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'Homeless ordered out of LA's

artappraiser — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 23:54:51 +0000

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'Homeless ordered out of LA's Union Station ahead of tonight's Oscars and warned their belongings would be DEMOLISHED if they tried to stay' https://t.co/l64lQquR4r
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) April 25, 2021

A trenchant reminder that

artappraiser — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 21:59:12 +0000

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A trenchant reminder that some social workers are actually part of the problems they are supposed to be solving:

When I asked Grim how long has he lived homeless in San Jose, he responded: "20 years, I am 29." Grim went on to explain that at the age of 9 he was removed from his family by child protective services. https://t.co/LkNs4GktF3 pic.twitter.com/9t3PwtsZEs
— Invisible People See. Learn. Take Action. (@invisiblepeople) April 25, 2021

Lately we hear that they can do better than police at certain tasks that are now regularly assigned to police. That their profession can expand to do more things and that those things will be done with better results than now.

Is that actually true? Or in both cases, both social workers and police, rather, could it be it's a tough job, messing with other people's lives,and it's not really a science but a complicated art? So you will get better results with an artful/skillful practitioner? And lousy results with those that are mediocre or bad at their job?

And also that within both professions, it might be a pretty similar percentage of people incompetent and lousy at their job and wrecking people's lives as opposed to improving them?

Over a lifetime, I've had only like 3 or 4 interactions with social workers.

But I've had a lot of interaction with M.D.'s. M.D's do practice their professions with tools just as deadly as police's guns. And I do sense that there's an equal number, percentage wise, of lousy M.D.'s who wreck people's lives or kill them as there are bad cops. They just do their damage more slowly and torturously than bad cops. I sense that bad social workers are the same.

President Biden should ensure

artappraiser — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 21:48:00 +0000

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President Biden should ensure dollars from his infrastructure plan "only flow to states that make progress fighting the scourge of regressive, repressive zoning," writes Edward Glaeser, a professor of economics at @Harvard. https://t.co/cZA5dbEWco nytopinion
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) April 12, 2021

Encampments are the result of

artappraiser — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 18:45:47 +0000

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Encampments are the result of a host of policy failures, from zoning to policing. Encampments specifically point to shelters. Often they are unsafe or sex segregated, which deters families. Many are faith based or require sobriety. Shelters aren't working: https://t.co/X62qBWsNg3
— Infrastructure Weeknd (@kristoncapps) April 12, 2021

When police or sanitation departments sweep encampments without giving people a better alternative, it breaks the trust outreach workers build with tent residents. And not just with them — with critics, too, as L.A.'s response to Echo Park shows. https://t.co/X62qBWsNg3
— Infrastructure Weeknd (@kristoncapps) April 12, 2021