1.   And a couple of the cops I spoke with at the church this week made it clear that harassing the homeless was not their idea of appropriate police work.

2.   Advocates for the homeless and mentally ill argue that politicians have no right to harass the homeless, who have nowhere else to go.

3.   He was among a group of lawyers who, a decade ago, accused the Los Angeles Police Department of using jaywalking laws to harass the homeless.

4.   Then came reports that partnership workers had harassed the homeless at automated teller machines.

5.   They say the police are harassing the homeless, corporations are colonizing neighborhoods and people no longer care about the gap between rich and poor.