Because the answer to homelessness isn’t to leave them on the street when it hits 20-30 below. But guess what, it’s not EPS’s job to fix the situation with shelters or any of the other problems. But if the government is unwilling or unable to keep homeless people off the streets, that doesn’t mean EPS should just sit back and let them build tent cities all over the place.
EPS is civic jurisdiction, public health is supposedly provincial jurisdiction. Based on every action they’ve ever taken, it’s fair to say the Alberta government doesn’t care whatsoever about public health, and they seem especially contemptuous towards the city of edmonton.
Sending the police is absolutely not the right way to deal with this, I’m not trying to defend that. The key problem is that the city simply doesn’t have the resources to pick up the slack left by the province refusing to do their damned jobs, even though they are the ones being put under enormous pressure by business owners & suburbanites to do something.
Because the answer to homelessness isn’t to leave them on the street when it hits 20-30 below.
Agreed.
But guess what, it’s not EPS’s job to fix the situation with shelters or any of the other problems.
Technically an accurate description of the current structure of the government.
But if the government is unwilling or unable to keep homeless people off the streets, that doesn’t mean EPS should just sit back and let them build tent cities all over the place.
Why not? Obviously the homeless prefer it over… actually, what’s the alternative again?
Because the answer to homelessness isn’t to leave them on the street when it hits 20-30 below. But guess what, it’s not EPS’s job to fix the situation with shelters or any of the other problems. But if the government is unwilling or unable to keep homeless people off the streets, that doesn’t mean EPS should just sit back and let them build tent cities all over the place.
Why do you separate Edmonton Police and the government?
EPS is civic jurisdiction, public health is supposedly provincial jurisdiction. Based on every action they’ve ever taken, it’s fair to say the Alberta government doesn’t care whatsoever about public health, and they seem especially contemptuous towards the city of edmonton.
Sending the police is absolutely not the right way to deal with this, I’m not trying to defend that. The key problem is that the city simply doesn’t have the resources to pick up the slack left by the province refusing to do their damned jobs, even though they are the ones being put under enormous pressure by business owners & suburbanites to do something.
If it gets that cold this year.
Agreed.
Technically an accurate description of the current structure of the government.
Why not? Obviously the homeless prefer it over… actually, what’s the alternative again?