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LA demands answers from Burbank after video shows officers 'dumping' homeless man
This is what the Canadians did to keep their country so peaceful compared to America. They take people suspected of being criminals, mostly young non white males out on long drives out into the tundra and let people out where they knew they would freeze to death.
Eventually some Canadians tried to sue the government for all the deaths when it became apparent what happened in modern times but the Canadian supreme court basically covered it up and says their government never has to discuss or be held accountable over these issues.
There's a Canadian musician with a pretty brutal song about this.
this is a wild accusation do you have some data
He’s also not mentioning that by criminals he means “drunk” or “disorderly” or “troublemaking” indigenous peoples.
Jesus Christ that’s a depressing but unsurprising read :/
Yeeeeepppp
NPR covered the court case of the indigenous people trying to sue the Canadian government to release records about suspected starlight tour deaths but they were stonewalled every step of the way.
When the Canadian government saw how many deaths there really were they chose never to let that information become public.
I may be exaggerating a bit but I definitely think what I've said is true of Canadian history based on what I saw.
These are murders not deaths
There have been accounts from survivors
Reminds of that war vet who was just visiting his war buddy. He had no car so was walking and hitching rides. A small town sheriff drove him outside city limits but the guy came back just wanting to get something to eat. The cops arrested him and beat him up in jail. Guy breaks out, and during the manhunt, he killed a few people using his special forces training.
"It wasn't MY war!"
SF does it too.
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted to expand an existing program that would help unhoused people return to their communities by offering them a bus ticket home. It will now be another tool in an attempt to reduce the city's homeless population.
Portland, Seattle, and Honolulu all do it too. New York has been doing it since the 1980s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_homeless_relocation_programs_in_the_United_States
Returning people to their communities/families is not the same.
The story from Burbank PD is that this guy requested to be dropped off in LA.
LA calls it "dumping," Burbank calls it "giving him a lift." Who's right?
Also - did you miss the "SF doesn't know what happened to them" article? That's not the same as "we returned them to their families."
Who even knows if their families will live in their hometowns? Assuming it even is their hometown, and they actually had family there at some point.
it is. They use that as an excuse but no one involved in this program is actually tracking where these people end up or making contact with family members. Not even confirming that they have family there or they're just checking previous addresses or known family members and just sending them.
Wait until people find out about all the homeless they bus into LA from places like Nevada, Arizona, etc...
I was on a Greyhound bus from OKC to Los Angeles. Oklahoma State troopers put a man in handcuffs on the bus and the man said he was going to Los Angeles.
How long was the trip?
About two days
And they lie, to protect themselves. I still remember talking to one at an intersection once. Guy claimed he'd lived in Costa Mesa all his life. He'd never heard of Big Bear Lake. That was one of those "Come on, dude..." moments where we all knew he fucked up.
Don’t get the morons who think “90% of the homeless are from LA and this is just a housing problem” started 🙄
Not as much as most people think. 90% of homeless in California were in California when they became homeless.
most homeless in LA are homeless in the last zipcode they had housing in.
Lol not even close. When these ppl show up to request services, they are usually coached to say that they “became homeless” in whatever area they are seeking services within. It’s a simple one question, one answer policy with no way to verify history as most of these ppl haven’t had formal rental or lease agreements in years, sometimes decades. I’ve met ppl from all around the country who have “become homeless” in multiple areas where they were seeking services.
People don’t seem to understand that in order for these studies to mean anything they need to have accurate data collection and tons of communication between agencies/ organizations. We have none of that as we keep the barrier of entry as low as possible for any homeless person seeking help.
But we know they aren’t natives and they aren’t long term residents. They’ve been here 5 years or less and burn out
Thats a bs survey
It’s how Burbank, Glendale and all unincorporated parts of SoCal are so “clean” because they dump ACTUAL PEOPLE IN NEED into Los Angeles and why we’re so overwhelmed.
Hang out at the border of where CSUDH is. You'll see cops dumping the homeless by the university, the light you turn on to head towards the highway.
