Los Angeles, CA. Are Skid Row street vagrants merely homeless or are they criminal drug addicts who choose to live lawlessly on the streets? The FULL DISCLOSURE NETWORK® presents a nine minute video preview from a two-part series covering the on-going debate over how to deal with the residents of the infamous Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles. At the center of the debate is whether or not the LAPD's "Safer Cities Initiative" has been successful or is an improper use of public resources when dealing with vagrants living on the streets.
The series features prominent national and local authorities who hold strongly differing opinions many of whom participated a January 2008 Forum entitled "Policing Skid Row" sponsored by the New York based Manhattan Institute and the Santa Monica based Milken Institute. Those experts appearing in the series are:
- William Bratton, Los Angeles Police Chief
- Hon. Edwin Meese III, former U.S. Attorney General & Chief of Staff to California Governor Ronald Reagan
- Torie Osborn, Sr. Advisor on Homeless to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
- James Q. Wilson, Ronald Reagan Chair, Pepperdine University
- George L. Kelling, Sr. Fellow Manhattan Institute & Prof. of Criminal Justice at Rutgers
- Estela Lopez, Executive Director, Central City East Association
- Heather Mac Donald, Manhattan Institute's John Olin Fellow
- Carol Wilkins, Director for Intergovernmental policy for Corporation for Supportive Housing
- Leroy Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff
- Prof. Mark Kleiman, UCLA School of Public Affairs
- Leslie Dutton, Host/Moderator
This Full Disclosure Network® on-going series is examining the various solutions proposed to deal with violent and non-violent street crimes, drugs and alcohol addiction and mental illness among the vagrant population. These programs are featured on 45 cable systems (channel listings here) with the previews available on the Internet FREE from the www.fulldisclosure.net home page. Full length show will be available to subscribers online.
Known as "the news behind the news" Full Disclosure Network® since 1992 and produced by host Leslie Dutton and Producer T. J. Johnston. In 2002 the Full Disclosure® special series "L. A.'s War Against Terrorism" was recognized by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a local Emmy Award for a public affairs, informational series. Channels and airtimes can be found on the website at www.fulldisclosure.net.
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vida clay texas
Posted: 11:02 pm [PST] on April 05 2008
medical health, i have worked in a hospital , i have seened a lot of patient's who have been forsed back on the streets, because it cost the state money, never mind that most of these patients can't make it on the street, these are human beings, not dogs that you are talking about.
if you feel that nothing is wrong with them except being on drugs and alchoal, then get them treatment, that would bring down on your crime and street people,
Clarette Trebelcock Huntington Beach, CA
Posted: 07:50 am [PST] on March 24 2008
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Phillip Lambro Los Angeles
Posted: 02:25 pm [PST] on March 22 2008
Well, Leslie; here we go again; however, Chief Bratton is absolutely correct; our entire city government is plagued by perpetuated babbling rhetoric and inactivity where these "Looney Tunes" leaders who are making in excess of $250,000 dollars a year, including Mayor Villaraigosa whose government can't even fix the main surface streets here in Los Angeles which he promised before he got elected by his overpopulating illegals, which ruins automobiles and costs individuals many hundreds of dollars every year in suspension repairs,while the Mayor is mired in pontificating 2,000 year old doctrines and outdated religious policies of having large overpopulating families, which have ultimately caused massive illegal evictions and not only homelessness in skid-row, but elsewhere even in Beverly Hills! I have been semi-homeless since 15 September 2003, thanks to Wendy Greuel filing her fingernails like some 1789 French aristocrat laughing with Janice Hahn as my attorney was pleading my case against having me thrown out onto the street which thanks to her and her colleagues I was on 15 September 2003.
I have spoken with several rational African-American homeless indivduals who are not drunks or addicted to drugs, and they have told me that the overcrowded homeless shelters are not clean and living on the street is better than existing in these shelters. Wake-up Mayor Villaraigosa this is not the time of Jesus when if you had 11 children like your mother and father, you were lucky if two of them lived past 18; this is 2008 and your massive procreating illegals are contributing to homelessness; drug and gang violence; the bulging prison population; crowded freeways; more global warming and global diming; teen pregnancies; more crime; and rising density and apartment prices which even attorneys have told me they can't even afford. Wake up Los Angeles and California government; there are Limits To Growth as the MIT Global 3 Computer warned us 30 years ago. Chief Bratton is entirely correct and he is not the problem; the problem are all the overpopulating illegal immigrants who are making the United States Of America a Third World Country.
Jon Fischbach Hollywood
Posted: 11:08 pm [PST] on March 21 2008
Stop the inflow of drugs across our borders and go after the big drug cartels. No supply = No demand.