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Our system works. knowing we arrest the same person for the same charge over a thousand times. other than that, it takes him off the street and out of the public. so that's the good thing. >> he remembers the day one of his arrestsñi made the local newspaper. >> that was the 856th arrest. the sacramento bee mentioned my name five times and said, yeah, you got her done. ♪ñi ♪ the pride of sacramento, heck ya. got to be pride of something. >> la force has been homeless for nearly as long as his arrest record is old. his hundreds of mugshots represent convictions for crimes from everything ...

Want them. he's perfectly happy where he's at. doing what he's doing. but they are offered halfway-type houses that they can go to, if they want those resources. but he goes to the same areas, the same street corners, bumming money and yelling at people. sometimes he's drunk within hours of being out. >> la force is assigned a cell where a problem soon arises. he repeatedly jiggles the door handle as he waits for a control room officer to unlock it. as soon as la force steps in, officers on the floor see a problem and rush to the cell. >> he was kind of jiggling the

Loitering with intent to buy drugs, and most recently, arson. a felony conviction for which he's still on probation. >> i was trashed, piece of wood. the gasoline and rubbing alcohol i couldn't drink the rubbing alcohol, so it started catching on fire and it goes boom. >> generally, the judges can sentence them to county jail, can mandate that they take classes, put them into treatment facilities. >> one option for sacramento county judges is called the serial anebriate program. sponsored by a medical center and other local agencies. it provides a 90-day in-patient detox program, specifically ...

Feels that this is his friends and family. he's just unable to be rehabilitated here and we're just kind of hoping that one day he'll learn. but in 1,087 times that he's been here, he hasn't learned. >> la force is currentlyñi hous with a friend from the streets. clayton has also spent years combatting homelessness and addiction. >> i used to live right in front of the porno shop in a tent right there, selling drugs, and coming back and forth to jail for it. first i used to sell marijuana. then iñi went up to selling cra cocaine. then i started selling crystal meth. then, you know, i started...

My feet were always killing me. my feet would always have blisters. >> i was homeless out there. i didn't really have a spot to be. i was getting high. now, this is what i call better-than-homemade, too. >> i feel like i'm a bum. but a lot of people like helping me out, the homeless guy out, and seeing people looking passed me and shaking their head and going, no, not today. you're just going to go drink ii up with it. >> chris laforce says he has been chronically homeless for the past 20 years.ñr >> and there's a lot of people that drive by and say jesus loves you, chris. it's kind of cool. ...