As summer draws to a close, President Donald Trump has declared that restoring law and order to American cities is a top priority in the coming months. Caught in the crosshairs of that goal is the homeless population and the program Dallas officials credit with reducing downtown crime and homelessness.

Last month, Trump signed an executive order that made it easier for cities to remove homeless encampments and for the unhoused to be admitted into mental health or addiction treatment centers even if they do not consent. That pressure ramped up last week, when the president called for officials across the United States to focus on removing the “slums” of homeless encampments that have surged in number in recent years. After that announcement, a bulldozer was sent into a Washington, D.C.,

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