The local newspaper has done a halfway decent job of exposing the crime-loving city’s fraudulent fakery. Unfortunately the headline doesn’t match the article. The headline would lead you to think the city is doing something about the homeless mess:
City reports street outreach has closed nearly 100 homeless encampments in 10 days
When you read the story you find that the city is faking it.
Four teams were created in September as part of the H.O.M.E. Starts Here Initiative, the city’s new method to expand its homelessness response efforts that places those teams in Spokane’s police precincts. The outreach teams are made up of social workers from Catholic Charities. A MAJORITY OF THE SITES DID NOT HAVE PEOPLE. A majority of people contacted at the sites did accept referrals to housing or behavioral health services, according to the release.
In other words, somebody in the city or in Catholic Criminalities was warning the people in advance.
Nobody was arrested or forced to accept drug treatment. The people who were “contacted” undoubtedly listened to the city’s “referrals” and then moved to other campsites.
FACT: The best way to break a serious drug habit is forced confinement. I’ve been there. It worked.
Ideally the confinement shouldn’t be treated as an arrest and shouldn’t leave a criminal record. Criminal or not, the confinement MUST be inescapable until the habit is cleared, so the process is effectively the same as jail. Even more ideally, the procedure should include supported job training followed by placement in a paid job.
Henry Ford said THE ANSWER IS WORK.
He practiced what he preached, pulling a huge number of rural and black poor people into the middle class. His ‘Sociology Department’ performed what we’d now call supported employment, making sure each worker and his family knew how to organize and take care of life.
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