As the John Deere vehicles loaded the remaining items of Sacramento's Tent City into large garbage trucks Thursday, an observer could easily think that campers' belongings were getting hauled away along with garbage. But at least two homeless campers said the police and cleanup crews were not throwing out their belongings. Carol Davis, who lived at the Tent City, was sitting near the site Thursday. She said no one took her belongings from her. Asked about the items being hauled into garbage trucks, Davis replied that the items left at the site were trash. Thom Dickens lives at a campsite near Tent City. He said police "haven't taken nothing from me yet." Sacramento police said the proce

News Analysis Nearly all of the homeless people who lived at the “Tent City” on the American River had left the site by Thursday morning, but the media outlets were still there. Sacramento’s Tent City has received so much news coverage that the media hubbub itself plays a large part in the story. The city’s removal of the campsite Thursday was no exception. Television journalists from several outlets — including KCRA Channel 3, CBS Channel 13 and Noticias Univision Channel 19 – were at the scene, covering the camp’s removal. While the media has seized on the Tent City story, campgrounds created by homeless people are not a new phenomenon in Sacramento. For years, homeless people have b