Las Vegas Makes Homelessness A Crime | The Daily Show With Trevor Noah 

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6 months in jail then when free being homeless again, an endless cycle of being arrested.

Las Vegas logic: seeing a Homeless in street is bad for businesses, because people mustn't see how gambling end.

Fight _poverty,_ not the poor. Fight _homelessness,_ not the homeless.

USA: Treat homeless as criminals. Why are there still homeless people? Finland: Give homeless free housing. Problem solved.

"Land of the Free".. except if you don't have a home..

How can homelessness be a crime? It's not like people CHOOSE to be homeless

America in itself is a paradox, Trevor.

Fine or prison for homeless people is basically a way of saying "we need some forced labour!".

Won't a jail full of homeless people be like a retirement home?

Nevada has for profit prisons. I think that explains it all.

Soooo let me get this straight, homeless people are either fined thousands of dollars, which they don't have, or spend 6 months in jail. I wonder how many of them are going to take advantage of that.

If they don't want homeless people, then they should give them apartments to live in.

Gotta fill up those private jails and prisons, they need the kick back monies!

You want to stop homeless , stope spending billions of dollars on Israel , Egypt and other dictators around the world , and help the homeless to find a proper home , spend some money to find out why these people ended homeless in one of the richest counties in world .

Are they going to put whole families in jail. I swear the people who are being given the responsibility to help communities and states are just pure evil.

This sounds like a job for Bernie Sanders!

Excellent point on housing and the homeless!

In Hungary it is a crime to be a homeless for more than 1year now...

5% of the revenue of Casinos in Las Vegas can make shelter for all!

The idea of democracy is that everyone has a voice, even idiots.

They should get rid of gambling. And see if Las Vegas becomes homeless

"how are you gonna find a homeless to pay the fine?" Well sadly, what happens is: (1) if a homeless manages to begin a reinsertion into normal life (let's say with the support of social workers accompanying him into finding a home, a job, reconnecting with family); (2) then, "surprise", all the accumulated tickets and fines, and their associated accumulated interests, find their way to the new address of a person barely standing, trying to start a normal life, how crazy can our society be? Yes, this is indeed what happens elsewhere, in other states (US) or provinces (Canada)... Stop criminalizing homelessness. Go arrest the rich thieves instead! the one owning the mansion with 21 empty rooms and not paying taxes...

Provide proper housing and some startup money to help get back into regular work. It is cheaper than incarceration and police/ judicial services. It has also worked in the past to great effect, obviously it doesn't work for everyone but the numbers were very encouraging. Sadly politicians are too scared of upsetting parts of the population for looking to liberal and such. Look it up.

I quit Facebook and IG 2 years ago. And ive been more happy.

If their is another Great Depression/ Great Recession many people ( basically most of the common people) are going to be screwed if homeless is ban.......

Comedy Central didn't make a piece on New Hampshire polls, waiting for few minutes of that from you

The government should fight poverty, not ban it.

'Asking a homeless person for a fine is like asking Nancy Pelosi to blink' 😂😂😂😂😂 Trevor Trevor Trevor 🤣🤣🤣

Such a good point about the homeless problem. They rather spend money punishing someone than spend it to help them. It is sad that the government has always turned a blind eye to these people that have no social support or safety net. And to think that more than 60% of them are on the street because of medical bills and issues

FYI exactly the same in Hungary. Homeless people put in jail for sleeping in public spaces. But no one pays attention as it's a small country 🤷🏻‍♀️

0.1% of millitary spend could cure America's homelessness for ever.

Remember when in the middle ages, streets were purged before important people came to visit to make the city look better than it was? Vegas does.

Says temporary housing for homeless is too expensive, but is able to house them in jail for six months. Oh you.

i saw two gun men trying to enter a house last year while i was on my way to new year party. i called 911 like 10 times, no one answered. i had to go down to the station 30 mins later. they told me they'll check it out and i left the station. they had my number, but they never informed me what happened after that.

The difference is, jails here in the US are usually run by for profit companies, where inmates have little choice but to work as part of their sentence, getting paid no more than one or two dollars per day. It's just a legalized sweatshop at this point.

Six months for being homeless on the streets? Well at least they they get feed and a bed. Bloody cruel.

Did anyone notice in 1:37 there is a sign saying Jail but written as "GAIL"

Why people still have Facebook

Police :'You got to go' Homeless person 'Where ?'

Instead of creating more jobs for them you want to imprison them. Great stuff guys...

Trevor you make too much sense🤙🏿 🤙🏿

Is anybody reminded of the "We will saw homeless people in half" add.

In Hungary, being homeless is illegal more then a year... do not copy us

That logic is so true a homeless shelter is a better solution than just making it a crime

At the very end... oh man... I laughed so hard my boss heard me :)))

Such a rich country and it can't even house a handful of homeless people. Such a shame

That's terrible.🤦‍♂️ Thank God I have where I call home 🙏

I'm so glad I don't live in the US, my country may be relatively poor, but at least we try to be decent and help the poor (with more or less success)

Trevor Noah is so funny it's not even sensible anymore. Like it's insulting how eloquent and beautiful he executes his jokes while still being completely authentic, down to earth and human😙 love this man

They're going to fine homeless ppl a $1000!! ffs, yeh, cos every person choses to sleep on the street but has the odd thousand dollars in their pockets just in case of an emergency..