Burbank PD says he declined medical services and requested a ride to LA.
In a response on June 7, the day the video was shared by Krekorian, the Burbank Police Department said officers responded to a call of a naked person sitting at a bus stop outside Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center. The man told officers he was unhoused and was taken to the hospital from the Sunland/Tujunga area. Police said the individual left the hospital on his own accord and declined medical services.
The department said officers offered to drive the man to wherever he desired and agreed to be taken to the Metro Red Line in North Hollywood.
"Along the way, the individual asked to be let out of the patrol vehicle to get coffee," the Burbank Police Department said in its statement. "The officers complied immediately with his request, pulled over, and let the individual out of the patrol vehicle in the 5200 block of Lankershim Boulevard."
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-homeless-man-burbank-police-north-hollywood/3443907/
Maybe they're lying, maybe not. Has anyone bothered to ask the actual homeless guy in question?
According to Google Maps, that hospital to the NoHo station is an 80-minute walk, and 5200 Lankershim is a 10 minute walk to the station. There's a Starbucks at 5166 Lankershim, and 3 other coffee shops along Lankershim headed towards the Metro station. Although all 4 are closed by 8pm every day.
i’ve heard people getting tickets for asking for rides from cops. how generous of them to give that man a ride to LA.
Nobody's giving tickets to homeless people. What are they gonna pay with, broken umbrellas?
i’ve heard people getting tickets for asking for rides from cops.
100% never happened
Lapd doesn't give out rides out of the kindness of their hearts these muthafuckers r lying
Well this was Burbank PD, but they’re prolly lying too
It’s easy to tell when cops are lying.
don't give YOU a ride. But, a homeless person who is walking around stark naked and injured. Sure...I'll give you a ride anywhere that's not Burbank.
If you think any police department is giving a naked homeless person a lift, then you have never interacted with the police
they're not leaving them there.
They most definitely would, where in la are u from?
Burbank...where this actually happened.
So you're sheltered?
You're saying no one has ever been arrested for "indecent exposure"...because I live in Burbank?
you obviously didn't read the story.
I did read their bullshit excuse sir, from personal experience, I can tell you the police don't give anyone rides
oh you are 100% wrong. they give rides depending on the situation.
This doesn't explain why Burbank Police would take him to North Hollywood when he asked to be taken back to Sunland/Tujunga where he was staying.
It also doesn't explain why they would leave him when he was obviously not okay. This person was injured enough to be taken to a hospital but so mentally unwell the hospital called the police to handle his behavior. Although he might have at some point appeared mentally well enough to be let go, he was obviously not well when dropped off in North Hollywood. Why would those police officers think their job was done? A reasonable conclusion is their only objective was to remove this person from Burbank.
From an earlier article:
"As the individual did not appear to have transportation, and to gain cooperation for the individual to put on clothing, the officers offered to drive the individual to a place of his choosing," read the statement from police. "Initially, the individual asked to be taken to Sunland/Tujunga and ultimately agreed to be transported to the Metro Red Line in North Hollywood.
A reasonable conclusion is their only objective was to remove this person from Burbank.
Yes. But doing that isn't illegal.
Perhaps he should have been 5150'd. But he had calmed down, so that is debatable.
The big picture problem here is that individuals like this should probably be in mental institutions, permanently. But as of today, that is largely unconstitutional.
So they end up staying in the street and causing problems for themselves and others. Little can be done, as there is no legal authority to act. So persuading him to leave town is ideal for the smaller town that has a low homeless population and therefore not much legal obligation to shelter him.
It also doesn't explain why they would leave him when he was obviously not okay.
If he declined treatment, what should they do? Thrown him in jail for the night instead?
If the state had the power to force unwell people into involuntary treatment, we wouldn't have the homeless crisis we do. This is another consequence of our "libertarian Darwinism disguised as compassion and advocacy" approach to homelessness, and hardly an uncommon one.
