As we crossed over into the twenty-first century homelessness was on the rise, and under the framework of the existing societal structure there was no likelihood of the problem being arrested. Whilst being a GREAT DEAL better than nothing, the addition of homes to house the homeless does nothing to address the fundamentals.

Chapter II
1. Over the past several years, advocates and homeless shelter workers from around the country have received news reports of men, women and even children being harassed, kicked, set on fire, beaten to death, and even decapitated.
2. From 1999 through 2004 alone, there have been 386 acts of violence reported, resulting in 156 murders of people experiencing homelessness by housed people,
3. There have been 230 victims of non-lethal violence in 140 cities from 39 states and Puerto Rico.
4. It probably wouldn't be accurate to say that this would represent a single digit percentage of the lethal violence,
5. But we can be absolutely certain that it would only be a single digit percentage of the non-lethal violence; and a low single digit percentage at that.
6. Most violent acts against homeless people are committed not by organized hate groups,
7. But by individual citizens who can be Mission Offenders,
8. People who believe they are on a mission to cleanse the world of a particular evil,
9. Or they can be Thrill Seekers, those who take advantage of a vulnerable and disadvantaged group in order to satisfy their own pleasures.
10. Thrill seekers, primarily in their teens, are the most common perpetrators of violence against people who are homeless.
11. Of course there are always other classes of predatory animal, and it is sufficient to call them what they are, without any more malice towards them than you would have towards a vicious dog, to encompass the seemingly lower species they represent.
12. With our future being of the mind, it is reasonable to assess such predatory behaviour as being part of the make-up of one who is less evolved.
13. A throwback from Neanderthalis or Homo Erectus, many of whom, when in their group, actually feel complimented to be called cavemen.
14. Human certainly, but very far from being equals to the greater majority of the population.
15. In October of 2004, three Milwaukee teens murdered a homeless man at his forest campsite.
16. The teens hit 49-year-old Rex Baum, with rocks, a flashlight, and a pipe, before smearing feces on his face and covering his body with leaves and plastic.
17. According to the criminal report, one of the boys "hit the victim one last time to see if he would make a sound like in Grand Theft Auto," and then cut him several times with a knife to make sure he was dead.
18. In August, Curtis Gordon Adams, 33, beat and stabbed a disabled homeless man to death, and then licked the blood from his fingers on a Denver sidewalk.
19. In June, two New York City teens, kicked, punched, and finally bludgeoned 51-year-old William Pearson to death in a churchyard.
20. Pearson crawled to the church steps before finally dying of a fractured skull. "His head was a bloody mess," one police officer noted.
21. It is not suggested that the perpetrators of such crimes be put down like a vicious dog, because that takes us to a very slippery slope,
22. But rather to say that we need to know what it is we're dealing with when we deal with them.
23. Impulse control can be learned, but such a strong predatory nature cannot be rehabilitated, it can only have the appearance of being rehabilitated.
24. And any mental defect suggested as a defence against locking them up is only more of a reason to lock them up.
25. Or to make it clear; if it is a mental defect rather than motivation, they are more likely to repeat the behaviour in future, rather than less likely.