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Homeless in Nevada City? You’ll Need a Permit for That

Nov. 22, 2012 2:03pm Christopher Santarelli

In this photo taken Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, a homeless woman rests under a shade tree as children play at Lions park in Costa Mesa, Calif. (AP)

In an effort to manage the growing homeless population Nevada City, California, Police Chief Jim Wickham has advocated a new law that would hand out permits to a small group of homeless giving them permission to sleep in public.

“It just basically means you can’t set up a tent. You can’t live in your vehicle. You can’t live in the woods in Nevada City,” Wickham told CBS Sacremento of the new ordinance which the city council has adopted the first reading of. Wickham says the goal of the new law is to keep out homeless who come to Nevada City to commit crimes or have a criminal history.

CBS reports that the chief will give out six to ten permits now to law-abiding homeless, and check back in six months to see if the program is working. If so, he’ll give out more some of the 60 homeless he has identified in the community out of 500 county wide. Those without permits will be arrested.

Reason.com’s Rachel Moran notes that despite claims that this is a “one-of-a-kind” idea to deal with the problem, Colorado’s Denver City Council passed a similar “no camping” ordinance back in 2010 that was opposed by the ACLU. The Denver law took effect in May, and the Denver Police Department reported in October to the city’s Health, Safety, Education and Services committee that no arrests had yet been made.

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williaml
Posted on November 23, 2012 at 12:17am
Brilliant, simply Brilliant.
How do these Idiots get voted into office?
The next thing will be a permit to breath

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- repairsea
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 1:57am
  You are actually believing the liberal CBS’ reporting this story? I guess you also believe Obama didn’t know anything about Benghazi.
  
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Nicholson William R
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 10:39pm
I have been homeless and tried everything to get back into regular situation for almost 13 years now. I don’t drink and don’t do drugs. No programs I contacted ever wanted to help me because government dollars are dedicated to programs for druggies and drunkards. I was told several times to come in to a drunk program by spilling a fresh beer over myself and then ask for admission while being video’d saying I am a drunk and need help. I am not a drunk or druggie and I won’t lie. I’m still on the street and you’d never know I’m homeless because as always I’m clean , well groomed and polite. If someone finds I am homeless they say ” My I have a difficult time believing that ; You don’t look homeless ! ” I am not the only one, you’d be shocked at the true number of homeless that do not look like homeless. I have known doctors and lawyers whom hit the skids and they have a similar story yet no one helps regular folks cause we aren’t in the target groups of alkies and druggies. Streets are full and we have the school kids that used to steal kids lunch money in grammar school now wearing badges and harrassing any homeless even when they have no real history of that person. They just harass and abuse the homeless because they can. If an officer does help anyone they usually have to help in spite of their dept instead of trying to help with department working with advocacy groups. This will change soon as I think country will have currency crash soon ……….

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- THXll38
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 11:13pm
  You at the public library typing this message?
  
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- Junter
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 1:32am
  You contradicted yourself, not that I advocate lying. I find it hard to believe you’ve been homeless for 13 years and still can’t figure a working solution for you situation. Sounds more like you are looking for pity, but not willing to put in the effort.
  
  “I have been homeless and tried everything to get back into regular situation for almost 13 years now.”
  
  “I was told several times to come in to a drunk program by spilling a fresh beer over myself and then ask for admission while being video’d saying I am a drunk and need help. I am not a drunk or druggie and I won’t lie.”
  
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- repairsea
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 2:26am
  I was homeless for three days after I decided to drop out of college and just hang out drinking with my buddies, stay unemployed and not pay my bills. Sleeping in a friend’s cold car for two nights with no shower or toilet paper changed my perspective quickly. I decided to humbly apologize to my father who was nice enough to offer me a couch to sleep on, got off my “self entitled”, lazy, teenage **** and took a job as a dishwasher and also shoveled cow manure on a ranch. Those two jobs motivated me to return to college, get my own apartment, quit drinking, work hard and get a Math degree. It is amazing how that works for some people.
  
