EDITORIAL: On panhandling, give respect, get respect
A man waiting at a busy Fort Collins street corner is asking for money.
He knows that if he stands there long enough, someone will give it to him.
Fort Collins, though, doesn’t seem to know how to handle this situation.
Not just the city – which ran afoul of the American Civil Liberties Union with a 2015 crackdown on panhandling and ensuing efforts to blunt “disruptive behaviors” linked to the city’s homeless and transient population – but its residents and visitors, too.
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