Comment on Why put a no trespassing sign on a bus stop
Mike_The_TV@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It is literally so they can charge homeless people taking shelter there.
I wouldn't even say that it's to be able to charge homeless people - how are they going to pay? It wouldn't be particularly smart financially.
It's more about just not having them there. Say what you want, but if a bus stop reeks, it makes it much less attractive to take public transit. Of course, it just moves the problem somewhere else - but the transit authority doesn't have to worry about it too much anymore.
charge them with a crime
Exactly. Them not being able to pay the fine is the bonus. That and its immediate probable cause for any officer wanting to cause some shit with whoever needs to take the bus that day.
I swear some people on this platform are intentionally dense or something
Kintarian@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s just mean
lettruthout@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Welcome to today‘s USA.
Nemo@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Anti-homeless antics are neither recent nor limited to America.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I have never heard of a western democracy that has a witch hunt against homeless people to near the degree that is common in USA.
So yes the evil against homeless people is mostly limited to America. USA has become the dystopia SciFi stories warned us against since a century ago.
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Welcome to people. Instead of fixing the homelessness, governments would prefer to make the situation worse while doing their best to ignore it.