The Shooting Near the U of U Might have been Averted

   I've posted on how I would handle the homeless. Tonight, in light of the shooting up by the U, my thoughts drift back to what I once wrote:
   "To some extent, you cannot help someone if you do not identify them, So, the first step would be to place workers on the streets, talking to each person, identifying and cataloging them. Call them homeless remediation specialists, perhaps. They would document each homeless person they came in contact with and start each of them on a program, hoping to remedy their homelessness."
   The accused shooter, I believe, went to the homeless district before going east into the hills. What would have happened, if there had been workers there to meet him when he arrived? What if there were so many remediation specialists that they didn't miss a soul, mixing with the homeless, talking to them, ferreting out each one.
    And, what if they ran background checks on each -- and checked them against the lists of those wanted for alleged crimes? Perhaps Austin Boutain would have been apprehended for the crime in Colorado before the shooting near the University of Utah could take place.
   Helping the homeless is important and wonderful, but so it ferreting out the criminals among them. And, if you want to find the lawless, there is no better place to go looking than in the homeless districts.