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How downtown Los Angeles became a boarded-up ghost-town with hoards of drug-smoking vagrants and dozens of shuttered storefronts
ny post ^ | 08/17/2025 | By Jared Downing

Posted on 08/17/2025 6:21:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 08/17/2025 6:21:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Let me guess. Global warming? Racism?


2 posted on 08/17/2025 6:23:08 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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I guess the geniuses who thought Covid would be a good idea are getting their arses handed to them. Covid destroyed
large cities.

Just like in Minnesota and how the DFL (demoncrats) cheat to win, their tactics have been picked up by the Somali, and now the DFL will be voted out and Ahmed and MO will run the city.

I don’t think the DFL has anyway to beat this.


3 posted on 08/17/2025 6:25:22 PM PDT by BarbM (Men who look at porn are impotent for God.)
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To: BenLurkin

We are being told by our ‘betters’ that criticism of cities with black mayors and trying to do something to improve things is ‘racist’.


4 posted on 08/17/2025 6:27:23 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: DouglasKC

The hundreds of homeless that were just evicted from Washington, D.C. will no doubt work their way out to L.A. in due time.
I don’t go near downtown Los Angeles anymore. I used to have a subscription to the Philharmonic but that was thirty years ago.


5 posted on 08/17/2025 6:27:25 PM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: BenLurkin

They could rename it “Gavintown” or maybe “Bass Ackwards”


6 posted on 08/17/2025 6:29:18 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Thank you, Trump, Musk, Leavitt....)
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To: BenLurkin

Cue the ‘Sanford and Son’ junkyard theme music.


7 posted on 08/17/2025 6:29:36 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: BarbM

Bingo, Covid or rather poor govt decisions did. All going to plan.


8 posted on 08/17/2025 6:30:52 PM PDT by Jolla
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9 posted on 08/17/2025 6:33:01 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Trillions of dollars invested by the private sector plus zillions of taxpayer dollars given out by government plus tons of charitable gifts and services

And the center of America’s second- largest city is a dangerous dump with hundreds of deserted buildings.

Hum….


10 posted on 08/17/2025 6:33:34 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: simpson96

Cue The Specials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2oXzrnti4


11 posted on 08/17/2025 6:34:03 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Just like downtown SF. Drug addicts & poop


12 posted on 08/17/2025 6:38:04 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: BenLurkin

This is what they voted for.

Now they’re getting it good and hard.

L


13 posted on 08/17/2025 6:40:13 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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I walked around and photographed in the shaded area in the beginning of June.

It’s E6th and E7th to the east that are really campgrounds.

All the commercial districts I saw on Los Angeles looked sad, even the ‘Miracle Mile’. The Bernie Sanders restaurant near the Petersen Auto Museum was permanently closed.


14 posted on 08/17/2025 6:41:07 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Christian fundamentalism. They just won’t take the hint. Just bake the dang cake so it can be all bluebirds and rainbows going forward, okay? /S


15 posted on 08/17/2025 6:41:30 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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1. Leftist politicians emboldening

2. 75% blacks. 20%hispanics.

Real hard stuff to figure out.

16 posted on 08/17/2025 6:41:38 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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hordes, not "hoards." Jeez, doesn't anyone hire proofreaders anymore?
17 posted on 08/17/2025 6:43:40 PM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus
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I always wonder where are these bums getting their money to spend on dope? Sure seems like there’s no shortage of that.


18 posted on 08/17/2025 6:48:55 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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Wait. Did the article just say: “businesses are being driven out by crime, record-high rents and an ever-shrinking pool of Angelenos with any reason to be downtown”

Why would rents be record high in an area with high vacancy and crime, and low numbers of customers?


19 posted on 08/17/2025 6:50:13 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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We like to go to L.A. Kings games downtown at the crypto.com arena, (formerly Staple’s ctr) but even that’s getting to be more dangerous all the time.

Karen Bass has been a disaster for L.A.


20 posted on 08/17/2025 6:52:42 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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