this all of that when i get out i would give back all the wrong that i've been doing as a gang member and grown up in my life right so when i got out the first thing i did was i came back to ski a role. so one day to bicycle security guards from the biggest improvement different color suburban shirts had just one twisted home up in the air and they was about to break the woman on so i say what are you doing man this little woman cohen boys you crazy because like a shot a picture got by i say so you go break girl because you got a pipe and i am so the lady was dramatic i know my mind i know my line is i lied right so she tried to run she moment of her head to learn to go i see my letter goes with a little girl and she opened up her hand it was a nice lighter so i told myself when i was a horse in medicine that we don't 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 able to talk to one of my friends and he told me mayo you need to go

to l.a. can they do that kind of stuff. and so from him witnessing an injustice a day later he's. gone through leadership development classes and now three years later he's our lead human rights we're going to answer my job is to is to keep trying to wake up the mess you know and keep you know exploited you know standing 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 as the reason i admire so many people. he's really somebody who grew up on here and i'm now sperms are always energy basic we're trying to from the rights of other folks to their. general did nine years in the state been six of those nine years were done in solitary confinement. is the individual that if you listen to the policy makers. to

people with money and power there's no rehabilitating. you know he's a career criminal. i guess you would have said the same thing about malcolm. x. he was a career criminal and now he's on a postage stamp. basic you. can't even. look at. a smile. i came from always going on now and that's what really helped me. through today the reason why i get up and go do what i do every day you know when i go work for. the. first responders to emergency calls the skid row.

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. on washington one it would be contained literally. for. 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 is 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. is principally in danger to 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 in the area would have no where to go who in the private or the public sector builds housing for a single adult whose total income is a two hundred twenty three dollars generally check. the majority of people this can really be zero and service our social security by g. all their stories and we call this community a whole because what we can afford. to do we have to go to the community redevelopment agency is a good moratoriums that stuff to do immediate conversion of low income housing units into condos and lowe's. 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. which new people who come in and they have higher income. and the economic gloom the older people were forced

to leave. you know all these up towners who 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 any one would say if you've got to be crazy why would you save skid row what is the possible value of saving a skid row if you think about it if thousands of people on main street lose their house and 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 brand 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 nearly . twenty four thousand dollars a year or more and the support of the. and housing with the services that help them

stay in that house i thought maybe five percent of your potential rate. but compares to anywhere from forty five thousand to one hundred thousand dollars a year to run people through the emergency room the trails the court system and so on. this is the famous and julian street prosecutor's history fame is no longer where you. think back on the train line. they are what we're there someone with their. whole world can think yeah they never knew that.

everything needed to feel. her. this years and reasonable things that they do down here they harass people. topple over and they'll stop the same person maybe a five times in one day and this goes on all day loaded just decide to see if you were a white t. shirt and shorts you could soon be there don't they are arguing so that probable cause to be stopped which is. no where in the world is a neighbor who could not stand the street not to know not to play no where but don't tell us it's the only place to get the bit. that you keep. or is neighborhood

still quite all that. distant street off it but it could be downtown often black or brown you can still thought well ok great can't. keep. this a plantation. for years officials turned a blind eye to skip around in two thousand and six the chaos finally caught the city's attention fifteen new police officers were deployed to an area less than one square mile in size. the safer city soonish it cost the city of los angeles six million dollars in its first year alone. please say for surveys initiative there was launched in 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 in september of two thousand and six and there was an effort there was really chartered by mayor ever goes for chief bratton knows

a comprehensive approach to skid row. there were going to be two projects 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 into the your services side to come in so hard with the enforcement without having the the enhancement piece 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 i'm going we need to really go where my grower you know terry community. so there were two are going to sit here i can't stand here i can lay here so you know where you are go when you look. behind every year your skin crawl. when you see the drug.

the sunni the prostitution and the prey not endless we have every right and every responsibility givers sponsibility to address and i stand behind you see police in the city because. you would think that the mayor was in you know east norway talked about safer cities you would think he was mother teresa. instead of being the most fascist democrat and the most the you know he's always allowed the fascists to take over his city administration the manhattan institute and as far as i'm concerned up from my perspective chief bratton runs his stand city and i don't know why we have a mayor. rule of new schools you. see while you do like me and said this was the last time maybe three full.

