Posted on 11/07/2019 2:54:29 AM PST by Libloather
LAS VEGAS (AP) — THE Latest on Las Vegas city officials considering a law to make sleeping on the streets illegal (all times local): 6 p.m.
Despite protests about a war on the poor, Las Vegas officials passed a law Wednesday making it illegal to sleep on the streets when beds are available at established shelters.
The measure framed as a ban on camping downtown makes Las Vegas the latest city in the U.S. West to take steps to try to deal with complaints about homelessness.
It has also drawn criticism from several Democratic presidential candidates.
Effective Jan. 1, the law makes it a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for sleeping or camping in public areas.
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Well there go my plans for moving to Vegas :)
Who gets the fun job of forcibly moving people who haven’t showered in 3 years? :)
Get yer meth get yer meth right here!
There was that morning when I woke up in the fountain at Bellagio, but that’s different. :-)
Wow....you can do practically any kind of vice in Vegas legally....but you can’t sleep on the street.
It’s illegal cuz they can’t make any money off it.
Have they legalized on-sidewalk defecation like San Francisco, yet?
Conservative estimates say that 5,500 homeless folks exist in Vegas, and it’s increasing by 100 a month.
My solution would be to fence in a compound area 10 miles north of town, and give the group a choice....either you live in the compound with minimum rations of food, or you get a $100 one-way bus ticket to any place in the US.
It is interesting that the DemocRATs mostly want to foul the nest in cities, which are DemocRAT strongholds. It's like they do not expect their base to be intelligent enough to figure out that the problems in the big cities are greatly exacerbated by leftist policy. They're probably correct.
“Rev. Leonard Jackson of the Faith Organizing Alliance says providing jobs, housing and health care would better help people now living on the streets.”
What’s sad is that this meme still works on 80% or so of the public - people who simply aren’t being told that the ENTIRE PROBLEM comes down to 3 things: Mental Illness, Substance Abuse, or they’re ex-cons.
Nope, the 80% still think it’s Reagan’s fault. At least in Leftist Austin, where they’re playing this game and turning the city into a giant Woodstock, while blaming our Republican state governor, our governor played the game back, and simply cleared them off of state land, particularly freeway underpasses.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/austin-texas-homeless-encampments-health-safety
St. Petersburg, Florida was decaying from the center out. Dozens of abandoned buildings lined the main streets. The homeless were rampant and extremely aggressive in their panhandling. The city was trying to revitalize the center by inviting in artists and giving them free space and encouraging businesses to locate there. But the homeless made it unlikely that anyone who could go to a mall would ever shop there. For a while the cops would arrest the more aggressive homeless and take them to a remote booking location, “discover” they had nothing to hold them on and release them out the front door. The closest place to walk to was Clearwater, Florida. Clearwater sued and that was when I moved to Tallahassee so I don’t know how that suit turned out. However, when I visited St. Pete was a different place. The city center was THE PLACE to be and every shop was full of people. I asked a few people running businesses and they all said the same thing. There were still a few homeless but the policing was very aggressive. When the homeless saw a cop they disappeared into the nearest alley.
Good move by Vegas.
It should be illegal in every city. I’m old enough to remember when it was illegal to sleep on the street in Los Angeles and the police would round up vagrants to take them to shelters or jail.
Lots of guys on the street will now have 3 hits and a cot thanks to this policy.
Makes me wonder which political convention is coming to town next year? That’s about the only time most cities sweep up the bums.
Yeah conventions are great for temporarily cleaning up a city :)
Didn't the democRATS used to criticize Reagan because the homeless numbers went up during his administration? Now they are complaining because Las Vegas wants to keep them off the streets.
Las Vegas depends on tourism for its livelihood. They don't want to become Seattle or San Francisco or Los Angeles and their thousands of homeless with feces and filth and disease all over their streets.
But somehow, I don't think the city council put much thought into the "or a $1,000 fine" part of the consequences. All of the homeless they arrest on the streets will be doing the 6 months in jail thingie.
If they had the $1,000 to pay a fine, they wouldn't be sleeping on the street.
Vegas relies on tourists, business conventions, etc. Nobody wants to step over or on drug addled bums and human excrement. They’ll just go elsewhere and kill off the city.
Isn’t Vegas a “sanctuary city”? How is it okay to take in foreign illegals then tell them they can’t sleep on the sidewalks? Isn’t that, like, racism?
If they had the $1,000 to pay a fine...they would shoot it into their arms.
Darn! We were thinking of visiting Vegas so we could sleep on the street. Gotta change plans now.
What a concept! Like it used to be EVERYWHERE! I mean liberals would much rather mentally ill people wander and freeze to death on the streets.
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