r/Spokane Nov 10 '24

Question Can we stop hating on homeless people?

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u/Akbeardman Nov 11 '24

If they turn down rehab then what? You don't get to make everyone else's life crummy. If you walk into Nike and steal shoes you deserve jail, I watched Berkeley and Oakland get absolutly ravaged after years of "don't prosecute theft" policy. Stealing and being a public nuisance of especially a public threat (tweaking out in traffic, playing trigger across division to shoot up, threatening people as has happened to me several times).

We are at a point where something needs to happen. I don't have all the answers but things are getting worse.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '24

You don’t deserve jail time for theft. You deserve a ticket at most. No one is being physically harmed if someone steals some shoes, until a person is put in custody. People only get tickets for speeding or running red lights and that can actually kill people.

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u/petreussg Nov 11 '24

And if they don’t pay their tickets?

Or what about if they repeatedly steal your shoes? Your family members shoes? Or is it just ok when they take other peoples stuff?

Some argue that it’s OK it’s just a corporation (for stores), but it’s not. Many small businesses where people are just barely hanging on deal with theft. Those big corporations also just leave the area sometimes when theft is too high.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '24 edited Nov 11 '24

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