AP, today
SCRANTON, PA. — Work crews have leveled a half-dozen vacant homeless encampments in northeastern Pennsylvania.
City and Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority workers used bulldozers and heavy equipment to raze the structures near the railroad tracks along the Lackawanna River in Scranton.
The homeless were told to leave the sites last month. Scranton police Chief Dan Duffy told The Times-Tribune the crackdown was the result of safety concerns.
The residents were given information about city services for the homeless and given time to clear out. Four holdouts were cited for defiant trespass last week but no one was at the camps when workers came to demolish them Tuesday.
...Dammit, all the "homeless" had names...
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