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SKA the boss

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  1. How is spending more of our money to create “legalized” camping zones in places no one is going to want one going to help anyone escape homelessness?
    Does the plan include making panhandling illegal with a massive public PR promotion to the public expressing how handouts only harm? And we’re creating real resources to help individuals who want to renter society and beat addiction and contribute? Because that would be a first step.

    Surely there’s some graft money to make that work.

  2. 3 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    I don't even regard this as a homeless problem.  That's a policing problem.

    Agreed. It is a policing problem. But it's also a homeless problem and dismissive of the fact that allowing, even inviting tons of mentally unstable people and drug addicts to come plant themselves in the heart of your society to prey upon your civilians, and then neutering your police force is the source of the problem.

     

    I fear that dcar is right and the genie is out of the bottle. Austin has screwed this up so bad they will never be able to clean it up.

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  3. My wife (no pics) works on campus and has to park in a garage on San Gabriel. Last year, just before covid, she's standing on the corner at 24th and Guad waiting for the light when some crazy homeless guy comes down the drag muttering to himself. She eyes him all the way. He stops about twenty feet away and cold cocks some woman in the head from behind out of the clear blue. Keeps on walking. My wife stayed with this poor woman until the cops came. They basically said there wasn't shit they could do about it. He would just be out in 24 hours.

    So many people have stories like this. Theft. Harassment. Assault. Shit. Public urination. Destruction of property. Arson. Almost ran over a drug addled cart pusher. Burglary. Trash. Trash. Trash. And so on. And so on.

    Come on, Austin. Take your city back.

     

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  4. rumor is that he had come in a few times before and was known as homeless and employees had actually reported him previously.  again just rumor but I could see it being likely.  the motel 6 over there is known drug/vagrant spot as well.

    I asked the door greeter there if the homeless were much of a problem maybe two weeks ago. Guy was like, nah, they come in for the restroom, but don’t cause problems.
    Sure they don’t.
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  5. Man stabbed at the Academy on N. Research on Saturday. I have no evidence that the psycho perp is from one of the homeless tents under any nearby underpass, but his booking photo would suggest that.
    I don’t want to get stabbed when I go to Academy.
    Fuck the city council for ever believing this shit show was a good idea.

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  6. Yes, there will be coaches who can develop  him.

    You might be right, but everything I saw when he came off the court during games seemed confrontational, argumentative, or pouty. Those aren’t coachable qualities. I wish him well, but can see him wandering in mediocrity because he’s always been told his shit didn’t stink.
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