I'd argue that the police are being discerning when applying the law since like you I am around the streets of the city centre every day and not all the beggars are being arrested, in fact the vast majority of them are in their favoured spots day in day out for hours on end without so much as a...
The streets of Brighton and Hove are awash with aggressive street drinkers, smackheads and beggars quite a lot of whom fit all 3 descriptions, its not the police's job to act as social workers and solve the problem of street homeless in the city but it is their job to deal with those committing...