Posted on 06/25/2021 8:00:23 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva wrote to the L.A. Board of Supervisors on Wednesday to ask them to declare a “state of emergency” on the local homeless crisis, saying that “failed policies” were causing death on the streets.
Villanueva has recently adopted a more assertive approach, vowing to clear homeless encampments from the Venice Beach area and standing up to the L.A. City Council on its failure to contain the spread of tent cities throughout the city.
This week, he stepped up his efforts by calling on the L.A. County Board of Supervisors to act, in a press conference.
In a letter to the board, Villanueva said (original emphasis):
Since taking office [in 2018], I have watched state, county, and local government fail to address the homeless crisis affecting the residents of Los Angeles County … Despite spending in excess of $6.5 billion over the last ten years to address the issue, and the creation and efforts of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), nothing has changed. In fact, the homeless problem has only grown by approximately 20 percent each year. According to LAHSA’s 2020 count, Los Angeles County had over 66,000 persons experiencing homelessness living in our streets. Conservative estimates for 2021 put the figure over 80,000 persons.
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Is this where he goes to the fed to get our taxpayer revenue for HIS problem??
Dude is only about 20 years too late, this has been a festering problem in Claiflower for **decades**.
I came to the area north of Seattle two months ago. I have seen a lot of old motor homes and decrepit camping trailers parked on streets and in rest areas. These are not “campers.” These are homeless people.
There is no doubt ridiculously high rents and house prices are making this a permanent reality across America.
What happened to the recall and the coverage of the recall?
Round up all the homeless in the county and put them in the Los Angeles Coliseum, there is plenty of room and all the facilities necessary.
for the first 3 months, every friday night, unload ALL the Fentanyl and Dangerous Drugs siezed that week in the whole county, in the Coliseum, give them thier last hurrah!!
That should reduce the population by at least half.
All Social Service Agencies Shall be reassigned to the coliseum to do thier work, and All institutions of higher learning shall conduct all psychology, psychiatric,social service,... classes shall be held at the coliseum with Live Subjects.
When all these high price universities put thier Superior Teachings into Practice in front of the whole world, it will change.
Get the unused school buses, load ‘em up with the homeless and their shelters and bus them to the front yards of the City Council, dump ‘em off, and leave. They helped create the problem, let them solve it.
Who could have seen bad things coming from letting many thousands of homeless camp out on public lands like parks?
No, they will just move further out in the burbs and claim we're not spending enough of other people's money to solve the problem. This won't happen until they have successfully protected their wealth from massive increases in corporate tax rates, death taxes and capital gains taxes. They will then wail about the need for the rest of us to “pay our fair share”!
Our son had an opportunity to work in the LA area last year. I am so glad that he didn’t. California is a mess.
The Sheriff is not perfect, far from it, but at least he’s trying to do something that the LAPD and mayor Garcetti (worthless) refuse to do. Venice is an absolute disaster and the sheriff also understands the threat to public health that hundreds of homeless drug addicts living on the boardwalk pose to the larger community.
A state of emergency usually is something that happens u expectedly, and catches people for guard, and is something that they weren’t prepared for. None of these fit the situation In LA. This is a ‘crisis’ of their own making
We have a paper mill around about 15 miles away fro us, and th3 chemicals they use smell like rotten eggs and worse, and whenever the wind blows just right, it brings the smell to our town
I can’t I aging how putrid it must smell in LA on hot steamy days
Calls for a state of emergency on himself?
Wow. And expensive to live there too. Yuck!
He was going to be paid well but all of the extra pay would have been consumed by the high cost of living.
They certainly have the weather for tent living.
A low temp is 48deg, and a high temp is 95.
Not much rain.
“Leftist enablers + good year-round weather = paradise for transients / homeless. Only when the crime / filth / disease starts to affect the moneyed Left will any action be taken. “
Hard pressure from Amazon, Boeing, Microsoft, Nordstroms and other large enterprises caused Seattle to clean things up quite nicely.
And it was quiet.
It was quiet because the leftist politicians and media kept their mouths shut. It’s like it never even happened.
Dozens of encampments and thousands of tents simply vanished from Seattle. Maybe they were given $100 and a free ticket to LA.
Yet downtown Seattle is comparatively clean.
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