someone’s injured, you call an ambulance. Why would law enforcers be involved in helping a homeless person find shelter?
Maybe in this case you could expand the scope a bit. Police are responsible for public safety, and it’s unsafe to sleep on the streets. OTOH, policing is law enforcement, deterring and investigating crime, etc. Homeless people are often committing crimes, either trespassing, loitering, using drugs, etc. It would almost certainly be better for them to be helped by someone who doesn’t care about that part, and just wants them to get a safe place to sleep and a warm, healthy meal.
Instead of giving more jobs to police, shrink the police budget and hire new people to do those non-policing jobs.
Completely fair. Their job should be to call a social worker whose job it would be to find the homeless a safe place to sleep. This is in contrast to what police presently do.
Yeah, I want as little contact between the police and homeless people as possible.