[SoConPubbie]

LA is a typical US city. It has very nice areas. It has bad areas. It has electricity and running water to all areas. It has paved roads throughout.

My friend, you are completely wrong.

I live in the LA Metropolitan area and it is a third-world city in comparison to all other areas of the state.

Most of the city you would not want to get off the freeway and drive around in.

The freeways themselves have not been updated as LA does not have the money because they spend so much keeping their hospitals afloat and their education system running catering to illegal aliens.

A good proportion of the city has businesses whose signs are written in spanish, they have street vendors everywhere, beggars everywhere, and cock-fighting everywhere, not to mention the 80,000 gang members partially because the city has something called Special Order 40 which does not allow the cops to look into the immigration status of those they arrest.

Your one visit to LA must have been concentrated in some of the nicer area of the city.

[La Enchiladita]

A proposal to change the LAPD's controversial policy dealing with undocumented immigrants picked up a powerful ally today, the Los Angeles Police Protective League. The union, which represents more than 9,000 LAPD officers, said it is backing a motion introduced last week by Los Angeles Councilman Dennis Zine that would require officers to check on the immigration status of gang members suspected of being undocumented immigrants -- even if they are not under arrest.

That motion would change LAPD's Special Order 40, which restricts officers' ability to inquire about a person's immigration status.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/04/police-union-vs.html

Sorry you live in a bad area of the city, but JLS is right. I know, because I live here.

[Never2baCrat]

I agree and I’ve been here 22 yrs!