Why are these physical kiosks at ground level rather than merely networking hardware mounted somewhere unobtrusive that would serve the same purpose without attracting transients.<p>Furthermore people who scatter their drug paraphernalia and needles everywhere, who threaten people, who assault people, who perform certain lewd acts named in the article ought simply to be jailed.<p>We should try to help people but we can't fix everyone's problems and the 0.1% shouldn't be free to spoil the city for the other 99.9%.