"“Once you start enforcing the law, things are going to move quick,” Pratt said on Joe Rogan's podcast. “We're going around and we're just arresting people and the people that aren't getting arrested, we're getting to mandatory medical treatment.”"
"“The reality is no matter how many beds you give these people,” he said this month at a mayoral debate. “They are on super meth, they are on fentanyl.”"
"“Making it illegal and arresting people is not the way to solve this problem,” Bass said at the debate on KNBC-TV. “When they're offered shelter, they go inside,” Raman said at the same debate."
"In public statements, Pratt has broadly characterized his solution to homelessness as enforcement, but has provided little detail on how he would get 27,000 people off the streets in the face of civil rights protections, limited jail capacity, budgetary constraints and lack of city control over already overwhelmed treatment services. And experts in city law and social services say the policies he has advanced - including mandatory treatment and arrests - face huge legal, financial and practical hurdles."
A Los Angeles mayoral candidate proposes a tougher approach to homelessness focused on drug addiction and mental health. The plan emphasizes police enforcement, arresting people, and using mandatory medical treatment for those not arrested. The candidate claims that enforcement would quickly change conditions and argues that many people are using drugs such as meth and fentanyl. The proposal would conflict with current city policy that relies largely on voluntary measures. Opponents argue that making camping illegal and arresting people does not solve the problem and that offering shelter leads people to go inside. Legal experts warn that a mayor’s authority is limited and that mandatory treatment and arrests face significant hurdles related to civil rights protections, jail capacity, budgets, and treatment-service constraints.
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