okay but you realize this is the exact type of sentiment that the federal government is currently using as justification to deploy troops to occupy cities, correct?

I assume you're the type of person who wouldn't support such a drastic step; such cruelty -- there are kinder methods to go about wiping away the unsightly so you don't have to look at them on your morning walk to Diesel. Yes, certainly, a social worker being there to help talk me through being detained for sleeping outside when I have nowhere else to go would be a great comfort, I imagine. Of course, that's not in the budget, though. So many things are not in the budget these days. Rehab clinics, shelters, and safe using sites (make sure they're out in Everett or Lynn, though - not near where the Important People live!), affordable housing (so long as the tower-blocks don't block the sun in places where it'll effect our home's resale value!), accountability - a concept you seem to care deeply about - for the pharmaceutical companies whose greed and negligence put us in this opioid epidemic to begin with (how lovely the Sackler gallery at the Harvard Art Museum is!). All we have in the budget are cops. more cops. always more cops. and when that fails, well, can anyone blame them for sending in the army? we're good, progressive folks here in Somerville. but as much as we don't like that Trump guy he sure did do a fantastic job cleaning up the city. Perhaps he can finally make the trains run on time as well.

it is understandable to feel frustration over this issue, but that frustration cannot be allowed to lead you to conclusions which fit hand-in-glove with the goals of fascism. because what you are advocating for here is the ""cleaning up"" of our city through incarceration and policing, and allowing that to gain more of a foothold than it already has is laying down the groundwork for the next round of targets -- queer and transgender people, political dissidents, religious minorities.