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“Last night, per reporting from Omaha Scanner an elderly homeless man caught himself on fire while trying to warm himself with an illicit camp fire. Two hero Omaha Police officers saved his life. Sadly and ironically, this all happened one block away from a homless shelter. If we truly...

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@omaha_scanner But was there room in the shelter for him? I understand that there are people who use and don't want to go to shelters but there are many who want to go to shelters and there's no room. We need to help these folks find a warm place to stay. Just outlawing their camps isn't right

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@omaha_scanner Where I am 85% of the "homeless" are so by choice bec the shelters rightly forbid using in the shelters. Thus, we have addicts setting serious fires. The street-addicts need to be collected, detoxed, and placed into treatment.

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@omaha_scanner "Allowing vulnerable people to legally live in these conditions isn’t empathy, in my view it’s enabling and exacerbating the problem." So why not champion common-sense reforms that help end homelessness instead of pushing for more laws that criminalize homelessness, Aaron?

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@omaha_scanner Also @DCSheriffNE you said it exactly right ; no one in their right mind would be out there. So let's find a solution to the mental health crisis our country is facing. I'd rather my tax dollars go to helping people than jailing them 💙

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@omaha_scanner I have a feeling he’s going to be running for mayor after Stothert

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@SusanDKH @omaha_scanner We could give them housing, but instead you’re just doubling down on the most expensive solution to this problem; criminalizing homelessness. You don’t care about these people you’re just using them as a political prop. Shame on you.

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@omaha_scanner The homeless CHOOSE to not go to homeless shelters.

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@omaha_scanner When it gets to be freezing the shelter needs to allow for everyone to come in addiction aside:) once warm and fed they can address the addiction issues if one chooses. You cannot fix this with force only compassion and empathy.

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@omaha_scanner The majority of homeless people choose to be so. It's been this way for centuries. It's become worse with drugs, but it's more a choice. Ask them! They don't want to work or eat. Drinking alcohol and ingesting drugs is their existence.

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@omaha_scanner Ironically? WTF is ironic about that?

