Cost of keeping someone in the county jail for one year, $50,983. Median cost of rent for one-bedroom apartment, $10,620 per year. Did anyone think about that before it was decided to put all the homeless in jail? Or is the intent to just arrest them, take all their belongings and then let them all loose again? Or maybe the police will walk around giving out tickets and expecting the people to show up in court? Or maybe they will be fined for being homeless and all just pay a fine? Get real.
Bette Bunker Richards
Midtown
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