Truth Out has an excellent article Smear Campaigns Fuel Shutdowns of Occupations Across Country.  I’ll just pick out a few points to give you one idea that I had already thought of and some that I had not.

Boston, however, is a highly populated city with plenty of crime and drug trafficking. And, in the course of the occupation’s first month, police – often using undercover sting operations – did manage to make four drug arrests, all of them involving homeless people selling to undercover cops.
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For those with mental health issues, it is quite a shame that in our system they are so often forced to the streets to starve, as opposed to being treated in humane public facilities. It is indeed remarkable that the collective good will of Occupy Vermont, for instance, cares better for the homeless than the federal government.

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Perhaps a better question would have been, “Does the United States economy have a homeless problem and will Occupy Wall Street help us fix it?”