Does Super Bowl Mean Super Sweeps of Homeless People?

How will the Super Bowl festivities affect the homeless in Detroit this Sunday?

Many homeless advocates are fearful that it means the homeless living near Ford Field, where the game takes place, will be swept away or even arrested. Here's a link.

Showing a “clean” Detroit may be more important than the civil liberties of people on the streets. This is not a new concept. Other cities that hosted the Super Bowl had this very attitude.

Public officials in Detroit are saying that they are putting together a plan to avert mistakes made in other cities where homeless people were arrested at the Super Bowl.

In Jacksonville, Florida, site of last year’s Super Bowl, three homeless men sued the city for false arrests. Florida Assistant Public Defender Tyler McKinney argued in court that if “the rich, powerful and famous can drink in the park in the weeks before the Super Bowl, why can’t the homeless do it now?”

Let’s see who really wins and who really loses this Sunday…