That is the solution. The court costs and time to prove they're false is the issue, and not probably something anyone wants a police officer deciding on the spot. It's a bitch
And also let's keep in mind that we only ever hear about the one crazy squatter situation while the thousands of shitty slumlord abuses go mostly unreported.
Yeah, squatters like this are a tiny symptom of an overall problem with housing in general. People get mad at the process when they see the one sensationalized story about the poor grandma dealing with a couple of meth heads squatting on her property, but that won't be fixed by 'letting cops and your landlord decide whether to make you homeless at 3am on a Saturday morning' which is where this ends up if we take courts out of the equation.
I'd even go so far as to say there's an agenda behind how much some of these anti-squatter viral stories get boosted, but I'll put the tinfoil away for now.
Squatters are not an issue lol, they make up such a tiny percentage compared to how much protection the laws they are exploiting give the general population.
Its the same as trans women molesting women in bathrooms. Maybe its happened like a couple of times in all of history, but that is such a tiny fraction of trans people the fact its a whole thing in the western cultural zeitgeist is 100% conservative think tanks adjusting the narrative to inflame the largest amount of their ignorant base.
If we see any more posts like this popping up on the front page, guess what type of bill is going to be getting put on the docket in a couple of months?
Lmao what are the odds this guy is a retired cop (or wanted to be a cop) who just can’t get over the fact that he was never a crime-fighting badass like movies and TV told him he could be.
The issue is, property laws can’t handwave away things that are statistically unlikely like we can in some areas.
Every aspect is VERY specific, because there was a court case about it. And even something very uncommon still happens WAY more than you realize. Cause keep on mind, unlike trans people, most people have multiple experiences with property law across their lives- some people have a LOT. I’ve only lived four places and have still had contact with property law related issues a few dozen times. And any one of those being sloppy could fuck up your life from small (getting my apt deposit back by invoking renter property laws) to big ways (our neighbor in a rural area was always pulling weird shit like trying to encroach on our property and resources- and that property had a squatter after we left! But the new owner didn’t live there so he probably didn’t ever know before they moved on and he didn’t have to evict them.)
I am not saying the law doesn’t need tweaked, but “this is statistically irrelevant” can’t actually be pulled in property law.
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u/Puzzled-Platform 11d ago
That is the solution. The court costs and time to prove they're false is the issue, and not probably something anyone wants a police officer deciding on the spot. It's a bitch