here is a link on how similar laws were enacted in philly in 1956 to round up the undesirables.
http://www.law.berke...iles/Skolnick.pdf
We learn that the Philadelphia police regularly rounded up Âundesirables in periodic drives. Caleb describes a drive against those so-called undesirables who were occupying PhiladelphiaÂs newly completed Independence Hall. The drive wasÂnot surprisingly-- popular with the general public, and surely with the editorial staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer, which titled an editorial, ÂGet Bums off the Street and Into Prison Cells.Âsounds familiar to sheriff Joe doesnt it?