Is Los Angeles becoming increasingly dangerous or is the media just over hyping the crime situation?

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah last month my kid was at the beach in pacific palisades and stepped on a syringe. OMG. Don't get me started

Seriously?? What beach? I’m not surprised. I see so many scumbags and drug addict losers hanging off PCH near the beaches. I’m sorry that happened...hope your kid is ok?

My kid stepped on a syringe on a Hawaii beach. Homeless and drug users are all over.

I just walked outside my house to check, and no, it’s not. No needles, no tent cities, no one threatening or exposing themselves to me. I’ll check again though tomorrow just to be sure.

Which neighborhood?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah last month my kid was at the beach in pacific palisades and stepped on a syringe. OMG. Don't get me started

Seriously?? What beach? I’m not surprised. I see so many scumbags and drug addict losers hanging off PCH near the beaches. I’m sorry that happened...hope your kid is ok?

My kid stepped on a syringe on a Hawaii beach. Homeless and drug users are all over.

I just walked outside my house to check, and no, it’s not. No needles, no tent cities, no one threatening or exposing themselves to me. I’ll check again though tomorrow just to be sure.

Which neighborhood?

Most neighborhoods that have even the semblance of rule of law. Earlier this week in Oakland, there was a second fire under BART. But yea that’s normal and everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Born, raised, and left. Some friends, who are also natives of that failed state (metaphorical but also the state), referenced the homeless living on M Street.

Think that but everywhere. Tents covering entire streets, RVs lined for blocks, drugs, dead people faced down in the gutter. This wasn't even skidrow.

I still haven't got Coronavirus (knock on wood) and I am one of those who rarely gets sick and I have traveled to some of the worst parts of the world, but the sickest I've ever been was one day after commuting on LA Metro (a year before the pandemic). The worst smell I've ever smelled was on LA Metro. Threatened on LA Metro. Exposed to on LA Metro (I'll never sit on a subway again).

Think protests were bad last year in DC? Pennsylvania Ave looted once, Lafayette Park occupied sort of once, Capitol stormed once. Several neighborhoods through out LA were looted. All of Downtown Santa Monica was hit. Every single shop. Look it up. Beverley Hills, hit. My family has lived through three generational riots in that dump. The Bay wasn't much better, whole car lots looted, and cars stolen.

I used to encourage people to leave, but they bring their problems, politics, and failure with them. Not any more. At this point it is a choice to live there, and a choice to keep things the way they are. Even visiting is consent to the above.

Wow. Very scary.

[Anonymous]

I live in LA. The valley area.

I travel for work a lot and whenever I come home I’m depressed. It gets worse every time.

It’s filthy. I’m in the process of moving away. Sad 20 yrs of living in LA and is awful.

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It’s awful. Here’s the deal, we have homeless activists that assert a lot of political power and organize against anyone who tries to clean up the streets. The local democratic leaders are chicken shit (I’m a democrat, so I can say this fairly), and they all seem to support homeless rights over the rights of everyone else in the neighborhood.

Here’s an article from today: https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-03-13/echo-park-encampment-exposes-bigger-la-homeless-issues

It’s become so filthy. I agree LA has always been gritty, but this is something else entirely.

It literally looks like a 3rd world country. It is shocking.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s awful. Here’s the deal, we have homeless activists that assert a lot of political power and organize against anyone who tries to clean up the streets. The local democratic leaders are chicken shit (I’m a democrat, so I can say this fairly), and they all seem to support homeless rights over the rights of everyone else in the neighborhood.

Here’s an article from today: https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-03-13/echo-park-encampment-exposes-bigger-la-homeless-issues

It’s become so filthy. I agree LA has always been gritty, but this is something else entirely.

It literally looks like a 3rd world country. It is shocking.

Maybe your neighborhood. I've noticed there aren't rows of tent cities RVs parked in front of Politician or Hollywood Star homes. They don't even have to experience traffic. The crash that killed Kobe is a common executive charter carrier. A local politician was even caught using the fire department's helicopter during rush hour, the traffic is so bad.

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I'm a PP and I also live in the Valley. As I mentioned there are tents under the overpasses but other than that my neighborhood isn't a village of RVs/homeless/crime and needles.

That said DH and I have talked about retiring out of LA (which as a young adult 20's/30's I would not have DREAMED of thinking that) because its so damn expensive here and I do think we have issues regarding homeless and cleanliness here in LA in general + we pay high taxes and those monies are not impacting those problems in a positive way. So plan is to sell, buy a house outright in another state and be in a smaller town environment when the time comes. Rocking chair on the porch situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in LA. The valley area.

I travel for work a lot and whenever I come home I’m depressed. It gets worse every time.

It’s filthy. I’m in the process of moving away. Sad 20 yrs of living in LA and is awful.

How is the Santa Monica pier looking these days? Last time I was there was in 2016 or so, it I’ve heard it’s gone down hill.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I live in LA. The valley area.

I travel for work a lot and whenever I come home I’m depressed. It gets worse every time.

It’s filthy. I’m in the process of moving away. Sad 20 yrs of living in LA and is awful.

How is the Santa Monica pier looking these days? Last time I was there was in 2016 or so, it I’ve heard it’s gone down hill.

It’s gross won’t step foot near there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in OC and we try to avoid LA since it's a cesspool, but I will say that it's been starting to get bad down here too now over the past few years. We've seen a lot more syringes in parks and beaches, even seen some homeless people in our parks. I can imagine that LA itself must be even worse than it was before.

Wish they'd wake up and clean up this state before it's really too late. They've ruined so much of California already. So depressing.

Don't forget the homeless along the Santa Ana river, which were then rerouted to church parking lots until the syringes and diseases got the local communities worked up. It's terrible what has happened to both downtown LA and O.C.

[Anonymous]

This is so sad.

My brother lived in downtown LA in a loft in the late 90s and I have such happy memories of visiting him. Great weather, cool stores. Sometimes I fantasize of retiring to a cute little apartment in some walkable neighborhood in LA.

Oh well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah last month my kid was at the beach in pacific palisades and stepped on a syringe. OMG. Don't get me started

Seriously?? What beach? I’m not surprised. I see so many scumbags and drug addict losers hanging off PCH near the beaches. I’m sorry that happened...hope your kid is ok?

My kid stepped on a syringe on a Hawaii beach. Homeless and drug users are all over.

+1. I’ve found syringes on the Hamptons beaches. It’s all over.

[Anonymous]

I’m in west Los Angeles and crime is definitely up since the pandemic hit. And for some reason, idiot trumpers came to Beverly Hills to protest and destroyed the parks so the city closed them for a few months and turned off our fountains. It was bleak for awhile. Everything is open again and it’s getting better.


Still wouldn’t live any other place in the world, though...

[Anonymous]

Uh, how is the area around USC? K-town etc. Asking as a nervous parent of recently accepted '25, thank you.

[Anonymous]

With all due respect you guys, I’ve lived in dupont for the past 15 years and have found needles on my lawn, been groped on the street, flashed in the metro, and there are now tents all over dupont. I watched someone die of an overdose in the street. What I don’t understand is why helping homeless and drug addicted people is so hard. I understand addiction but I also understand how rich this country is and that programs exist to help people. Why do we let them camp out in front of schools?