"Earlier this month, police wrapped up a 30-day sting involving plainclothes officers mimicking tourists and other pedestrians. Once they were panhandled, they essentially became victims guaranteed to show up for a trial."
Then we are ALL VICTIMS of OUR LOOTING GOVERNMENTS!!!!
'nuff said, readers; welcome to Amerikan FASCISM!!!!!
"Outstretched hands find donation meters, not coins; Atlanta asks public to cut off beggars' income" by Dionne Walker, Associated Press | September 28, 2008
ATLANTA - Spare change plopped into meters instead of panhandlers' palms will be collected and distributed to social service groups, a new approach in a city that's tried everything from bans to police stings to curb some of the nation's most aggressive begging.
How about taking a look at WAR-LOOTERS, CORPORATIONS, ISRAEL, and the BANKS for STARTERS?!!!!
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But with victims as weary of gimmicks as they are of panhandlers, success may be slow in coming. Research in some cities indicates panhandlers earn as much as $50,000 a year.
Pffft! Sigh! Either that is a LIE, or I NEED TO GET TO WORK!!!!!
Atlanta panhandlers have a reputation for being pushy and at times violent.
As opposed the oppressive police forces? Of course, greedy, looting stink elites from the pro-richer corporate press would feel this way about those who indict them for crimes against humanity.
On Sept. 2, police arrested a man they say was a panhandler who fatally shot a Florida man at a gas station after begging him for money.
Hey, then it is in to prison with a roof and three squares a day.
Earlier this month, police wrapped up a 30-day sting involving plainclothes officers mimicking tourists and other pedestrians. Once they were panhandled, they essentially became victims guaranteed to show up for a trial. The sting netted 50 arrests for violations of the panhandling ban. It was a small dent among the dozens of panhandlers that line entire blocks.
NOTHING BETTER TO DO, hanh? No ROBBERS, MURDERERS, RAPISTS, or PEDOPHILES to catch?! No LYING WAR LOOTERS to TRACK DOWN? Gotta GO AFTER the POOR, hanh?!!!!!
Police say they can do only so much. It's up to the victims to cut panhandlers off.
First thought : CUT OFF ISRAEL and the WAR MACHINE!!!!!!
"We do know the reason people are coming back is because they're getting money," said Wilma Sothern, vice president of marketing with Central Atlanta Progress, a revitalization group that has partnered with the city and tourism groups to curb panhandling.
That sounds like something RON PAUL WOULD SAY -- and if he said it about welfare or immigration, the Zionist press would call him a racist!!
And TELL IT to the WAR GOVERNMENT!!!
She and other city leaders looked to cities like Denver for inspiration. Pedestrians there were giving as much as $4.5 million a year to panhandlers before the city installed 86 meters last year, said Jamie Van Leeuwen, who helps oversee the effort through Denver's Road Home, an initiative to combat homelessness.
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The project has generated more than $15,000 in coins. Meters have been installed in such places as Chattanooga, Tenn., St. Louis, and Baltimore, which got the first batch in the nation.
Still, the biggest help has to come from folks such as Daniel and Danielle Corenchuk, tourists from Fort Stewart, Ga., who were approached by panhandlers five times their first day in town.
"I had a man sing me a nice song . . . 'Cupid, draw back your bow,' " Danielle said, chuckling. She rewarded the soloist with 75 cents. He had a nice voice. --more--"
Good! People ignoring fascism!!!
And what did Jesus say about clothing and shelter?
“Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter 'when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousnessa will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.” --Isaiah 58:7-8 (N.I.V.)