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That is a job for state legislators. So why haven’t they? Why has homelessness gotten worse? The answer that many homeless advocates give is that it’s because we don’t have enough homes, and poverty has increased. But neither is true. Poverty has steadily declined since the 1980s, when homelessness first became an issue of public concern. And very few people are on the street simply because they can’t afford the rent. The evidence is overwhelming that the majority of people on the street are there because of untreated mental illness or addiction, which leads people to use all their money to support their drug habit and be high, rather than work. People who can’t afford the rent but are able to work and aren’t in the grip of addiction or untreated mental illness find a cheaper place to live, move somewhere cheaper, or live with family and friends. It’s true there aren’t enough shelter beds, case workers, group homes, and psychiatric hospitals to care for the homeless. But a big part of the reason for that is that advocates for the homeless have, for 40 years, demanded that funding for dealing with the homeless go into giving people private studio apartments rather than building sufficient shelter beds. They call this “Housing First,” and its record is awful. Few stay in housing, and many die because it fails to treat the cause of the problem, addiction, and untreated mental illness rather than the symptoms. Studies find that cities that prioritize basic shelter over expensive housing reduce the deaths of homeless by 3-fold. And so in LA, homeless die at a rate 3 times higher than New York because living inside protects people from murder, drug overdose, and car accidents. Making matters worse, homeless advocates, along with the ACLU, have opposed expanding psychiatric hospitals, and mandatory care in general, because they believe it’s worse to mandate hospitalization for people who are dangerously psychotic or manic than to simply leave them on the street. But it’s not. Last year, 112,000 Americans died from drug overdose and poisoning because we failed to mandate treatment. Two of my friends from high school would still be alive today had we mandated they get treatment for addiction rather than letting them die. What is happening on homelessness is a record of failure. The number of drug deaths quintupled from 20,000 in 2022 to 112,000 last year. That’s more people dying per year than died in Hiroshima. Homelessness is not a fundamental problem of housing. It’s a problem of enabling addiction and untreated mental illness, both of which lead people to give up on work, lie, steal, cheat their families and friends, and live on the street, where they turn to petty crime to sustain their drug habits. This seems cruel to many people, which is why homelessness has gotten worse. In other words, the reason homelessness has gotten worse is because we’ve enabled it, and subsidized it, rather than funded treatment and recovery. Nobody has subsidized homelessness more than California, Washington, and Oregon. And it’s been in those states that homelessness has worsened the most. Why? The homelessness groups really believe it’s more cruel to mandate care than to let people die on the streets. But there is an ideology behind this, too. It’s the idea that people suffering from addiction and mental illness are victims of society or the system, which is fundamentally evil. And, according to their logic, to restore justice in the world, we must give victims whatever they want, including the right to camp anywhere and use hard drugs, even if it results in their death. You might call this "pathological altruism. Think of the Kathy Bates character in Misery. Or of the mother who poisons her child in order to have a sick person to take care of, like in “Sixth Sense.” It’s no coincidence that the same people who believe this also think civilization is evil and should be replaced by something more akin to primitive anarchism, like the kind romanticized by intellectuals since Rousseau. The alternative to this dystopia is tough love. We need to give people the care they need, but that’s not through enabling addiction and illegal behavior, but rather enforcing laws and mandating care, as an alternative to jail, when they are broken. It’s not enough to do what many Republicans want to do, which is to enforce laws and recriminalize shoplifting and hard drugs simply. We need to do that, for sure. But states must also have caseworkers, group homes, and psychiatric hospitals so there is an alternative to jail, and so states can provide people with the specialized care where it’s available, which simply isn’t going to be in many of the small towns, like the one at the center of the Supreme Court hearing. The dirty little secret about homelessness, which is also the key to ending it, is...
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The Dirty Little Secret About Homelessness Is Also The Key To Ending It The US Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments about what cities can and cannot do to end homelessness. "What if there is a bed available in the Gospel Rescue Mission, but Ms. Johnson, a person, doesn't want it? Doesn’t wish to leave their pet. Her Rottweiler's not permitted there. So that is a difficult question for a person and a difficult policy question..." What everyone agreed on was that homelessness is a difficult problem. "Many people have mentioned this is a serious policy problem… So, the policy questions in this case are very difficult….Martin speaks in terms of someone who is involuntarily homeless and that raises all of those policy questions… We usually think about whether state law, local law already achieves those purposes so that the federal courts aren't micromanaging homeless policy…" I think most people listening to the Supreme Court would agree: it isn’t going to solve homelessness. That is a job for state legislators. So why haven’t they? Why has homelessness gotten worse? The answer that many homeless advocates give is that it’s because we don’t have enough homes, and poverty has increased. But neither is true. Poverty has steadily declined since the 1980s, when homelessness first became an issue of public concern. And very few people are on the street simply because they can’t afford the rent. The evidence is overwhelming that the majority of people on the street are there because of untreated mental illness or addiction, which leads people to use all their money to support their drug habit and be high, rather than work. People who can’t afford the rent but are able to work and aren’t in the grip of addiction or untreated mental illness find a cheaper place to live, move somewhere cheaper, or live with family and friends. It’s true there aren’t enough shelter beds, case workers, group homes, and psychiatric hospitals to care for the homeless. But a big part of the reason for that is that advocates for the homeless have, for 40 years, demanded that funding for dealing with the homeless go into giving people private studio apartments rather than building sufficient shelter beds. They call this “Housing First,” and its record is awful. Few stay in housing, and many die because it fails to treat the cause of the problem, addiction, and untreated mental illness rather than the symptoms. Studies find that cities that prioritize basic shelter over expensive housing reduce the deaths of homeless by 3-fold. And so in LA, homeless die at a rate 3 times higher than New York because living inside protects people from murder, drug overdose, and car accidents. Making matters worse, homeless advocates, along with the ACLU, have opposed expanding psychiatric hospitals, and mandatory care in general, because they believe it’s worse to mandate hospitalization for people who are dangerously psychotic or manic than to simply leave them on the street. But it’s not. Last year, 112,000 Americans died from drug overdose and poisoning because we failed to mandate treatment. Two of my friends from high school would still be alive today had we mandated they get treatment for addiction rather than letting them die. What is happening on homelessness is a record of failure. The number of drug deaths quintupled from 20,000 in 2022 to 112,000 last year. That’s more people dying per year than died in Hiroshima. Homelessness is not a fundamental problem of housing. It’s a problem of enabling addiction and untreated mental illness, both of which lead people to give up on work, lie, steal, cheat their families and friends, and live on the street, where they turn to petty crime to sustain their drug habits. This seems cruel to many people, which is why homelessness has gotten worse. In other words, the reason homelessness has gotten worse is because we’ve enabled it, and subsidized it, rather than funded treatment and recovery. Nobody has subsidized homelessness more than California, Washington, and Oregon. And it’s been in those states that homelessness has worsened the most. Why? The homelessness groups really believe it’s more cruel to mandate care than to let people die on the streets. But there is an ideology behind this, too. It’s the idea that people suffering from addiction and mental illness are victims of society or the system, which is fundamentally evil. And, according to their logic, to restore justice in the world, we must give victims whatever they want, including the right to camp anywhere and use hard drugs, even if it results in their death. You might call this "pathological altruism. Think of the Kathy Bates character in Misery. Or of the mother who poisons her child in order to have a sick person to take care of, like in “Sixth Sense.” It’s no coincidence that the same people who believe this also think civilization is evil and should be replaced by something more akin to primitive anarchism, like the kind romanticized by intellectuals since Rousseau. The alternative to this dystopia is tough love. We need to give people the care they need, but that’s not through enabling addiction and illegal behavior, but rather enforcing laws and mandating care, as an alternative to jail, when they are broken. It’s not enough to do what many Republicans want to do, which is to enforce laws and recriminalize shoplifting and hard drugs simply. We need to do that, for sure. But states must also have caseworkers, group homes, and psychiatric hospitals so there is an alternative to jail, and so states can provide people with the specialized care where it’s available, which simply isn’t going to be in many of the small towns, like the one at the center of the Supreme Court hearing. The dirty little secret about homelessness, which is also the key to ending it, is...

