NOW: Skid Row Homeless Dispurse To Venice
I hope it doesn't upset Carol Sobel, too much, but it's true Bill: Skid Row homeless have made their way to my favorite spot of land in America, Venice Beach. And LAPD did a sweep of the homeless this week. The NIMBYs were right, but never thought it would hit Venice this fast. ("Dispursion" is the next hot buzzword in this town.)
If arrested, the homeless person's property is gathered by LAPD and "booked" as property, and they get it back (no charge) when released. If the person chooses to walk away, leaving any property behind; or if no one is around the property when LAPD arrives, it is thrown away.
Meanwhile, some of these people carry around more stuff than anyone reading this has in their own home. Like this guy who pulls a caravan of eight shopping carts like an Amtrack engineer.
Bottom line: We all know it'll be a lot of shuffling around of the same people until they can't take it, anymore -- then simply migrate North to Oxnard. Yeah, yeah!!! Oxnard is BEAUTIFUL! They just rebuilt the whole City and improved the highways. NIMBYs rejoice!
PS: NEW LUXURY CONDOS COMING TO VENICE BEACH AS SOON AS CONSTITUTIONALLY POSSIBLE, Y'ALL! (ZD gets the first "affordable housing" slot! yeah, yeah!)
If arrested, the homeless person's property is gathered by LAPD and "booked" as property, and they get it back (no charge) when released. If the person chooses to walk away, leaving any property behind; or if no one is around the property when LAPD arrives, it is thrown away.
Meanwhile, some of these people carry around more stuff than anyone reading this has in their own home. Like this guy who pulls a caravan of eight shopping carts like an Amtrack engineer.
Bottom line: We all know it'll be a lot of shuffling around of the same people until they can't take it, anymore -- then simply migrate North to Oxnard. Yeah, yeah!!! Oxnard is BEAUTIFUL! They just rebuilt the whole City and improved the highways. NIMBYs rejoice!
PS: NEW LUXURY CONDOS COMING TO VENICE BEACH AS SOON AS CONSTITUTIONALLY POSSIBLE, Y'ALL! (ZD gets the first "affordable housing" slot! yeah, yeah!)
Posted by Zuma Dogg @ 10/05/2006 04:44:00 PM
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Before downtown is redeveloped the city has to get rid of the homeless.
When our pontifical mayor can cure severe mental illness, and chronic substance abuse, I will take it seriously.
Today the homeless, tomorrow the schools, the next day "no kill' animal treatment.
yeah, yeah, BULLSHIT.
I agree with Chief Bratton that behavior has to be changed for things to get better. When LAPD moved in they checked and 100 beds were available yet none of the homeless were in line to get them. Social services has been out with LAPD helping get some of these people situated. So for those who criticize LAPD is going after poor people get your facts. IF our midget mayor and dumb ass Clowncil would have been more proactive cleaning up Skid Row when they had the chance people wouldn't be going to Venice. I haven't seen Skid Row this cleaned up in 15 years.
Without a place for the skid row homeless to live, i.e. free housing or maditory mental hospital lockdowns - what is the point of the LAPD's actions? If the skid row homeless are moved from skid row - the obvious happens - they just go somewhere else. Why all the effort just to push these people from one place to another? If government is not going to provide a solution to the problem; give an answer to the question of where these people are going to live - then why make the attempt in the first place? Is pushing these people to other areas better when all of the services are in skid row?
At some point the little Mayor's effort to govern by Press conference is going to fall flat on its face. Even the LA media scene, as slow and lazy as they are, will eventually notice that all of the promises are creating zero results.
Meanwhile, some of these people carry around more stuff than anyone reading this has in their own home. Like this guy who pulls a caravan of eight shopping carts like an Amtrack engineer.
ZD, I nearly fell out of my chair, I was laughing so hard......I have seen what you describe.
Meanwhile, some of these people carry around more stuff than anyone reading this has in their own home. Like this guy who pulls a caravan of eight shopping carts like an Amtrack engineer.
ZD, I nearly fell out of my chair, I laufged so hard. I have seen what you describe
Please,
anonymous.
Redevelpment in Downtown has been going on since the late 70's.
This is all phase II of that development. And even with the homeless here , redevelopment continues.
Now, if you had of said "before downtown is redevloped completely"
That would have been a true statement. Redevlopment is continuing here even with the homeless, they keep building low in come supportive hosuing in skid row , and have another HOTEL slated for rehabilitation in South PArk.
please... Come up wiht something new.
Meanwhile, some of these people carry around more stuff than anyone reading this has in their own home. Like this guy who pulls a caravan of eight shopping carts like an Amtrack engineer.
ZD, I laughed so hard I nearly fell out of my chair. I have seen what you describe.
Is this how you got paid off ZD?
Mayor promised you a condo in venice?
ok folks from the front row view .
I am starting to see that the cycle is not one of only homelessness on the streets of skid row. The cycle is of people who came here to party on these streets. MAny came to do their drug binges. And now I am seeing less and less of that and am starting to see the actual homeless , who do have mental illness , apart from those on drugs who would sit on the sidewalk , lying back in the middle of the sidewalk , stareing into space after shooting up. These were two caucasians ,who looked to be in their late teens and early twenties. I haven't seen them down here this month.
So , what are you saying, they are going somehwere else? Please.... The many who came here to party have gone home.
I beleive that a lot what we are hearing from other parts of town is such an awareness of this problem due to the press , people are actually starting to see the homeless, and it being an election year , the opposition to the incumbents will also bring this NIMBY issue up strategically.
People are being frightened into believing that the enforcement of laws in skid row is sending the homeless folks into other neighborhoods. What may happen is that the drug element may begin to pop up in different places and the LAPD can get a hold of an intractable problem , and control it much better. HEre , the gangs come and sell their wares and the buyers go back to the neighborhoods to sell what they were free to by here. Not anymore.
LAPD made over 800 arrests and out of that over 600 were FELONIES. Now to those who say these homeless people are poor and just don't have a place to sleep is bullshit. Many of those arrested had narcotics on them and felony warrants. These are the people who prey on the small group of homeless like women and children who are in need. When you have beds available and these people are chosing to sleep on the sidewalks it says they want to be there to sell drugs and steal the little that the victims have.
I do not think any care about or has even know a homeless person. I live in a RV and I am member of the ACLU Sweeps are against the court ruling and the homeless are just sweeped somewere else. The LAPD does not get it. They treat homeless worse than stray cats. I there anybody that has been homeless on this blog or know any homeless? RV Lady
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