Comment on "Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping as soon to be illegal
obinice@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s not what the quote you posted says, it says it tackles that two things, not that it makes them illegal.
It does mention some things that are to be made criminal offences right before this bit though, to trick people into posting such headlines, I suspect.
This whole thing sucks anyway, but I think we could use some clarity on exactly what will be made illegal?
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Oh I think you’re right actually – it looks like from the PDF that they will be issued notices
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/…/230010.pdf
Image
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 month ago
🙄 or like, you could admit you were wrong, remove the propaganda, and not resort to your head cannon 🤷♂️
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 1 month ago
“aggressive homeless individuals”
There it is.
There’s the problem.
You’re assuming this will be used when needed, and not used in excess, trampling down people who are already underfoot.
All cops are bastards, no exceptions for location.
If they CAN abuse a law, they WILL abuse it. At every opportunity.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I know. There are issues with the police, so now we can’t have laws on the books either. Despite circumstances many homeless don’t take no for an answer and threaten people. There needs to be a law to detain those people. That’s regardless of the help they will or wont get or accept before or after.
JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 1 month ago
but you’ll leave your not-factual headline up?
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
forgot, fixed, cheers
520@kbin.social 1 month ago
Slippery slope? All it does is provide an enforcement option for orgs who don't want people begging on their property.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
you don’t see that as an avenue for more and more orgs to do this by default, and given the lack of public spaces in our cities, essentially making it impossible to beg anywhere?
520@kbin.social 1 month ago
Bro wtf are you on about? There's tons of public spaces in the UK.