California continues to pour billions of dollars into addressing the state’s burgeoning homeless population, but that won’t solve the problem, according to the district attorney for El Dorado County, located east of Sacramento.
The state’s drug and crime policies are mostly to blame, District Attorney Vern Pierson told California Insider in “Why Homelessness is California is Different Compared to the Rest of the U.S.”
“There’s something uniquely different here,” Pierson said. “The most notable unique difference is our decriminalizing hardcore drug use and decriminalizing low-level property crime.”
The only way to turn the trend around would be for Californians to join together and fix these two state policies that allow and encourage illegal substance use and criminal behavior, he said….