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Originally Posted by WinnisquamZ
Downtown Laconia is already seeing the effects of the homeless hanging around. The coffee event held last year has moved to Concord. The pumpkin fest wants to move to the Weirs due to the homeless. Is there a fix? No. Not today. It will take the downtown businesses to fix it
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Winnisquam, there is a fix. Zero tolerance. If the LPD adopted a zero tolerance policy of either arresting or transporting vagrants to the city line (much like Sherriff Teasel in First Blood, but hopefully with better results), we could solve the homeless problem immediately. We welcome the homeless in our community and the word is spreading. Beyond the rehab centers, we have an attractive nuisance on New Salem Street that exacerbates the problem. If we were much more unwelcoming so to speak it would stop. Our homeless issue is a smaller example of our border crisis, we have the tools and the know how to stop it, we just don't want to, most likely because of money homelessness brings to the City.