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Fochinell t1_iulqx9r wrote

Reply to comment by xCeladon in Homeless People in Lancaster CA Are Being Forced to Live in the Desert by xCeladon

In order to avoid what they consider police harassment (no doubt meaning execution of arrest warrants, court judgements, and skipped bail) these people are choosing to live with no fixed address in an unincorporated area outside the jurisdiction of the LA County Sheriff’s Office. That’s the testimony I heard from their own mouths in this story. They’re literally outlaws and desperados.

I’d reckon this geographically means where “Avenue G” in Lancaster ends, it’s there where Federal BLM land management begins. Looking at https://blm-egis.maps.arcgis.com I believe it’s correct. That’s why they’re camped there.

It’s legal (or at least ignorable enough) to camp freely on BLM land. And also legal to just bury your rubbish. Less legally also your dead former sidekicks who stole that last cigarette you were saving.

If one wishes to behave civically like The Manson Family did, then living in the desert just outside the clutches of society’s laws also like the Mansons did goes right along with it.

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StuStutterKing t1_ium7f9e wrote

> no doubt meaning execution of arrest warrants, court judgements, and skipped bail

There is a LOT to doubt about this statement. Homeless people are routinely harassed by police, particularly in suburbs and smaller cities, to force them to leave the area to avoid further harassment. This harassment comes in the forms of erroneous trespasses from public property, random searches and detainment for little or legitimately no reason, the execution of blatantly unconstitutional local ordinances such as restrictions on speech and sleeping, etc.

There are certainly homeless people who have warrants and other legal issues, and there are certainly homeless people that are bad people. But to paint them all with the same brush because they all lack housing is simplistic, idiotic, and allows abuses to be swept under the rug under the pretense of "homeless? Must have been a druggie criminal".

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mynameisalso t1_ium8mac wrote

How to turn temporary homelessness into permanent homelessness 101. Make it absolutely impossible for them to find work.

Can't believe your terrible take is getting upvoted full of self absorbed bullshit.

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