Why would those police officers think their job was done?
Why wouldn't they? They're not doctors. They're probably barely GED passers. As long as they meet their minimum legal requirements, the sooner he's outta the car the sooner they can get to the donut shop.
That's why I wanna hear from the homeless guy himself - he's the only one I trust to not have a self-interested political axe to grind.
I don't trust Burbank PD, but that said I don't trust Krekorian's grandstanding either. The idea that either Burbank or LA governments give a shit about homeless people is downright laughable.
The idea that an LA Councilmember cares deeply about this one homeless guy laying on the street for one night, when there's literally thousands of other homeless people laying on the street in his district every single night, is ridiculous.
I’m not understanding why you’re defending this. We all know it’s unofficial policy to get these people out of Burbank and into LA. How do you explain the relative absence of vagrants in Burbank compared to just over the border in North Hollywood?
I'm sorry, I can't take you seriously. If Burbank police couldn't do anything for him, then why didn't their interaction end back in Burbank. Why did they offer to transport him to North Hollywood instead of where he asked to go. It's simple. Part of their job was to move him out of Burbank to LA.
Krekorian's staff called LAFD and they got him medical attention.
We reached out to Krekorian’s office to comment on what his staff has done for the man. “After viewing the security camera video, our District Office staff located the individual in question and spoke with him. He appeared to be in need of medical attention so they called the Fire Department, which also handles emergency medical response in the City of Los Angeles Los Angeles. When the emergency medical technicians arrived, they concluded that the man was indeed in need of medical attention and took him to a hospital,” said Hugh Esten, Director of Communication for Paul Krekorian said in an email.
There’s a Starbucks right outside the hospital. He could have just stayed put.
We're also overwhelmed because we absolutely suck at doing the things we know we need to do to remedy the situation, but agreed that this isn't helping.
Isn't this illegal? Can't we do something about it
When has something being illegal ever stopped cops?
No, it's not illegal. Even the federal government does it.
It doesn't get as much media play as Florida flying them to Martha's Vineyard, but it still happens.
And sometimes, the migrants just get flown to a different part of the border and then get kicked back into Mexico from there.
Basically, don't expect consistency from the government. It's not McDonalds, the government will serve both Coke and Pepsi and not even realize the difference.
There's free public transportation all over the place.
What stops these homeless people from going right back to Burbank, Glendale, etc.?
Because they just kicked out of that area by police…sends a pretty clear message even if you’re on meth.
Then why do encampments cleared by police continually reappear.
...because people still don't have homes?
So the police moving them from one location another doesn't prevent them from returning to the original location, as per the comment I replied to.
If someone with no money gets shipped from Kansas to California on a one way trip it mostly does prevent them
Since 90% of the homeless are from California, take 10% of the money allocated for homeless spending and send them back. Or do the roads not allow bidirectional travel?
OMG! That's all it took?
Then why doesn't LA do the same?! Get the police to ship the homeless off to OC, SD, Ventura, etc., etc.
Time and again build shelters between Barstow and Vegas, have rhe police provide transport there.
Human behavior is easily influenced by small changes. If this is news to you, I’m glad you are learning something new today.
And they’re people, if you’re going to go out of your way to dehumanize someone in a much harder situation than yourself don’t be surprised if they act like your assumptions and cause trouble. I’m not saying it’s right but a lot of those people have nothing to lose.
And we have peace, normalacy and good use of tax dollars if they're gone.
Even if we didn’t have homeless people our problems wouldn’t disappear overnight.
If we didn't have homeless people, that'd be one problem solved... which is better than zero problems solved.
Probably the fixation on using money for drugs, food, or anything other than transpo costs
I think you missed the word “free”
In need of what exactly. Like of course theyre in need of literally everything but how do you tangibly give them X and what is X specifically. Im pretty sure america had an unusually high amount of mental health issues compared to europe. Some places in europe have extremely good care for homeless and mental health needs. They also have much higher taxes. So if youre cool with much higher taxes to pay for these people i guess thats somewhere to start?
