Homeless people should not be arrested just if they smell - minister

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• NickwithaC@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Homeless people should not be arrested. They should be homed.

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• j4yt33@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Police and courts are already massively understaffed and the government wants to make being homeless illegal. Genius move from genius former minister Braverman

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• Nougat@fedia.io ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Would you be arrested if you smelled bad and had a place to live? No?

  Then they would be arresting you because you're homeless.

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• ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is where the Overton window is at, that “I think we shouldn’t arrest the poor for being unwashed” is considered the most compassionate possible response

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• Mex@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What the actual…

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• Mex@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  theguardian.com/…/rough-sleepers-should-not-be-ar… Another report on it

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• Mex@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Better discussion on this here. feddit.uk/post/9948501

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does the UK have sniffing constables that specialise in this?

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  • mondoman712@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oi mate, u got a license for that stink?

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• Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The British ran out of foreign people to terrorize and belittle, so now they do their own.

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• dragontangram88@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The fact that they have to state this just shows how badly they need shelters for their homeless.

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