About UsThe Hate of the Homeless
The California State Legislature has finally gotten around to addressing the attacks and threats suffered by the homeless. This move is on the cusp of the [as the case of the burning alive of homeless man], and certainly a needed move.
I spent some time researching the number of attacks and other abuses rendered on the homeless population in California over the last five years. For this article I was planning on highlighting some of the more drastic encounters, in which the provocation for the attack was obviously against a homeless person (as a member of a population segment), rather than an attack on an individual person because of a personal dispute. It is not difficult to find large lists of these encounters in every major city of the state. It is also not difficult to find reports of attacks, which were at first ignored by the responding police units, simply because the victim was homeless.
On my way back from lunch, however, walking up Imperial Ave in San Diego, passing the Studio Fifteen building on 15th, I walked right into the middle of a perfect example.
