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Government

Mar. 6, 2010

Pandering Politicians Harass the Homeless

Civil rights attorney Ben Rosenfeld calls it unfortunate that harassing the homeless has proven too effective an election formula for politicians to pass up.

By Ben Rosenfeld

How sad it is to see San Francisco's new Chief of Police George Gascón join Gavin Newsom in attacking his favorite old scapegoat: the homeless. Homeless people are such a perennial target of Newsom's that one has to wonder whether they devoured one of his offspring rather than just blighted his view of sparkling Pacific Heights. As for Gascón, it's hard to tell if he automatically supports any initiative that increases police power, or if he shares N...

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