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- wolfvision3
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 2:58am
  I saw comments on not believing that there is homelessness out there and cutting down humans/people that are less able for different reasons in need for help. Which programs are set up for funding unless you say for the books you have an issue, so the person that helps you can get their money. So in fact like the voting/election it is all about money, not about helping your fellow man as I have factually witnessed and I am sorry there are a few that are not biggets which gives us hope. Henceforth, the biggets wont get it because they have not walked in our shoes so to speak, and I am truly sorry for them because usually they call them self Christians, which means Christ like which they are not, because they have their blinders on and will not take the time to see out of the box for the truth, so you can see why the world is changing because of the evil that runs through our precious country, you can see it thru people’s writing on which mask the writer has on, by being a true Christ like person, which is a person who would ask themselves if I were Christ would I say or do that, I know we as humans are not perfect, but at least be real in life so we can truly have compassion without getting ours and just help others out of the heart which is truly Christ like. That is a reward in it self. So if you have not lived on the street as I have you may think you have a clue, but you don’t. Think before your reply if you can! So the mockers can have fun with this writing and reply.
  
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- Cadcamtrainer
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 7:34am
  Are you typing this on a Obama phone???? I am confused here.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 8:10am
  “homeless” is a PC garbage word meaning “bum” where I come from. Fricking slackers.
  
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- lordjosh
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 9:29am
  Nic, sorry for your situation and thanks for sharing. In many ways you are more free than most, although I’m sure it is uncomfortable.
  For those morons on this thread that claim his situation is due to lack of motivation, you know nothing. Worse, your minds and labor are enslaved. So far, I am lucky. But I will always have the prospect of being homeless close on my heels. Why? because I’ll never enter into another “wage slave” agreement with an “employer” and the “federal government”. I will not contract myself as an “employee” (wage slave). Your silly group of people you call your government has no right to my labor and no authority. They wave around 4 pieces of paper no one bothered to sign, then ignore the provisions in it. Go back and read AND UNDERSTAND the Dec. of Ind. Nic should be praised for his independence not shunned for it. My only request, Nic, is that you stop seeking help from those who steal the resouces through coercion. Their goal is only to bring you back into their slave system anyway. Hardly what I would call help.
  
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- Demosthenes Locke
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 1:12pm
  Goodness, 13 years? In THIRTEEN YEARS, you’ve never managed to find any work at all, and find some kind of room, someplace, you could afford and get yourself off the street? Yet you are clean and presentable, and have found a way to keep abreast of news online and enter comments on a website, which means you have an account here, an email address to be reached at so you could sign up for it, etc. So the question is inevitable: Why are you still homeless?
  
  I’m not being cruel. I’m being realistic. I’m a disabled person, yet I am increasing my knowledge, learning new skills, finding ways to be productive and beneficial to those around me so I am NOT a parasite. I have a home. I produce valuable goods, even though not the SAME goods I once produced. If necessary to survive, I would as another person already said, wash dishes or shovel manure. No job is beneath me when I am at the bottom. I would “flip burgers” — and do it quite well, I might add, I am an excellent cook, though NOT a chef. I am a but a humble Disciple of the Short Order.
  
  What I am saying to you is this: Spend five bucks, get a copy of Poorcraft if necessary, learn how to get yourself off your tuchis on the cheap and get back to work. Poorcraft will teach you using pretty pictures instead of hard, hard words. It is a $10 book but half price as a PDF.
  
  http://www.ironcircus.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=67
  
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- robfletch
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 5:47pm
  Some people have either forgotten about the depression era or know little of it. After an economical collapse the next phase is homelessness. Banks call in the note on your house and you have to leave. Some people commit suicide over losing their homes others are now on the streets. The old adage its a depression when you lose your job it is a recession when some one else other then you loses a job, is true. Back in the depression, homeless camps were called Hooverville’s, after Herbert Hoover who was the sitting president at the time of the wall street crash. Not everyone who is homeless is a bum vagrant drunk or druggie. What about the huge population of homeless vets who served their country? Should they be discarded to the streets because of mental health problems or substance abuse issues? Who is it that defines who is a bum and who isn’t? what are the parameters for the definition? If I make less then some then am I considered a bum. All I can do is pray for you and hope that some day you can increase your living standards.
  
