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Tag: In San Francisco sleeping is a crime: New data shows SFPD giving mountains of tickets to homeless people for resting

In San Francisco, sleeping is a crime: New data shows SFPD...

At a time that the Department of Justice is calling the citing, arresting and forced displacement of homeless people for sleeping cruel and unusual punishment, new data from the SFPD indicates that it is fully engaged in this practice: Homeless people received 11,920 citations for resting in public space in 2014. A total of 13,390 citations were given to homeless people for anti-homeless “offenses.”