Los Angeles finally about to crack down on homeless camps (Santa Barbara: 2014, crime)

[Irco]

Removing them from one location won't do much in the grand scheme of things. All they are going to do is after being displaced is to find another place to call home on the streets. It's like when you remove one panhandler from a busy freeway off-ramp, another panhandler sees the opportunity and takes his/her place. I don't live in Downtown L.A., I live in the county of L.A and Im ashamed not because of the homeless population but they way they are treated and talked down upon on a neighborhood facebook page. They take pictures of a homeless transient relieving himself(#2) behind a dumpster and post it on facebook. Just recently they had some homeless people removed in front of an abandoned restaurant because they had set up their tents in front sidewalk. I don't know where they were relocated to, but I still see homeless people around this city.

[Irco]

Originally Posted by MItoBH

I'm glad this is happening, we can't continue to encourage people that it's ok to set up a camp, literally, in a city environment. If you want to be Grizzly Adams, move into the wilderness. In order to live in LA, you should stay in a homeless shelter, or share an apartment. No human being should be out on the streets like wild animals.

No human should be out living out in the streets like wild animals, but when the big one hits L.A. the whole town will be in the streets.

[jm1982]

I wonder how much it cost and time spent to create these laws that aren't enforced

[brrabbit]

Originally Posted by jm1982

I wonder how much it cost and time spent to create these laws that aren't enforced

Well, that time politicians could spend wisely to create another big money-sucking project like a speed rail to San Francisco... I'd presume, these kind of laws (which aren't supposed to be enforced) cost less (next to nothing) than those which are really enforced.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by Spikett

This is the question. I see several each day near the 405 on the westside where I work. Many have managed to collect a few possessions to make their lives a bit easier. I feel sorry for these people - many of whom are mentally ill. You can't just sweep them under the rug.

Have you driven on Ohio under the 405 overpass lately? I did so last week for the first time in months and I cannot believe how bad it's gotten. Now more than ever we need the City of L.A. to put the brakes on this sort of thing.

I do not care where these people go -- as somebody stated, if they want to live like Grizzley Adams then do it out in the wilderness, not here where their creepy habits are encroaching on the lives of the rest of us.

[jamills21]

This a problem all along the West Coast. Portland, Seattle, Denver, San Diego...etc. Unfortunaltly, The only thing that will get this country to do something about homelessness is for something really violent to happen to somebody. I know that sounds really pessimistic. The only other way is to have mass protest about the homeless situation. Or, for the laws to change. Hopefully the latter will occur first.

[erin_elise_]

Originally Posted by jamills21

This a problem all along the West Coast. Portland, Seattle, Denver, San Diego...etc. Unfortunaltly, The only thing that will get this country to do something about homelessness is for something really violent to happen to somebody. I know that sounds really pessimistic. The only other way is to have mass protest about the homeless situation. Or, for the laws to change. Hopefully the latter will occur first.

I agree. Most cities have reactionary politics instead of forward thinking politics. I just pray that it does not take a violent situation to spur on reform.

[msgsing]

They're gonna come down here and we already are swamped with the homeless. There's a beggar or more at almost every intersection. You can hear them late at night, high on meth or some other drugs, screaming their heads off. At our local library the city has to hire security to keep them away, otherwise they would take every seat and chair in the place.

[Cream1]

The homeless camps have gotten really bad on Broadway and Spring around the 101 FWY as well.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by msgsing

At our local library the city has to hire security to keep them away, otherwise they would take every seat and chair in the place.

How do the security guards keep them out, without claims of unfair discrimination?