Michael Stoops People Quotations

The overwhelming majority of perpetrators are teens and young adults. We need to start with young people in public and private schools.

When people see the guy with the panhandling sign, that's the tip of the iceberg.

Rather than arresting and jailing homeless people for violation, let's find out why they're homeless in the first place. There's a lack of day shelters, and affordable housing.

That's like a form of social Darwinism, if you cut off food to force people to get help, and it really doesn't work that way.

They (Sarasota) could have been taken off the mean list if they would have just done away with that ordinance. They continue to push and push and push, and push homeless people out of the city.

People think that homeless people are not human beings and that it's OK to hurt them and, most importantly, they think they can get away with it.

Homeless people just take it on the chin and move to a more secluded area. We know that this is underreported.

The most common law that targets homeless people is some version of a panhandling law, whether it's aggressive panhandling or saying you can only panhandle in certain areas of a city.