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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

That’s the Democrat platform. If you can’t pay to exempt yourself and actually receive services, that’s your fault.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

That’s the Democrat platform. If you can’t pay to exempt yourself and actually receive services, that’s your fault.

No. It’s because Reagan (aided by the ACLU) ended forced commitment which immediately opened the flood gates to the mentally ill homeless. There is nothing their families can go to get them into hospitals. Drug addicts are a different issue and we need more treatment programs and frankly stricter loitering laws. For the healthy but down-on-their-luck homeless, we have to have good family shelters that are clean and safe as well as programs to help them back up.

It’s not just LA by any means. LA is just warm enough to see people live outside. In NYC, they live in the subways and tunnels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

That’s the Democrat platform. If you can’t pay to exempt yourself and actually receive services, that’s your fault.

No. It’s because Reagan (aided by the ACLU) ended forced commitment which immediately opened the flood gates to the mentally ill homeless. There is nothing their families can go to get them into hospitals. Drug addicts are a different issue and we need more treatment programs and frankly stricter loitering laws. For the healthy but down-on-their-luck homeless, we have to have good family shelters that are clean and safe as well as programs to help them back up.

It’s not just LA by any means. LA is just warm enough to see people live outside. In NYC, they live in the subways and tunnels.

Right. Reagan left office in 1989, passed away in 2004, and almost two decades after that is why only in the last few years tent cities have increased (not just skid row).

Reagan must be why LA doesn't enforce its own parking laws on RVs, doesn't enforce its own laws on drugs and dealing, or littering, dumping, or arson.

Homeless may or may not be a choice or a series of choices, but the condition of Los Angeles is a choice. Who you vote for, what laws are enforced, and consenting to even live there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

That’s the Democrat platform. If you can’t pay to exempt yourself and actually receive services, that’s your fault.

It is a democrat problem bc democrats have over regulated housing to a point where building housing is effectively outlawed. Every project faces 10m in nimby lawsuits and government fees. = no affordable housing, despair, homelessness. Well intentioned liberals (and I consider myself one despite the above) are impractical & clueless.