NYPD is hiring "Homeless Services Police" and ramping up "enforcement" against the unhoused. Just got this email from NYC HRA.
This is a listing for someone who is going to function as a security guard at an emergency shelter and has nothing to do with enforcement. Of note, NYC knocks it out of the park with shelter capacity, something like 90% of their unhoused population is in shelter, whereas in my city it's closer to 30%. NYC homeless services beat the pants off most other cities
Security guards at homeless shelters are the enforcement. That’s the problem.
sigh
Can't even get the grammar correct.
blah blah blah we are looking for officers who will:
Giving routine information to blah blah
Give. They will GIVE. Every other bullet point has the right verb tense.
Let's arrest all the homeless people, put them in jail, give them huge fines that they can't pay, let them out, then put them back in jail when they can't pay the fines. Yeah, that'll fix everything.
Not to defend these pigs at all, but NYC is probably one of the best cities and how it treats its unhoused population. We have a huge amount of shelters, there’s an enormous amount of public assistance available, free healthcare, and a mandate that no one should be turned away when requesting temporary shelter housing. Especially during the winter.
That being said, it’s obvious that the NYPD and the Adams administration are trying to appease conservatives “for some reason.”
I blame the rollout of ranked choice voting without a comprehensive public education campaign on how it works. Most people voting through the primaries only chose one candidate rather than five of their top choices, and that is how Eric Adams became the Democratic nominee. Kathryn Garcia was the obvious better pick, and she lost out because people didn’t understand how ranked choice voting worked when they first started it during that last election.
So, clearly education is very important, particularly when it comes to how someone is going to cast their vote. Otherwise, horrible mistakes can obviously happen.
Edit: lots of spelling fixes, wow
Fucking pigs
The pay's shit for a city like New York. Are they sure these positions wouldn't make the officers risk becoming homeless themselves?