Greensboro's Homeless Problem II
Back on April 12th I talked about the homeless problem around the downtown YWCA. Lots of people responded in a very positive way even though sadly there is no answer short of work camps, and of course this isn't an answer either.
Everyone predicted that crime would follow, and they were all of course correct.
Earlier in the week after hours someone used a cane to bust in a glass door on the playground side of the YWCA. From there they ransacked the front desk and discovered two locked drawers. With their impliment, they broke both front drawers off only to discover one was filled with the keys to the classrooms, supply closets, etc. The other just had forms in it. In the process they apparently cut themselves pretty good.
The next day the YWCA oepns to discover that the place had been broken into, nothing was taken and the thief left two things. A cane with the owner's name carved into it, and a bloody handprint left on a white hand sized receipt pad.
I am sure that by the time they find the owner of the cane and the handprint they will have the guilty party. (If they have not done so already) Who wants to lay odds that the criminal is one of the local homeless who have taken up residence in this area?
Surely someone somewhere knows something humane to do with a group of people, many of which are mentally ill, who live in the streets and live as best they can?
A meal and a bunk somewhere in exchange for some work? It would be cheeper to operate than a prison. No! Don't say Work Camp! Say....ummm....Outreach Camp....? They could make baskets, and get mental help...maybe dig something....compete with foreign sweat shops on our own soil....I don't know?
Hey, maybe we could relocate them to New York and set them up as cab drivers. You don't even have to know how to speak the language to be a cabbie in New York. No?
Military?
Cuban Military perhaps?
I got nothing, not even a drawer to keep the keys to the fencing jackets in.
