Mormon stronghold, Salt Lake City, can't seem to find its homeless population. There used to be a lot of them. Then there was some sort of "police operation." Now they're gone.
The streets around Salt Lake City’s downtown emergency shelter have long been home to hundreds of homeless people. In recent weeks, though, nearly all seem to have vanished following a police operation. Local residents are mystified as to where they’ve gone.
The Salt Lake City police chief, Mike Brown, said he had visited parks and the Jordan river, which threads its way to the Great Salt Lake and has homeless camps dotted along its banks, but he hadn’t seen an influx from downtown. Sgt Brandon Shearer has been up in a police helicopter looking for camps and seemed equally perplexed when asked where the people had gone. “I don’t know,” he said. “That’s a good question.”
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Deseret has an opioid problem? There are cracks in the Beehive?
ReplyDeleteThat's curious, Mound. If this was in one or another of the nastier parts of the world I'd look for bodies in trenches. In the US I suspect dispersal; they simply wandered away from police harassment. It's really not a good solution.
Genocide?
ReplyDeleteWhat are our countries coming to?
If I were independently wealthy I'd find myself an enclave of some sort AWAY FROM all traces of civilization, given what the social climate has turned into come lately.
ReplyDeleteHard to say. When Vancouver hosted the winter olympics the authorities transported many of the city's homeless to accommodation on Vancouver Island - out of sight/out of mind. Most of them returned to Vancouver once the festivities wrapped up.
I'm with you, Tal. I've toyed with the idea of finding a suitable bay up the coast capable of supporting six or more homes with adequate grade that sea level rise would not be a problem. It would require a year-round freshwater stream sufficient to power micro-hydro generation and secure water supply and enough space for gardens, satellite communications, common buildings, the requisite septic field, solar panels and wind generators and with a ready supply of game, seafood and shellfish. There is plenty of information about communal living and this sort of micro-village settlement. While that may conjure up images of 70s-era hippy communes it would be something far more sustainable.