GREENSBORO, NC -- Friendly Center is cracking down on panhandlers. Arrests have been made and the News & Record reports that Brad Rogers, the center's general manager, is pushing the police to do more. The N&R's report includes a profile of a regular panhandler who lost his food service job.
Here's an idea, instead of making life harder for people down on their luck, why doesn't Mr. Rogers take a different kind of initiative. Friendly Center is home to something like 150 stores, some 40 or so are dining establishments. Maybe Friendly Center can help the people hovering around its property out of economic need find some employment within instead of adding trouble to their lives by calling the cops on them.
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