The issue is not the number of houses, it’s who owns them. There are 16 million houses with nobody living in them because private investors are buying them purely as an investment.
I mean, The Grand Tour bought a house for $2200 in a bad area of Detroit that nobody wanted. There are a shitload available starting at around $500. Have at it.
Yes, you can buy a house for between $500-$1,000 and even cheaper but the catch is, as of 2018, you have to bring the property up to code within 6 months.
Conservative estimates three years ago was you’d need between $60,000-$100,000 to bring everything in a dilapidated house up to code
It’s not mismanagement if the explicit, if secretive, goal is to simply remove as many users of the service as possible, knowing most of them don’t easily have the means to fight back.
Listen man, I’m no supporter of the police… I have worked for years with the population that is fucked over by the criminal justice system and stuck in the revolving door. I have known good police fucked over and forced out by corruption and dirty piece of shit cops. The criminal justice system is systemically racist and in need of so much reform.
And I’m angry and pissed off about it too. But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t have calculated responses instead of calling for things that ultimately undermine our rights and would possibly allow for worse treatment of US citizens by the justice system.
And because there are so many emotions tied into this problem (and justifiably so when there are unaccountable murders and rapists with badges and impunity), people on the same side of the issue become at odds when discussing approaches to address the issue.
This is not directed at you [Edit: actually it 100% is!] (certainly other users), but there is a significant amount of people who make actual societal change harder because of the fact that they are emotionally reasoning with great rigidity. They will be at the throats of other people on the same side, any time the smallest disagreement arises.
Look at the childish responses I received by the top commenter [yourself], despite the fact that I agree with their sentiment. But because I disagreed with one aspect, they became emotional and created a wedge between people on the same side of the issue.
I’m pissed off and want retribution, not just an end. I want to feel that visceral satisfaction imagining an eye-for-an-eye justice inflicted on these sick pieces of shit. But I am not so emotional and deluded that I can’t remain in the real world and focus on realistic goals and movements.
So I just wanted to confirm your claim that incorrectly responding to a user indicates poor reading comprehension. That is what you indicated to me, so I just wanted to confirm.
Nope, you didn’t read it clearly! I said you may have mistaken me for another user or it may have been your poor reading comprehension. So your poor reading comprehension has struck yet again! Hahaha
Reading comprehension and reading usernames are two different things.
What a sad defense lol. This is too hilarious. That’s not even taking into account the context of you criticizing someone’s intellect with your career. Community college really did a number on you huh?
I had a client tell me to go back to wherever I came from (I’m a pasty ass white guy) and she left this letter on my car accusing me of being a middle-eastern “Islamic Jew” and telling me to do something with “your gold”, and to “bury your head in the sand.”
It was one of the more amusing accusations I’d received over the years. I tried to address the letter with her and she just kept telling me “Move back to whatever country you came from.” I said I was born in the US, and told her that I’m mostly of Irish decent, and she looked me dead in the eyes and said so matter of fact: “Then go back to Ireland” and stormed off.
I wasn’t upset and when she went back in the facility I couldn’t help but let out a pretty good laugh. Another client was on the porch laughing and he was just saying “Man you’re so white!” (he was black and seemed so amused by the accusations). My hair is black, but my skin is Conan white… My supervisor was an African American (in that she immigrated here from South Africa) and she would tease me relentlessly about being ‘middle-eastern’ for years.
But that wild note under my windshield was a lot better than the rocks that Client covered a facility worker’s car with! My supervisor made me drop that client from my caseload fearing more false accusations.
Man, sorry for this rant out of no where… That user and your response just made me think of it. That deportation part of his comment was just so absurd it just brought me back to that other situation.
You think I support the police in this country simply for not agreeing with something you said? How old are you? Because you’re acting like an opinionated teenager with black and white thinking.
No no no!!! We can’t be mean to cops that’s against the law!!!
I don’t care if you disagree, your entire premise was that deportation is only for immigrants. You were objectively wrong on that point. As soon as I pointed that out you pivoted to constitutionality because you knew you were wrong and you couldn’t admit it.