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tharpdevenport
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 10:12pm
For the last couple years there was fierce argument over moving the local Rescue Mission here (Panama City, FL) from nearby the downtowm area, to someplace else. Apparently when you see a homeless people over day they are eye sores, but when you don’t see them, they’re “God’s children”.

So, the ******* & moaners won and they relocated it far out (for those legitimately trying to get to & from work, or work at all, now have to pay mroe to get there and spend more time doing so) to the new location, about 2.5 miles from a school. They got around the zoning by claiming none of them live there, even though you can list that as you address, but the homeess just sort of hang around it all day, and for ones kicked out (violent offenders, or those who have used up their stay days and have to wait to get back in again), they can now camp and sleep in the woods behind the school, for example, or homes of people who moved out there for peace & quiet. Congratulations, now some of these violent people, which among them there are a few sexual offenders, are within striking distance of little kids, all because people didn’t like seeing dirty homeless people, or pandhalders.

Moving the homeless, whether they are honest people in need of work, or habitual homeless who refuse to work, someplace else, doesn’t not solve the problem. And this isn’t the same American it was five years ago, there isn’t a job for everybody who wants one, even the honest homeless.

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 8:20am
  There is only one way to get rid of “homelessness” (scoff, laugh). These bums that vote for Democrats in exchange for cigarettes or money need to be run out of town to the most uncomfortable of places and let them rot. As long as you feed them and give them legitimacy and “permits” (for God’s sake) they will continue to ruin our cities and neighborhoods. DO NOT GIVE THEM A PENNY!!! And, run them out of town NOW. And don’t give me that “Christian” argument crap either. Only fools give money to bums.
  
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elderbat
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 10:02pm
no homeless in my tiny little community but nearest city, topeka, has two sets…the druggies, drunks, losers and criminal elements camp out along the river in cardboard, tin or shelters made out of whatever they can scrounge. cops visit when they need to if looking for someone. the other version, mostly people really down on their luck due to job loss or some other financial catastrophe stay at the mission. many of these have lost homes that they rented from slumlords who don’t bother with necessary repairs. at one time the town had a really good tenants’ rights group that did a good job with the slumlords and maintaining code compliance but it disappeared years ago; gone when I moved back in 1995. lots of stories of people having to move somewhere due to housing that is rundown. city code offices can condemn a place and tenants can end up on the streets thanks to slumlords. a really awful situation. people are trapped between a rock and a hard place and things are getting worse.

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thedirtmover
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 9:42pm
The story is a little wrong. What is going on is about issueing permits to “camp” within city limits.
and from what I have read, only about 10 or 20 “permits” will be issued.

“In what was repeatedly referred to as a “unique” approach in dealing with Nevada City’s homeless residents, the town’s City Council took the first steps Wednesday toward a camping ordinance that requires a permit to lodge on public property.

The council adopted a first reading of the no-camping ordinance, which Nevada City Police Chief Jim Wickham described as the groundwork for a camping ordinance
”
From :The Union

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repairsea
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 8:24pm
This no different than the occupy movement.by harassing the tax payers citizens. I support the Chief. Nevada City is a big tourist town. Where is the support for the businesses? I think this is an outstanding idea handing out permits and identifying those who are criminals.
I can now see how Obama was re-elected.

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 10:07pm
  “CBS reports that the chief will give out six to ten permits now to law-abiding homeless, and check back in six months to see if the program is working.”
  
  This statement on its face is so incredibly stupid it leaves me speechless. “Check back” with whom?
  For what?
  
  Its only a matter of time before supporters of Liberty rise up and erase progressivism from this
  nation permanently.
  
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- repairsea
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 1:40am
  You are quoting CBS. Really. Read the original article by the Chief. The liberal media always misquotes. Always.
  
