Same old...
Same old... There is literally a 'homeless highway' that runs up and down the left coast. San Diego/LA/Vegas in the winter, summer in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle... And this has been going on for well over 30 years.
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump is aiming to combat crime involving homelessness throughout the country, with cities such as Las Vegas seeing a crisis surrounding encampments overtaking communities and crippling the local area.
Sin City has seen an uptick in homelessness throughout the community, with a 20% increase within Clark County in 2024, according to the most recent data from the Southern Nevada Homeless Continuum of Care.
"It's progressively gotten worse and worse and worse," Robert Marbut, the former federal homelessness czar under Trump’s first administration, told Fox News Digital. "And there was sort of an idea that they tried a lot of gimmicks in the beginning."
Full article, HERE from Fox News.
What is 'new' in Vegas is that tourism is way down, due to costs of the big hotels, the bed bug issues, and the cost of food. That puts more folks out of work, exacerbating the problem, and what is not mentioned is the hundreds of miles of tunnels UNDER Vegas that are actually storm drains. HERE is a video of those who live there...
As indicated in the article, they keep trying the same things to 'remove' the homeless, and it doesn't work.
Part of the reason is these people do not WANT to get off the street. The are the mentally ill, druggies, and others who 'like' the freedom of their lifestyle and freedom from 'laws'. They bounce from the streets to the hospital when they OD, or jail, a rehab program for a month or two, a halfway house, and slip back to the streets. Lather, rinse, repeat.
If it gets too 'hot' for them, they move either north or south, depending...
The 'fix' that Atlanta (Olympics 1996) and Denver (Dem convention) did was bus tickets 'somewhere' out of town that meant they would be gone at least a week or more... For Atlanta, that meant New Orleans, Memphis, Chicago, or NYC. I was based in Virginia then and remember the LEOs talking about how EVERY bus was full of homeless coming out of Atlanta, and how much work they had to 'keep' them moving north...
Where will Vegas sent their homeless??? California? Colorado? Who knows...
Sadly I fear they will ship them to Texas. Since we have been shipping illegals to sanctuary cities that claim to love them I can see the opposition thinking that turn about is fair play. One can hope they ship them to someplace nearly deserted in West Texas that has nothing for them. Sadly they will be sent to the major cities to make the problems worse.
After visiting Las Vegas in 2023, with a great deal of anticipation, I WON'T be going back again any time soon.
Fremont Street could be renamed "High Street," thanks to the pervasive odor of marijuana, and being accosted almost every 20 feet by a homeless person asking for change got old in a hurry.
Or when I was leaving a restaurant after lunch, a homeless woman asked if she could have my leftovers. The guy at the door of the restaurant says that they'll try to return the food for money.
And then, when taking a Lyft from Fremont Street to New York, New York, I had a homeless person try to snag my backpack as I was getting out a tip for the driver. I admit that I committed assault, and clocked the guy upside the head with the MagLite in the side pocket of my backpack. The valet saw it all, and offered to call the police for me, at which time the guy took off like a sprinter at the Olympics, shouting insults all the way.
I ended up staying in the hotel for dinner instead of going out, mostly because I don't want to be messing around with beggars, panhandlers, and pickpockets. The desk clerk at the hotel said they can't do anything about them, as long as they're not actually trespassing on the property, so they wait just outside the gate and prey on tourists.