Downtown Los Angeles, Christmas Day 2017 (gangs, cheap housing, money)

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by 2sleepy

You can ask but you won't get it, cops don't have the time to prosecute every call regarding loitering and trespassing, and even if they had time, all they could do is write a ticket so it's a huge waste of time. But what's this about obstructing "public ambulatories"?? You mean ER's? Hospitals have private security that is perfectly capable of managing that.

An ambulatory is a walkway, such as a sidewalk.

And I'm not asking for prosecution, what I'm asking for is to make vagrants move elsewhere, just as the SMPD did a decade ago.

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by Exitus Acta Probat

An ambulatory is a walkway, such as a sidewalk.

And I'm not asking for prosecution, what I'm asking for is to make vagrants move elsewhere, just as the SMPD did a decade ago.

An ambulatory is actually a covered walkway around a cloister but that's not important. I would expect that as cops have time they move people who are impeding the movement of others, if they don't they should be.

[LuvSouthOC]

Not to be confused with an amberlamps; that truck that rushes the infirm to the hospital.

[Angelino19]

Originally Posted by Chicano3000X

The homeless situation now has been a disaster, generations in the making. Something that both liberal and conservatives swept under the rug.

In October 1980 President Jimmy Carter signed the Mental Health System Act (MHSA) which would make available Federal grants to states to address projects dealing with mental health and mental illness. The following month Reagan won the presidential election and subsequently discarded the MHSA before it could be enacted.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by 2sleepy

An ambulatory is actually a covered walkway around a cloister but that's not important. .

Actually, it's a walkway as I stated, regardless of whether there's a cover or it's around a cloister.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by LuvSouthOC

Not to be confused with an amberlamps; that truck that rushes the infirm to the hospital.

When you hear, "Bring the amberlamps", somebody has been visited by the epic bearded guy.

[BlinkingBlythe]

Skid Row is a very sad place, being used as a human garbage dump in the literal sense.
Police cars from different counties and even different states have been seen discharging
people there over the years.

Stuff like this reminds me that while this country says it values human life, in reality it
doesn't, just whatever money you have in your bank account.

[LuvSouthOC]

Originally Posted by Exitus Acta Probat

When you hear, "Bring the amberlamps", somebody has been visited by the epic bearded guy.

Truth. All that over some Stacy Adams cheap arse shoes.

[Finper]

Originally Posted by BlinkingBlythe

Skid Row is a very sad place, being used as a human garbage dump in the literal sense.
Police cars from different counties and even different states have been seen discharging
people there over the years.

Stuff like this reminds me that while this country says it values human life, in reality it
doesn't, just whatever money you have in your bank account.

Hospitals also turf and dump patients in skid row.

[MarciaMarshaMarcia]

Originally Posted by Angelino19

In October 1980 President Jimmy Carter signed the Mental Health System Act (MHSA) which would make available Federal grants to states to address projects dealing with mental health and mental illness. The following month Reagan won the presidential election and subsequently discarded the MHSA before it could be enacted.

True, & that’s why when people say “Reagan didn’t do it”, oh, yes he did, from the very beginning, & gradually, all other states followed.

When the state mental hospitals started discharging very ill people to the streets, the help for them, in the form of housing, outpatient clinics for meds, programs for readjustment into society, were supposed to be community-based, and it just never happened. So, after decades of this, here we are.