Honolulu Police Department kicks out the homeless from there secret location. I don't think kicking the homeless out of where they are not visible will help the city look better; it will make it more dirty. At least they were somewhere where no one can see them and aren't sleeping on the sideways. If homeless is not messing with the community or the people there should be no reason for them to get kicked out unless there being moved to a shelter. Homeless people should be able to live where they want as long as they aren't all in the streets and are living somewhere where no one really cares that they are there. Also, I don't think its fair that they where told to go there by the police officers and getting kicked out by them.
Kicking them out really isn't gunna make nothing better because they aren't gunna have no place to stay besides the streets, at least where they were they weren't really visible. If their gunna kick the homeless out from where they were then I think they should open up more homeless shelters. They also shouldn't kick them about because some homeless people are mentally unstaible and isn't trustworthy to be moved out to somewhere where no one knows where their at. At least were they were the police knew where they were at. They had a place where they cooked slept and everything, why kick them out they are doing no harm just tryna make it through life and they already have it hard being homeless.
As I've talked about in class recently, I've been going to visit the Occupy Oakland protest a lot this last week. And it turns out that there were homeless folks living in that plaza before the protesters showed up--once people set up tents there, the homeless folks really loved it. The cops aren't messing with them any more, there's food for them, people are loaning them tents to sleep in, etc. Some of them have started working in the "tent kitchen," helping to feed other protesters, and really contributing a lot to the movement. It's been a new experience for me to see how it's possible to find ways to work with and incorporate homeless folks into a community project, rather than just "step over" or otherwise ignore them...Ya know?
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