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Santa Ana’s Quality of Life Team detained eleven people near the DMV in a bold new strategy: offering services before enforcing laws. City officials say this approach—targeting code violations, warrants, and trespassing—is working, citing an 18% drop in unsheltered homelessness since 2024, while LA saw a rise. Detainees get help multiple times, even after release, and non-residents are offered paid trips home. Officials argue that sometimes a crisis is needed to get people to accept aid—and they’re betting their aggressive, compassionate model is the answer.

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