Babe why are you upset at my comment when our leaders spent billions of dollars on homeless people with no steps for accountability ($24 billion with nothing to show for it) and shrieking that I want to raise taxes when * checks comments * I never brought up raising taxes.
Check your heart rate because people like you seem to have a kink for outrage at random people on the internet.
In need of cigs and a hot coffee and maybe a muffien or a crossaimt with cheese. A good blanket and an air matress and a pillow.
NIMBYs are actively engaged in driving up the cost of housing.
The social contract is broken with people long before they become homeless. The same is true of people who are on the spiraling path of self-medication, though that is a separate matter.
All of this is a consequence of the selfish and short-sighted choices that people who are in a position to make responsible decisions are making. Our tax structures are wildly regressive, especially where property is concerned. The dumb, restrictive zoning policies are driving up costs for nearly everyone, and reducing revenue for all critical social infrastructure.
This has been happening for decades.
Source: Was homeless in Los Angeles.
My buddy was a cop in ABQ, more than 20 years ago he said they did this there too.
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Why doesn't LA fill those busses and take them to Sacramento?
Why not Bakersfield or Lancaster?
Sac is where the politicians are
They do, folks are living right outside the border of Lancaster, law enforcement pushes them outside the border with verbal agreements to stay out
Up north, the busses go to Stockton, and then Stockton sends them to Modesto. Rinse and repeat.
Moving unhoused people from neighborhood to neighborhood is not a solution. This could be prevalent and LA City is getting the short end of the stick.
I don’t understand the shock. This has been happening for decades. I hardly saw homeless ppl growing up in Glendale. It’s unethical but here we are.
Yep OC does it all the time too.
Yup, I’ve seen Cerritos PD drop people off in Artesia for years now
Yep, a lot of cities in OC drop them off in Santa Ana.
Pretty much every big city on the Pacific does it except LA.
SF, Seattle, Portland, and Honolulu also have "homeless relocation assistance."
Back east, NYC has been doing it since the 80s. In one case NYC even flew a homeless guy to New Zealand.
Except LA?? Nah. LA been doing this for decades, wtf
We have DEFINITELY been doing this for decades, bussing ppl to SD, SF and Vegas.
I mean south park did a joke on it 15-20 years ago
Right next to matt's house
It’s always sunny had a quick joke about it too
Yep, and all of the homeless in LA get dropped off in skidrow. Cycle of human neglect is fucked.
That's why this is a federal problem.
Move them all to state facilities located in the desert:
Work / vocational camps;
Convalescent homes;
Mental hospitals;
Drug rehabs, and;
Prisons.
there's a word for this
^Real social welfare.
Come on it’s the exact same services and facilities that are taking up space in the city center just moved inland
Yes, enslave them🤦♂️
Treatment is enslavement?
If the poster I responded to had only suggested treatment, then my comment wouldn’t have been made.
Oh I'm sorry... i didn't realize that you selectively read, or can't understand certain words.
Move them all to state facilities located in the desert:
Work / vocational camps
Learning a life skill is a part of treatment
Convalescent homes;
That's right in the name (convalesce means to heal)
Mental hospital;
Again... hospital right in the name;
Drug rehabs,
Rehab is short for rehabilitation ... in this case from substance abuse
Prisons.
This is where criminals should be.
Yes, as a matter of fact I can pick and choose certain things from a post to critique.
Except you criticized the whole post. So, you still don't understand. It's ok, I broke it down for you in another post..
Blah blah blah have fun arguing with yourself.
Arguing? I'm merely pointing out glaring errors. An argument would require valid points to be made from both sides.
lol if any of these could reliably perform economically useful work then they could take care of themselves.
Give them busy work. Cheaper than 24 billion we've already spent with absolutely NOTHING to show for it.
You’d be surprised how many homeless people in Los Angeles are working poor, but of course that doesn’t fit your narrative.
Full time work that doesn't cover housing is not "reliably economically useful".
