Police Know Arrests Won’t Fix Homelessness. They Keep Making Them Anyway.

Copyright

2022

Published Date

06/23/2022

Published By

Center for Investigative Reporting

This article discusses the disproportionate rate at which unhoused people are arrested as unhoused people increasingly live in residential neighborhoods on the West Coast. It also includes a discussion of alternative solutions to the policing of the unhoused, including diversions to mental health interventions and outreach workers.