[notch898b]

>We live in a society where those who follow the laws are constantly punished for minor infractions like parking tickets and zoning violations, while people who do not participate in society AND completely flout the laws in every way are not only allowed to do so, there is a huge section of our population that encourages and protects their right to do so.

At the end of the day it's inconvenient to punish homeless for crimes. They have no money, they're often infected with disease, and they are often unpleasant to deal with. Meanwhile when I did absolutely nothing wrong, federal officers bragged to me what a great vacation it was to drag me to the hospital for the better part of a day on a fraudulent and fabricated search for "drugs" because they said it was better than doing their normal beat, and it paid great overtime. People say you should be polite to law enforcement, but the fact is being unpleasant/unpolite/filthy works.

Like most humans, a frightening amount of law enforcement boils down to they did it because it was easiest. Dealing with mentally ill people at their worst moments is not easy, extorting a well to do professional for going 5 over the limit is much easier.