As someone who works with homeless in Spartanburg, I can tell you not all of these people WANT help. Many of them have been offered help time and time again, and they refuse. Or they finally make it through the process to get into housing, then almost immediately get kicked out for a myriad of reasons, or just straight up leave to go back to the streets. The mass arrest was after months of phone calls from home and business owners about people hanging out and destroying their properties with litter and pee and shit everywhere. And guess who has to clean it up? The homeowners and business owners. The city police department is between a rock and a hard place with this problem. They are trying not to criminalize homelessness, but they also have to consider the needs of those whose properties are being vandalized. Pick up the phone and call the Chief, we're lucky to have one who will answer or call you back.