when i was doing my time in prison i became really more radical i was on the revolutionary side before i got out you know i i promised all of that when i get out i would give back for all the wrong that i've been doing as a gang member and growing up in my life right so when i got out the first thing i did was i came back to steal a role. so one day to bicycle security goes from the biggest improvement dish of color suburbia shirts had just one twisted home up in the air and it was about to break the woman on so i say what are you doing man this is little woman cohen boys you crazy because i got shot a picture got by i say so you will break girl but she got a pipe and i am so the lady was screaming i know i know i'm yours i lied right so she. let her go so they let it go and she opened up her hand it was a night light or so i told myself when i was

a homeless in medicine that we don't know but it's for sure i'm still a general so i tell myself i've got to go get me some soldiers while i'm you know walking around here to talk to one of my friends and he told me you need to go to l.a. can they do that. and so from him witnessing an injustice a day later he's. gone through leadership development classes and now three years later he's a lead human rights we're going to visit my job is to is to keep trying to wake up the messes you know and keep you know exploit you know stay with the system is doing. it right now my personal hero and i think all. the time general. and the reason i admire him so much is the reason i admire so many people . he's really somebody who grew up here and i'm now sperms always energy basically trying to from the rights of other folks to their. general did nine

years in the state been six of those nine years were in solitary confinement. is the individual that if you listen to the policymakers if you listen to people with money and wealth and power there's no rehabilitating. you know he's a career criminal i guess you would have said the same thing about malcolm malcolm x. he was a career criminal and now he's on a postage stamp. basically. and even. though i don't. look. good news or a smile. i saw a big picture saw what i came from saw was going on now and that's what really helped me open my eyes. today the reason why i get up and go do what i do every day you know when i go work for you but i have. as

first responders to emergency calls the skid row fire is going to north america. back in the mid seventy's the city made a policy that skid row would be a contained preserved area much like an indian reservation or a ghetto where the unwashed wanted would be contained literally. for humanitarian reasons that it would be easier. for. people. if you're one of the other important things to understand. is that it's not primarily a homeless population and people tend to think it is and it's really critical people understand that because if you think of skid row it's primarily a homeless population that's one set of issues with one set of solutions then you build large shelters and if you do it the way some people at city hall would like

it you would build them out in the desert that's not what skid row is skid row is principally endangered low income residential community in the fifty blocks of skid row there are sixty five what we call single room occupancy housing without this housing people and they have nowhere to go who in the private or the public sector for a single adult who's total income is a two hundred twenty three dollars check. the majority of people this community. service are social security and so. we call this community our whole we don't use what we can afford. you know we have to redevelop agency moratoriums. lower income housing units into condos in los. we lost a thousand units. in about three or four year period from about two thousand to two thousand and four. it took the city a long time to respond with

a moratorium on losing that housing gentrification the approach to which new people come and they have higher income levels and the economic gloom the older people were forced to leave. and all these uptown are still want to come and have their sort of disneyland manhattan experience they have other options to other communities they can go to but the poor skid row really have no other housing anywhere at all almost anyone would say if you've got to be crazy why would you save skid row what is the possible value of saving skid row if you think about it but if thousands of people on main street lose their housing that's thousands of people for whom the city will have to build a massive and costly shelter system and makes far more sense to preserve the housing the poor live in and let the poor continue to pay their own ramp so makes good economic sense not just good social and moral sense for the city to in fact preserve the housing that's in the skid row area. there are a lot of empty lost in the area the city could convert that into housing for me and

he. turned to twenty four thousand dollars a year to have someone. supportive housing them housing with the services that help them stay in that house or the four percent of your returns from where. their tempers were from forty four to one hundred thousand dollars a year people through an emergency room mr charles record stores. this is the famous manchuria street but if your dream is for you there's no. we're. really no. good guy up in the tree line having to get there they are what we're there so i want to share. that. i pray that your whole world can think if they never do that.

