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WHERE YOU SLEEP:This affects a persons behavior like gravity... Reference="Narratives of the Meanest Cities

Bypassing a lecture on truth, and the necessity for "true" measures as the foundation of any group endeavor, let's take people at their word and see how it plays out. A careful look at what is actually being said and what is being implied, as well as the consequencess of things being played out as puported.

In July of 2004, police raided a homeless camp during the day when most of the residents were absent. They went in without notice, postings, or warrants and as they searched, they threw property into the river. Sandra Wilson noted the raids occurred after the city had agreed to the process of a legal notice and a timeline. The homeless have also been told not to gather at picnic tables under the Broadway Bridge before or after local providers arrive to give out food because it is private property and it belongs to City Hall.
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Jean Rice, a homeless activist, Civil Rights leader and Board member of Picture the Homeless notes that business people or students are not arrested or ticketed for the same conduct as homeless New Yorkers, constituting an illegal police practice — selective enforcement. In Central Park, homeless people are arrested for drinking or camping, while concertgoers on blankets drinking wine in the same space are excused. Disorderly conduct is a frequently used charge, and is a mostly uncontestable charge, so it creates a real problem for people who want to defend themselves. The situation at Penn Station/Madison Square Garden also highlights this double standard. Many homeless people are harassed or ticketed for drinking in public. However, Penn Station is connected to Madison Square Garden, and people attending a Madonna Concert or basketball game are not held to the same standard. Similarly, commuters can buy a beer and drink it on the platform of the Long Island Railroad while waiting for their train.
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"...the general public has lots of patience with problems and none with the solution process" 
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Sometimes The Least Can Save The Most
"In the United States a community emergency response team (CERT) is a group of amateur emergency workers. They are usually neighbors. Under good doctrine, they receive professional mass training and become official auxiliaries to local government emergency services in times of emergency."
"The theory behind CERT is based on a simple observation: In major emergencies, professional emergency services overload instantly."
  • Say that only professionals respond to that mass emergency. Take 2000 victims. divide by 0.5 hours per rescue.
  • The result is 1000 hours of rescues, divided by ten trucks, or about 100 hours. As many as three quarters of the victims could die while waiting for rescue.
  • After an hour and a half, untreated victims of shock would begin to die.
  • After one day, trapped children would begin to die of thirst.
  • After two days, trapped adults and shut-ins would begin to die of thirst.
  • Most of these deaths could be prevented by simple rescue and first-aid procedures.
    • "This is a heartbreaking situation for all concerned."

"In these environments CERTs are far more effective than untrained civilians. With less than 40 hours of training, an amateur disaster service worker becomes qualified to perform about 95% of needed emergency services.

This means that 95% of the rescues and life-saving triage and first-aid procedures can be completed in the "golden day," the first 24 hours when rescues and first-aid are most likely to succeed.

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Shelter From New York City? The Shelters

A Closer Look Inside New York City's
Homeless Shelters
New York-WABC, February 1, 2002

"The homeless are showing up now, in places they haven't been seen in years. The city of New York spends millions of taxpayer dollars on shelters, insisting there's no excuse for sleeping in the streets. But where are we asking them to go?

"The only way to see for ourselves was to go undercover.

"The city is under court order to provide a bed for anyone who wants one, but it's not that simple. The homeless are required to register at a central intake facility.

"After passing through metal detectors and X-ray machines, the homeless are shuffled through a series of corridors and waiting rooms, guards and clerks.

"Then they are photographed, finger printed and asked a handful of basic questions.

"We registered under our own names, and were eventually assigned to the Atlantic Avenue Men's Shelter in Brooklyn, a converted armory with 350 beds. It has been long-regarded as the worst shelter in New York City. It's actually so bad that, back at the intake center, one clerk actually apologized to the men in the waiting room."

"By 2:00 in the morning everyone was forced to line up, to board old school buses waiting to take the homeless to their shelters." 


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This from the Village Voice

The Times scores a point

Reporters aren't allowed inside the E.A.U. or even near its doors, but I did manage a brief visit inside the one-story brick building early this past winter. A series of windowless rooms, it has the bright, 24-hour feel of a casino.


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