Eine neue Studie kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die unfreiwillige Räumung von Obdachlosenlagern in Denver die Kriminalität nicht wirksam reduzierte.
https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/involuntary-sweeps-of-homeless-encampments-do-not-improve-public-safety-study-finds?utm_campaign=homelessness&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social
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Maybe, just maybe, they could actually help homeless people find a real shelter and basic human decency instead of sweeping the problem under the rug
It’s not about effectiveness, it’s about cruelty.
Direct link to study: [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11524-024-00924-1](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11524-024-00924-1)
Really curious about the decision making process of all this…
If I have learned anything, it’s that what people really want is “out of sight out of mind.” We live in a society that is, above all else, guilt-averse. to the point that its not even about reducing crime as it is moving those people and that crime out of sight. as the margins begin to tighten in other, non-liberal major cities in america we are seeing first hand how unprepared and emotional people are dealing with the homeless. most people are realizing that their city actually does have a significant unhoused population, they just never had to see or deal with them and certainly didnt have to meaningfully humanize them.
the guilt is too much. it was easy to blame “liberal policies” or whatever when it was out of sight, but as wealth disparity increases and social services a increasingly defunded the problem will continue to arrive. unfortunately, criminalizing homelessness and shipping undesirable people out of sight is enough to placate the fear of guilt that drives much of this country
TIL a 9% decrease in crime is not an effective reduction in crime.
Rich NIMBY whites feel better, but nothing changes
Turns out spiting the homeless is a red herring distraction to keep certain people in office, and other people spited.
” I know, let’s disrupt an already unstable and stressed out population, that should help!” These simplistic ass solutions are sure nice to think about but ignore the reality of the situation.
If you don’t address the problem at the source, you just create worse problems. Homelessness will never be “solved”, just like substance abuse can never be solved. But policies can be implemented that help limit the damage done by it.
A lack of mental health care and economic inequality are the primary drivers of people living on the street. Start there. Anyone that thinks anything else will even begin to solve the problem is lieing to themselves because they don’t want to acknowledge the complexity of the situation.
“New study finds people who are not committing crime didn’t commit crime.” Ooph
You’re telling me that uprooting poor people from their desperate temporary shelters, destroying their belongings, and forcing them to start over again doesn’t lead to compliance and peace?
Many of the crimes inside the encampments and around the encampments are never reported. They need to study how and by who crimes are reported.
Homeless shelters are needed. Allowing homeless tent communities in public spaces, promotes public defecation and other hygiene and social issues. It also harms the freedoms of the public at large.
I live near a few encampments in the Bay Area and I find 99% of any negative interactions with these encampments is not something reportable or the police will not respond. Getting yelled at or having a drugged up person aggressively walking toward you at night while uttering nonsense isn’t fun, but also isn’t something I’m calling the cops over so why would this data be seen by this study. A 9% reduction in reported crimes but how many fewer of these gray area moments? Who knows it’s not data that is collected that we can infer from.
is there such a thing a ‘voluntary’ sweep?
They’re not trying to get rid of the crime, they’re trying to get rid of the sight of homeless people.
The amount of brain rot in this comments section is remarkable.