patrick Tierney   Torrance

Posted: 02:49 pm [PST] on March 12 2009

Chief Bratton is right on, only he should include himself in the "Loony Tune" as Elmer Fudd to Villaraigosa's Bugs Bunny! He is a tool of Tony V. with his lackey cooperation in the Mayor's "sanctuary city" policy of restricting police officers from asking for proof of immigration. I'd wager the biggest amount of the violence mentioned in this video was brought on by illegal aliens.

Maureen   Ashland, MA

Posted: 05:33 am [PST] on December 06 2008

I think that Heather McDonald had it right by saying that this is not a housing problem it is a mental illness (a "head in the sand" issue which the population has a hard time saying and talking about never mind dealing with), and drug addiction (which is a by-product of mental illness). I believe that if you could bring back the institutions on a more caring level (police them for abuses) and then seperate out the severly mentally ill from the drug addicted, more mentally abled people, and treat them accordingly you could then provide them with the proper housing. This is a multi-facited very complex issue that is begging us to stop talking about it like we have been since the deinstitutionalization era and start ACTING in some fashion to resolve it.

Tom Romeo   Arizona

Posted: 03:56 pm [PST] on December 05 2008

Awesome, please send me more videos

tld   oc

Posted: 11:57 am [PST] on November 01 2008

The only reasonable and humane solution, not just for the vulnerable and helpless living on the street but also for the community, is to provide housing and treatment. This issue presents difficult problems that not enough people care about. Because it’s easier to let undesirables be killed, and thereby stop their drain on society? Wake-up!!
Alcohol and drug abuse are often a complication to mental illness. See e.g., The self-medication hypothesis of addictive disorders: focus on heroin and cocaine dependence, EJ Khantzian, American Journal of Psychiatry 1985 Nov;142(11):1259-64; and Violence and Severe Mental Illness: The Effects of Substance Abuse and Nonadherence to Medication, Marvin S. Swartz, M.D., Jeffrey W. Swanson, Ph.D., Virginia A. Hiday, Ph.D., Randy Borum, Psy.D., H. Ryan Wagner, Ph.D., and Barbara J. Burns, Ph.D., American Journal of Psychiatry 155:226-231, February 1998 [concluding: Alcohol or other drug abuse problems combined with poor adherence to medication may signal a higher risk of violent behavior among persons with severe mental illness. Reduction of such risk may require carefully targeted community interventions, including integrated mental health and substance abuse treatment].
Use of terror against certain categories of "undesirables" (first opponents, then the mentally and/or physically impaired, then …..) was purposively public and most citizens agreed with such policies. Decrees, legislation, police actions and the concentration camps were not meant to be hidden from the people, but in fact were extensively publicized. Denunciations derived from a variety of motivations personal grudges, economic self-interest, or ideological commitment with the full knowledge of what would happen to the victims. (Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany, Robert Gellatly, Oxford University Press, USA (May 16, 2002) [makes the startling claim that most Germans were aware of Nazi atrocities - though not necessarily the worst - and yet found them tolerable as a means to combat crime].)

Miguel Barraza   Oak Park(Sacramento)

Posted: 12:21 pm [PST] on October 27 2008

I was moving to Yuma,Az.I wanted to pass thru skid row, But get discouraged.So we decided to stay here.We have a little(Chickito) skidrow ourselves.I will continue to look into this problem during this era.

Rob H.   Los Angeles

Posted: 09:01 pm [PST] on June 11 2008

I think we must adopt the Chinese system of incarcerating in army-like rehabilitation camps the homeless mentally ill and drug and alcohol addicted. These people do need help, but comfy housing with "services" will not work. Western psychiatry and therapy have largely failed every sector they have treated. The Chinese do actually successfully rehab people who are in such dire circumstances. Chinese people are not bad just because they chose Marxism some years back. They needed that then, they are in the process of moving away from that now. Asian wisdom is generally superior to modern leftist ideas regarding personal conduct and recovery from difficult circumstances. For instance, while public schools in California adopted whole language over phonics in the 80's & 90's, and reading ability plummeted, Asian nations stayed with their version of phonics, and today the Singapore reading system is considered one of the best in the world. PS, I am not Asian.

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

I would like to learn more about program and employment opportunities. I am an Aerospace Project & Business Mgmt professional with MBA & 25+ years experience that would like to help.

Thank you for sharing!

Clare

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.