Fining the homeless doesn’t solve any problems

When your well runs dry, there’s no point in running the bucket down to the bottom. You’re plumb out of water.
Likewise, in the ongoing legal dance between homeless people in Southern California and law enforcement arresting them on “quality-of-life” charges — living in their cars or on the sidewalk, and drinking while they do so, for instance — there is simply no point in maintaining the charade that the perps in question can pay the fines the legal system ke