Sage Against The Machine

Police Are Sending Homeless People To Places They Are Clearing Because There Is Nowhere Else To Send Them

This is how fucked up homelessness has become. 

They close services and then send people to those services because there is no other place to send them. Police OFTEN sent homeless people to our tent village that the city eventually closed.

 

Body cam footage captures Seattle officers directing homeless person to Cal Anderson Park for services | The Seattle Times

On Aug. 14, Seattle police cleared Cal Anderson Park of a homeless encampment and protesters who were occupying a parks building and distributing food to homeless people there. One week later, officers referred a hungry person living outside to the protesters who had again started distributing food at the park — the only place the officers could think of where that person could get help.