CG: Most city residents acknowledge that the more than 11,000 homeless living on Sacramento streets need some serious form of help. Most are in need of mental health services and drug addiction treatment. But there are some who live on the streets, who may be addicted or suffering from mental health issues, who want to get help, get off the streets, and start on a path to recovery and self-sufficiency.
But the path of Sacramento “Services” is riddled with roadblock after roadblock that sober educated adults can barely even navigate.
A friend recently told of how she called the city’s Child Protective Services on a street woman whose was using her baby as a ploy to panhandle. On a recent very cold and windy day, the panhandler, who is recognized as a regular around town, had her baby with her, barely clothed, accosting shoppers at a local grocery store. My friend called CPS. The agent she spoke with said my friend needed to talk to a social worker. She took my friend’s name and contact info and said she’d have someone call.
A social worker called rather quickly but said couldn’t do anything other than a “well-baby check.” She then told my friend to call the police. “Isn’t that your job?” my friend asked. The social worker conceded that she probably could call police.
And that is as far as that went. “Child Protective Services” is largely a misnomer. more here
If it’s a government program chances are it is useless.
FJB
Yesterday I took a 2-hour online course to satisfy a new California requirement for volunteers – even though I no longer live there. Still occasionally spend time with CA church kids and scouts. It’s all about child abuse and reporting even potential abuse. I guess the key is to virtue-signal it even if you don’t plan to actually do anything to help the children…
One positive thing is that the curriculum was pretty clear that anything sexual done to kids could not be considered consensual. For CA that wasn’t a certainty.
government is not in the business to help people, other than bureaucrats. Don’t believe me? Check out who is the largest employer in your state.
These people do not want their budgets cut. They base the next year’s spending on what they spend this year plus a healthy increase. It is called baseline budgeting. That is how they can say a 3% increase is actually a cut because they were expecting a 4% increase.
Anytime the government says it needs more money to fight homelessness or drug abuse or alcohol addiction or mental illness or whatever the scourge it says its
trying to reduce, you may be sure that after the government obtains the funds, the
problem will get bigger.
The homeless industrial complex is real.
What was that Ron Reagan said?
This guy knows what’s what ^^^.
aircubed, that is.
California, Misery. Pffft. Diesel jumped 60 cents a gallon yesterday. It was $4.49 around 7:00 am and $5.09 in the evening.
“suffering from mental health issues, who want to get help, get off the streets, and start on a path to recovery and self-sufficiency”
I’m going to be a little crass here, but I would like to know how to get the mentally ill right minded? Ronald Reagan saw the futility of pouring taxpayer money into a dead beat social program. Reagan did the right thing. Can’t blame this shit on him. How about the parents? It starts in the womb, nurturing at home. When school starts you’ve handed your children over to the enemy. Your child either sank or swam. Those that sunk didn’t have a chance from the beginning. I’d help veterans who served honorably before I’d help someone who is capable of working but chooses the lifestyle they’re living. Many are happy living like that.
I’m sure they want more than 11,000 homeless, especially if your the one supplying the the drugs to keep them there. The social programs are just to keep them healthy enough to keep using.
It wasn’t to long ago, an interview with a homeless man, who claimed the prices were down from $200 a day to $60.
Having an open border really helps with the supply and demand.
Crime wouldn’t pay if the guvmint ran it…….o, wait…
I make $50,000 a day handing out free covid masks and crack pipes working for the guvmint. You can too. Just call 1-202-555-1212 today to sign up.
I live in Utah, in Salt Lake county. Last year, I called the police about a panhandler using a toddler as a prop in severe weather in a dangerous location. Their response was, they couldn’t do anything without CPS getting involved. I asked why they couldn’t just arrest the adults and put the kids into temporary care, like they do when they arrest any other adult accompanied by a minor. They said it was impossible to determine if the adult was a parent of legal guardian without getting the courts involved. Again, I asked why they needed to do that when it was not necessary with “normal” adult offenders. Anyway, the conversation became circular, so I gave up. Next day, I called CPS and asked them why nothing was done. They replied it was the fault of law enforcement for not notifying them. I then approached my state representative about changing the laws to facilitate the protection of these abused minors. He told me it was useless to make any laws regarding the “homeless” because of the courts.
So, if you are an an adult and leave a child in a car to go shopping for 5 minutes, you lose the child and get arrested. If you take your child into the store and correct them physically or verbally, you lose the child and get arrested. If you let the child go out and play unsupervised, you lose the child and get arrested. If you drag an infant or toddler, not necessarily yours, into a snowstorm or a scorching 100+ day sitting in the gutter at a busy intersection with a cardboard sign begging for money — you are the protected class and nothing will be done to you, nor will the child be taken to safety.
That is what activist judges, progressive politicians and do-nothing Republicans have done to us.