You first.

Just above tree line.

This year? The bottom of a lake.

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Manchester police chief made some comments about this. They can't legally remove them from the sidewalk anymore. I'm sure if you or I parked our car on the curb, we'd still get a ticket, though.

Because State workers are killing our children, and that is equally as heinous as State workers educating our children. It would be inconsistent to not treat these two atrocities as moral equivalents.

I don't see what you're complaining about. The outcome bothers you, but not enough to change the approach.

EDIT: I will gladly "bribe" people if it means they can live indoors and reduce their risk of being stabbed.

Thank you for the links.

The first one has it right on their front page that you and I are paying for their services through our federal taxes. Congratulations for their honesty.

The second and third, if you click around, you'll eventually stumble upon mentions of federal funding too. Not as good as being on the main page, but at least the information is there.

The fourth one, though, wow. Beautiful website that answers almost zero questions. (And no link to actually see any of their available units.) If they've managed to make housing cost less by reducing their costs (like the way Walmart and Costco do business), they should say so. If they're doing it through taxpayer subsidies, they should say so. But they say neither.

Looking through their impact report, they do mention getting money from the Amazon Housing Equity Fund. It's noble that Amazon is donating their own money to a cause they like, but sadly, they're doing it in a racially discriminatory fashion, according to their own web page.

🔥🔥🔥🔥

Yet we entertain people who think that we should listen to teachers when they say how much (more) money should be shoveled into the government schools.

Let's at least try to be consistent.

>"Mental illness isn't curable by just talking to someone."
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>But momentary emotional distress absolutely is.

We don't have any details as to why the police used lethal force so it's difficult to accept this statement. If a person is wielding a knife in a threatening manner, that's not a situation where a social worker is magically going to defuse the situation. Is it possible? Sure. But depending on how the situation played out, this may not have been avoidable. If anything, we need to address these mental health issues before it gets to a situation like this. Perhaps attempts were made and failed, we'll have to wait and see as more information becomes available. But simply pointing fingers at the police and police procedures does not appear to warranted right now.

Oh boy! Can't wait for corporate greed to get discussed for a few months in the primaries later this year, only for something else to get mysteriously pushed to the forefront of the national conversation so nothing gets done!

So let's start treating teachers like the fucking rockstars they are. Your wife is a badass for what she does.

Someone who isn't a grown-ass adult.

Most people don't react well to their door getting kicked in. I would absolutely grab my gun off my hip or table and work my way down to the door while getting shot for defending my house against some asshole who was kicking it in.

It’s not working out very well, but I’m still not going to bribe someone with a free house in hopes they’ll get off the sidewalk. I stay off the sidewalk all night, and no one gives me a free house.

The fact that many other people are locked up, has nothing to do with the fact that this terrible person wasn’t locked up, and because of that, was able to try to kill two people.

Prison is an opt-in system. We can just build as many as the criminals want us to build. Or they could cut down on crime and then we could knock some of them down. Up to them.

> Mental illness isn't curable by just talking to someone.

But momentary emotional distress absolutely is.

> Nothing like other people in this thread vilifying the cops for doing what they're trained to do.

I vilify the fact that they're trained to do this, too.

Even the judges get it right every once in a while.

>They should get themselves into housing.

That's the plan now. How's it working?

>It wouldn’t be such an unsafe situation if we’d keep violent criminals locked up.

The US locks more criminals up longer than almost anybody and our rates of violent crime are terrible.

Learn more at the Manchester Housing and Redevelopment Authority page.

The NH Housing page.

The Southern NH Services page.

Lincoln Avenue Capital - who are building the majority of the low income housing units in the city.

Name a single state that defunded the police. We'll wait.

Finally, a judge with a brain.

Note that in the article, the would-be killer has “a long criminal record.”

The only reason he could possibly have a long criminal record, is because the impotent system kept letting him go. Which caused two people to be nearly killed. One of them still might die, according to the article.

This has to stop.

It’s one thing to have housing that’s “reserved for extremely low income residents,” but how will the residents pay for their housing?

Unless you’re proposing that you and I should cover the cost, or government should force the property owner to rent it out at a loss?

In any event, should there be a time limit on “transitional housing?” If so, what would the time limit be?

A: They should get themselves into housing. You’re also welcome to open up some space for them at your house if you want.

B: It wouldn’t be such an unsafe situation if we’d keep violent criminals locked up. Everyone, homeless or otherwise, deserves to be able to walk down the street without getting stabbed.

What are you talking about? There was a story just a couple weeks ago about a city that diverted police funds to an unarmed mental health/social work team that had successfully handled several hundred calls without violence, and cheaper than the cops could do it.