Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Compassion versus Conviction

Over the last ten years, one county in Florida has spent more than $5-million putting homeless people in jail.

Here's the stupid: It was the same 37 people.

The council of Ocheola County allowed local law-enforcement to arrest and imprison the same 37 people 1,250 times, at a cost to local taxpayers of more than $100 each time, for minor offences like panhandling and sleeping in public places.

For perhaps half that amount the Council could have acquired a suitable piece of Real Estate and given those people a real home, not a criminal record.

It's news like this that makes the compulsion to do our homelessness project just unbearably worse...


Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Homelessness Thrift Store Looted by Thieves


A Thrift Store in Missouri raises funds to help Homeless people rebuild their lives. In the early hours of Monday, thieves stole almost everything that wasn't nailed down...

Kind folks at a Thrift Store in Missouri sell lightly-used items to raise funds that help Homeless people rebuild their lives.

In the early hours of Monday, thieves stole almost everything that wasn't nailed down...