You can’t make it a crime to be poor.
So it is OK for the bums to sleep in the intersections of streets?
“You can’t make it a crime to be poor.”
Ever hear of “the poor house?” The poor were expected to work in order to eat and have a place to sleep. The last of the poor houses were closed in the 1940s, when the government began welfare payments to the poor.
Now they sleep on the streets and do nothing.
trespassing is a crime, loitering is. washing in a public water fountain is. sleeping in the street can be hazardous for others as well as the sleeper.
It's not a crime to be poor. It's a crime to sleep on the streets.
Agree that being poor is not a crime. But you MUST abide by the laws and generally accepted principles of good civic life.
It SHOULD be a crime for the 1% people who are truly poor (and mostly insane drug addicts) to soil cities and make them uninhabitable by the other 99% of people who do not want that.
Look at photos of US civic life from the 1880s to the 1950s - people were well dressed and cities were pleasant places to live and raise a family. No longer.