A pox on urban rowdies who keep people awake by partying long past our bedtimes. Statistics show (for the sake of argument anyway) that most twilight/darkness rowdies are males over the of 18.
Legal solution? A permanent curfew for males over the 18, who must be off the streets by 9:00 P.M. forever more.
You laugh! No sane government would impose such an unreasonable restriction! But, oh yes they would! In the United Kingdom (as everywhere), some people who panhandle are homeless. Far from every homeless person panhandles however, just as far from every adult male gets rowdy as the evening wears on.
The British solution to panhandling in 1824? The Vagrancy Act, which made it a crime to be out on the streets overnight with no fixed abode. Thanks to public pressure, the Act was recently repealed.
Now it seems the UK government has had a change of heart. Legislation is proposed to give the Housing Minister new powers that look a lot like the ones in the Vagrancy Act. The problem? Some (not all) vagrants (a.k.a. homeless) persist in the annoying habit of attempting to stay alive by panhandling. Answer: ban an entire class of people from the streets, as we might ban all adult males from the streets because a few are noisy1.
Read more on the UK’s plan to casually trample the human rights of many in order to bully a few, at inews.co.uk: Vagrancy Act powers to target rough sleepers revived by Government just months after being repealed
Footnotes
- For more on the dismaying erosion of homeless basic human rights in California, try: Community-Integrated Jailing For The Homeless Criminal Class?
