An LAPD Officer On A Friday Night On Skid Row | On the Streets

[GhostofDempsey]

[Straight Up]

lady in the green jacket can get it.

they should put more black officers on the ghettos so media can't flip the shet.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

drugs drugs and more drugs will fuck you up.

[Eff Pandas]

Sh^t is f#cked up out there.

At some point we are gonna have to realllllly help these people & get them in some sorta housing situation & get serious treatment for their addictions/medical issues.

Sh^t is probably as costly to handle these people in a way that gets more of them on a upward trajectory as it is for police & numerous groups who halfass help people are putting into it along with the benefit of having a part of your town that looks like a 3rd world country being gone that is invaluable.

[Zaroku]

They’re near the federal courts, not far from lil Tokyo, near an area where hipsters, are gentrificating cool azz old buildings.

These liberal f heads, hire black and Hispanic guards to keep homeless people a few blocks away. They also love volunteering at the food bank, once a month, serve hot cocoa, and love being socially active and aware.

[Curtis Harper]

People can just set up camp out there ?!?!?!

[HeadBodyBodyBody]

You can't help someone who doesn't want to help themselves..

[TonyGe]

People can just set up camp out there ?!?!?!

Apparently. I suspect a lot of these people have mental illness. It's a world wide problem. Don't know the solution or if there even is a solution. I have a coffee before going to work with a group. One guy is an ex police officer. He said in the winter they used to make the rounds and pick up individuals at night and take them to a homeless shelters or to jail so they don't freeze to death. That happened to the brother of a good friend of mine. The guy froze to death behind a building on the main street. He was mentally ill. It's sad.

[Curtis Harper]

Apparently. I suspect a lot of these people have mental illness. It's a world wide problem. Don't know the solution or if there even is a solution. I have a coffee before going to work with a group. One guy is an ex police officer. He said in the winter they used to make the rounds and pick up individuals at night and take them to a homeless shelters or to jail so they don't freeze to death. That happened to the brother of a good friend of mine. The guy froze to death behind a building on the main street. He was mentally ill. It's sad.

I'd bet most of those ''campers'' are of sound mind but with a habit they brought on themselves. Like the cop said ''Abled bodied people hooked on drugs''.

As for the homeless/crazy situation, that's tough. If a person is truly mentally damaged, they should be forced into an institution. Until they are deemed fit.

If a person lost everything to a disaster, there has to be shelters available ? Maybe not ?

If a person fu cked up their own life by doing drugs, fu ck them. Jail them for as long as possible if it would make the streets cleaner.

[Curtis Harper]

You can't help someone who doesn't want to help themselves..

Or who are scamming the system.