Fort Bragg Slashes Arrests of Homeless Residents by Two-Thirds with Care Response Unit

In the wake of the pandemic, the City of Fort Bragg adopted a zero-tolerance policy toward homeless encampments — independent of the recent Grants Pass Supreme Court decision. Counter-intuitively, this has led to far fewer arrests of homeless residents. Today, arrests of homeless residents have fallen from 54% of all arrests to less than 18% of all arrests. The secret? The small Care Response Unit embedded in the police department.

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