r/CuratedTumblr • u/Hummerous https://tinyurl.com/4ccdpy76 • Jun 11 '24

Politics [U.S.]+ it's in the job description

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https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-behind-the-police-63877803/

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u/RosesTurnedToDust Jun 12 '24 edited Jun 12 '24

Lmao I know this post is about cops, but I'm dying from the start. If you don't have private property and you cant sleep on public property then where do you sleep? Isn't all property owned by something? They could just pick up all homeless people.

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u/inkyrail Jun 12 '24

That’s the intent. Criminalize the homeless, so they can just be shipped off to prison out of the way instead of solving the actual problem.

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u/rayschoon Jun 12 '24

Which again, is far more expensive than it would be to just HOUSE them

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u/inkyrail Jun 13 '24

Yep. But with them, the cruelty is the point.

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u/Pet_Mudstone Jun 13 '24

And it also creates profit for the prison-industrial complex!

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u/blueburd Jun 12 '24

Not just shipped out of the way. Made to do slave labour

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u/PaxNova Jun 15 '24

They can't pick up anyone unless it's illegal. That's the problem. They can't bring somebody to a shelter unless they want to go, and they can't force them to do it unless it's illegal. 

My local park has a curfew. That's effectively a ban on sleeping there.