Where would you suggest they go if there are no public restrooms available to them? I mean my neighborhood is rampant with people pooping in the street, but I’d never call the cops on them. What else are they gonna do?
There are public bathrooms downtown. If you ever have to use the ones at pike place market...
Whenever I go downtown, even the semi-public restrooms in the store are constantly used by the homeless (making it difficult for other people to use, another reason not to go downtown), so they have that also.
But they still poop in the parks because it is closer to their tents, what can you do?
I worked in downtown in the 90s at palace where the homeless would hang out at night (3rd and pine McDonalds), and it wasn’t so bad back then that people would avoid going downtown. Now its just depressing and stores are moving out (eg the iconic Macy’s is going to become an amazon office building probably).