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Rossman85
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 8:17pm
This is a horrible idea all the way around! Why dont you do something to try to help these people instead.

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- repairsea
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 8:27pm
  Go volunteer 6 months in a homeless shelter before making that statement. You are stereotyping homeless people as poor, misunderstood people down on their luck.
  
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- THXll38
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 11:14pm
  You cannot help people that do not want to help themselves.
  
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- Cadcamtrainer
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 7:39am
  You go and help them and see who you are dealing with…
  
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RamonPreston
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 7:48pm
A homeless person has a snowball’s chance in hell of getting a job. No one will hire them and they are trapped where they are. There are people out there who really would like to get back into society.

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- repairsea
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 7:59pm
  What type of homeless person are you referring ? The chronically homeless who do not want a job or the poor b*stard that lost everything and has never been homeless before? I worked in the shelters. The person who wants work will find work. There are so many programs out their and Christian outreach. Try again.
  
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- THXll38
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 11:15pm
  Are the homeless people that get same day pay jobs, and then go to the liquor store to cash their check?
  
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Apple Bite
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 7:41pm
What will you say Liberals? Your policies put them out on the street. Now, your policies will make it illegal to be homeless. So how is this social justice?

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- repairsea
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 1:46am
  A life of crime puts many of these “homeless” on the street. In the original article that CBS ignored, a homeless man was interviewed who support this program. He travels every year in the fall to Nevada City. He has been doing it for years. He never causes problems but is afraid of the violent homeless that are showing up. He will get a permit. The others, will not.
  
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RamonPreston
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 7:40pm
If they don’t have a homeless permit what are they going to do, throw them in jail? These people will be very happy with 3 meals a day, medical and a roof over their heads. “Go ahead, threaten me with a good time.”

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- repairsea
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 8:10pm
  There was a current sweep in Sacramento county parks of the homeless encampments. They picked up 15 felons with warrants in one area. I am grateful that this is being done. I support the Chief.
  
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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 11:11pm
  Right, there weren’t any homeless people before 2008. No homeless under Nixon, Reagan, Bush 1 or 2. It’s all the fault of the liberals.
  
  Those kind of stupid statements are your problem, the party’s problem. You don’t want to work together to make things better, you just want to blame somebody.
  
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thedirtmover
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 5:40pm
It’s time for me to put in my two cents. I live vary close to Nevada City. It’s commonly referred too
as “Berkeley of the foothills”. This nice ( used to be) town has been taken over by the second and third generations of hippies.
The town is mostly Progressives these days.
These “homeless” aren’t even locals. They come here because the bleeding heart LIBS make all sorts of promises the rest of us can’t keep.
Our local “compassionate” Left are big talkers. But ask them why they don’t take some in under their own roofs? LOL!!!

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- repairsea
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 1:31am
  Amen. You said it. These “homeless” are destroying the town and the Chief is stepping up. Flatlanders always think they know better than the small town communities. They move to places like Nevada City to get away from the crime and traffic. They end up destroying our towns with their politics, their need for developing large shopping malls, bringing in fast food restaurant, shuting down the timber industry, contaminating our drinking water and wells with their ridiculous Mcmansions and sewage, they bring their immoral, spoiled, red diaper doper babies and their liberal agendas into our schools. They destroy the community. We once recognized the locals who were homeless and fed them when I lived there. We were respectful to them and they to us. .But this group that defecates in the parks, shoots up, drinks, commits crimes and molests the citizens need to be removed. If you all are so caring, give them your address and let them stay in your backyard.
  
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emh1701
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 5:39pm
This doesn’t seem like the way to solve the problem. How about get involved with charities instead?

