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Baton Rouge clears six homeless encampments
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:29 am
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:29 am
And before you shite all over Baton Rouge....that is probably six more than San Francisco and Los Angeles cleared in that same time....combined.
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Open drug use is common in these camps. The people don't want to go to a shelter because they aren't allowed to use illegal drugs in the shelters. Getting them treatment is one side of the equation. The other side is imposing consequences for open and illegal drug use. In those cases, a stint in jail away from it all is exactly what they need. It's humane and reasonable for those people to be arrested despite what the bleeding hearts say.
The other problem is that the homeless population is transient by nature. So you are getting people that are passing through southern towns during the winter from places that don't have a decent strategy for dealing with this. It's like playing whack-a-mole. One camp is cleared, then another one pops up a few miles away. And you cycle through this all year.
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At least six homeless encampments across East Baton Rouge have been cleared in recent months as community advocates say more people have been forced onto the streets over the past year.
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When camps are cleared, authorities generally offer help — with housing, medical assistance and getting an ID or driver’s license — but not everyone wants it.
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"They get pushed out and then they find somewhere else to congregate and then it just cycles," Beemer said. "There's not a lot of resolution."
Open drug use is common in these camps. The people don't want to go to a shelter because they aren't allowed to use illegal drugs in the shelters. Getting them treatment is one side of the equation. The other side is imposing consequences for open and illegal drug use. In those cases, a stint in jail away from it all is exactly what they need. It's humane and reasonable for those people to be arrested despite what the bleeding hearts say.
The other problem is that the homeless population is transient by nature. So you are getting people that are passing through southern towns during the winter from places that don't have a decent strategy for dealing with this. It's like playing whack-a-mole. One camp is cleared, then another one pops up a few miles away. And you cycle through this all year.
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Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:30 am to member12
Like trying to get rid of red ants in your yard.
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:32 am to member12
Is BR to NO downtown worth the drive for 3 days a week of in the office?
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:34 am to member12
My concern is that if the encampments are cleared where do the homeless then relocate to. Also I have to give the group Keeping Tigertown Clean recognition for doing what we pay our city to do but refuses to.
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:34 am to member12
Give them all bus tickets to California.
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:36 am to soccerfüt
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Like trying to get rid of red ants in your yard.
This is a very good comparison. I live off 290 in Houston and not in one of the better areas (I’m moving in January to Katy) but I watch these frickers up close and personal. It’s the same people that rotate 8 intersections. The live mostly under the over pass. They clear them out, then they come back, one tent, 2 tent, 8 tent, 10 tent then they’re all cleared out in a day and the cycle repeats. I’ve seen the city out with the DOTD trucks and Bobcats to clear them. At least they wipe them out every so often.
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:37 am to TDcline
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Is BR to NO downtown worth the drive for 3 days a week of in the office?
It would suck. If you have to do it I'd move to Ascension Parish or something like that so you at least are south of BR traffic.
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:39 am to soccerfüt
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Like trying to get rid of red ants in your yard.
We should actually be using the same exact strategy for both.
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:41 am to soccerfüt
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Like trying to get rid of red ants in your yard
If you're willing to put up with yellow spots in your grass for a little while, wasp spray is very effective.
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:41 am to Huey Lewis
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We should actually be using the same exact strategy for both.
Giant magnifying glass? Or boiling soapy water?
Or my favourite
This post was edited on 12/13/21 at 8:43 am
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:43 am to member12
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"They get pushed out and then they find somewhere else to congregate and then it just cycles," Beemer said. "There's not a lot of resolution."
and here's the solution.
you do this once and you tell them, we catch you again, and you're going to our homeless camp for 2 years.
Have a camp somewhere with some land, basically Angola where they can grow vegetables and have some livestock.
This camp should be as self sufficient as possible.
No drugs, no sex, teach them a trade and get them started on a path to working. After their 2 year stint, give them $4k so they can't complain that they don't have money. The deal is you go out and be a working member of society. If you get caught being homeless, or doing drugs, etc, then you're going straight to jail for 10 years, no parole.
either be a contributing member of our society, or get the frick out of Louisiana and don't come back.
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:45 am to TeddyPadillac
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No drugs, no sex,
Would you volunteer to go somewhere you couldn’t have sex for two years?
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:47 am to TeddyPadillac
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2 years
No drugs, no sex
Forced marriages?
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:47 am to soccerfüt
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Like trying to get rid of red ants in your yard.
True, but the answer isn’t to just let the red ants take over, that’s for sure.
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:47 am to TeddyPadillac
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and here's the solution.
In addition to the drug use, is mental illness.
This country is ignoring that elephant in the room because it would take billions, if not trillions to study and treat. Can't put the homeless in a ward bc they're all full with waiting lists for weeks.
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:48 am to fr33manator
People say “I do” every day.
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:50 am to member12
I saw the one off of Siegen (in the woods by the pond) is growing again. The homeless shelters were full a month ago. I know this because I was calling around looking for one for somebody. I do agree that many people do choose to live this way because of the drugs. As long as people are handing them cash the problem will persist. They are trespassing on public/private land so the police do have a right to move them.
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:53 am to member12
More evidence that Drugs has won the war on Drugs
Posted on 12/13/21 at 8:55 am to sawtooth
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As long as people are handing them cash the problem will persist
EXACTLY
Just last week I am traveling down S. Sherwood and stop at the Coursey intersection and see quite the sight. There are 4 different beggars, each working their own piece of the intersection. At this point I’m wondering if they have unionized yet. It’s incredibly organized, like punching a clock and working your shift.
The problem is that people give them money to make themselves feel better, and that is only feeding more and more of this crap, and it will NEVER end until people STOP FEEDING IT.
Posted on 12/13/21 at 9:00 am to member12
Homeless should be granted a merciful death.
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