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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has declined to sign off on a proposal criminalizing camping by homeless people and others in parks and on other local public property.
But the Republican governor on Tuesday let the bill become law without his signature. It takes effect July 1.
The new law will add local public property to the existing felony penalties that are possible for camping on state property, as long as the place is not designated for people to camp there.
The felony is punishable by up to six years in prison. Felony convictions in Tennessee result in the revocation of an individual’s right to vote.
Brilliant, throw all of the homeless in prison, if they're private prisons, the institutions get paid by the state to keep those beds full. Business is good for the industry and no more unsightly ne'er do wells in public!When the bill moved through the legislature, Republican Sen. Paul Bailey acknowledged that “lots of churches” had testified against the bill.
“I don’t have the answer for homelessness,” Bailey said. “Those that oppose this legislation, they don’t have all the answers for homelessness. Those that support this legislation, they don’t have all of the answers for homelessness.”
That was 2019. This SCOTUS might decide to lock them up. Or give them vasectomies or have their tubes tied. Or institute eugenics. Who knows what the reactionary nut jobs on this Court will do?The Supreme Court let the 9th circuit Court ruling stand just recently I don't get it
Supreme Court Lets Martin v. Boise Stand - National Homelessness Law Center
Supreme Court Lets Martin v. Boise Stand: Homeless Persons Cannot Be Punished for Sleeping in Absence of Alternatives FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Crys Letona Communications Associate cletona@homelesslaw.org (December 16, 2019, Washington, DC) – This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court...homelesslaw.org
Toss them all in prison, out of sight out of mind. Put them on road crew chain gangs!I live just south of Nashville in the most affluent town in the state. When I moved here 14 years ago there was never homeless beggers running around. Now they are at every highway on-off ramp, major intersections, everywhere. They step in front of cars in traffic, they have drug camps popping up, we just had a cop get stabbed when approaching a homeless camp. This isn't about a lack of economic opportunity, these camps are surrounded by help wanted signs for jobs offering $17-18/hr all over the place. You talk to the police, the hospital admin, the shelter operators, they are almost all addicts. Sorry, but the state has an obligation to do something when they represent a public safety issue.
I live just south of Nashville in the most affluent town in the state. When I moved here 14 years ago there was never homeless beggers running around. Now they are at every highway on-off ramp, major intersections, everywhere. They step in front of cars in traffic, they have drug camps popping up, we just had a cop get stabbed when approaching a homeless camp. This isn't about a lack of economic opportunity, these camps are surrounded by help wanted signs for jobs offering $17-18/hr all over the place. You talk to the police, the hospital admin, the shelter operators, they are almost all addicts. Sorry, but the state has an obligation to do something when they represent a public safety issue.
Yes, I could not agree more that the state has a duty to these people.I live just south of Nashville in the most affluent town in the state. When I moved here 14 years ago there was never homeless beggers running around. Now they are at every highway on-off ramp, major intersections, everywhere. They step in front of cars in traffic, they have drug camps popping up, we just had a cop get stabbed when approaching a homeless camp. This isn't about a lack of economic opportunity, these camps are surrounded by help wanted signs for jobs offering $17-18/hr all over the place. You talk to the police, the hospital admin, the shelter operators, they are almost all addicts. Sorry, but the state has an obligation to do something when they represent a public safety issue.
Cost a fortune. Why don't we try something constructive instead?Toss them all in prison, out of sight out of mind. Put them on road crew chain gangs!
Why are they going to Nashville?I live just south of Nashville in the most affluent town in the state. When I moved here 14 years ago there was never homeless beggers running around. Now they are at every highway on-off ramp, major intersections, everywhere. They step in front of cars in traffic, they have drug camps popping up, we just had a cop get stabbed when approaching a homeless camp. This isn't about a lack of economic opportunity, these camps are surrounded by help wanted signs for jobs offering $17-18/hr all over the place. You talk to the police, the hospital admin, the shelter operators, they are almost all addicts. Sorry, but the state has an obligation to do something when they represent a public safety issue.
