Hawaii offers homeless one-way ticket off islands

Any confrontation a police officer has in Nevada, if the subject admits to a prior out of state felony and admits to failure to register within ten days of arrival in Nevada, the arrest and processing on that charge alone has a "geographic effect" as does the existence of "wobblies" (Charges that wobble between Misdemeanor and Felony). Many criminals are smart enough to know that states may or may not pay to extradite them for a misdemeanor but usually will routinely pay to extradite them for a felony, so there exists an automatic incentive to have a failure to appear warrant (misdemeanor that ain't yet wobbled) rather than to stick around and let the DA decide if he wants the coin to land "Felony". Also state drug policies vary greatly. Utah will put someone in prison for 12 years on pot charges that would get a wrist slap in California.

The most profound effect of geography took place in Alaska immediately after statehood. During Territorial Days anyone sentenced to more than two years in prison got sent down to Federal prisons but after Statehood such persons had to be sent to Walla Walla in Washington State at the expense of Alaskan taxpayers. You never saw such a sharp drop in crime and in sentencing as was caused by statehood in Alaska. Suddenly crimes did not merit sentences of more than two years and alot of crimes that previously would have caused really long sentences just suddenly stopped being committed in the state of Alaska. Strange.

States compete on "business friendliness" and on "One Permit Film Projects" (Why do you think Breaking Bad was filmed in New Mexico? They could have just set it there and filmed it wherever they wanted to. New Mexico now has very friendly attitudes towards film makers). Its a bit less obvious but states also compete on things like homelessness and welfare and criminal enforcement. Heck, you just look at how various California cities will fight with each other over crime lab and fingerprint processing charges for a "unified system". A large town making lots of arrests versus a smaller, richer bedroom community can lead to open warfare on the charges and when "opting out" takes place processing of fingerprints can go from two hours to four weeks. Since many people with warrants out on them are held in jail for less than 72 hours, what good is a four week fingerprint processing time going to be.

Just as cops want to move drunks "across the street" so as to make it the next precinct's problem, towns often practice an equivalent form of competition: drive the drunks out of the city and into county territory in the middle of the night. Vancouver, Canada used to take a bum's shoes and drive him out of town. It was a long cold walk back to the homeless shelter and he had to do it barefoot. In rural areas, Canada's "indigenous people" often faced the same punishment.

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Nevada aggressively arrests felons who did not report their arrival in the state of Nevada. Every road, busterminal and airline terminal has signs requiring felons to register and this tends to keep the "geography flow" away from Nevada.

Sounds like it has its roots in the 1960s and wanting to keep Outfit members away. Supposedly Rosenthal and Spilotro were arrested for showing up even without the felonies.

Almost all the workers in Hawaii are technically homeless because real estate is so expensive. When you have 8-10 people living in a house or living with their parents, they are considered homeless because they cannot afford to live on their own means.
My little buddy Randy from OSU has made a documentary about the problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJgG6yzH0zQ

So much land in Hawaii is owned by one or two entities that normal economics are skewed.