every who feel. this hears and reasonable things that they do down here there harass people they stop over and they'll stop think first and maybe zero five times in one day and this goes on all day loaded just cloudesley if you wear white t. shirt and shorts your could soon be good don't they are arguing so that probable cause to be stopped which is. no where in the world in the neighborhood could not

stand the street not still not great no more of a downtown austin sigg only place to get the best. picture cheap or is neighborhood still free all day. just in the street all day but it could downtown austin black large brown you can still sidewalk can still break can't close the street kids just use a plantation. for years officials turned a blind eye to skate around in two thousand and six the chaos finally caught the city said tension fifty new police officers were deployed to an area less than one square mile in size. the safer city center should cost the city of los angeles six million dollars in its first year alone. the safer surveys initiative that was launched on september two thousand and six a bill on the drawing board since two thousand and two it was originally called the

homeless reduction strategy that was launched with a vengeance and september of two thousand and six and there was an effort there was really town to buy mayor of the overdose of chief bratton. as a comprehensive approach to skid row. there were going to be two problems there was going to be a serious crackdown on what was called serious crime and skid row and then there was to be a big expansion of services. well one of those things happened and the other one didn't the city put zero dollars him to your services side to come in so hard with the enforcement without having the the enhancement pace getting the services that are necessary to make this how the community is kind of backwards if you make me get off the sidewalk where am i going to homeless where am i going to go where am i going you know take me home. so there were there are drugs you see here i can't

stand here i can lay here so you know where you are go when you look at the crime every area of skin and when you see the drug dealing. the life you need prostitution and the train on this we have every right and every responsibility giver sponsibility to address and i stand behind you see police in the city people leave on the. weekend and. you'd think that the mayor was just you know it's new way to talk about safer cities you would think it was mother teresa. instead of being the most fascist democrat and the most the you know he's always allowed the fascist to take over his city administration the manhattan institute and as far as i'm concerned up from my perspective. did she fret and run system city and i don't know why we have a mayor that would surely rule a resource you. could. see both

while you like me and said this was the last night meal on the streets filled. police chief william bratton made his name cleaning up new york city with the controversial broken windows theory of crime wave action. say for cities how to implement the same policy in his town. the same tactics that was use and a broken windows theory in new york right where necessary cause if i use the same way he justified new york in the same way you plan on jennifer. california but consequences are really bad devastating for hours of people here especially people with disabilities in the first year there were. arrests in your area as a photo or thirteen thousand people or twelve thousand citations issued for for most.

thirty or for. over a warrant for arrest. and it's not enough just to say well we'll have a free election and let the people decide because the history of syrian elections over the last five decades has been the. election hillary can you speak that because we had to say we had the secretary of state at the secretary of state does say hours ago that assad has no future in syria shouldn't think about reelection in two thousand and fourteen i mean who the hell was the secretary of state to say what who should be leading the syrian state and who should vote for whom there i mean again it looks like the americans are sabotaging this by determining outcomes before people even sit down and talk.

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every gives jaywalker tickets this way to get to check in. every time a change try to do something to get it right up the street here i've had guns put them i had bought of our finest several times for. medical marijuana that i realized i got a. pipe and i got the medical marijuana card. but that's you have to sit there with chairs and you had these guys are all shaky and they got their guns to. knees with guns you had five six. door looked like a place to hide a weapon. i remember just the sight of a pretty routine officers walking down the street why. they walked up to a camera and everybody go get out you know and they lie folds up against the wall to they threw coffee all out on the street. sixth place and settling the sidewalk

telling. me. to let everything in civil liberties or something that belonged to people who live west of main street or east of alameda and beyond little tokyo or in the south park area there are no civil liberties i'm honored at all in the skid row area and it's known by the city attorney's office it's known by the mayor it's known by everybody at city hall but nobody cares. we say with some of these people stuff i went through are oh my just up the street kill the police kept blindly meets and they're going to clean it and i threw those people stuff in the street because they were going to clean that sidewalk back and right up and that was our blankets over people's heads and they've been killing my fish and. they lost their blankets and i don't want to help. there's

a place just down the line i mean surveys go clean sidewalk and they were. skid row is full of contradictions. it can be filing. frightening. but it can also be a refuge. a place to get well. find acceptance. to be free. one of the first people that i met and there was robert. he became my soulmate my lover he became my guy. has a dream of being married to my guy i want to walk down our would really listen without. you know that their leisure. just one of my greatest take people off the sidewalk and take. extra shooting some time when the. rest just get off the sidewalk because my days homeless people to me

