re: ‘Homeless’ people who can’t produce a receipt for their shopping carts should be arrested

So if they are not homeless you wouldn't arrest them if they couldn't provide a receipt?

Here is a shoplifting arrest I watched recently.

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A singe buggy costs around $200.

I would arrest them and put their belongings in a dumpster.

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I too was shocked when I learned how much those carts cost.

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I went into a store in hot springs and all the carts had 8 foot tall pvc poles bolted onto them. I asked what the deal was and they told me it was to keep the carts from fitting through the front door since so many had been stolen.

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Ollie’s and some other stores do this.

They know their clientele too well.

Shocked this hasn't been given more attention. have almost started threads on it in the past. My drive to work isn't long, but I bet I can spot 3 out of place very day.

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and put their belongings in a dumpster.

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Jokes on you, that’s why all their stuff came from in the first place.

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- Do you see homelessness as primarily resulting from what the homeless person did and / or did not do in life - they are in control on their homelessness?
- Do you see homelessness coming primarily from the context and situation the homeless person was/is in - they are controlled by.

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I'd argue a vast majority are "homeless" as a result of their actions, but their actions were likely influenced by mental illness, which is not their fault. I'm very confident my schizophrenic brother would be homeless if my parents weren't able to financially support him. He's a good person and has never been arrested, but he is just not capable of making good long-term decisions.

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Yeah, my father had an older brother who was only not homeless because:

1. Family had a property with an old house
2. They shared time and expense to buy him groceries, do house repairs and get him to doctor's appointments for medication (which he went dangerously nuts if he ever stopped taking).

I imagine a great deal of homeless people are like him without family to put in extra money, time or effort.

This type homeless person is the main reason the pandemic caused so many of them to be back out in the streets. Programs were afraid of being sued so they let them out of housing and, more significantly, off routines for medication. Programs that hardly had funding and staff to partially deal with the amount of mentally ill people before were then completely overwhelmed with also rounding them back into pocket.

Psychtropic medications are way over prescribed but there are also a lot of people who are totally psychotic without them.

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When does the new Trump thing where they lock up the homeless people in mental hospitals start

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They're already in there, they just get released after 3-7 days and repeat the process. When I worked in a small private mental hospital a lot of the patients were pissed when they got discharged because they no longer had a bed and free meals and cigarettes. State hospitals are mostly just for forensic patients now. It's a situation that's mismanaged worse than Les Miles managed the clock at the end of a ballgame.

Maybe one day Cart Narcs will get into policing bums.

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an industrious hobo

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Arrest man who has nothing

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he has stolen property....

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isn't bothering anyone

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now you are just trolling... those losers bother everyone for money.