Editorial: Don’t criminalize feeding homeless in Tampa park

The city of Tampa has committed an avoidable legal, moral and public relations miscue with its arrests of volunteers feeding the homeless in a downtown park. The permitting requirements need to be changed, the police need to move on to bigger things and the volunteers need to assess whether this is really the most effective way to help people in need. This is a fixable problem if all sides focus less on winning and more on the larger issue of civic service.