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No.

The point isn’t that homeless kill people, it’s that homeless and drug addicts create environments where people are more likely to be killed, by anyone.




Setting aside for a moment that this incident did not involve homeless people, we need to bring systems thinking to this problem, and ask what created the environment of homelessness to begin with.

Focusing only on the symptom here is similar to focusing on error logs and system crashes as if they are self contained phenomena and lamenting the impact they have on operations teams.

These issues are signs of upstream problems, and either there are poor coding practices somewhere in the org, or infrastructure that hasn’t been properly scaled/optimized (among a myriad of other possible causes).

This community in particular is well positioned to understand this broader mindset.


Then we'd better start thinking of quick fixes instead of dreaming up ways to refactor all of society to fix the downstream issue.


One tech executive stabs another one to death, and this is somehow homeless people’s fault?




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