GANGSTERS IN BLUE: ASSAULT
ON AMERICA’S
HOMELESS
By Thomas Cain
Series One
For the last few months, RMCP has been investigating
allegations of Police abuse against America’s homeless. What we discovered is most disturbing. Homelessness in America is on a high time
rise. Food banks, homeless shelters, church
charities, are facing a catastrophe crisis in supplying the meager demands of
the homeless.
With America
encountering a double dip recession, more families are losing their homes. Homeless shelters nationwide have reported a
huge increase in families with small children either living on the streets or
in their vehicles. With no jobs or
money, these once thriving, hardworking men and women are force to “panhandle”
for their survival.
America’s
image has always been one of a prosperous nation, a benevolent people whose
generosity reaches beyond its borders to the needy, or at least this is the
portrait we have painted of ourselves. The
fact is, as America’s
economy declines, with more and more families being evicted from their homes,
the homeless are being rounded up by the police and carded off to jail.
City after city have demanded their police run off the
vagrants from their communities. In some
instances the homeless are beaten, thrown into jail while deprived of food, or medicine. They have been murdered, mocked, subjugated to
insults, sneered at, given false promises of help, their wives and daughters
have been raped, even forced into prostitution.
In the State of California,
Florida, New York, and elsewhere, homeless women have
been raped by police officers in the backseat of their police cruisers. The sad part is that these atrocities were not
performed in secret. In Salt Lake City
and Provo, Utah where the Mormonism is the leading faith,
it is reported that homeless women are subjugated to police strip search,
fondled, forced intercourse, and jailed, for no other reason than being
homeless.
Recently, a homeless woman was fondled by a Utah County
Sheriff Jailer, while custody in Provo,
Utah. When the woman complained to jail officials
the jailer was given a slight reprimand, the woman was charged with false drug
charges. The charges were later dropped;
the woman was forced to leave the area or encounter further false charges.
Our investigations lead us to one state to another as the
homeless shared their stories of police abuse.
In most cases their pleas for help have fallen upon deaf ears. As American states face the worst economical
crisis in its history, the homeless are “undesirables” with little or no chance
of escaping their financial impoverishment.
The second wave of the Grapes of Wrath is upon us. During the dust bowel area, farmers assaulted
the migrants, refused to pay them their meager wages, and used private security
guards to whip and beat the poor souls into submission: all for the mighty
American dollar. In today’s Grapes of
Wrath, it’s not the farmers plundering the poor, its big corporation. The poor are strong armed into submission by
state and local law enforcement agencies.
Again, all for the American all mighty dollar.
