this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2025
395 points (99.3% liked)
Not The Onion
19078 readers
1107 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Whether we like it or not, those cops are the proper procedure/authorities in said situation. Thus they are allowed by law. I can't just hire a neighbor to show up to a homeless camp with said gear and expect when something goes wrong for them not to get arrested for murder/battery, and probably be arrested for something else. Paying them to do so probably has a different terminology than an accessory. Might fall under the rico shit, not sure
Eh, bounty hunting is an entire industry.
So are all kinds of private security.
Wouldn't be that hard to just create some new class of crime that can legally be dealt with by people or agencies with the proper licensing, then shunt off encampment clearing to basically PMCs.
Then you just tie in existing apps that city governments or police put out, to report encampments, tie that into a conctracting system.
Its the most neoliberal solution to homelessness that can exist, therefore, just give it a couple years.
Works well with the prison industrial complex too!
Trump did say, and has been, settting up massive internment camps for the homeless.
Why not spread some of the money around to some new enterprising startups? Helps make it not look like a no bid contract situation.