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- repairsea
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 6:19pm
  The criminal homeless are the ones he is hoping to discourage. There is a bastardized article. Read the full article at the Union to under what the Chief is hoping to do. He is making it criminal to not have a permit. This means he can now enforce a law to rid them of this problem.
  RE: Charities. There are rules you must submit to when you sleep at a church or other charitable organization that criminal homeless do not want to obey and refuse to stay at the shelters. A large degree have warrants out for their arrest. See the current sweeps of homeless camps in Sacramento.
  This is an out of box approach and before the ACLU steps in, I would like to see how successful it will be. I hate stepping in **** at the park and watching for needles. The homeless junkies actually put used needles under the garbage can handles so people will be stuck.
  
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- enblazen
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 7:07pm
  I think Harry Reid is going to be outraged over this. These people, to me, personify the whole Occupy Wall street crowd, and we know Harry didn’t believe they needed silly permits. They were allowed to do as they pleased, so why wouldn’t he want the same in his backyard?…
  
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- Durtypoon
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 8:50pm
  You have a lot to say on this issue (scrolls up and down page to see you reply to just about everyone).
  
  Police do not do the type of “Detecting” they use to to solve crime. More and more crimes go unsolved due to their inability to connect dots that were easily connected a few decades ago. Perhaps even due to some newer laws on the books making it harder for them to do their job (dont go saying that im implying that all police are ineffective in this, because im not.) Then of course theres the argument that some abuse their given powers and are just as corrupt themselves.
  
  So for you to say with strong conviction that they are all doing a SUPERB job – it just doesnt hold water and neither do a lot of your replies. I dont see how this law is any different than the laws in arizona that were fought tooth and nail to check the papers on potential “illegals” due to profiling reasons.
  
  Having an ID card is NOT going to all of a sudden stop rape and drug use – or – any other illegal activity if there are organizations out there saying that you cant even card people before voting, or to check their papers to see if they are in fact here illegally.
  
  I can see this being lumped into with more of the same “civil rights” violations.
  
  Not that I agree with any of that nonsense – if i get carded to buy cigs or beer – card everyone else for anything else. Go for it – just it probably wont happen.
  
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Durtypoon
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 3:59pm
So where’s the downside to not having a license? … Being arrested is a downside?.. – Free meals, free shelter, free television..

Sounds like being an “illegal” is more and more appealing each day.

Damn 1%’er homeless people! (card carrying homeless)

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- scrudge
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 7:08pm
  Ah Yes…. welcome to the new UNITED SOVIET STATES
  
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Elena2010
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 3:24pm
Oh yeah, that’s effective. Outlaw being poor and homeless. How does that solve anything? Bet they won’t let them stay at churches either.

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- Durtypoon
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 3:57pm
  Being homeless one would’nt want to be “legal” – being arrested would supply the homeless person in question with a roof over their head, 3 square meals and Television – possibly basketball and ****-s*x – (if thats your thing)
  
  Sounds win win to me – License? we dont need no stinkin license (to vote, to drive, or to homeless)
  
  being an “illegal” sounds nicer and nicer by the minute.
  
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- repairsea
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 6:12pm
  Have you worked in a homeless shelter? I have. There are the chronically homeless and there are the one’s who lost everything and are homeless. The city police captain is trying to solve the problem of the chronically homeless which are broken down into two more categories. The ones who have rap sheets that commit rapes, murders, burglary and other crimes who are transients and try to keep one step ahead of the law. Then there are chronically homeless who do not cause trouble. They love the way of life and do not bother anyone and are law abiding citizens. They travel to Nevada certain times of the year because of the weather.
  The solution is to make it illegal not to have permit. This means the Nevada City Chief issues you a homeless permit. If you do not get a permit, you are then breaking a law. He can arrest you. He is betting this will discourage the criminal chronically homeless and they will go some where else instead of Nevada City. Perhaps to your town and then you can deal with them. Educate yourself.
  
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- Durtypoon
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 7:49pm
  Funny, they have video’s on youtube about the “Rich homeless” from the city I’ve lived in all my life.
  
  Educate myself? – being arrested does not consist of free meals, free shelter and free a$$play?
  
