Comment: And your solution is?
Who do you accuse of tolerating violence? City centers across the country are the dumping grounds for the abandoned. They are fellow citizens, many of whom are really decent, lovely people. They just are. 
Personally, when I see letters like this, I have to wonder. Exactly who is the barbarian? You ask us to tolerate your disrespect of those who are at the bottom. You ask us to tolerate your ignorant categorization and smearing of all who are homeless. Until Lane County gets a homeless shelter, there is no constitutional requirement for the homeless to die, or to run away from you. They get to survive, to sleep, to eat, and to do what they need. I suspect you present no solution because you have none. You would prefer to pretend that the homeless are action out children, rather than fellow humans. 

The homeless in any city are fellow human beings, and usually, are local people who just have been precipitated out of the economy. 
Hugh Massengill, Eugene