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The Homeless Industrial Complex / Tracy Rosenthal

This Is Hell!

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The Rise in Policing a of Unhoused People

In this article, i wanted to figure out what is the policing strategy that is being used that puts unhoused people as a canary in the coal mine of crime. Under this view of policing, it doesn't matter what the crime rate is. It matters if, basically, rich white residents feel safe. And when we use policing to do that, we give an incredible amount of discretion to police officers. We're policing people and places, as blumark says, rather than like events.

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