Cry me a River. Or maybe just write another 17 paragraph essay about your life experiences 🤣
No no no!!! We can’t be mean to cops that’s against the law!!!
Never said that. Pay more attention in school! You may have reading comprehension problems.
your entire premise was that deportation is only for immigrants.
I never said it was only for immigrants; I simply linked an excerpt stating that natural born US citizens cannot be deported. Are you mixing me up with the other commenter, or is this just your poor reading comprehension getting the best of you again?
Cry me a River. Or maybe just write another 17 paragraph essay about your life experiences 🤣
Why do so many people online think people on the other side of disagreements are upset and emotional? Just a projection? I’m calm, collected, and amused by you. I’m having a great morning enjoying my coffee!
Just remember to focus on that reading comprehension! Peace out and fuck the police!
What do you think “someone who has no legal right to be there” is a reference too? When would a citizen not have the legal right to be in his own country? How often have you heard of a citizen being deported from his own country? It’s literally against international law.
I’m a police abolitionist and going through your exchange here is almost enough to get me to reconsider my position. You really ought to do some reading into the case for abolition. Your undirected rage is doing more harm than good. Sit down, think and learn about the concepts you’re trying to communicate because you sound like a literal child right now. Maybe you’re just a troll and I’m falling for the bait but jeeeeeeesus christ you’re insufferable
I have a chronic illness and am fighting another illness. I would be fucked without healthcare, but workers deserve to be treated better. I guess if I had KP, I would be willing to suffer on their behalf. I wouldn’t die, I would just be in a lot more pain.
EDIT: Thinking on this, that might have sounded selfish. I meant to say the opposite- that patients need to be behind the workers too.
As a nurse who also suffers from a painful chronic illness, I appreciate you. We’re currently unionizing at my hospital because we’ve tried literally every single other thing we could think of - reporting detailed safety events, protesting assignments - and the hospital simply refuses to hire more staff. None of us want to strike, but the working conditions we’re currently experiencing make it impossible for us to do the right thing for our patients. None of us want to strike, but if we do so, it’s because we were left with no other option. Believe me, all we want is to be able to safely and successfully do our jobs.
Washington really is turning into a shit hole. I guess legislators saw Portland and San Francisco and thought, “that looks like a great way to run a city!”
Yep. I’ve been to D.C. I’ve been to Baltimore. I didn’t feel unsafe at all despite the right constantly using those as examples of cities that are war zones.
As long as you have common sense most places aren’t too dangerous. Just keep to yourself if you’re in the sketchy neighborhood and don’t hang around at night. I think these representative are use to small towns where meth heads steal your ladder and don’t kill because usually people know who they are.
I live in a small city in SoCal, Yucaipa for those curious. And people lement that the city is getting so dangerous now, meanwhile the worst crime I know of was a methhead shooting someone in a fucking parking lot. Ya can still walk around at 2 in the morning and the worst threat would probably be the cars.
Has it ever been great. I was looking at a position at university of maryland at one point and it was sorta crazy as anywhere you could live was either really cheap and scary or expesive and luxurious. I could not find anything in-between.
Any system that classifies things has two types of errors: false positives and false negatives. As you increase one you decrease the other. It’s as simple as that. So if you want to be 100% sure you put every bad person in prison you just put everyone in prison. Anything short of that you’re going to miss some. How many innocent people being tortured or killed by the system does it take to equal the value of killing or torturing one guilty person or even keeping one guilty person in prison for the rest of their lives?
Stories like this primarily exist to justify massive amounts of violence by the state to ostensibly prevent things like this… except they never actually do. The criminal legal system is the only system that uses its own failure to perpetually justify additional investment. As long as you have prisons, you will have this. You will have people who go to prison and become more dangerous. You will have people falsely imprisoned and even murdered. You will have police murdering people regularly and getting away with it in the name of “preventing” crimes like this. All you need to do is look at the clearance rates for police and the recitivism rate for prisons to see that they just aren’t worth the investment.
Until we shift to a public health model of public safety, this is guaranteed. Public health approachs like investment in early childhood education, restorative justice systems, and making mental healthcare more accessible have been proven repeatedly to have multiple times higher return on investment than police or prisons.
