[gamblor956]

I called the cops on a vagrant sleeping in my building's parking structure stairwell.

The cops came, nudged him awake, and then waited calmly while his drunk ass gathered his crap and yelled at them as they escorted him down the stairs and away from our building.

LAPD may be brutal to suspected gangbangers and minority drivers but they're overly polite to the homeless to the point of being fairly useless at preventing the homeless from committing crimes (that affect others, like theft or property damage).

[jshevek]

I'm uncomfortable with the generalizations [that get] made on both sides of this debate.

Region specific policies and culture can play a role, but ultimately the behavior of the police can depend highly on the specific individual or even the type of day they are having.

[anarchodev]

Why would you want the cops to be overly aggressive to someone who, even in your hypothetical, hasn't committed a crime? Do you foresee any consequences that might arise from encouraging this behavior from cops towards the most powerless struggling members of our community?

[gamblor956]

In this case, I left out the part where said vagrant had broken into the parking structure and caused several thousands of dollars worth of damage to infrastructure that we had to pay to repair.

There's also the matter of the broken glass bottles he left in the stairwell, which created health and safety risks to everyone using the parking structure.

And there's also the distinct possibility he was the focker who broke into a bunch of cars over the holidays trying to find things to steal.

[anarchodev]

Yes, irrelevant details that slipped your mind, and which you most certainly did not just make up to justify your bloodlust. How was a dude who can't even afford to drink indoors able to do infrastructural damage to a parking garage? Did he bring his jackhammer?