Female Transient Starts Small Fire on State Street
Female transient lit a small fire in the walkway near McDonald's, in the 1200 Block of State Street. She lit a small tree on fire in a planter.
Female transient lit a small fire in the walkway near McDonald's, in the 1200 Block of State Street. She lit a small tree on fire in a planter.
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HOUSING is what's needed. Not an institution. do some research, everyone. Re: lack of housing, cost of housing, obstacles in CA to building housing, what causes homelessness, who is homeless and where they're from, etc...
The haters are living in fantasy land they should be the ones who occupy the care institutions.
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A normal society and normal people don’t tolerate this. Progressives insist that everything is relative, so normal society and normal people are forced to tolerate this.
What's with the homeless and all the fires lately?! Have they all converted to being full-fledged pyros?
Well, I guess a fire in a planter is not as bad as a fire in dry brush at a homeless camp. Be thankful for small favors.
SB Independent had an article this week about how some city council members and activists in the community are pushing back against the possibility of new rules intended to keep the hobos from parking their crap all over our streets/parks/sidewalks. Funnily enough for all of the vilification she gets here, it actually seemed like Mayor Murillo was challenging Sneddon, etc. on this and saying that we cannot end up like LA / SF / Seattle where the hobos have just completely taken over. Literally at what point is enough enough? Driving down State St. this morning at 10:15am and it looked like zombies had taken over. They outnumbered normal people by 2:1.
Excellent candidate for a court-mandated induced Coma, parking her shell in a no-signage discreet tilt-up industrial building against the freeway in Goleta.
CHIP OF SB has it right. In just the past few weeks I have seen so many more of these pitiful, wretched beings walking around. It's incredible how their numbers have increased. Some of them with overloaded shopping carts, some with packs; most wearing rags. It's criminal that we can't "save" them all. But these beings need care and need to be off the streets. Handing them money or sandwiches is not going to help them, nor is any day care center the answer. Institutionalize them.
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The numbers will swell as "snowbirds" arrive from all the colder, less hospitable areas of the entire country. Who'd want to winter in New York/Chicago/Detroit--or even Seattle & Portland--when it's so much warmer, easier pickin's here?
pitiful wretched beings? you mean your fellow human beings? come back to earth, and please get off your high horse. they are humans. they need help and our government, state, and local, and federal, have nothing to help them with.
i had family that worked fro Camarillo State Hospital. when they disolved the programs, most of the really bad patients were transfered to Atascadero, the rest were just let out onto the streets. These people need help and compassion. Not @sshats sitting online calling them wretched beings. Like you're any better...
this is sad....such a lack of compassion and empathy. is this how we treat people? is this how your folks raised the lot of you to treat others in society, especially those that are worse off than you? this isn't how i was brought up, and I personally take steps to chip in and help, rather than sit at home and bang away at a keyboard acting like you have the solutions to save the city/world.
Factotum is right. We need to provide locked care and other facilities in this community for this population as needed. Because it is expensive it will not be abused or overloaded. With the exception that has made the Psychiatric Health Facility ("PUFF") a joke for decades which is that the staff will admit the most amenable and quiet patients but decline the difficult workload which is then left in the community or put into jails.
I heard the democratic candidate for District 2 state several times that all the homeless need is a day Center in downtown close to businesses. Day centers are typically open for 6 hours during daylight hours, “day Center”.
Do you think this would prevent what you saw after your movie?
Do you think this would prevent fires at the camps that almost burned down residents and businesses, Milpas, Bath St and Fairview fires to name three big ones in the last three months.
What do you all think should be done to help the homeless and the rest of the public?
Chip, the state has started pilot programs in LA, SF and San Diego making it easier to get court guardian status for these people which will provide for their placement in institutional care settings. Don't forget years ago voters passed the Mental Health Services Act that has raised billions of dollars to provide care for exactly this population group. So far no one has been accountable for where those funds went. But with this new pilot program and more accountability for the MHSA funds raised every year, the population you are describing will be taken off the streets ....finally. Track this pilot program and ask our local state elected officials (Limon and Jackson) to make it available for our community as soon as possible
If I end up homeless and some Ding Bat goes to stick me in a Institution they better say Good Bye to their teeth because they are going with me..Care institution my butt!
I do not think that a "day center" as you are describing it would accomplish much of anything. I believe that people who are unable to care for themselves should be institutionalized and cared for 24/7. I would suggest as a general proposition that most so-called "homeless" people would be far better off in an institution than crashed out in doorways or writhing on sidewalks. I believe that institutionalizing these people would virtually eliminate all of the problems we associate with "homelessness." In addition, I believe that doing so would dramatically improve the safety and standard of living of the "homeless" individuals who are institutionalized. It is care, not punishment. I truly believe that such a solution would eliminate the "homeless" problem the general public is exposed to while simultaneously benefiting the "homeless" people. However, such a solution cannot be implemented without a profound political shift at the state and local level. Until such a shift occurs, the "homeless" situation will continue to spiral out of control.
Put in an institution and treated like a Human Being? They don't treat people like Human Beings in institutions...
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Roger's on point today and i agree 100% with his statements.
Nurse Ratched or whatever her name is is going to have an NBD she started trying to play games with my mental weakness..Some of you sound like wanna be Nazi's.
I saw Joker at the Arlington recently. After the film we walked back to my car and it was like the movie had come to life. Someone was laid out in the doorway of the McDonalds. Then another person was laid out on Anapamu street in an alcove. A third person was somewhat frantically pacing back and forth on the other side of Anapamu. Then a fourth... It felt like some kind of zombie invasion. The situation seems eerily reminiscent of the film Joker. How many times does someone have to reach out for help before they can be put in an institution and treated like a human being? How does someone react when the system fails them, abandons them, and leaves them writhing in agony on the sidewalk time after time? Is lighting something on fire enough to get this poor woman the help she needs? What will it take?
Jail. Against the law. No more two systems of justice in this town: one for transients and one for the rest of us.
They don't all have that aroma that Haters do.
do a sniff test.
How can you tell which ones are the Transients?
Toward the Bus Station SBPD searching the area.
Suspect last seen walking South on Chapala WFA 60's wearing a red backpack, black hat.
Santa Barbara City Fire Department, and SBPD on scene...