Trump admin brainstorms aggressive tactics to clear homeless camps, report claims

Trump admin brainstorms aggressive tactics to clear homeless camps, report claims

Justice Department asks employees for ideas on how to ‘more efficiently shift chronic vagrants away from the public square and into a more concentrated space’ to better deploy services

DOJ Looks to Grant Teams for Ideas to Address Homelessness

The Justice Department has asked agency officials who oversee grants for ideas on clearing homeless encampments and increasing involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post. The report comes a day after Reuters said the DOJ was terminating $811 million in grants, including some impacting victim service programs ranging from trauma centers and sign language interpretation for domestic viole…