“...and also scrapped the city’s Navigation Team...”
How quaint...”Navigation Team”. What are they a bunch of sailboat enthusiasts?
The Nav team was a group of cops teamed up with parks dept employees, social workers, and a few other departments that went into the homeless camps and did outreach to.them to get them off drugs and into shelters.....and if the camps had immediate public safety issues they would move the bums out and all the trash would get hauled off.
The city council hates the “sweeps” because the bums don’t accept help and just get moved along....whcih of course is some systemic problem caused by right wingers and not the 100s of millions they spend subsidizing bums.