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'Snitch App' encourages San Francisco residents to report homeless people to authorities

• usuncut.com

But the app is already under heavy criticism by anti-gentrification groups who say its unnecessary to report the homeless for interacting with the public, or for simply existing.

Under Mayor Ed Lee's watch, San Francisco's homeless population has skyrocketed, increasing by 200 to approximately 7000. The app has already led to reports of a supposedly "violent person" who was gone by the time police arrived on the scene, and the reporting of a homeless camp to the police.

"Snitch app, you snitching on homeless people, I can guarantee you they didn't call too many homeless people and say, 'How can we include you in the process to make it work for you,;" Darcel Jackson, who was formerly homeless, told ABC.

While the city maintains the app is not meant to criminalize homelessness, the San Francisco Coalition On Homelessness called the city's app "silly" and "counter-productive," suggesting that it was made for residents to "complain about each other."


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