Umm, what?
Michelle Malkin had a post up yesterday about this jackass-tivist in Miami who is moving vagrants into homes he knows to unoccupied because they are either under foreclosure or just for sale.
In the article, they quote a spokesperson for the City of Miami
There are no actions on the city’s part to stop this. It is important to note that if people trespass into private property, it is up to the property owner to take action to remove those individuals.
Now, I understand that the police don’t have time to go around neighborhoods checking to make sure that squatters aren’t holing up in unoccupied houses. And because government can fuck up a whorehouse, I wouldn’t want them to do that.
However, if a homeowner makes a complaint of squatters invading their unoccupied structure, and states that no one other than they, or in the case of a bank owned home, their employees, are allowed to be there, then surely the local precinct can pass this information on to their patrol officers. These guys keep lists of plate numbers posted to their visor, how about a list of addresses that have been reported to have had squatters?
Every address has its interactions with the police recorded in a database. The dispatch department has access to this database, or if the officer has a laptop in their cruiser, they can access it themselves.
Really, just how damn hard can it be to get this situation under control?
And if it is just that damn hard, how much force is a property owner allowed to use in Miami to evict these squatters? Does the City of Miami think it is easier to just wait for some homeowner to go too far so that they can arrest the property owner and not have to worry about complaints from that address any longer?
