Previous solutions used classical music. One had to wonder if they attracted unemployed classical musicians.
LA is blasting classical music to deter homeless people from gathering at metro stations [0]
To chase away homeless people, 7-Eleven stores in L.A. use classical music [1]
More seriously, the case is made for "panopticon" universal surveillance.
> "People will change their behavior when they believe they're being monitored, and anything that gives them that feeling that they're being watched or that people are paying attention, that the police may be paying attention, it will get them to be a little bit more reflective about whatever their behavior is, and more likely than not, it will encourage them to stop," said Lt. Erika R. Aklufi with SMPD.
Forty years after "1984" the year, not the book [2]
LA is blasting classical music to deter homeless people from gathering at metro stations [0]
To chase away homeless people, 7-Eleven stores in L.A. use classical music [1]
More seriously, the case is made for "panopticon" universal surveillance.
> "People will change their behavior when they believe they're being monitored, and anything that gives them that feeling that they're being watched or that people are paying attention, that the police may be paying attention, it will get them to be a little bit more reflective about whatever their behavior is, and more likely than not, it will encourage them to stop," said Lt. Erika R. Aklufi with SMPD.
Forty years after "1984" the year, not the book [2]
[0] https://www.npr.org/2023/04/23/1171494452/la-is-blasting-cla...
[1] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-06/homeless...
[2] https://archive.org/details/GeorgeOrwells1984/mode/1up