Bakersfield, CA — There is no doubt that California is experiencing a homeless crisis. In certain parts of the state, the homeless problem has turned into a public health issue as well, as many homeless people struggling with addiction have resorted to using public sidewalks as personal toilets. But the only solution that government seems to want offer is more police state. Officials in Bakersfield just announced that they will be solving their homeless problem by throwing people in jail.

Under the plan, homeless people would be rounded up under the ostensible charges of misdemeanor drug offenses or potential trespassing and thrown in a cage. While this idea may appear ridiculous to those who can think outside of the police state, when your only tool is a hammer, everything, even innocent people down on their luck, begin to look like nails.

As the LA Times reports, this tactic would fly in the face of criminal justice reform over the last decade in California, as the state has leaned away from incarceration for low-level, nonviolent drug crimes. It also would counter mainstream thinking on preventing homelessness and addressing the reality of it.

According to the report, the plan is being spearheaded by Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood and Kern County Dist. Atty. Cynthia Zimmer. And, it has a lot of support.

Much much more....

https://dcdirtylaundry.com/boom-bakersfield-ca-solves-homeless-crisis-will-provide-housing-hot-meals-in-prison/

Isn't this just another way of having people pay for other people?

Is it me, or is something changing a little in California?  Is the pendulum slightly beginning to swing back, or am I off?

Quote from: taxed on October 06, 2019, 11:02:39 AM
Is it me, or is something changing a little in California?  Is the pendulum slightly beginning to swing back, or am I off?

Good question. For some reason I have a similar feeling. It will never change in LA or San Francisco, but I will defer to Solar for his thoughts.

Quote from: taxed on October 06, 2019, 11:02:39 AM
Is it me, or is something changing a little in California?  Is the pendulum slightly beginning to swing back, or am I off?

Yes, there is a shift taking place, or rather a huge divide in the State between good people and Marxists. Many of the counties are rebelling against the leftists in charge and this is there way of saying they've had enough of their BS.
Note the Sheriff and DA, both elected to clean up the town.
My neighbors bailed on Bakersfield because of gangs, they had enough of the leftist run town, but people are waking up and electing people willing to do the job.
This is happening all over the State, with the exception of the La area and Bay Area. The rest of the State is Conservative and pissed off!!!

Quote from: supsalemgr on October 06, 2019, 11:32:23 AM
Good question. For some reason I have a similar feeling. It will never change in LA or San Francisco, but I will defer to Solar for his thoughts.

Here's an interesting take from an La resident.

Letter to Gavin Christopher Newsom, the 40th and Current Governor of California
By Nurit Greenger -Wed June 19, 2019
June 18, 2019

Governor Newsom Nuisance,

Your deplorable statement today, in which you said the Republican Party is headed "into the waste bin of history," got me going.

I am a constitutional conservative American, and I vote for freedom, and the Republican Party. I live in California, and I did not vote for you. In fact, I never even saw you on the election campaign trail, because you took the Los Angeles vote for granted.

I know very little about you other than you are the nephew of Madam Nancy Pelosi. I suspect your appointment to the governorship post has something to do with nepotism and the ruling class in California, made of four families.

For 80 years the Brown, Newsom, Pelosi, and Getty families have ruled over the State of California, turning it into the economic and social disaster that we see today.

The streets of California's big cities are full of homeless people, living in tents or out in the open, on sidewalks. Apparently, that makes you happy!

More~~~~and pics.

https://newsblaze.com/thoughts/opinions/a-letter-to-gavin-christopher-newsom-the-40th-and-current-governor-of-california_156399/

Quote from: Sick Of Silence on October 06, 2019, 10:36:53 AM
Isn't this just another way of having people pay for other people?

Well not if you follow arkansas model mentioned in the statement.  I've brought this up more than once to my city officials and it has yet to go to fruition or even a vote.

Possibly could become a re-education camp scenario if California remains a blue state for much longer, and adopts this counties perspective.  But I'm sure they will just let them die off in LA by disease and "quarantine".  I have believed for a long time now that is one of three reasons they are doing it.  2 would be because they can use the homeless population as a way to get further federal grants to syphin out of just like every other grant.  And lastly because they are just apethetical to anyone that isn't elite.

I have a friend who I see often walking my dog at the local park. He is a prison guard and seems to know all the vagrants that pass through the park.
All these vagrants do not want a home. They laugh and ask why they would want a job and to pay taxes. They tell stories of regulars that they see in the same place that will give them money with the favorite time being on senior discount day at the supermarkets.

They are all drunks, drug abusers and common criminals or mentally ill. A night is jail is food and a bed. It makes their life easier. It does not give them incentive. They will be out in the morning just in time for another fix or bottle. The only punishment is keeping them away from their vice on a long term basis.
A real homeless person because of unfortunate circumstances stays as far away from these slugs as they can.
The problem is that government and soft hearted people have made it easy for them to drop out  The only way they are going to join society is if we do not reward them for their choice. Why do you think the homeless population is growing at a time where we cannot find people to hire and politicians scream they need illegal immigrants for their donors?

We "don't feed the animals" for the same reasons.

Meanwhile on the other coast...

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez promoted "prison abolition" in a pair of tweets Monday morning.

Quote from: The Boo Man... on October 07, 2019, 02:09:36 PM
Meanwhile on the other coast...

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez promoted "prison abolition" in a pair of tweets Monday morning.

She's just in fear she might wind up as one of the residents of the facility.

Quote from: The Boo Man... on October 07, 2019, 02:09:36 PM
Meanwhile on the other coast...

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez promoted "prison abolition" in a pair of tweets Monday morning.

Her grasp of reality is overwhelming.

Quote from: The Boo Man... on October 07, 2019, 02:09:36 PM
Meanwhile on the other coast...

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez promoted "prison abolition" in a pair of tweets Monday morning.

That's because Democrats don't believe in the rule of law.

Quote from: The Boo Man... on October 07, 2019, 02:09:36 PM
Meanwhile on the other coast...

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez promoted "prison abolition" in a pair of tweets Monday morning.

Samuel Little will be so happy to hear that. Perhaps he can pay her a visit in person to thank her! 

I think he is up to 97 admitted kills but he is cool. He did not use an AR-15 and he is a minority. Just a poor unfortunate victim.

It seems that putting the homeless in a gilded cage with all their needs met is just going to increase the prison overcrowding and cost the taxpayer even more and wont discourage homelessness.

I think the only solution to the long term crime and punishment problem is some form of corporal punishment. But our society doesnt have the stomach for it.

We can use the fact that Liberals are locking up poor, homeless people as a campaign slogan.