Los Angeles Daily News-

When Los Angeles police dole out fines for homeless people committing low-level offenses like sleeping on a sidewalk or drinking in public, nearly all of those citations eventually become warrants for the offenders to appear in court along with more expensive fines.

If the offender can’t pay, or is unable to appear in court, additional warrants and more fines are issued. The result has been hundreds of thousands of such warrants languishing in the court system, some for more than a decade.

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