Michael Shellenberger

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This was not filmed in an Islamic country, but it was filmed in Los Angeles. So people fled from the Islamic regime only to see the traditions of their killers increasing here in the West. This is a nightmare for me, and with me many who have fled from this. The West, which we looked up to so much as young people in Iran, must resist the invasion of such cultures. It’s amazing that critical people like myself should shut up according to some and be labeled "Islamophobic" or "fascist," while these backward traditions are given all the space they need in the West. While these Islamists and their traditions, and even misogynistic way of life, are embraced by "progressives," critics are dismissed as those who do not understand "Western freedom" and even want to restrict it. We have to stop this. This culture makes everything black and dark. If one wishes such a thing, move to an Islamic country and do it there. Let the west remain the west.
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This was not filmed in an Islamic country, but it was filmed in Los Angeles. So people fled from the Islamic regime only to see the traditions of their killers increasing here in the West. This is a nightmare for me, and with me many who have fled from this. The West, which we looked up to so much as young people in Iran, must resist the invasion of such cultures. It’s amazing that critical people like myself should shut up according to some and be labeled "Islamophobic" or "fascist," while these backward traditions are given all the space they need in the West. While these Islamists and their traditions, and even misogynistic way of life, are embraced by "progressives," critics are dismissed as those who do not understand "Western freedom" and even want to restrict it. We have to stop this. This culture makes everything black and dark. If one wishes such a thing, move to an Islamic country and do it there. Let the west remain the west.

Darya Safai MP

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This wasn’t just “a woman” - this was Bethany MaGee. She survived being drenched in gasoline and set on fire, but her life will never be the same. And still, a man with 72 offenses was allowed to walk freely among the public. That’s not justice - that’s a system choosing criminals over victims. This has to end. People like that should never return to society. We need laws that protect innocent people, not repeat offenders. Lawrence Reed must be held accountable - and so must everyone who allowed him to stay free after 72 offenses. #JusticeForBethany
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This wasn’t just “a woman” - this was Bethany MaGee. She survived being drenched in gasoline and set on fire, but her life will never be the same. And still, a man with 72 offenses was allowed to walk freely among the public. That’s not justice - that’s a system choosing criminals over victims. This has to end. People like that should never return to society. We need laws that protect innocent people, not repeat offenders. Lawrence Reed must be held accountable - and so must everyone who allowed him to stay free after 72 offenses. #JusticeForBethany

Rubenz

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