Cities Say They Store Property Taken From Homeless Encampments. People Rarely Get Their Things Back. – ProPublica
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Cities Say They Store Property Taken From Homeless Encampments. People Rarely Get Their Things Back. – ProPublica
Posted by sud_int
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Considering that some of the stuff taken or tossed out would be their identification papers/social security card/etc stuff, even a city that actually stored things properly would still be incredibly difficult to retrive belongings from.
Homeless encampments shouldn’t even be a thing. More shelters should be made, and more cops should be hired and garrisoned in the shelters to keep them free of the menaces of drugs, rape, violence and theft that make so many people so unwilling to go to shelters even when their only alternative is illegal encampments.
Would some of this stuff not be bordering on a biohazard, I can see why cities would be throwing it in the bin.
Yeah when you have nowhere to store massive amounts of stuff other than on public property, sometimes you just forfeit it.
How many people have gotten their cars towed because they left it on a public street for too long?