. and let me lay up and sleep and eat. and i have to get back. to. do things when i hope people don't know tonight you know could be called because you got a call to a. real word. more . it's insane and i got my section eight i'm off the street i'm sober and i'm a compliant keep on occupied kid comes. your part fresh out the dumpster gotta love dumpster diving and i find such good stuff you know you forget you need these things you would never think about that you need you need to dish soap and. she wrote spray you know cooking oil with salt and pepper and toilet paper and cleaning supplies and a broom and

a mop this is my lovely walk of fame he's got all my pictures my certificates of completion this one here is a star for get from the class foundation this is a thirty day primary detox this one here i have to say i'll change gendered which was a tough one to get and this was and i was through completion for homeless court i got total like one hundred fifty tickets and want to do is go and check myself and to get at least to me this by getting into a program so if as long as i was in a program the courts were cool but all the tickets and this one has a picture of my dad as that is my step mom i like to feel the ocean and hotel but i don't really like their faces so i just kind of stuck a tack i turned i had a little picture in my cable made a movie when she was of our tiny little tyke tells me she's my youngest are cracks probably two or three this is that because the condos this is the main house and over here would be to guest house you know i was from skid row with this tent was

on skid row with me and now it's in my living room and the cops can't comment tell me to pack up my tent because can't check to see if i got a pop i've been in here i feel like no pop pipes over here i would rather have a couch and end it in a chair and all that but then i have to sleep on the couch constantly and there i think this is just fits me more because i've been in a tent for so long so it's like i don't want to forget how i got here and like this is a constant symbol of what i was what i could be and what i could have been and what i was this is my house just my house. which is the best in the world. it's not about what i did. and i'm still trying to become the best and i still can it doesn't matter. what reached you know i'm still there. now the toughest job that i have now.

i can't come full circle because i never. had a full circle. to keep getting better and i want to do things so i'm going to therapy is the first time in my life that. i know that. there is illness growing. boiled over at this point i'm going to realize. i'm scared to death to find out really. well that scary people will always say you know what you know just go to therapy maybe talk to somebody and you hear that so much and you think it but who wants to just go and you know because that's all i did all my life was just how. to see maybe the person wasn't listening if skid row is a step away from the pits of pale thank god i'm not in here because that one little

step makes a big difference because this help this i have been. i . really. caring for. her and i don't care. she's a very special person she. humble abode speech is all on the wall. ok for you no more money or more for his chorus you to go who is a little boy your business. and we're livin is this golden hour is really what i think about all the time. you're probably already have me. marry me now five dollars for her sitting. here.

in the past to become rich. our grown up. maybe sixty acres and suntech she care our own house catches me she can have a lot of trash. they never be fenced off from harry by you know every foreigner move or go bombing the. collective. stores use a secure store. for the garbus. because that makes her happy continually makes me continue when i see she have. jesus loves me this. followed. them and then two of us do him. very. good through. year. b.

. the year. is. two. danny harris is maintaining a surprise he began on skid row today he is an assistant coach at iowa state university and he recently got married. bam-bam still lives in section eight housing. she recently reconnected with his daughter and is living with hiv. linda is singing with a gospel band she remains hopeful about her health and plans one day to marry rather. gentle although gone continues to advocate for the homeless

through his community work with l.a. can. detroit finally got her own apartment building with supportive services. she's still a member of where. lana was homeless for twenty four years in two thousand and eight she moved into her lap large she continues to feed the cats and birds of skip around every night. early on easter morning two thousand and nine. k.k. and another man named tommy ace are shot and killed inside a skid row residential hotel. he was forty nine years old. will.

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think. if. at one time i saved money to hire a hitman to shoot me dead from the next building or through the open window. i search through the internet typing things like i'm looking for you i'm waiting for you before i wrote i'm waiting for you i'm looking for you i didn't care at all what this man would feel like deprived disabled ill. i'll catch up with you know you want. the battery is right. i love everything about him i have grown to love every here every one of his fingertips can actually be healthier and other guys drink beer in a bench i've always promised that if she ever realizes it's too much for her and

she decides to leave me i will accept her decision without criticism because it's her choice. wealthy british style. market. really happening to the global economy with. global financial headlines.

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