Treatment Of Homelessness Case Study

After the aforementioned incident, Mr. Rhodes said he started to ask Dave questions about what it was like to be homeless and how he was treated. This is when Mr. Rhodes found out that this type of treatment was very typical of the law enforcement in Fresno. In fact, it sadly gets much worse. The homeless are constantly forced out of the city and have their belongings throw in the trash compactor. He sought after help from other activists in the community who had a better understanding of the community and kept learning how terrible the homeless were being treated in our town. In 2006, one of the biggest accomplishments of Mr. Rhodes began. After not getting anywhere with law offices in Fresno, he reached out to the ACLU in San Francisco. He said that the city had no right to trash this populations “homes” and belongings. The treatment of the homeless community was atrocious and current policy made it nearly impossible for homeless people to live. He said the law enforcement and city officials made it
(Rhodes. 2006) The police officers and sanitation crews would come through encampments without notice and just start tossing tents and other personal possessions into the dump truck. Unattended shopping carts were automatically classified as trash and thrown out, regardless of their appearance. (Rhodes. (b) 2006.) They were throwing away not only their bedding, tents, and clothes but much more personal and important items such as photographs and medicine. In fact, many of these individuals depended on their medications to treat diabetes or high blood pressure and would end up in the emergency room or were “left to die” in Mr. Rhodes words. The main plaintiff in the case was a homeless women Mr. Rhodes had worked with named Pamela Kincaid. She died during the lawsuit under suspicious circumstances and sadly was never able to celebrate the