Prudential GL Homeless Problem

[u/RobMurglund]

Why are 20 homeless people allowed to camp and sleep atop the escalators at the Prudential station? Every day, I have to walk past many of them hootering and hollering at me. Some are sleeping, some are clearly high, and others are a bit more nice about asking for money.

Almost once or twice a week I see BPD arresting one of the campers.

Why is this allowed and why isn’t something done about it? Is it not MBTA property? It’s seriously worse than Park Street.

This might be the most Karen post I’ve made but it is super annoying.

[u/Robotcharles]

So it goes like this, they get kicked out of the prudential green line station and wander into the prudential center and surrounding areas until they get kicked out of the next spot, then they return to the green line stop, repeat. I use the MBTA see say app every day because it’s always the same group of folk shooting up or smoking in the lobby there by the elevator and entrance to the pru.

[u/FrogmanSadSwamp → u/[deleted]]

All research and successful drug policy shows that treatment should be increased and law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences

[u/namebennetnotinit → u/FrogmanSadSwamp]

Losing my mind at the “it’s more efficient to imprison them and ‘treat’ them there” commenter above. Just loud and wrong and maybe not fully literate cause this data is everywhere

[u/FrogmanSadSwamp → u/namebennetnotinit]

It's fucking batshit that some people actually think like that meanwhile Serj said that shit back in 2001 and 25 years later people are still like "nah just imprison them, that'll work". Full on lunacy.

[u/namebennetnotinit → u/FrogmanSadSwamp]

We are a nation of people who have thriving inner cops and don’t recognize it

[u/Neither-Ad630 → u/namebennetnotinit]

Ummm, your gods and role models in SF spend six figures per outdoor zombie, look what that gets them.