Comment on "Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping as soon to be illegal
obinice@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s not what the quote you posted says, it says it tackles that two things, not that it makes them illegal.
It does mention some things that are to be made criminal offences right before this bit though, to trick people into posting such headlines, I suspect.
This whole thing sucks anyway, but I think we could use some clarity on exactly what will be made illegal?
tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Oh I think you’re right actually – it looks like from the PDF that they will be issued notices
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/…/230010.pdf
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IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 7 months ago
🙄 or like, you could admit you were wrong, remove the propaganda, and not resort to your head cannon 🤷♂️
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 7 months ago
“aggressive homeless individuals”
There it is.
There’s the problem.
You’re assuming this will be used when needed, and not used in excess, trampling down people who are already underfoot.
All cops are bastards, no exceptions for location.
If they CAN abuse a law, they WILL abuse it. At every opportunity.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I know. There are issues with the police, so now we can’t have laws on the books either. Despite circumstances many homeless don’t take no for an answer and threaten people. There needs to be a law to detain those people. That’s regardless of the help they will or wont get or accept before or after.
JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 7 months ago
but you’ll leave your not-factual headline up?
tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
forgot, fixed, cheers
520@kbin.social 7 months ago
Slippery slope? All it does is provide an enforcement option for orgs who don't want people begging on their property.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
you don’t see that as an avenue for more and more orgs to do this by default, and given the lack of public spaces in our cities, essentially making it impossible to beg anywhere?
520@kbin.social 7 months ago
Bro wtf are you on about? There's tons of public spaces in the UK.