Oathkeeper

Note: This is not about if she is Democrat or Republican. It's about doing the right thing. Also notice that these homeless choose jail because they don't want to face the reality of who and what they are.

The left is having a MELTDOWN over this BRILLIANT move that's helping fix the streets of California!

Santa Ana Mayor Valerie Amezcua is out with police and partners offering homeless people a clear choice: accept detox, shelter, or treatment programs, or go to jail.

“I'm the mayor of the city of Santa Ana. I'm out this morning with Santa Ana PD, with our QOLT team, our Quality of Life team, Teen Challenge, Salvation Army and what we're doing here today is we're working with those that are homeless on our streets.

We're offering them services, whether it's detox, a shelter, a program. And if they refuse all the services, then they end up going to jail.”

The city runs these operations every month. Recent sweeps have contacted dozens of people at a time. In one highlighted operation, the large majority of those contacted chose jail over services. Common charges involve public intoxication, trespassing, and camping violations.

“If you're asking, why do we do this? It's inhumane. No, it's actually good to take people off the streets. It's inhumane to leave them on the streets. That is the key that we always have to remember. It is inhumane to leave them on the streets, whether they're laying in their feces or they're high.”

Amezcua’s approach relies on strengthened local anti-camping rules and the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass decision, which allows cities to enforce public camping bans when shelter is available. Santa Ana has shelter capacity and partners ready.

“We're gonna keep doing this because your quality of life, my quality of life and our children's quality of life, it matters.”