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- repairsea
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 8:07pm
  This already occurs regardless of homeless or not. There are mothers in Nevada county who deliberately do not pay their fines so they can be put in jail and have a vacation from their children.The children are handed over to Social Services while these mothers are in jail. The mother get meals, tv and a nice bed to sleep in and they don’t have to deal with their children. I grew up there. The problem is the increase in crimes committed my these transient homeless. The Chief is offering a solution. Your solution is to allow them to continue to commit crimes? Either way, they go to jail. His way encourages them to move on. Those that stay without a permit will go to jail. This means finger printed and identified. I support the Chief. Your way is have unsolved crimes continue and homeless molesting the tax payers.
  
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- Durtypoon
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 8:15pm
  sounds to me like more liberal passing the “buck”.
  
  The solution should’nt be to pass the buck. But if you feel that thats wise then go for it.
  
  Last time I checked decent communities took care of their homeless and prosecuted the criminal elements. If the cops did their job then you wouldnt have crime be so appealing.
  
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- repairsea
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 8:17pm
  You are assuming the homeless are poor . Go work in an homeless shelter. Volunteer your time just for 6 months. Many homeless receive checks including social security. The chronically homeless do not want a house. They prefer their lifestyle. I recently let a homeless woman use my phone to call her son. She was waiting for her check. She left a message with him and he returned her call. I talked to him. He was very concerned since he didn’t know where she was. He had her check and he showed up in a nice car. He was articulate and kind. His mother preferred hanging out doing drugs and getting drunk. She did not want to live with him and his rules. Chronic homeless.
  
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- Durtypoon
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 8:18pm
  My way? i had no idea I proposed anything (before my last post about police doing their job). If you think by giving someone an identification card that allows them to be homeless is going to change the “norm” then wow.
  
  That would require the police did their job in the first place. If they were already doing their jobs they wouldnt need more regulation.
  
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- Durtypoon
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 8:26pm
  I never assumed homeless people were all poor – holy crap man, you just love to put your own ideas into peoples mouths (or in this case text.)
  
  Not 3 posts ago I mentioned there are videos on youtube (news reports from the early 90s) about the “Rich homeless) in my home town. There are millionaires, they beg – get money, and go on their way. All while receiving pensions or retirement pay.
  
  The problem isnt being homeless, the lifestyle is appealing when you disagree with being taxed to death on things you already own.
  
  But dont start claiming I said “this or that” when I said no such thing.
  
  Dont democrat up my thoughts.
  
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- repairsea
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 8:38pm
  The police do their job and they do it well. They currently have no law that would allow them to approach a homeless person. This law would allow them to deal with the problem.
  Re: the crime. When I grew up there the media talked about how we never locked our doors and we were a welcoming town. Within a month, we had break ins, rapes, murders and burglaries. The police were overwhelmed and so was the community. Berkeley advertised Nevada county as paying great welfare and we had a large population show up. Drug and hepatitis increased. AIDS arrived and the county was overwhelmed. Then the marijuana growers came and put bounties on the police children’s heads when they busted them.The growers built booby traps with razors, dynamite and sharp sticks out in the woods around their crops and locals were hurt and killed. Meth is now overwhelming the police force. Locals who rented their homes to unknown meth dealers found out later their houses were used to cook meth and the houses had to be destroyed. The police force is doing an outstanding job and dealing with homeless harming the tourism and molesting people is just another job they signed up to do. Shame on you for not supporting this police force. Remember, most of them veterans. Shame on you.
  
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- repairsea
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 8:45pm
  I read your post durtypoon about the rich. Read who started the post and their poor homeless dribble. That is whom I replied.
  
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- Durtypoon
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 8:55pm
  @repairsea – fair enough, still learning the “reply post” option on this site. Its odd to say the least.
  
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hatchetjob
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 3:20pm
As if the homeless don’t have enough to deal with.

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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 4:30pm
  “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you….”
  
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- repairsea
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 8:19pm
  Go work in a homeless shelter for 6 months and see if you learn anything.
  
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 3:19pm
Gee.Why don’t he just make them buy homes?

