{"id":49290,"date":"2023-02-16T07:54:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T12:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49290"},"modified":"2023-02-16T07:54:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T12:54:13","slug":"when-common-sense-takes-a-vacation-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49290","title":{"rendered":"When Common Sense Takes A Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/los-angeles-begins-unarmed-policing-alternative-including-yoga-healing-circles-meditation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Los Angeles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California city officials<\/a> announced a new public safety initiative which implements yoga, meditation and healing circles to homeless communities as an alternative form of unarmed policing. The initiative&#8217;s launch cost the city of Los Angeles $2.2 million in city funding.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If only homelessness and crime were so simple that they could be ended by yoga, meditation, and healing circles. Homelessness is generally related to mental illness and\/or drug addiction. Until we are able to get to the root of either or both of these problems, homelessness will exist. It should also be noted that a person who is addicted to drugs will not be successful in a rehabilitation program until he decides he is willing to give up drugs. Other people can&#8217;t make that decision for him. The homeless are not as bothered by being homeless as the rest of us are bothered by seeing them homeless.<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Homelessness has become a pressing issue in Los Angeles as local leaders continue to feel pressure to address the matter amid increasing housing costs.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>According to a Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) as of Feb. 2022, there are 69,144 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/topic\/homeless-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homeless people<\/a> in Los Angeles County. Throughout 2022, the Los Angeles Police Department reported 229,584 crimes, an 11.6% increase from 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is nothing I can add to this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Fox News reported the following: Los Angeles, California city officials announced a new public safety initiative which implements yoga, meditation and healing circles to homeless communities as an alternative form of unarmed policing. The initiative&#8217;s launch cost the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49290\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2523,5274,3970],"class_list":["post-49290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fox-news","tag-homelessness","tag-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49302,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49290\/revisions\/49302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}