If can do same work elsewhere and have housing covered then relocate. If no such place exists then the "work" is not worth doing.
Gulags for the Homeless. Cool campaign slogan.
You want housing first, right? You want them to have shelter, access to clean food and water? You want them to have rehab if they want it? Mental health support if they need/want it?
Why not do all these things inland where land is cheap, there will be no NIMBYs that ao many love to complain about.
A lot cheaper than 278 units for $165 million. Hasn't the state already spent $24 billion? How many units could've already been built? How many services provided? How many people wouldn't be camped in tents shitting on the sidewalks of LA, if that 24 billion had been allocated this way?
Correct. Build a shelter out in the middle of the desert. Move them there.
This is the best solution and I hate that people take it to mean they’re going to be dropped off to bake in the desert with a tent and no ac. A shelter in the desert with modern amenities is paradise compared to the open air mess they live in now
How cruel of the Burbank to just dump him in LA. The real solution is to dump him somewhere else.
Cruel is leaving them to die in the city on the sidewalk
That's insane. Four out of five Americans live in cities, because that is where all the opportunities and useful things that human beings need are concentrated.
Oh..? How have those opportunities and things they need worked out for them so far?
It's where their jobs are, if they have one.
Around the world, a billion people live in informal tenure, usually in proximity to some form of employment or transportation.
We are talking about the homeless shitting on the sidewalk, right?
Everyone shits. Some do it out of both ends. Creating publicly accessible bathrooms isn't some feat in the richest country in the world.
The NIMBYs simply don't want their kids to have to see the negative consequences of their decisions in their own segregated neighborhoods.
Well they did spend 800 million on housing 1200 homeless people that they have refused to use. LA loves to complain about the problem but never seems to do anything.
Are you a bot acc
In OC, we have South OC dumping all the homeless into Santa Ana, Garden Grove, and Anaheim. So quite a common practice from well off cities
Why not dump them right back?
Having 88 cities in Los Angeles County was always a massive mistake.
The fact that we only have 15 city council members is an absurdly huge mistake.
The fact that one of those council members wants to shorten the amount of meetings from 3 times a week to 1 time a week is another huge mistake.
It wasn’t one. It was several proposing that.
How do we fix that mistake? Why don’t cities annex anymore
Why don’t cities annex anymore
Actual answer: water rights. LA City expanded dramatically in the early 20th century because it secured the water rights to the region and cities like Eagle Rock, Boyle Heights, San Pedro, and most of the Valley, became part of Los Angeles because otherwise they wouldn't have access to fresh water.
If you've seen the movie Chinatown, yeah basically that.
If anything the City of LA should be broken up into multiple cities, not more cities merging into LA.
And LA County should be broken up into multiple counties.
And tbh, CA should be broken up into multiple states. Plus it would screw us less in terms of US Senators.
Fuck, no.
FUCK, no.
Fontana mayor Acquanetta Warren, some asshole developer and the idiot Bill I-forget-his-last-name, mayor of Upland, spearheaded a drive to get San Bernardino County to secede from the state, last year.
Wasn't going to happen, but if it had? Hmmm.... suddenly I would be on the hook for billions to replace services we could no longer get from Sacramento... me and my roughly 2.3 million neighbors.
FUCK, no.
So instead of 20 cities demanding provisions from projects like the CAHSR we have 70 cities right? And then 70 plans for each city to adopt housing instead of 20 with each having their own schedule and town hall meetings?
There's literally no reason for small crazy small cities to exist other than its work and against inertia to merge them.
Absolutely not on the first one. Almost every urban area in the world around the size of LA has a larger city proper but is subdivided into boroughs/districts/wards/what have you. Somebody above LA absolutely needs to come in, end a lot of these waste-of-time suburbs and boroughfy a lot of the region.
No one wants to be apart of the shit hole that is LA city.
