There are not enough toilets on 'skid row' in LA.
Residents have to urinate and defecate into buckets then empty the contents into the street.
Ew!
The city should be doing better.
Skid Row is worse than anything you can imagine. My Great Grandfather was an alcoholic and he died on Skid Row in Los Angeles. He was once the Chief of Police in Denver, Colorado.
People on Skid Row sit there in their own piss and shit, and covered in their own vomit, and when the police go on patrol in the morning the cops find dead bodies lying on the sidewalks, the people die during the night.
I think that Skid Row should be outlawed, send the people some place where they can get help, send them to Pasaadena, to Union Station in Pasadena, or wherever, and stop them from sitting there in their own piss and shit and drinking themselves to death.
https://unionstationhs.org/
Like in Anaheim, we do not have a Skid Row, instead we have shelters and N/A, etc, and Chrysalis, etc.
https://changelives.org/
And this Tom Petty video with Anthony Hopkins sets the tone for what Skid Row is like. They fight their demons, and they either forgive, or they become consumed by hate and go insane.
https://youtu.be/jezqNxQ8mb0
Salute,
Tony V.
Great grandfather...skid row in LA has been going that long...even more of an outrage.
Yes, skid row should be outlawed.
Can't just be having people living like that in a first world country.
Send them to a nice place in the mountains...rehab place...medical professionals, incl mental health professionals...warm beds, good food, no alcohol or drugs.
Nice grounds in which to wander, sit, lie, read etc.
No money?
No excuse.
Federal govt should spend $595 billion pa on defence instead of $600 billion pa.
Yes, my Great Grandfather died on Skid Row back in 1970.
And a good place in the mountains for people to get rehab, and work on their issues would be Lake Hughes, California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Hughes,_CaliforniaThey have a rehab center there for men.
https://www.lakehughesrecovery.com/ And another place where there is a rehab center for people is in Acton, California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acton,_CaliforniaThey have a center in Acton for both men and women.
https://citehealth.com/rehab-centers/california/cities/acton/la-county-department-public-healthOf note too, the homeless people can clean up the forests, they can do fire prevention work, and they can plant trees, etc, the homeless people can be paid to work in the forests.
There is a lot that can be done to help the homeless and the mentally ill and the addicts.
And we need new trade deals with China, etc, we must create good honest jobs for our people.
And groups such as Homeboy Industries are getting people jobs in the solar industry, etc.
https://homeboyindustries.org/You are right too on the issue of helping the homeless, we can do with a few less fighter planes, and we need more facilities and programs to help the homeless. Defense is important, but so is helping our people who are out there homeless and suffering from addiction and from mental illness, etc.
Salute,
Tony V.
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