of facilities to help those who are mentally ill or drug addicted. In other words, like the rest of the United States, a lack of a safety net for people who are the most vulnerable. Now, of course a lot of the law and order types want "solve" the problem by having cops telling the to move on (move on to where?) or just busting their heads. But this is far deeper than a law enforcement problem.

Here's the other thing with an anecdotal story. My wife, my son and me have all at various times worked at food centers like Northwest Harvest and at public housing facilities and at homeless camps or even, in my son's case, going out in the dead of night to do a count of the homeless. A ton of them aren't druggies or mentally ill, but rather in the midst of circumstances beyond their control. Most people live paycheck to paycheck. The people each of us have talked to are in situations where many of them work, they don't have the cash for first and last month's rent, they are on waiting lists for public housing (there isn't enough), they need places to shower so they can go to work, etc. It is a "there but for the grace of God, go I" situation. There are a lot of good organizations and government agencies trying to solve the problem. Dehumanizing the homeless isn't the solution.