The SDPD do not "hassle" the homeless over just merely sleeping. With the recent Hepititas A outbreak that has been going on, which has claimed lives, there needs to be something done with the homeless. Downtown San Diego is an eyesore to all and any visitors because the streets smell, tents all over the sidewalks which usually hold drug addicts, urine all over the sidewalks because no business allows these people to come in and use the bathrooms because they stink, shoot up or smoke drugs in the bathroom, graffiti the walls, etc. The SDPD does not just harass the homeless for no reason, and until EVERYONE is willing to go down to the homelss and help, I think its safe to say the SDPD are handling it just fine.
Well in short, I second everything that Adam said. It brakes my heart to see all these people out there in the streets, but most of them don't even want to change their way of living and there there's anything anybody can do about it.
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