US city decriminalizes public defecation

"In Kalamazoo, Michigan, a city with around 75 000 inhabitants and a growing homeless population, its leaders on Thursday voted to make “equitable changes” in city laws resulting in the decriminalization of littering and public defecation and urination."

Dumbass democrats didn't even bother to flush the city down the toilet this time, they simply allowed everyone to shit all over it, until it ends up looking like the crown jewel of democratic policies. The mighty San Francisco.

Four years old video: San Francisco is a Sh*thole. America's biggest public toilet.

Now, check out this disgusting insanity.

Jack Wolfsohn reports, July 25, 2022 4:44 PM

Kalamazoo Goes Down the Toilet

(I beg to differ. It would be good if it was in the toilet, vs next to it, wouldn't it?)

Kalamazoo, Mich., has decided to decriminalize public urination, defecation, and littering, as well as other crimes, in the name of “equitable changes.” Last Monday, the Kalamazoo City Commission unanimously passed amendments to two dozen components of the city code of ordinances. Six crimes that used to be prosecuted as misdemeanors will now be charged as civil infractions.

City attorney Clyde Robinson tried to alleviate concern over the changes, saying, “They are still a violation of our ordinances; it just no longer carries a criminal sentence.”

Many businesspeople in the city of about 73,000 residents are staunchly opposed to the decision. Monte Janssen, owner of local restaurant Youz Guys Dogz, told WWMT Channel 3: “I think it would probably allow people to think they can do what they want and not get in trouble for it. I think it’ll take away the consequence and that’s the concern.” Cherri Emery, the owner of a coffee and chocolate shop in Kalamazoo, told “Fox & Friends First” what she has experienced as a result of lax enforcement of the law in the city: “One day, we kept smelling something in the back of the store . . . and it was human feces.”

This move mirrors the actions of other left-wing cities with leaders who believe public safety must be sacrificed in the name of “equity.” Both San Francisco and Los Angeles have been facing a public defecation problem for years. This is exacerbated by the homeless problem plaguing both cities. San Francisco has more than 8,000 homeless people, and tent cities have been set up throughout the city. According to a July 2022 report, Sacramento County had 9,278 homeless people in February 2022, a 67 percent increase since 2019. Of course, a surging homeless population leads to more public defecation, urination, littering, and drug use.

The idea that it is “equitable” to cease criminalizing certain offenses, and thereby incentivize more crime, is farcical. In no way does decriminalizing these offenses help homeless people in Kalamazoo. Encouraging this behavior will make Kalamazoo look more like San Francisco and Los Angeles, which no one wants.

This goes back to the problem with the social-justice warriors’ crusade to achieve equity in every corner of American life. Equity, which has replaced “equality” in the woke vocabulary, focuses on equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity. Moreover, it declares that all inequality can be chalked up to racism, sexism, or discrimination of another sort. It is impossible to achieve “equity” without taking radical government action that tramples on individual freedoms. The logical endpoint of equity is to burn down all of the institutions. The policies necessary to fulfill the far Left’s equity agenda are unpopular with Americans, as former San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin’s recall last month shows. If Democrats continue down this path, they will come to regret it.

[nationalreview.com]

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US city decriminalizes public defecation

In Kalamazoo, Michigan, a city with around 75 000 inhabitants and a growing homeless population, its leaders on Thursday voted to make “equitable changes” in city laws resulting in the decriminalization of littering and public defecation and urination.

Published: July 26, 2022, 10:21 am

Kalamazoo

City commissioners voted to be more lenient on public defecation, public urination and littering. They will be changed from misdemeanors to civil infractions on Monday, Fox17Online reported. Residents protested against change.

“One day, we smell something in the bathroom of the store and I open up the door and there was human feces, and of course, called the landlord and they — nobody would do anything about it,” the owner of a coffee shop, told Fox host Todd Piro.

The owners of another shop at the Kalamazoo Mall, told Fox about an increase of feces in the area near the store. The city also spent $100 000 on a public restroom near the mall, but at times the facilities were locked, possibly due to a drug problem.

“I’m kind of a little ways from the main part of the mall, but my neighbor has had human feces outside of his door,” the owner explained. He said there was litter everywhere and even though it is supposed to be cleaned regularly “it’s still out there and just crazy”.

US city decriminalizes public defecation

In Kalamazoo, Michigan, a city with around 75 000 inhabitants and a growing homeless population, its leaders on Thursday voted to make “equitable changes” in city laws resulting in the decriminalization of littering and public defecation and urination.

Published: July 26, 2022, 10:21 am

Kalamazoo

City commissioners voted to be more lenient on public defecation, public urination and littering. They will be changed from misdemeanors to civil infractions on Monday, Fox17Online reported. Residents protested against change.

“One day, we smell something in the bathroom of the store and I open up the door and there was human feces, and of course, called the landlord and they — nobody would do anything about it,” the owner of a coffee shop, told Fox host Todd Piro.

The owners of another shop at the Kalamazoo Mall, told Fox about an increase of feces in the area near the store. The city also spent $100 000 on a public restroom near the mall, but at times the facilities were locked, possibly due to a drug problem.

“I’m kind of a little ways from the main part of the mall, but my neighbor has had human feces outside of his door,” the owner explained. He said there was litter everywhere and even though it is supposed to be cleaned regularly “it’s still out there and just crazy”.

American cities are facing a rising drug problem

Four years ago, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz made the decision to open Starbucks’ bathrooms to the public. The company’s open bathroom policy quickly degenerated with drug addicts turning their restrooms into feces-infested heroin dens.

The decision to open restrooms was taken after two black men were arrested at a store in Philadelphia for demanding to use the bathroom without making a purchase and then refusing to leave in protest.

“We don’t want to become a public bathroom, but we’re going to make the right decision a hundred percent of the time and give people the key,” Schultz said at the time, “because we don’t want anyone at Starbucks to feel as if we are not giving access to you to the bathroom because you are less than.”

Schultz even ordered employees to attend “racial sensitivity” training and forced Starbucks employees to watch “video after video” of white cops attacking black people.

“At one point, a girl at my table actually had to get up and leave because video after video they showed black people being assaulted by police or black people being verbally assaulted and white people being racially biased toward people of color,” one Starbucks employee reported. “It offended her. She left after that.”

Other employees expressed similar surprise at conflating restroom policy with police brutality.

Starbucks has now announced that they were closing 16 stores as a result of “incidents related to drug use and other disruptions,” the Wall Street Journal reported. Ironically, Schultz has since decided to blame none other than the much-maligned police for not enforcing laws.

[freewestmedia.com]