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Can Los Angeles be Saved?
American Thinker ^ | 01/20/2022 | Patricia Jay

Posted on 01/20/2022 10:00:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind

On Monday, off-duty LAPD officer Fernando Arroyos and his girlfriend were out in South L.A. looking at houses, in anticipation of getting married and settling down there. Sure, it was after dark, and most Angelenos do not venture out at night these days, but Fernando was LAPD, highly trained in police work and educated at U.C. Berkeley, and thought he had it all down. Then four gangbangers from the local crime organization (too highly advanced to be called a gang), Florencia 13, saw the silver chains around his neck and decided to rob him. Arroyos told his girlfriend to run. Shots rang out, at least one hit Arroyos, and he died on the way to the hospital.

On Thursday, a 70-year-old nurse was attacked by a transient, right in front of Union Station, as she was waiting for a bus. (Public transport is often dangerous for people who work in downtown L.A.) She died in the hospital four days later.

Later that day, in a fashionable neighborhood in L.A. — in fact, the location of the mayor's mansion — a lovely young woman and recent college grad, Brianna Kupfer, was working in a design store on the busy main street, when a man walked in and for some inexplicable reason stabbed her to death. Just a fluke, the usual reassuring lie?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: crime; decline; letsgolosangeles; losangeles; luckfosangeles
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With the deaths of these three people, two not yet out of their twenties, someone finally snapped in L.A. His name is Alex Villanueva, the elected sheriff of L.A. County, where the Arroyos murder occurred.

Directly linked to the random violence in our streets, the Los Angeles homeless situation has exploded in the past couple of years despite billions spent to stop it. Villanueva is also the only official who has stepped up with any credible enforcement of vagrancy, drug-dealing, and assault laws. No matter that violence is perpetrated on and by what the leftist city structure euphemistically calls "the homeless" or "persons currently experiencing homelessness." The police have admitted that Ms. Kupfer's killer was likely a homeless person, for instance, as was the man who killed the nurse at a bus stop.

1 posted on 01/20/2022 10:00:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

No.


2 posted on 01/20/2022 10:00:45 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

No.


3 posted on 01/20/2022 10:01:49 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: SeekAndFind

from whom, for whom, for what purpose?


4 posted on 01/20/2022 10:03:43 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: SeekAndFind

No.


5 posted on 01/20/2022 10:04:09 AM PST by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: SeekAndFind

no


6 posted on 01/20/2022 10:04:14 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: dfwgator

A Lost Angel is, by definition, a demon. Demons are beyond salvation.


7 posted on 01/20/2022 10:04:44 AM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Ms. Kupfer’s killer was likely a homeless person”

They arrested him yesterday. 24 previous felonies. He was out on bail after shooting into a car.


8 posted on 01/20/2022 10:06:07 AM PST by setter
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To: Brilliant

If one side supports law and order, belief in God, the American Way of Life , gun rights preserved and freedom and justice equally for all citizens

and the other side stands for BLM, wokeness, Marxism, anti white racism, anti Americanism, atheism, glorification of paganism and idol worship, and support for the Democrat Party at all levels of government

then, no.


9 posted on 01/20/2022 10:06:15 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, if you drop a nuclear bomb on it.


10 posted on 01/20/2022 10:06:26 AM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: AndyJackson

Oh, and by whom?


11 posted on 01/20/2022 10:06:30 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: SeekAndFind

Some people are just no damn good. My solution wouldn’t work.


12 posted on 01/20/2022 10:07:12 AM PST by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sad.

We looked forward to going to LA (and SF) years ago. No more.

Methinks geology will help in adjusting everyone’s attitude there.

5.56mm


13 posted on 01/20/2022 10:07:21 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No.


14 posted on 01/20/2022 10:08:18 AM PST by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: SeekAndFind

Saved from whom? From the LA government? From the Angelitos who voted for them?

The real question should be “Does Los Angeles WANT to be saved?”


15 posted on 01/20/2022 10:08:36 AM PST by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: SeekAndFind

There’s a chance we can save Los Angeles: get rid of Congress member Maxine Waters and clean up her Congressional district. That right there would eliminate a huge fraction of the crime and blight problems plaguing the city.


16 posted on 01/20/2022 10:09:46 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: SeekAndFind

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TMiAQPABgHA


17 posted on 01/20/2022 10:11:06 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: SeekAndFind

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! . . .Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.


18 posted on 01/20/2022 10:12:56 AM PST by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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To: SeekAndFind

A sanctuary city that won’t arrest thieves unless they steal more than $750, that won’t remove a 50-block chunk of the city taken over by squatters, that wants to defund the police; No...they are getting what they want.


19 posted on 01/20/2022 10:14:18 AM PST by econjack (I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We could sell it to Mexico.

As a side note, why would you go around wearing a gold chain?


20 posted on 01/20/2022 10:14:22 AM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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