(APN) ATLANTA — There is a tremendous shortage of affordable housing units and shelter beds in the City of Atlanta – but, this shortage would be so much worse if the City of Atlanta weren’t locking so many homeless people up in cages. The City of Atlanta’s criminalization homeless people and other marginalized communities continues through the enforcement of so-called “Quality of Life” (QOL) ordinances.
The total number Quality of Life arrests from 2012 to 2015 in Atlanta was 104,069 people, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.
Out of that total, 90,316 were arrests of Black people.
This information comes from Atlanta police records provided to APN by Marshall Rancifer, a long-time homeless advocate who has done contract work with APN.
QOL crimes can be anything from loitering, trespassing, panhandling, drinking in public, public intoxication, disorderly conduct, urinating in public, dumping trash, and occupying placarded properties or unlawful occupancy.....
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Poster Comment:
The System will feed itself however it must. For many years it's exulted in jailing those who'll make the most mangeable prisoners, regardless of justice -- usually whites.
"Quality of life arrests" -- ain't that America!!!!!!!! Greatest buzzfraze since "extraordinary rendition"?