Homeless despite Yale degree; mental illness? drug addiction? choice?

[ucbalumnus]

@TatinG

Police just arrested a man on four outstanding warrants who had been burning a campfire in the hills near my neighborhood. This is an extreme, present danger to the lives and property of thousands. I don’t care if he is addicted or mentally ill. There is no excuse. The rest of us have rights too.

In other words, they chose to arrest based on actual hazard posed to others (i.e. perhaps he was worth the jail space/cost more so than any homeless people who are merely unsightly).