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Originally Posted by iheartthed
I've been to Europe several dozen times and the visible homeless there mostly look like the visible homeless here.
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I’ve lived in Europe, and my cousin in Germany works on this issue.
Like I mentioned before, European street homeless are also mostly drunks and addicts, so sure, they
look like the American homeless at first sight.
But constant stories of homeless assaulting people or setting up mass tent camps in the middle of downtowns don’t happen, because laws are enforced against the severely mentally ill.
They don’t just let homeless with multiple assault, theft or drug dealing arrests be released back onto the streets. Preventive detention and dangerousness have a much lower threshold on average in the European courts.