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   Here comes the elected Marxist.   
      
   "Mayor Mamdani's Cruel Homeless Policy: Frozen Corpses and Blighted   
   Neighborhoods"   
      
      
   "The Big Apple is about to take on a new name -- Tent City, or Filth   
   City. Or perhaps Lepto City, after leptospirosis, a bacterial infection   
   increasingly found in homeless encampments.   
      
           New York's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is barring the New York   
   Police Department from closing down encampments.   
      
           Since Mamdani previewed his policy in December, new encampments   
   are emerging in many neighborhoods. The consequences are dire both for   
   vagrants and for the city's viability.   
      
           Between Friday, when the city was hit with a bone-chilling winter   
   storm, and Sunday night, eight people were found dead outdoors,   
   suggesting they were homeless. Mamdani conceded that several of the   
   victims were known to the city's shelter system.   
      
           As the encampments pop up, neighborhood residents call 311, but   
   the NYPD is now powerless. Even New York's Strongest -- the sanitation   
   workers -- are barred from clearing the encampments. They've got orders   
   to remove garbage and human waste but leave mattresses, clothing,   
   makeshift cardboard huts and other items intact.   
      
           In other words, provide maid service, but don't actually clear   
   the dangerous mess.   
      
           Outraged City Councilwoman Joann Ariola, who watched this new   
   procedure play out along Jamaica Avenue, in Queens, asked, "What next, a   
   city-funded turndown service?"   
      
           Everyone should be outraged. Mamdani is showing a misguided brand   
   of compassion for the homeless, and no compassion for residents and   
   business owners. Encampments bring crime, filth and a distressing decline   
   in street civility.   
      
           They also threaten the reemergence of infections like   
   leptospirosis, which is spreading through an encampment in Berkeley,   
   California, right now. The germ is found in rat urine but is also spread   
   via contaminated surfaces or liquids. The frigid temperatures in New York   
   lower the risk, but when things warm up, New Yorkers living near   
   encampments will have to tell their kids not to jump in puddles or touch   
   items on the street.   
      
           Even local Democrats are infuriated by Mamdani's unwillingness to   
   clear encampments. Gale Brewer, a City Council member representing the   
   Upper West Side, said, "You cannot have defecating, you cannot have food   
   on the street, you cannot have all these boxes." So far, Mamdani insists   
   you can.   
      
           His predecessor, Eric Adams, aggressively removed encampments,   
   saying, "We cannot tolerate these makeshift, unsafe houses on the side of   
   highways, in trees, in front of schools, in parks. This is just not   
   acceptable."   
      
           But Mamdani's policy is all about the homeless, not about the   
   rest of the public: "We are going to take an approach that understands   
   its mission is connecting those New Yorkers to housing."   
      
           Sorry, that's one mission, Mr. Mayor. But you are also   
   responsible for ensuring the safety and comfort of the rest of the city's   
   population, as well as its tourists and business visitors. Your policy is   
   giving all of them the middle finger.   
      
           No town or city should have to tolerate encampments. Weighing the   
   "rights" of the homeless against the needs of communities, the U.S.   
   Supreme Court ruled in 2024 that towns can remove encampments.   
      
           Justice Neil Gorsuch explained that otherwise, "with encampments   
   dotting neighborhood sidewalks, adults and children in these communities   
   are sometimes forced to navigate around used needles, human waste, and   
   other hazards to make their way to school, the grocery store, or work."   
      
           That's what New Yorkers are facing now.   
      
           Since the 2024 ruling, Democratic politicians, including   
   California Gov. Gavin Newsom and many California mayors, have   
   aggressively removed encampments.   
      
           Mamdani is heading in the opposite direction, subjecting Gotham   
   to a predictable increase in crime and contagions.   
      
           Los Angeles Police Department crime data show that from 2018 to   
   2022, the homeless made up 1% of the population but 11% to 15% of all   
   violent crime suspects.   
      
           Nationwide, 13% of the homeless in encampments are registered sex   
   offenders, and in some states, such as Connecticut, Massachusetts and   
   Rhode Island, that figure is a staggering 50% or more, reports the Cicero   
   Institute. You don't want to walk by a homeless encampment after dark, or   
   have your children navigate around one on their way to school.   
      
           Mamdani says he's doing what's right for the homeless, keeping   
   their presence a visible eyesore, putting pressure on the city to provide   
   them with housing.   
      
           In truth, he's making them victims too, mere ploys in his   
   political calculations. The life expectancy of someone living on the   
   streets is, on average, 27 years lower than that of someone who is not.   
   Some fall victim to crime or disease, but most die from alcohol or drug   
   overdoses, often lying under a cardboard box or on a urine-soaked   
   mattress.   
      
           Adams said it best, lamenting that there is nothing compassionate   
   or "'progressive' about leaving people to freeze in makeshift   
   encampments. It ... dehumanizes the very people who need help."   
      
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