Yes, I could not agree more that the state has a duty to these people.
Cost a fortune. Why don't we try something constructive instead?
Why another similar case on the Supreme Court docit ?That was 2019. This SCOTUS might decide to lock them up. Or give them vasectomies or have their tubes tied. Or institute eugenics. Who knows what the reactionary nut jobs on this Court will do?
Secretary off again today?Why another similar case on the Supreme Court docit ?
I live just south of Nashville in the most affluent town in the state. When I moved here 14 years ago there was never homeless beggers running around. Now they are at every highway on-off ramp, major intersections, everywhere. They step in front of cars in traffic, they have drug camps popping up, we just had a cop get stabbed when approaching a homeless camp. This isn't about a lack of economic opportunity, these camps are surrounded by help wanted signs for jobs offering $17-18/hr all over the place. You talk to the police, the hospital admin, the shelter operators, they are almost all addicts. Sorry, but the state has an obligation to do something when they represent a public safety issue.
I agree. Prison costs just as much money as trying to help those people out.
A rehab/work type program might be an idea.
Toss them all in prison, out of sight out of mind. Put them on road crew chain gangs!
Is putting them in prison for felonies going to help? What does it cost the taxpayer for every person in prison?
Yes, I could not agree more that the state has a duty to these people.
Why are they going to Nashville?
If they are going to house them, why not make it something less punitive and costly than prison?
I'm being facetious and emphasizing "compassionate conservative" solutions..Yes, I could not agree more that the state has a duty to these people.
Cost a f'ortune. Why don't we try something constructive instead?
Homeless camps on public land will be felony in TN
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has declined to sign off on a proposal criminalizing camping by homeless people and others in parks and on other local public property. But the Repub…wreg.com
Brilliant, throw all of the homeless in prison, if they're private prisons, the institutions get paid by the state to keep those beds full. Business is good for the industry and no more unsightly ne'er do wells in public!
How very NIMBY of you.I don't have a great answer, but tolerating drug addicts wandering around your community throwing up tents isn't acceptable. TN won't play the California game of allowing it.
No idea, but you got a solution? This isn't about economics, these are addicts, treatment just doesn't work unfortunately. When you have 95%+ recitivism rates it's a disaster.
Ship em to California then.
Nashville has seen an explosion in wealth since I got here, particularly my area. Brentwood is one of the wealthiest zip codes in the US and is also rather liberal. So they have been tolerant of it for a while, but now that is all changing. The locality has also starting cracking down on it as well.
Shrug, I haven't seen any suggestions that work. I blame Narcan.
The law of the land stands they cannot criminalize slepping on public property if homeless shelters are full.It seems that some middle ground (compromise) should exist. Perhaps an area within every zip code where free camping with minimal amenities is provided.
Typical Leftist advice from a comedian. Can't stand the thought of people spending their own money as they choose when it can be taken from them by an overreaching government to be used by the welfare state in another vote buying scheme. After all section 8 housing on a golf course surrounded by multi million dollar homes is a real incentive to work. Right?There was an excellent documentary on HBO about the life of George Carlin, this past weekend. Carlin said that there was no “War On Homelessness” because there just wasn’t any money to be stolen from that “war.” Carlin computed all the land used for golf courses and said that all that land made up two Rhode Islands and one Delaware. Perfect for government housing! All golf courses were good for was rich, old white guys making more deals how to steal money, anyway……
Yeah, Geogre was a ”leftist!”Typical Leftist advice from a comedian. Can't stand the thought of people spending their own money as they choose when it can be taken from them by an overreaching government to be used by the welfare state in another vote buying scheme. After all section 8 housing on a golf course surrounded by multi million dollar homes is a real incentive to work. Right?
Lovely racial stereotype of old white men plotting to steal money being the only ones playing golf. Can't be a Democrat without demogoguery. It's not divisive and toxic when the Left does it
How very NIMBY of you.
The law of the land stands they cannot criminalize slepping on public property if homeless shelters are full.
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