It's nice that some cities have systems where they actually try to store some people's belongings. Most cities just throw everything in the garbage when they sweep an encampment.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2024
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Cities Say They ~~Store~~ Steal Property ~~Taken~~ From Homeless Encampments. People Rarely Get Their Things Back.
That claim is clearly bullshit on its face, if you take just one moment to think about it.
A city would need to:
- Accurately determine what counts as a "possession"
- Collect the possessions
- Keep every individual's possessions separate from all others
- Safely store those possessions while keeping them separate from one another
- Index those possessions in a way that enables them to be retrieved
- Positively identify the owner of a specific group of possessions
- Positively identify a claimaint as being the person who owns a specific group of possessions
Every one of those points would need to be in place, and I have serious doubts that any of those are in place.
Yeah there's no way that's happening. It's going straight to a landfill.
Because cities don't consider them to be people.
And only rich people's stuff is important. Poor people's stuff is just garbage. /s
Of course that's not true.
They're nuisance people.
They're people who don't matter.
But still people.
People who can be treated inhumanly, since they're powerless to fight back.