LA's Battle for Venice Beach: Homeless Surge Puts Hollywood's Progressive Ideals to the Test

Hollywood Reporter ^ | January 11, 2019 | Scott Johnson and Peter Kiefer

[LRoggy]

Looks like California has a new definition of Silicon Beach . . . microchips instead of implants?

[Dilbert San Diego]

Why can’t we sweep homeless off the streets?

How is it tolerant and liberal to allow these problems to fester?

Isn’t it illegal to pitch a tent and do all bathroom functions publicly?

I’m not necessarily saying they belong in jail, but something such as relocation camps might be a good first step. Homeless have hit bottom in life with no place to go. We should help them identity why they have hit rock bottom and help them. But we should not have to tolerate what is going on with homelessness today.

[seawolf101]

Liberals are only pro homeless and illegals as long as they live someplace else.

[yesthatjallen]

Did Hollywood Reporter do away with the comment section?

[cnsmom]

This is a very expensive national problem. I’m temporarily tankful that California is the homeless paradise but as a nation we need a solution. Maybe California is the best option but maybe it should be be a shared national issue.

[an amused spectator]

Paulette Perry is a total whackjob.

[Oatka]

Or maybe payback. I wonder if he said or did something prior to the vandalism to trigger it.

Could be. From the article:
"Several residents shared an unconfirmed theory — suggested to them by a local patrolman — that certain assailants were using the social media app NextDoor to monitor which residents are most vocal about their opposition to encampments and then targeting those individuals for retribution."

[Oatka]

They tend to be liberal, they want to do good in the world, but they're balancing their beliefs with how that might impact the value of their real estate,
Gee, I wonder how long that will last.

and (underlines mine)

A 2006 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Jones v. City of Los Angeles required that law enforcement and city officials no longer enforce the ban on sleeping on sidewalks anywhere in the city until a sufficient amount of permanent supportive housing could be built. Further complicating matters were two state ballot measures that voters overwhelmingly approved in 2016 — Propositions 47 and 57 — which decriminalized certain felonies to misdemeanors in an effort to address the state's overburdened prison system.
Lower the penalties to prevent overcrowding. Yeah, that will work.

[an amused spectator]

Notice the block in the middle so homeless can't sleep on it

Nothing a cordless 4 1/2 angle grinder and a 4 pound sledge couldn't take care of in a couple of minutes.

We have to be more pro-active with our activism.

Spend 50 bucks to ship a homeless person to Barbra Streisand's neighborhood.

"Modify" a Venice Beach bench.

Buy a load of horse poopy and "accidentally" spill it at night on a city street.

The possibilities are endless. They're doing it to us.

[Grampa Dave]

Elite Liberals are only pro homeless and illegals as long as they live someplace else.

[EveningStar]

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[EdnaMode]

Yeah they got rid of it in the last few months.

[Texas resident]

LA is trying to emulate Venezuela. And winning.

[windcliff]

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[V_TWIN]

“certain assailants were using the social media app NextDoor”

Well, that is rich in irony. An area that has become known as “Silicon Beach” now has high tech vagrants preying on the high tech geeks............Probably using obama phones.

[yesthatjallen]

Shame.

It could be a real wild west of comments.

I suspect readership has fallen off too. It always drops when people can no longer comment. I know I stop reading articles on sites I can't comment and I've seen comments fall from 100s to single digits when they drop Disqus.

And if they bring it back it will like be with Facebook login.

My hometown paper dropped Disqus and on the rear occasions I go there to read a story there almost no comments anymore. Few people like to comment using Facebook.

[vmivol00]

I think letting in a few more illegals should help that problem.

[morphing libertarian]

He will turn all of California into San Francisco

[MeganC]

Someday things will get bad enough in the USA (or what’s left of it) that a government will come along, round up the homeless and other undesirables and then march them into the gas chambers to the resounding applause of their constituents.

Or we can take concrete measures to actually fix the problem instead of enabling the homeless and etc. to maintain their current status.

[Yaelle]

Ha ha Ha Ha Ha!

I know so many wealthy people who spout lefty platitudes from their übercool homes in Venice. Not one original thinker in the bunch, just really good parroters. NOW they get a taste of what they wanted. I couldn’t be happier. Can you spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e?”