Calling LA a shit hole in a post about it’s leeches dropping off their homeless in our borders is funny
poster is an elon simp you can't expect much from them
Did it occur to you that the surrounding cities dump their homeless in the closest shithole
LA spent 800 million on 1200 Units for homeless people and isn’t using them. Keep dick riding, it’s clearly made LA a paradise.
Serious: question: hasn't the entire county been doing this for nearly 100 years and typically dropping people off at Skid Row? And didn't the city unofficially though tacitly allow Skid Row to be a congregation for the homeless?
Seems like maybe the only difference is Skid Row got too crowded to dump every homeless person there, and phones/social media got ubiquitous.
Don’t be surprised LAPD also dumps homeless people that destroy property, attack civilians, steal things, expose themselves to children and women, harass people, etc. If any of these things happens and you call the cops first of all they will show up like 2-3hrs later, they’ll act dumb or just drive by unless you flag them down, will act kind of dumb and tell you if you want this done you’re gonna have to show up to court in person and give testimony (to deter you from making a report I guess), and after you keep pushing them and 30 minutes of pointing at the exact person that did all these things, they will pick them up and drop them off somewhere like a mile or two away from where they picked them up.
I know this because I had this happen to me at work, I went trhough all of that, they supposedly took the guy in and two hours later the guy was back and assaulted an older woman and stole her purse.
LAPD is trash
Unfortunately you're describing the law as it is. Cops can't arrest someone for a misdemeanor crime with a few exceptions unless they see it themselves or have someone perform a citizens arrest.
Once they (you) arrest them physically if it is one of those listed misdemeanors, they have to write a ticket and release per DA Gascon's directive 20-07. Now they have a limited window where they can "move" the arrested person without kidnapping them. That person leaves with a promise to appear in court in the future.
In your case, that guy probably robbed that next person with LAPDs ticket in their pocket.
LAPD is literally following the law as it supposed to be, not as it should be.
Exactly, this is what voters wanted based on who they put into office, reforms, etc, so now we have to live with it. Vote smarter.
Where should these homeless people be taken. Or what should be done with them.
If they've done some of the weird things that the previous poster has stated then fucking charge a crime and jail them
Prison or rehab
Humane but compulsory treatment and rehabilitation... which we don't have.
We do actually but the city sucks lmao
The guy had a broken leg. He went to a hospital, and the hospital called the police.
Auschwitz obviously
There’s always weirdly violent people on Los Feliz blvd wielding shovels and shit. Not saying cops drop them there, but it always seemed suspicious they are conveniently on one stretch of road where otherwise nobody would be.
BPD is notorious for also making homeless people take the bus to skip town too.
I'm going to guess that this is going to blow up in L.A. City Council President Krekorian's face. There must be a reason they dropped him off in front of Krekorian's office.
According to Burbank PD, it's where the guy asked to be dropped off. They said the guy appeared to be sober and rational when they picked him up, although he was undressed.
In a response on June 7, the day the video was shared by Krekorian, the Burbank Police Department said officers responded to a call of a naked person sitting at a bus stop outside Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center. The man told officers he was unhoused and was taken to the hospital from the Sunland/Tujunga area. Police said the individual left the hospital on his own accord and declined medical services.
The department said officers offered to drive the man to wherever he desired and agreed to be taken to the Metro Red Line in North Hollywood.
"Along the way, the individual asked to be let out of the patrol vehicle to get coffee," the Burbank Police Department said in its statement. "The officers complied immediately with his request, pulled over, and let the individual out of the patrol vehicle in the 5200 block of Lankershim Boulevard."
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-homeless-man-burbank-police-north-hollywood/3443907/
What did the fire department do with him when they arrived?
I hope so. He’s so bad. Council is almost worse under him. Which is really saying something.
This is how red states "take personal responsibility" for their homeless, too.
Lets assume this individual was not at any point a Burbank resident. At what point is it incumbent for a city to pour resources at these individuals?
I know, i know he is a resident, just an unhoused resident.
Let's assume he is not a los Angeles resident. /S this type of thinking doesn't work.
