Recent high-profile incidents of seemingly random violent crime allegedly committed by homeless people have been making headlines and putting city dwellers on high alert.
. But Steve Berg, the vice president of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, says they are not behind a majority of the crime.are no more likely to be criminalsAnd in Los Angeles, incidents involving the homeless as either the suspect, the victim or both made up less than a tenth of all crime in L.A, according toPolice departments in New York, Seattle, and San Diego say they do not readily collect and distribute data on homelessness and crime.
"Those low-level offenses that we would expect to see coming out of that unsheltered community will often be associated with survival techniques or subsistence behaviors," Ellsworth said.About 203 out of every 10,000 formerly incarcerated people are homeless, and nearly three times as many -- 570 out of every 10,000 -- is housing insecure, according to. The formerly incarcerated are 10 times more likely to be homeless than the general public, the organization reports.
This means homeless people are often in and out of jails and prisons without rehabilitation for their mental illness or trauma, making it only harder to find stability, Ellsworth said. Without access to mental health resources and care, it's much harder to get people housed, employed and stable, says Rob Robinson, a formerly homeless man and advocate at the Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights.
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