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The Homeless Industrial Complex / Tracy Rosenthal

This Is Hell!

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Is the Constitution Being Upheld When It Comes to the Homeless?

In the first ten months of safe city's policy, a new reform that the lost city of los angeles had come up with, the l a p d made 70 428 arrests and issued ten thousand 300, forty two citations in skid row. Criminalizig the unavoidable act of sitting, lying or sleeping at night while being involuntarily homeless constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. So why isn't the constitution being upheld when it comes to cruel, an humane punishment of the homeless? Cans. City governments and their police forces simply refuse to recognize certain constitutional rights that they don’t want to recognize and have policies of breaking them when It comes to the homeless.

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