the staffing problem is their Biggest problem, more employees needed, would be less crimes, more trash pickups, better bus routes
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Police in this town run roughshod over POC and unhomed communities. They prioritize pursuing poor people over solving crimes that have actual victims. Disparate stop data has only gotten worse over the decade I've lived here. #defundthepolice
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Not only are pay and benefits low, the officers need to know that the Council and elected leaders support their efforts to protect and serve. Our officers need to be well compensated but also know from the beginning of their career what is expected of them as police officers here in this city.
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Absolutely not. The are the only line of protection between law abiding citizens and the thugs that the city administration so dearly loves and protects.
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The city needs to hire more LEO's to keep track of the blooming homeless population, that the city keeps enabling. The State of the City address will ask for more money for the homeless amid a Police shortage crisis. The mayor will arrive in a clown car with other clowns.
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Columbia has the resources; the homeless do not want to play by the rules in homeless shelters.
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More resources attract more homeless. Just ask San Fransisco. More resources = more homeless.
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They won't stay in the tax payer shelters, they should be cleaning up the grounds that they polluted. instead of tax payers paying for it. they will continue to break rules/laws as long as there's no consequences...
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We have plenty of resources for homeless people is the thing is they need to use it the right way not the wrong way We need to get them off the streets because we are some of us are afraid at night and day if we get a little bit more resource source for them the house and work
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I just realized that I lived in a town full of ostriches! I guess we didn't learn anything from California . So this is what's going to eventually happen from us letting this problem fester for decades. Drug and crime rate is going to go up exponentially not enough room in the local jail.
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Homelessness is more than just not having a place to live. Its a horrible feeling. Unless u've experienced it for urself, you'll never know ehat being homeless truly means
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Homelessness is a spectrum. We would have fewer unsheltered folks if we had more shelter beds and more affordable housing. There is literally no where for these folks to go right now, this week even. If requests to deliver a dumpster and handwashing stations, creek trash would have been a nonissue.
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Because we don't have enough help for our homeless. Not every person living on the streets has a drug addiction. Many are families. The cost for rent in Columbia is outrageous!!! No wonder we have families living in the woods and under bridges! Better get it together Columbia!!!
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I think we have a new mayor that doesn't like homeless people and wants to run them out of here. The reality of things are that if people would stop and think 90% of us are 1/2 checks from being there ourselves. Quit picking on the homeless and do something about the one's out there that want help.
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I've got an idea. Let's tax those, who work and strive to take care of themselves and their families, and give that tax money, to those who won't work.
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You can't be politically correct and protect normal citizens at the same time.
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