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Who Benefits From Public Safety?

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The City's Decision to Clear Out an Encampment

I've been covering housing and homelessness for almost 30 years. This is not the first time that I've seen a decampment. The city, which elected a new centre-right council last October, decided they really needed to clear this out. encampments always do get invaded by criminal elements who use it as a cover to deal drugs,. run a bike chop shop or whatever. That's not a partisan issue. In this case, you didn't see the same kind of thing you saw.

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