RE: Homeless people found to commit crimes tactically to go to jail on purpose
People need to face the fact that most homeless people are homeless for a good reason, the majority cannot be helped and should not be helped because they have no interest in improving their situation. It's very common for homeless to refuse housing/shelters because they want to do drugs, drink, come and go as they please etc etc and those places have rules and responsibilities. Stop looking at the homeless through a rosy lens....they are largely lazy/dumb/crappy people or mentally ill....you have to make a lot of bad decisions in life, and keep making them every day, to be perpetually homeless. You think they would work if you gave them a job? California has a huge homeless problem, and this whole theory of going to jail to get off the streets is 100% false, nobody does that, the homeless generally refuse free housing. Taxpayers are already paying a lot, and cities are being seriously impacted by the homeless. Go to San Fran where the homeless run wild, in the middle of the street yelling at people, crapping/pissing in the open, it's nasty and good hard working people should not have to deal with it.
Have you or has anyone in your family ever been homeless?
Whether i've met/known a homeless person is irrelevant...surely you've seen the intervention tv shows where a family member is living on the streets and refuses to live with a family member / receive aid/ clean up their act etc....that's a common scenario.
Anyone can end up homeless due to bad luck. Some people who are geniuses with post grad degrees ended up homeless after the 2008 recession. Some war veterans with PTSD end up homeless. It's not just people with pre-existing conditions and substance abuse problems.
There are women who end up homeless because their exes are abusive.
Many homeless people actually have jobs. Do you have any data evidence to support what you say?
How are you so certain that it is 100% false and that nobody does that? Do you interview anyone who is homeless at least who told you they would never do that?
Not 100% false but generally false because a large portion of homeless consistently refuse housing/shelters when such programs are provided, I've seen it happen many times in southern California including just recently...but that's just common knowledge anyway, nothing new.