Michael Stoops
Michael Stoops
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That's like a form of social Darwinism, if you cut off food to force people to get help, and it really doesn't work that way.
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They do this because they think they can, that they can get away with beating a homeless person and nobody will care, and the homeless won't be able to fight back.
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In many of the cases, it's a crime of opportunity. A group of teenagers is roaming the street on a hot summer night and they come across a homeless person who might be mentally ill or alcoholic. When they hurt a homeless person, they think they can get away with it -- and they think they won't be hurt in return.
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I'm not surprised by Mayor Goodman's reaction. I respect the mayor. I think he's a good guy, but he has always had an anti-homeless bent and he revels in name-calling. We didn't delight in ranking Las Vegas as a mean city again. We're just trying to put the spotlight on the city and let the mayor know that Las Vegas will never get off the list as long as he continues to declare war on the homeless.
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Homeless people just take it on the chin and move to a more secluded area. We know that this is underreported.
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It's a good time of year to raise awareness, when it's real cold out. More Americans are thinking about poverty and homelessness this time of year.
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It puts pressure on cities to rethink their criminalization strategies. No city should want to be labeled a mean city.
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No area of America is immune from homelessness.
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The Atlanta ordinance says this is how Atlanta is solving Atlanta's homeless problem. You're not aloud to say anything. You're not allowed to ask what time it is; you're not allowed to ask for directions. You're not allowed to ask for food. We don't consider that to be a model ordinance.
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The most common law that targets homeless people is some version of a panhandling law, whether it's aggressive panhandling or saying you can only panhandle in certain areas of a city.
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It just means other cities are now being meaner than Las Vegas.
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There's been a trend with a few police departments becoming more sensitized toward the needs and issues that the homeless population face. These are the kind of partnerships we support.
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They could have been taken off the mean list if they would have just done away with that ordinance.
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The truth is that these are not unusual.