I've worked with this population as well. It's terrible. But not quite that terrible. The mentally ill (not homeless as such) as such aren't more violent than the general population; in fact, they're more likely to be victims, with the very notable exception of when substance abuse is involved. Since the homeless very often have both problems, one would expect more violence among them. In places where they are allowed to run rampant they can be absolutely a problem in terms of violence towards regular citizens (muggings, sexual harassment) and each other (robberies, beating each other up for the fun of it.) However, they are absolutely
not "killing each other quite regularly." Truth is, nobody really is "killing each other off regularly" in this country, except gangbangers in a few hotspots of urban decay.
That would be 180 homeless murders a year. The highest recorded number of murders since 2004 in Austin was
thirty-eight. I'm not sure even Chicago would have 180 homeless murders. There are hundreds, but the homeless are a small number of people relatively, their murder rate would have to be huge to compensate; it's more other sorts of degenerates and murderers doing the killing.
They are invisible and it's a tragedy but nobody is murdering them left and right. The incident with the cops if true is something that does happen with regrettable regularity and sometimes non-murders are actually police killings ("excited delirium") but often times they are actually not and especially in this day and age the police are more often accused than guilty and deserve a lot of benefit of the doubt.
I can absolutely believe that happened, but is the exception rather than the rule.
I'm sure Chris will be victimized, but killed, highly unlikely. He will be victimized either because he's an easy target or because he's annoying. But moving up to murder sounds like one of those things that kiwifarms does: gets excited and proclaims that the most dramatic thing will happen to Chris. It usually doesn't and when it does we usually don't predict it correctly. He isn't in one of the problem cities, after all. Now, if he took it upon himself to move to a homeless mecca city, he'd probably be more likely to be victimized, but up and moving, even when homeless, and carrying whatever part of the Hoard he is compelled to carry, is a lot of work and proactiveness and we all know Chris's attitude towards that.