Polis means city in Greek. The words policy, police, politics are coming from polis.

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.

They are true disciples who have trained their hands, feet and speech to serve others

Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me

By 1600 the number of vagrants and beggars may have been as high as 20000. More serious were the growing complaints of criminal behavior of these groups. Many concerned people began to associate vagrancy with an "underworld culture" that threatened the social and economic order.