Listening to the police officers talk in our last class, I learned a lot about a group of people who are actively doing something to change the homelessness dynamic. These 3 men are a very small portion of the police force and do not have much help outside of their group but they are working towards a change. they are the people who are known to criminalize the homeless, yet they are working to make the lives of the homeless better.

After listening to them talk about all of the hard work and the repetition an the relentless effort they put into getting these people off the street, I began to wonder why it was just these three police men who were doing this work. if they can go out and bring people into rehabilitation centers and find them stable housing, why aren’t there more people out there doing this same work if its proving to be successful? The personal component of this tactic I think is what makes it so effective. If we say as a country that we want to eliminate homelessness, then this would be the way to do it. bringing a more personal aspect into the helping of the homeless I think would make them a lot more comfortable and willing to take help. Along those same lines, many homeless people don’t even know where to start when it comes to finding help or they’ve been rejected so many times that they don’t know where to turn or have given up hope. If we were to create and organization or even expand the HOPE team and make more people available to go up to these struggling individuals personally and offer them help, I believe we would have a higher success rate of bringing people off the streets.