(01-19-2022, 11:25 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: This video is a pretty good representation of the homeless problem in major cities in America though west coast cities seem to have it much worse. I watched this some time in the last year or so and it was an eye opener. 

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This video is just a slower burn version of Tucker's video.
It repeatedly implies that we can incarcerate ourselves out of this problem.
We cannot.
The video dwells on a list of 100 homeless individuals who have repeatedly been arrested for property crime, but never been jailed for more than a few days.
Yes, a better criminal Justice system would get these people convicted and locked away for years, but that's not really solving the issue.
Current estimates are that more than 10,000 people are homeless in the city of Seattle. So it would appear that only 1% of these are habitual criminals.
But suppose you don't care about that. Suppose you think that living in a tent in public should in and of itself be a crime. 
King County currently has about 2,000 people in jails. Do you think they have room for another 10,000? The total would be over 12,000. Do you think they have the budget to increase the size of their jails by the factor of six overnight? Whose taxes should they raise? How long should these people be locked up for?

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