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For Los Angeles, a municipality sprawling across 88 individual cities with a total homeless population of about 60,000,
洛杉磯縣擁有高達88個城市，無家可歸者總數約為6萬人，
the sheer scope of the problem makes San Francisco's approach a nonstarter.
該問題的嚴重程度表明若采用舊金山的做法是完全不可行的。
L.A. authorities also have concerns about the program's Orwellian overtones.
洛杉磯當局也對這項計劃顯露出的極權式做法表示擔憂。
"We don't track people's movements like that," says Peter Lynn, executive director of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
洛杉磯無家可歸者服務管理局執行主任彼得·林恩說：“我們不這樣追蹤人們的移動狀況。”
"It also raises other issues." Kositsky, of San Francisco's department of homelessness,
舊金山無家可歸者管理部的科西茨基說：“這樣做也會引發其他問題。”
says any skittishness about data collection should be weighed against the system's benefits.
他表示，任何關于數據收集的輕率做法都應該與系統利益相權衡。
"For most people experiencing homelessness," he says,
“對于大多數在街頭露宿的流浪者來說，” 科西茨基說，
"when you explain the system and what it will do and how it works, they see the value."
“給他們解釋這個系統以及它的功用和運作方式時，他們就會看到系統的價值。”
