Criminalization

Police ‘Sweeps’ Of Homeless Camps Are Worse Than You Think

December 13, 2025 Carrieann Smith, Inequality.org. Educate! Criminalization, Homeless encampment, Police, Unhoused

Police “sweeps” of homeless encampments aren’t what you think — they’re much worse. I know, because I’ve been a victim of one. The Supreme Court ruled last year that unhoused people can be punished for sleeping outside, even when no shelter or affordable housing is available. Enforcement often involves “sweeps” where officers destroy or confiscate property and arrest or fine unhoused individuals. To make matters worse, President Trump just announced that he wants to strip almost $4 billion in funding from permanent housing programs, dumping close to 200,000 more people onto the streets.

Kentucky’s Anti-Camping Law Has Pushed Rural Homelessness Into Hiding

October 24, 2025 Anabel Peterman, Next City. Educate! Criminalization, Homelessness, Kentucky, Rural

In many U.S. cities, advocates for America’s growing homeless population say, homelessness itself is being treated like a crime. Last year, the Supreme Court gave cities the green light to ban people from sleeping and camping in public, allowing them to crack down on encampments even when there are no shelter beds available. In July, the White House announced an executive order making it easier for cities and states to remove unsheltered people from the streets and force them into medical facilities and institutions. That headline came alongside news of broad, Trump-backed encampment sweeps in Washington, D.C. and the threat of federal mobilization in other big cities.

Venezuela At UNSC: ‘We Believe We Are Facing Imminent US Attack’

October 11, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Resist! China, Criminalization, Human Rights, International Law, Latin America and the Caribbean, Militarization, Samuel Moncada, UN Security Council, Venezuela, War On Drugs, Zone of Peace

On Friday, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, alerted the UN Security Council that Venezuela strongly believes a US military attack is imminent. He characterized the situation as the latest aggression in decades-long attempts to oust first President Hugo Chávez and now President Nicolás Maduro. “The plan is clear,” he said during an emergency meeting. “It is once again about executing the operation that already failed: overthrowing the legitimate and constitutional President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, to install a puppet regime and turn our country into a colony.” When questioned by the press, Moncada elaborated on the sense of urgency.

Amid Local Failures And Federal Cuts, Advocates For Unhoused Step Up

August 26, 2025 Olivia Deng, HorizonMass. Educate! Austerity, Boston, Criminalization, Homelessness, Housing

It’s been more than half a year since the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation spent four days clearing out an encampment near the BU Bridge in Cambridge, and Gemma Byrne has yet to see any of the people who were displaced by what one witness described as “the most inhumane sweep she has seen in her approximately 10 years of being unhoused.” Byrne is an organizer for the material aid and harm reduction program Warm Up Boston, which distributes supplies to encampments and has developed connections with their residents. Homelessness and fringe housing get more attention in the bitter cold months, but the work continues in the heat, as do haunting memories of what came last December.

Trump’s Invasion Of Washington DC Costs Over $1 Million A Day

August 25, 2025 Hanna Homestead, Inequality.org. Educate! Criminalization, Homelessness, Housing, National Guard, Poverty, Washington D.C.

President Trump mobilized the D.C. National Guard under the guise of restoring security in the nation’s capital — despite D.C.’s crime rate being at a 30-year low. What began as a deployment of 800 D.C. National Guard troops has grown to encompass 2,091 as of this writing, as Republican governors send hundreds more. Trump hasn’t just complained about alleged crime in the district — he’s placed a target on people experiencing poverty and homelessness. Claiming that we’re “getting rid of the slums,” Trump has called on troops and police to forcibly remove unhoused people from the city. Federal law prohibits deploying the military on U.S. soil, except under certain extraordinary circumstances.

New Study: Criminalizing Homelessness Doesn’t Reduce Homelessness

July 1, 2025 Roshan Abraham, Next City. Educate! Camping bans, Criminalization, encampments, Homelessness

A recent study shows that encampment bans and other policies that criminalize homelessness don’t keep people from living on the street. The analysis did not find any reduction in homelessness in any of the cities studied as a result of such ordinances. The study examined the effect of ordinances enacted between 2000 and 2021 across the 100 most populous U.S. cities, using data pulled from Continuums of Care — local entities that administer federal homelessness funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The study, published in May in the Policy Studies Journal, looked beyond camping bans and included laws criminalizing public drunkenness, urination or other actions that are criminalized when conducted in public but not behind closed doors.

Criminalizing Homelessness Doesn’t Work; Housing People Does

June 5, 2025 Farrah Hassen, Scheer Post. Create! Criminalization, Homelessness, Housing First, Legal System

In the largest eviction of a homeless encampment in recent history, around 100 unhoused people were recently forced to vacate Oregon’s Deschutes National Forest — or else face a $5,000 fine and up to one year in jail. The forest was the last hope for the encampment’s residents, many of whom were living in broken down RVs and cars. Shelters in nearby Bend — where the average home price is nearly $800,000 — are at capacity, and rent is increasingly unaffordable. “There’s nowhere for us to go,” Chris Dake, an encampment resident who worked as a cashier and injured his knee, told the New York Times.

Venezuela Condemns Washington’s Criminalization Of Migrants

March 17, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Alien Enemies Act, Blockade, Children, Criminalization, El Salvador, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Migrants, Sanctions, Venezuela

Venezuela has categorically condemned the United States government’s persecution of Venezuelans in the US, calling it an “infamous and unjust criminalization of Venezuelan migrants.” The Venezuelan government’s official statement in this regard, issued on Sunday, March 16, likens Washington’s position to “the darkest episodes in human history, from slavery to the horrors of Nazi concentration camps.” The statement condemned in strong terms the persecution of Venezuelan citizens in the US, including the expropriation of their personal property, assets, businesses, vehicles, and bank accounts.

