Tucker Carlson slammed liberal leaders for the rise in homelessness and crime across the US, claiming Seattle, San Francisco, New York City and other progressive cities have done little to mitigate the problem and actually reward being homeless.
On his show Tuesday night, the Fox host bashed woke leaders for allocating millions of dollars in housing for the homeless instead of focusing on treating mental health and substance abuse - issues saw homelessness rates rise by 15 per cent in 2020.
Carlson blamed the rise in homelessness and poor management of the city's homeless community for soaring homicide rates and most recently, the death of Brianna Kupfer, 24, who was stabbed to death by a Shawn Smith, 31, a suspected homeless man with a long rap sheet who was out on a $1,000 bond.
He also blamed them for the death of a 70-year-old ER nurse who was killed by a homeless man at a bus stop.
'What you're watching here is civilization collapsing in real-time,' Carlson said.
'A determined group of well-funded ideologues decided to make it easier to live on the streets in this country while doing drugs. Therefore, many more people now live on the streets while doing drugs.'
Tucker Carlson slammed liberal leaders on Tuesday night for policies that he claimed incentivized homelessness and have to led to crime and 'collapsing civilization.'
In 2020, Los Angeles saw its homeless population jump by 15 per cent to 63,706, despite the city's commitment of $440 million on housing and homelessness prevention programs
Brianna Kupfer, 24, (left) was stabbed to death in a random attack last Thursday while she was working alone in a luxury furniture store in Los Angeles. Police are looking for Shawn Smith, who they suspect is a homeless man
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'At every intersection, there are beggars. It's what we used to imagine India was like, but this is not Calcutta. This is New York and San Francisco and Austin, Texas. So the question is what happened? And the short answer is: Our leaders did this. No matter what they tell you, homelessness is not an act of God. It's not the result of economic collapse in this country. America does not run out of housing.'
'Focusing our attention and our money on people who contribute nothing, who only detract from the project that is this country, don't help their communities or anybody's community, who hurt other people, who live solely for themselves, who are a danger to the rest of us, that's insane,' Carlson said.
He said his point was also emphasized by Kupfer's father, Todd, who told Fox: 'What's endemic in our society right now is that everybody seems to be oriented on giving back rides and bestowing favor on people that robbed others of their rights.
'We should be celebrating the good in people and trying to recognize that that's the job they have is to try to elevate that, to make communities better, to make people care more, to not tear down communities by exposing them to people that’re falling out the bottom that really don't care about the other human beings and just think they can do whatever they like in our society and they are doing it more and more in every community,' Todd said.
Carlos agreed and bashed LA leaders for spending about $440 million on housing and homelessness prevention programs in the last four years, including $160 million for new housing on Skid Row, all while the city still saw its homeless population jump in 2020 by nearly 15 per cent to 63,706.
Carlson said such projects did nothing to protect the likes of Sandra Shells, 70, an ER nurse, who was allegedly struck in the face without provocation by Kerry Bell, 48, a homeless man, as she waited for a bus to take her to work last Thursday in downtown LA, just hours apart from Kupfer's murder.
Shells succumbed to her injuries three days later. Bell, who had criminal histories in multiple states, was charged with murder.
'Bell was homeless. He was a victim. He was part of a protected class. And then he killed somebody,' Carlson said.
It included $160 million for housing units on Skid Row. Carlson claimed the spending was frivolous and did only incentivized people to continue being homeless
LA nurse Sandra Shells, 70, was attacked at random at a bus stop on Thursday. She died of her injuries three days later at the hospital where she worked
Skid Row was one of LA's most notorious homeless encampments. The city spent $160 million last year to house its nearly 5,000 homeless
The new housing apartments included bright white kitchens t0l allow people to cook within their own 380-sq ft studio units
Carlson said it was the same in New York City, where city's Department of Homeless Services received about $2 billion last year, yet the Big Apple has about 80,000 homeless people, a 2 per cent increase from the 78,604 recorded in 2019.
New York City has the largest homeless population in the US and has seen an uptick in crime in recent weeks following the policies of liberal District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
On Saturday, Simon Martial, 61, was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder for allegedly pushing Michelle Alyssa Go, 40, onto the subway tracks.
Martial, who has a
