Talk:Aggressive panhandling

Things to do
Brothercanyouspareadime (talk) 22:23, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Add more content based on actual aggressive panhandling reviews and laws
 * Citations
 * Eliminate redundancies
 * Edit for overall compositional integrity
 * POV review
 * Incorporate into Homelessness Project
 * Use as basis for editing style guidelines

Legal definition
Is panhandling - aggressive or otherwise - a legal term at all? It sounds more like slang to me.203.184.41.226 (talk) 23:17, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Laws cited in the article define "panhandling". That makes it a legal term. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 13:04, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

So, panhandling is the legal term. Aggressive panhandling seems as though the writer is trying to use an adjective that uses the readers' sympathy, fear, guilt, or insecurity to describe millenia old issue as something to be especially intimidated by. Jmanagih (talk) 22:34, 7 February 2018 (UTC) They describe aggressive begging, and define aggressive as asking more than once. smh this is a mess. both on wikipedia and in real life. Jmanagih (talk) 22:39, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Using a weapon to intimidate someone to get money is armed robbery. The police investigation uncovers the "weapon" was just a broken off pan handle. No arrest happens because the police know the defense attorney will claim it's not the bum's fault you thought the pan handle was a weapon. The bum uses the pan handle because he knows he can get away with such an "armed" robbery. Aggressive panhandling is a variation of this kind of legal strategy to get away with strong arm robbery. Laws are made against such tactics. Laws don't detail such tactics because that would be a blueprint for such tactics. Like how the media tells people where to take their children for safe Halloween candy because simply warning people about what to look for in candy caused more criminals to put those things in candy by giving criminals the idea of what to put in candy. 98.164.71.229 (talk) 11:45, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Is constrictions the correct word in heading?
Is the heading "Panhandling constrictions" using the correct word? Should it be restrictions, perhaps? RJFJR (talk) 17:39, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

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Difference between "polite" and "agressive" begging
I think that a distinction should be made between "polite" and "agressive" begging. As I see it, "polite" begging is when the beggar gently and politely asks a passer-by only once for money or food etc and fully accepts "no" for an answer. "Agressive" begging is any type of begging which goes beyond this. 81.149.43.187 (talk) 12:12, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

The definition currently provided for "aggressive" panhandling is a definition of panhandling, in any form. These are different things, and subjective to the person being panhandled. There is no set definition. Many localities have tried to prohibit aggressive panhandling, though not all even define what "aggressive" means. It would be good to pull language from a handful of statutes around the US that have included definitions, to give an overview of how different jurisdictions define aggressive panhandling. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:A358:6000:41F0:F3E3:781D:8374 (talk) 00:59, 22 February 2023 (UTC)