Can you elaborate?
Edit
I’ll take the downvote as no
Brian Dennehy did it to Rambo in First Blood and that was like 40 years ago.
"We stopped along the way because he asked for some coffee" Holy shit. You can't make this up. What a blatant lie lol
LA wants to give him a free house and a license to be naked in public.
I thought this was common knowledge? I know and thought others did too that when the police clean homeless encampments they just round up the people and dump them somewhere else.
It's common knowledge but now there is irrefutable proof. My parents believe the police have best moral intentions and not state sponsored ones 🤦♀️ just sent this to my mom
i have the answer : unlawful police misconduct is standard operating procedure
What's even the remedy to this? What can we do? They just round up all of the homeless and send them someplace else?
Bro, no bullshit I was hiking recently (pre elections) in my east LA neighborhood and a guy handed my a pamphlet to vote for him. I stopped and it was this guy:
https://www.votenickschultz.com/
He was running for state assembly. I found it annoying and bold that he'd push a pamphlet into my hand so I called his bluff, stopped, took my earbuds out and started interviewing him basically. 'Ok why should I vote for you.'
He told me he was the mayor of burbank and that he had reduced the homelessness there significantly and he was running on homelessness as an issue.
guess we know how he did it
Good
I wonder how much homeless assistance could be paid for by the amount spent on two fully-costed police officers (salary + OT + benefits + pension + retirement benefits + equipment).
You should see how many homeless people LA is dumping in Lancaster, I just moved out here and haven't stopped seeing familiar faces in the streets
Disgusting, inhumane behavior by Burbank police.
the only thing new is how they continue to do it despite the bad press. in the past theyd have the decency to lie to us about it. now they dont care because nothing happens to them.
IDK, the article did seem full of lies "we were giving him a ride and he wanted to stop for coffee!"
This is the first time it's been caught on camera.
This stuff is often an official government program, not some hidden secret.
So whats the solution.
10000 percent not dumping homeless people in other cities to make yours appear “nicer”, that’s for sure. Could start with some using some of the endless vacant apartment buildings as housing, for one.
Or...
Build buildings out in the desert and take them there.
Why? There are countless empty apartments and homes in Los Angeles. Government can pay for it, landlords can still be happy and take their cut. Everyone wins.
No one wants them in their neighborhoods, landlords don't want to deal with the damage they'll cause... Middle of nowhere. Best option. Cheapest too.
There’s no reason to de-humanize them by throwing them in the desert away from everything else. Not every homeless person is a bad person or criminal, they deserve a chance to have food and shelter just like everyone else.
Awesome! Do Beverly Hills next!
i don't really understand the big deal with this incident. the homeless guy's destination was going to be the noho metro station regardless, so to say that "burbank pd dumped a homeless guy in LA" is kinda sensationalism when it was already confirmed that he was going to LA anyway. Noho is LA last time i checked. and the cops had no obligation to give this dude a ride but they did so anyway. it's not their fault he demanded to be let out to grab some coffee.
this is why pigs don't stop to help homeless people. because then you get media shitstorms like this.
Burbank: Cause you let us. Go on do something about it. I double dare you.
LA: Ok, but this is the last straw!!!!
This is not new or an isolated incident. It’s been common practice for police to dump homeless people from “good” neighboring cities into the city of San Bernardino. It’s not a solution but it happens every day
This has been happening for years
Terrible propaganda. Krekorian apologized for the mistake, because the man asked for a ride to LA.
Set the death penalty as punishment for illegal drug use and selling (like some Middle Eastern countries) and see how fast the problem gets solved.
I'd rather have the death penalty for people who make dumb comments
We can't even execute convicted murderers-with multiple murders, and you want them to execute druggies?
Same exact shit happens in San Francisco, and iirc the excuse always given by the surrounding departments are always either “when asked, San Francisco is where they request to be taken” or “San Francisco has more resources to help”.
I can guarantee it will be the same exact excuses given here