Is Los Angeles becoming increasingly dangerous or is the media just over hyping the crime situation?
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Anonymous
| I have not been there in over a year since the pandemic began. |
Anonymous
| LA is huge. Has DC gotten more dangerous with the protests that happened in the last few months? Probably the same question. |
Anonymous
| LA has always been dangerous. |
Anonymous
| OP, can you be more specific? |
Anonymous
| Not since the pandemic, per se, but over the last several years it has gone downhill. Crime. God awful homelessness. More filth and graffiti. Lots of shuttered storefronts now. Really horrible leadership. The new DA will be terrible for the city. |
Anonymous
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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. |
Anonymous
| Yeah last month my kid was at the beach in pacific palisades and stepped on a syringe. OMG. Don't get me started |
Anonymous
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? |
Anonymous
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The homeless situation is frankly out of control and only getting worse with Covid - there were plenty of people barely hanging on by a thread and then everything shut down.
That said, I don't think its become "more dangerous". I'm LA born and bread, I've never felt unsafe here. I do agree that our state leadership need to pull their heads out of their ass, cut the red tape and do something for our homeless neighbors. Not everyone on the streets arrived here on a bus from their small town looking for fame - these are California citizens and they need help. Every freeway overpass has become an encampment. The Veterans building in Brentwood has exploded with homeless Vets the last year - its SHAMEFUL that we don't assist our homeless Veterans as a country never mind this city. |
Anonymous
It was the Palisades beach (Will Rogers, between Temescal and Chautaqua. Around Tower 15). She is okay. In my mind, it's soooo wrong to not be able to walk on a beach barefoot. I grew up in a beach town; I was either in flip-flops (we called them Deckers) or barefoot. So to me, it's like my world is disappearing and just want my kid to enjoy it before it's gone. |
Anonymous
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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. |
Anonymous
You showed your true colors here and lost your credibility. The storming of the Capitol was a whole different animal. |
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I was born and raised in LA (80s/90s) and I go back to visit several times a year.
By and large, the LA area is cleaner and safer than it ever was when I was growing up. I remember when much of Downtown LA was downright scary. Gangs were running wild and very violent. Even Santa Monica at night was considered unsafe. Plus the smog was still pretty bad. Silver Lake, Echo Park, Eagle Rock, Mt. Washington were all extremely undesirable. Outside of a few nice pockets on the Westside and near West Hollywood, the City of LA was pretty bad. I am amazed today by how much the city has improved. However, I agree that the homeless problem is out of control, and despite it being cleaner than it used to be, I still think it's a really dirty place overall. |
Anonymous
My kid stepped on a syringe on a Hawaii beach. Homeless and drug users are all over. |
Anonymous
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. |