I am familiar with the Colorado Springs cases. I went to high school in Colorado Springs, met my wife there, and we still own a nice home in Colorado Springs, and just got back from there in fact. The situation is a bit more nuanced...Originally Posted by pinkytoe
Colorado Springs has a huge, and growing, homeless population. However, the Colorado Springs police and prosecutors have been violating constitutional due process guidelines. The ACLU gets involved in that side of things, yes - but look to the detaisl - they weren't defending the homeless person's right to do drugs in public parks...
Colorado in general, and Colorado Springs and Denver in particular, needs to look carefully at the constitution before trying to make homelessness a crime. As both cities have found out over and over. (Gosh, look, Denver lost *again* just last month: https://acluco-wpengine.netdna-ssl.c...ismissal-2.pdf )
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ay-court-fines
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