So, in other words, their criminal trespassing was a "victimless" crime, so it's OK?

We should consider designating a single Village for those people who want to help feed and help the homeless and mentally ill.

You couldn’t live there unless you agreed to assist the homeless whenever they stopped by so it would have to be a new Village. It would be part of the deed restrictions.

We could call it Utopia and it could be advertised as the place for homeless to go looking for handouts.

Great analogy.

Spot on.

Back before we moved here, we lived in a town in Minnesota of about 30,000 people about an hour's drive from Minneapolis - St. Paul. There were homeless in our town; not many, but they were there. We showed compassion: churches took turns cooking so that there was one free, healthy meal provided per day, usually at about 5:00 PM. A local athletic facility allowed them to use the showers at certain designated times. They could use the food shelves. Churches also arranged for clothing donations to be given to them. Reports were that some of them utilized a couple of abandoned buildings for shelter; the law mostly looked the other way. It made sense. Minnesota isn't bad during the summer months but there is 5-6 months of winter weather up there and it can get pretty rough living outside.

We began noticing, however, that the numbers of people at the free meals were increasing. Panhandling started occurring, and some of the panhandlers were quite verbally aggressive about it. Shoplifting, and theft (including break-ins) were increasing. There were squabbles among the homeless as well, one of them knifing another over some dispute or other. Word had it that the reputation for compassion shown to the homeless in our little town had spread to other towns--homeless people have phones too, and contrary to some belief they DO travel. It was the "Portland effect" in miniature. We moved before anything concrete was done about it so I have no idea what the situation is there today.

This is what "compassion" for the homeless gets you. I've seen it firsthand and I definitely don't want it here in TV.

Rupert. Yes, I’ll be following up with the rec dept.

What’s your address and phone number? I’ll send them to your home.

We call it being a "sucker".

Today’s entertainment…..bash other posters for their thoughts, compassion, or ugly comments to others:rant-rave:

Not just today..........:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

In so many words.

Happens a lot when emotion triumphs over reason.

I worked at an office in an area of St. Petersburg that was over run with homeless. They would come to our office after hours. We would come to work to find urine and feces on the walkway around the building. We would find used napkins from restroom use. As employees who chose to go to work daily, it wasn't fair to us to have to clean up dirty, bloody used napkins, not to mention the actual product. We called 911 on multiple occasions due to someone still there when we arrived because they were unresponsive. Before blasting people who are paying a great deal of money for 'that water hose" go deal with the outcome. From what I saw 99% of the people on our sidewalk didn't want to get off the streets.

Community Watch employees do not have police powers

Where do you expect them to go unless your willing to pay more taxes to feed , shelter and provide
medical . It’s only going to get worse . No compassion shown here by the OP .

Compassion
 

Please post your address so if seen we can send them to your house for a quick shower with soap! No blood just soap !

Why would you think community watch would assist people showering?