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Without endorsing the decision, there were some showings made: But residents who live near Cubberley had other concerns. Several pointed to recent incidents, including one in which one homeless man beat another into unconsciousness and another in which a homeless man threatened a police officer.

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I'm sure that there have been no instances where someone with a home threatened a police officer, or got into a fight. It's only those dirty homeless people who do that.

There may be higher levels of violence, but two incidents does not show that in my opinion.

I know a few kids that went to school and beat each other unconscious every once in a while. In retrospect, I guess my town should've banned going to school.

The grandparent post said there should be some showings made of actual harm. I pointed out that such showings were made, and said that I don't endorse the decision. Don't start an argument with me just because I referred the other poster to something he overlooked in the article.

My comment wasn't to argue with you, just a comment on the situation. Sorry if it seemed like I was calling you out.

OK, sorry if I seemed prickly.

In other words, there has not been one single incident of violent crime committed by a homeless man against a resident; had there been, they would presumably have cited it.

I'm no bleeding heart liberal. I'm all in favor of being tough on crime. But I'm having difficulty seeing this as anything other than straightforward unprovoked aggression against people who are not criminals.

Beating people and threatening police officers are probably already crimes in Palo Alto.

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