Police Diversion Programs Face Uncertain Future

March 3, 2025 Robert Davis, Invisible People. Organize! Criminalization, Diversion Programs, Homeless, Police

Atlanta, Georgia, is one city that has gone back and forth about whether to continue funding its Policing Alternatives and Diversion Initiative. At the start of 2025, the PAD program suspended its services because of contract negotiations with city officials. PAD responds to calls through Atlanta’s 3-1-1 municipal services line and offers services like legal support, shelter and housing placements, and outreach. In 2024, the program fielded more than 1,800 service requests with an average response time of 19 minutes, according to its annual report. Nearly half of the calls PAD responded to were to help people meet their basic needs.

An Upcoming Supreme Court Case Threatens To Criminalize Homelessness

February 1, 2024 Adam Mahoney, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Class Struggle, Criminalization, Homelessness, Housing, Supreme Court

As America’s affordable housing crisis grows, especially for those of retirement age, Black folks continue to be pushed into homelessness at a disproportionate rate. Advocates argue that an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court ruling may make it even more dire. Earlier this month, the court announced that it would hear a case that will essentially decide if people experiencing homelessness can be issued jail time, tickets, and fines for sleeping on the streets — even if there are no shelter alternatives available for them. The case will be heard either this spring or in the fall.

Georgia Frames Cop-City Protest As Criminal Conspiracy

December 4, 2023 Rachel McKane and David Pellow, Consortium News. Educate! Atlanta, Cop City, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Criminalization, Georgia, Police

When does lawful protest become criminal activity? That question is at issue in Atlanta, where 57 people have been indicted and arraigned on racketeering charges for actions related to their protest against a planned police and firefighter training center that critics call “Cop City.” Racketeering charges typically are reserved for people accused of conspiring toward a criminal goal, such as members of organized crime networks or financiers engaged in insider trading. Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr is attempting to build an argument that seeking to stop construction of the police training facility – through actions that include organizing protests, occupying the construction site and vandalizing police cars and construction equipment – constitutes a “corrupt agreement” or shared criminal goal.

The Media’s Role In Criminalizing Climate Protest

August 24, 2023 Amy Westervelt, Drilled. Educate! climate crisis, Climate Justice, Criminalization, Legal System, Media

Before you can criminalize protest, you have to vilify the protesters. And to do that effectively, you need the media's help. Evlondo Cooper at Media Matters reviewed media coverage of climate protests in the U. S. from May 30th, 2022 to July 31st, 2023 for a new study. He documented a trend that we've been seeing too. Not only has the U. S. media perpetuated the idea that climate protesters are uniquely disruptive, and radical, but their general failure to cover anything about climate protest other than the disruption that they cause, further perpetuates this thinking. Evlondo's research found that while multiple national outlets have run stories about climate protesters being annoying and destructive, not a single broadcaster has run even one story on the fact that nearly half of the states in the U. S. have now passed laws criminalizing protest.

Unhoused Activists Are Fighting A Wave Of Anti-Homeless Legislation

August 24, 2022 Sara Herschander, Waging Nonviolence. Resist! Criminalization, Homelessness, Housing, State legislature

As soaring rents force many out of their homes, advocates across the country are battling a slew of state and local measures that criminalize homelessness and imperil those living on the street. Police in riot gear stormed the chambers of a Los Angeles City Council meeting on Tuesday after one protester climbed a bench to confront Council President Nury Martinez over an ordinance banning homeless encampments near schools and daycares. Martinez briefly recessed the meeting as dozens of activists chanted “Abolish 41.18!” — a reference to the ordinance. Last week, around 70 protesters shut down a council vote over the same measure, carrying signs with messages like “If I die unhoused – forget burial – just drop my body on the steps of L.A. City Hall.”

Protesters Rally Overnight About Camping On Public Property Law

July 2, 2022 Araceli Crescencio, News Channel 5 Nashville. Resist! Criminalization, Homelessness, State legislature, Tennessee

Starting July 1, people experiencing homelessness who sleep on state-owned land could face prison time and heavy fines. The controversial law has many people concerned about the unhoused community in the area. That’s why several people gathered at Legislative Plaza for a rally and march to Commerce Street Park. Some advocates are planning on sleeping overnight at the park to send a message to lawmakers that homelessness should not be a crime. The group Open Table Nashville organized the protest. The new law makes it a felony to camp on public property and could lead to up to six years in prison and thousands in fine. It also makes it a misdemeanor to camp under state bridges and overpasses.

Albany Must Do More To Stop The Criminalization Of Our Communities

July 18, 2020 By Eliana Fernandez, Mateo Guerrero, And Adilka Pimentel, City Limits. Educate! Criminalization, New York (NY), Police violence, Rebellion2020

As Black, Brown, immigrant, and trans New Yorkers continue to take to the streets, it’s clear that the mass uprising taking place across the state, and indeed the country, is far from over. In New York, this movement moment has already helped produce real results for long-fought campaigns: we have already won major policy victories in the fight for police accountability, including the repeal of 50a (a police secrecy statute), the STAT Act (a data reporting bill), and special prosecutor legislation. But the criminalization of our communities continues. With Albany legislators slated to return next week, they must take further action to keep community members with their loved ones, and youth in their schools—not in cages.

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