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.
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
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.
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. Theyll 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?
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.
What could be fairer than a law like that?
Besides the homeless, it also forbids millionaires, and the rest of us from sleeping on the streets. - Tom