Then give them a place to live

If they hate the homeless so much, maybe they should address the root causes of homelessness, and then provide an actual solution. Because as much as these jerks hate the homeless, the homeless hate being homeless more!!! Shaming and criminalizing those who need help will NEVER solve anything. It will exasperate the problem. So now they will have criminal records, making it even more difficult to exit homelessness. This is just horribly sad and pathetic. We are punishing the vulnerable instead of helping them. Disgusting.

The end literally killed me ! Because I was watching it at work lol

There should be enough support and help for them

So you're going to fine them a thousand dollars that they clearly don't have and that you are never going to collect?

Homelessness should be a crime.... and the state should be punished for it!!!

You can't build them houses but you can put them inside of one with a fencing mechanism( jail). I see 🤔🤔

Wow! Stevor...now I really love why your mother made you laugh at everything...so you can deal with it when you're really calm...the system gone mad.

"Kiss the floor! Hands behind your back! You are under arrest for not owning a Mercedes! 'Merica.

Las Vegas: Yeah let's just imprison homeless people or let them leave into a vast desert. Smart.

don't they have social housing in the USA?

But how does Facebook expect people to use their dating feature?

I am happy I do not have accounts on either platform

I wonder which show the supervisor was watching

I totally agree with you man!

So a boom in Las Vegas casino development in the early 2000's brought people to the area for low-paying jobs (many living in trailers because housing was scarce), then the housing boom gave them homes they couldn't afford, then they lost those homes and their jobs in the 2007 crash (MGM shares went from $90 to $2), then tent cities went up (because where were they going to go, having lost everything), and now they want to make them criminals, because that's the only thing left to do to them. I know that's what happened because I lived there during all that, except for this latest thing. Nevada, the place to go if you want to gamble away your dignity.

This reminds me of the law in Hungary.. putting homeless people in jail - there the law exists already since about 2 years.

Taxing poverty is repugnant

on the Homeless topic i am not surprised, the USA never fixes anything. The US solution to everything is ignore it, pretend its gone, or make it worse. I was back in my home state last year after spending 20 years overseas and virtually nothing has changed, all the same buildings, and no upgrades. That is how the USA is.... sadly

Actually 911supervisor was watching "Law and order" on Netflix and that woman who got shot was disturbing her.

Wow this was so disgusting! I know we in Europe think we're better than everybody, but come on america! How is this the land of the brave and free? 😢

Do they at least have some homeless shelters?

HAHAHA.... "Land of the free" they say ! I feel sorry for the homeless ofcause. But as a european hearing news about the US on a daily basis, i just can't take this country serious anymore. Just because of their places in the industry and markets they get away with pretty much anything they accuse other countries of... .

Wow. Which show she was watching??

Yes, provide the homeless with a tiny home instead of prison.

The Paradox in the number 911 lol.

We just text vegetables that look like our dingdongs he got me there

Not going to lie I was hoping they were making it illegal by providing them with a home. Then I realized it's America

A lot of people still have not recovered from the 2008 recession, which exasperated the homeless problem. The rich got richer after the crash, but the poor got way more poorer.

It's actually not the same thing, since prisoners can be conscripted as virtually free labor for the governor's business associates and justified bloated police budgets.

Homeless people also hiding in Las Vegas tunnels

If the government bans homelessness then start intruding on government infrastructure Public library, national museum stadiums etc are the best place for shelter Enter white house, capitol hill etc are awesome place for homeless people

Exactly put the homeless in a home Rather than put them in jail

They say my country is a third world country.My country have more population that the whole western world.Most people have avg income lesser than 4$ but,They have shelter/slums to live.Showing how rich or beautiful places doesn't make a country great again.Admit failure and solve all problems.literally my eyes are wet. Please don't let those people suffer in the street or take legal action,they suffered alot in their life. #PEACE

"asking Nancy pelosi to blink"😂😂😂

Bonus points if you are watching this clip at work

That Facebook one, the Homeless Prsion, and the 911 incident.. this video is probably the most effed up one so far

Yeah, I guess it’s that new LV camping on the streets law doesn’t just affect homeless people, but also people camping out on streets to get first in the line for tickets, electronics, sneakers, or other stuff. Somewhat agree though, if you make a law against homelessness, you better prepare a solution to the homelessness situation first.

Facebook says freedom of speech and yet ban emojis 🙄

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Crime of being homeless... this has been a law in multiple cities...

People don't know, but this was also instituted in the Soviet Union.

can anyone tell me what's the name of the show on Netflix?

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"Are there no prisons?" So Dickensian ;)

Hard time for being homeless no punishment for the greedy pigs who put them there, sigh.

Putting homeless in jail for 6 months? Yeah they like that idea. Free food, free bed and a roof to shelter them. What a way to diminish poverty

This is how my wife and I communicate...wtf is wrong with that???

USA: *Imprisons homeless people* how do I solve this? Singapore: *Laughs in HDB and employment schemes*