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I’m talking to a 28 year old guy on his girlfriend’s front porch about some issues going in the house involving little kids. The fact
that he had about 15 tattoos and piercings on his face -which complimented his huge floppy gauge earrings nicely – might or
might not have contributed to my spidey sense tingling. “I’m just wondering,” I told him, looking for a reaction, “..If I should
have CPS come out and check things out.” He immediately said “Oh no need, CPS was out here just a couple of days ago!”

When I first started my career in policing, my small town had no homeless folks. Fast forward 27 years and at any given time we
had several; admittedly very minor league numbers compared to other cities but still a significant increase for our area. One of
the homeless women wore latex gloves 24/7 because she said she was allergic to paper. I seriously doubted that was her real
problem; she was quite mentally ill. I never asked her any questions specific enough to confirm or deny, but I presume her paper
allergy must have included toilet paper, too?

We had another homeless guy who would regularly build himself cardboard forts behind businesses or restaurants; he would
raid cardboard dumpsters for his building supplies and drag them over to whatever alcove he found.