To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1418388 ) 9/8/2023 4:06:24 PM From: Qone0 Respond to of 1583492 >> In terms of drug abuse, the solution is tough love. I've said that already. Arrest those who are addicted and committing crimes just to feed their addiction, then put them into treatment programs.<<While relapse is far from a secret, it impacts more people than you might expect. In fact, a staggering 85 percent of people addicted to drugs relapse within one year. >> In terms of homelessness, the solution is to stop treating it like a housing availability crisis, and instead treat it like a drug and mental health crisis.<< Indeed, a study in the Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science stated: In the complete sample of homeless individuals, a full-scale IQ score of 84.3 was reported. >> And in the midst of implementing the long-term solutions, the short-term problems still need to be addressed. Enforce the law. Kick the homeless out of public areas and private properties.<< Criminalizing Homelessness and PovertyMost criminal statutes prohibit certain acts, such as taking something that does not belong to you or having sex for money; or failures to act, such as failing to provide a safe home for your children. While vagrancy laws sometimes prohibited specific acts, such as loitering (although this term can be problematic, as explained below), sleeping outside, panhandling, fortune telling, gambling, or prostitution, they also prohibited being a certain type of person (without regard to what that person might be doing or not doing). Vagrancy laws criminalized being: unemployedan alcoholic or a drug addicta prostitute, orhomeless.Under vagrancy laws, it was a crime to be any of these things, even if the person was not otherwise doing anything illegal. Laws that prohibit being something, rather than doing something, are called status crimes. As explained below, many courts have decided that status crimes, including some vagrancy laws, are problematic and hence unenforceable. Constitutional ProblemsAll laws must be constitutional. This simply means that no law can violate any of the provisions in the United States Constitution. Many vagrancy laws have been struck down because they violated the constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment or were vague.