A bedraggled adult man sleeping underneath a slide on a playground.
A soiled mattress and a jumbled pile of boxes and blankets alongside a community center in a park.
Blue plastic tarps covering tents on the sidewalk, blocking children as they walk to and from school.
These are the horrific scenes of urban neglect captured byThe California Post in recent reporting.
And they would continue, or grow worse, if some members of theLA City Councilhad their way.
Four socialist members of the council — Ysabel Jurado, Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martínez, and mayoral candidate Nithya Raman — voted last week against a measure to allow the city to enforce anti-camping rules inpublic spaces in Venice.
It is a curious sort of socialism that allows public property to be defaced and destroyed, rather than enjoyed by working-class families.
LA’s municipal codeis hopelessly complicated. It should be common sense to keep homeless people from camping — and abusing drugs, and defecating — in places where children play.
But the council’s absurd rules require a specific vote for each specific case in which anti-camping laws are enforced in these spaces.
And council members like Hernandez are adamantly opposed to law enforcement.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
