Tucson: It's Time to Stop Ignoring the Homeless Help Them (video)

After years of city indifference and feeble attempts to regulate the homeless out of existence, Occupy Tucson brought the Tucson homeless back into public view.

For decades, Tucson has waffled between ignoring the homeless living on our streets and under bridges to over-policing them.

When I moved here in 1981, the politically correct term for Tucson's homeless was "transient". The attitude was: They're not 'homeless', and they're not 'bums'. They're just passing through... transient. Ignore them, and they'll g…