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It's worse than that, which would be a misguided attempt to help.

As one former deputy described the program to reporters, the objective was to “make their lives miserable until they move or sue.”

They aren't trying to stop the kids from becoming criminals, they are trying to get them to leave and be the criminals they assume they'll be elsewhere by harassing them. This is just a next-level variation of shipping homeless to other cities.



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