While revenge feels good and feels intuitive based on the history of the legal system, it doesn’t fit with modern psychology. Classifier based punitive legal systems must always either cause suffering by action or inaction because that’s part of the fundamental definiton of classifiers and punitive systems. Making sure people like this are in prison means making sure innocent people are also in prison. Is it worth it?
It’s disappointing to see you getting down voted like this.
Like sure, this guy probably shouldn’t be on the streets, but how many innocent people are we willing to imprison in the process of keeping people like him behind bars?
All the while our education, healthcare and social safety nets are being dismantled. All the things that actually help reduce violent crime.
You guys in the US are using up way too much of your groundwater for farming in scorching hot areas like Arizona and Texas even without the Saudis. Isn’t there enough farmland in states with a less hostile climate?
In the past there were enormous aquifers below the surface. The water was under so much pressure that you could tap it and it would erupt like a geyser. So for generations farmers in these areas had what they thought was unlimited water. Now those aquifers are empty or nearly empty and these farmers are resistant to that reality.
Of course no one wants to face this devastating reality…
In the end it will probably be a large wealth transfer from the states without groundwater to the ones that still have groundwater. Farmers will have to buy land in the groundwater states and the land in the dry states will be practically worthless.
I’m a true believer in technology so I’m hopeful that there will be considerable innovation in desalinization so we can continue to farm in arid areas.
Desalinization would only work in getting Los Angeles and San Diego off of Colorado River water.
The big money right now is in sewage treatment. There are several treatment plants in inland cities which treat their sewage water so that it can either be used for agricultural purposes or even get recycled as potable water.
One of the more documented cases is the Intel chip plant in Chandler. Intel’s plant treats its effluent to potable standards and pumps the water into the local aquifer to store it. Intel has a lot of water there.
Maybe. (1) I don’t think there’s the political will to enact anything like that & (2) I don’t think that would entice as many people as you think. People get really attached to their home. These areas are growing. The population in the southwest has grown over 11% in the last decade and it’s projected to continue to grow.
People should note that indigenous groups had also been practicing agriculture along the rivers all through the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. Agriculture isn’t the problem overall, unsustainable crops like alfalfa are.
WOW does this article bend over backwards to obscure the likelihood that “treatment” is not going to be voluntary. First of all, this is not affected individuals applying for these services, as that would just be social services, a thing that already exists. Here’s how this system works:
Family members and first responders are among those who can now file a petition on behalf of an adult they believe “is unlikely to survive safely” without supervision and whose condition is rapidly deteriorating. They also can file if an adult needs services and support to prevent relapse or deterioration that would likely result in “grave disability or serious harm” to themselves or others.
As far as I can tell, this isn’t even remotely exclusive to homeless people, and it feels like burying the lead that Cali’s homeless population is mentioned at all. This is anyone with a psychotic disorder that can be forced into “treatment” by a badge or random family member who claims they’re “deteriorating.” If you think that sounds like it’s putting people with psychotic disorders at a even more heightened risk of being forced into conservatorships, you’d be right:
A person who does not successfully complete a plan could be subject to conservatorship and involuntary treatment, said Tal Klement, a deputy public defender in San Francisco who is among critics of the new process.
The article immediately moved to muddy this fact by following it up with two paragraphs that start with this sentence:
But the statute also allows the court to dismiss the proceedings if the individual declines to participate or to follow the agreement.
That’s all you need to read - “allows” is extremely different from “requires.” The court is in no way required to respect the wishes of the affected individual as the article irresponsibly attempts to imply, and as these courts are likely to be biased to view the affected individual as a crazy person and the people that reported them as Good Samaritans “just trying to help,” they are probably far more likely to opt for treatment, consensual or not, and this court becomes an excellent method of fast tracking vulnerable people into conservatorships.
Assuming “first responders” make any use of this, maybe this shields a few people from jail, but as cops aren’t really opposed to sending people to jail, it’s more likely they’ll just use this system when they suspect someone of having a psychotic disorder but can’t get them for an actual crime, if they bother to use it at all.
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