Homelessness in California

 

I'm obliged to Lawrence Person for his summary of an interesting YouTube interview about the state of homelessness and homeless policies in California.  It's brutal.

Here's the video, if you'd like to watch it in full.

And here are some of Mr. Person's summary points from it.

• “According to the latest report, California alone has one third of the U.S homeless population today.”
• “What we have is you can be arrested or cited did over and over and over and over again, and there’s no consequences. And it’s just getting worse and worse.”
• The same transients sprawling unconscious on city streets in LA and San Francisco are now found in San Diego.
• “If you look at the people and look in their eyes, you see a lost [soul], almost like a post-apocalyptic look. It’s not somebody who’s lost their job or lost their housing, it’s someone who is addicted to drugs. In large part have fried their brains. They’re suffering from mental illness.”
• “Stanford recently looked at it last year, their school of economics looked at it, and they found were over the last 10 years, most of the United States homelessness dropped by roughly 9%. In the same period here in the state of California, it went up by 43%.”
• “The most notable, unique difference is our decriminalizing hardcore drug use, and decriminalizing large or low-level property crimes.”
• You can’t trust crime statistics, because people have just stopped reporting things. Auto thefts are still reported for insurance purposes. “Vehicle thefts here in the state of California have gone up significantly, so much so that on a per capita basis we are double the State of Florida.”
• One Target accurately reporting thefts for a month doubled San Francisco theft statistics.
• “Every year more people leaving than are coming to the state because of poor public policy decisions.”
• “The single dividing line between us and everywhere else in that regard is the legalization of hardcore drug use, or the decriminalization of hardcore drug use.”
• “Harm reduction centers” just prevent people from dying on that particular day, and do nothing to keep drug users from gradually killing themselves over months and years. Those non-profits are “simply enabling them to continue to that that addiction and to use those drugs, knowing it will kill them.”

There's more at the link.

I recommend reading the whole article, and watching the video too if you have half an hour to spare.  This is the end result of a "deep blue" takeover of the reins of power, in big cities and in states.  Expect efforts to spread the malaise to every city, every town, and every state, if the progressive left has its way.

Meanwhile, if you think everything described above is just fine:

Peter