"What a concept. Enforce the law!"

Ace of Spades co-blogger CBD writes in part,

Ah...homelessness! it rears its ugly head during every Republican administration, then scurries off to the back closet when Democrats hold the White House. But two or three generations of idiots in power in California have created the perfect storm of drug addicts and drunks and bums on their streets, and they can't ignore it any longer.

...The first and most obvious step is to return to the rule of law. Rudy Giuliani did exactly that in the 1990s in NYC, and he was fabulously successful. But that meant that shoplifting and shaking down drivers with squeegees and hopping subway turnstiles and a host of petty crimes got prosecuted vigorously.

What a concept! Enforce the law, and good things come of it.

And the converse is being demonstrated as we speak on those very same streets of NYC. De Blasio has carefully destroyed what Giuliani wrought, and the results are in...crime is up, surprising nobody except the true believers.

Short of creating a nation-wide system of drug rehabilitation centers, funded by the federal government, and federal law that will allow involuntary commitment, which will guarantee another vast, expensive, dysfunctional federal bureaucracy that fails to deliver on its goals, what else can be done besides simply enforcing the law?

Read more here.