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OlefromMN
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 2:54pm
Next on deck, a law to ban poorness. If you do not make six figures you will be fined. Freud could make gazillions trying to interpret the modern liberal mind.

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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 3:44pm
  I doubt it. Freud was obsessed with sex and was a heavy user of cocaine. I think he would spend his time on Internet watching porn and using cocaine along with the long list of substances that weren’t available back then. But I agree with you that the next law on the deck will forbid being poor.
  
  Since this is California, the next one after that could be forbidding to be conservative or limiting common sense.
  
  Finally, the liberal mind is not so complex. There is a simple formula: You observe the problem, you think which would be the logic solution and apply pure common sense. Then, you think what is exactly the opposite….and voilà!…you have the perfect liberal solution for the problem in mind!!!
  
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- RamonPreston
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 7:44pm
  Basically, they already do. You have a ticket for a bald tire…”Judge, I can’t afford a new tire.” “That will be $50 fine.” “Judge, I really can’t afford a new tire.” That will be $100 fine.” ” I think I can afford a new tire now.”
  
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The Gooch
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 2:43pm
Okay, maybe it’s my week off dulling my wits, but I’m not quite sure I’m following the logic here: A law is being proposed and apparently implemented by the executive branch (i.e., police). Okay… that alone seems a bit… squirrely. But it gets better. The law in question asserts that police can discriminate as to who is “legally” homeless and who is “criminally” homeless? Wow. It’s like a homeless preserve for the “good ones”.
Yeah, this is brilliant. So there will be “special” homeless people who have rights above and beyond the established citizens of this town, while all other homeless will be arrested… at the expense of those citizens. HOW can this be entertained as a “good” idea? This is bad bureaucratic comedy.

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- right-wing-waco
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 3:20pm
  Isn’t this pretty typical of todays progressive society? Bottom up, top down, inside out.
  
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Thighmaster
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 2:39pm
Why not force the rich to share everything with them to bring them up to a higher standard ? Share your women too, it’s not fair that some guys have great looking women while others have to settle for so so….

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- Chrison
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 2:44pm
  Which line do I get in for the beautiful women???
  
  :)
  
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tckid17
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 2:33pm
Agenda 22

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BlackCrow
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 2:31pm
Obamaville.

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- hatchetjob
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 3:22pm
  Do the homeless get a free tote bag or shopping cart with the permit?
  
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ClingingtomyGUNS
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 2:26pm
The government’s motto “There’s a law for that!” We are all lawbreakers at some point, due only to the stupidity of some of the laws that our “leaders” see fit to enact.

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OlefromMN
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 2:26pm
Leave it to government to think that a new law or regulation will solve a “natural” problem. The homeless could not give one rat’s behind about a law banning their homelessness, they are simply trying to survive.

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right-wing-waco
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 2:26pm
Homelessness should be declared a crime. Maybe even a felony with a sentence of 1 to 5 years. The homeless should be ashamed of not having the $$ to survive like the majority of us. (now removing tongue from cheek)

Another nutjob in government right here in California. If the homeless had a job or money they would not be homeless. The surprising part of the story is that it appears the “permits to sleep” will be free. Hurray!

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- The Gooch
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 2:49pm
  The majority of the homeless (NOT ALL) are dealing with one or both of these concerns: Mental illness and substance abuse. Gee, MAYBE Chief “Let me see your papers!!!” can explain to his state and concerned advocates how he is not discriminating against the mentally ill. Sorry, substance abusers, but I don’t give a p!ss about you.
  
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IndyGuy
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 2:17pm
A blatant attempt to outlaw homelessness…Shame on Nevada City…

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- repairsea
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 1:35am
  Post your address and we will be happy to send them to your house.
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 8:15am
  You’re an idiot…
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 9:08am
  @repairsea…You chose to be homeless for 3 days one time and couldn’t cut it and went crying back to Daddy…Most of the homeless DON’T choose to be homeless and it may last up to many years..I help homeless survive…What do you do??? Make a stupid law against being homeless??? You are a fool…
  
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