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 helped him implement the same policy and he's seen. the same tactics that was shown and the broken windows theory in new york right when i say concept by you the same way he justified new york in the same way you plan on jennifer. california but consequences are really devastating for hours of the people here especially people with disabilities in the first year there were zero zero arrests an area that has about twelve or thirteen thousand people or twelve thousand citations issued or most for starters where literary or care workers someone who under the thirty or five americans who have a warrant for their arrest. at

one time i saved money to hire a hitman to shoot me dead from the next building or through the open window. i searched 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. you know you want. the battery is thrown out. i love everything about him i have come to love every here everyone just fingertips can actually be healthy years and other guys who 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.

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every gives jaywalking tickets this way to get to check if. she ever time to change try to do something to get a jaywalking right up the street here i've had guns put them ahead by our finest several times for. medical marijuana that i realized i got as marijuana and a marijuana pipe and i got the medical marijuana card to let you go but that's after you sit there with your hairs on your head these guys are all shaky and they've got their guns to your head you're on your knees with guns you had five six guns on your door look like i got some place to hide a weapon. i remember just the sight of the rudy officers walking down the street why. they walked up to a camera. everybody go get out you know in the line folds up against the wall to they threw coffee on our street. six policemen said that the plain sight more

telling thing i can. tell it but everything in the street civil liberties or something that belong 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 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 we go places but some of these people stuff i went through a whole bunch of stuff in the street because the police kept blinding me to and i'm going to clean it and i think those people stuff in the street kill a we're going to clean that sidewalk i thought linking it back and get right up and that was all of blankets over people's heads and they'd been killed in my fishing means stolen they lost their blankets and i don't tell what helps is a place to stand there line i mean said is going to clean sidewalk and they were.

skid row is full of contradictions. it can be violent chaotic 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 a lamp was robert. he came as soul mates lover he became my guide. has a dream of being married to my guy i want to walk down. on without. you know that the need is sure that's one of my greatest strengths i'll take people off the sidewalk and take my. feet extra shooting sometime when i started trying to. rest just get off the sidewalk because my days

homeless people to me. and leave me bury it let me lay up to sleep in their house. so i do feel up to have some time with i'm free to do both things when i hope people don't know tonight you know can be called because you got a call to a photo of something. real right. now i'm not on skid row anymore or caramel place it's insane and i got my section eight i'm off the street i'm sober and i made compliant to get my teeth comes the. part fresh out the dumpster gotta love don't dive there are such good stuff you know you forget you need these things you would never think about that you need you need the dish soap and you just wrote spray you know cooking oil and salt and pepper and toilet paper and cleaning supplies and a broom and

a hot this is my lovely walk of fame this got all my pictures my certificate to 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'm transgendered which was a tough one to get and this was and i was very completion for whom was caught i got total like one hundred fifty tickets and what i had to do was go and check myself and to get at least to me this by getting into a program so for as long as i was in a program the courts a clue. as a picture of my dad and my step mom i like the view of the ocean and hotel but i don't really like their faces so i just kind of stuck a typewriter i had a little picture in my carry it on my baby when she was a role trying to write she's my youngest are that's found with two or three this is that because you 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 come and tell me to pack up my tent because can't check to see if i got a pop i've been there be like no pop pipes over here i would rather have a couch and i had it in a chair don't have a ten 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 large 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 a smart house inside my house which is the best house in the world my home below zero it's not about what i did whatever it is what the hell i'm delayed. and. i'm still trying to become the best mom and i still can it doesn't matter. what age they breached you know i'm still their mother now the toughest job that i have now is take care of me. i can't come

full circle because i never. had a full circle in the beginning. i want to keep getting better and i want to do things so i'm getting therapy is the first time in my life that there will be does blood i know that deep down inside there is an illness growing. boiled over at this point i don't even realize it but i'm scared to death to find out really that. a lot sicker than that. all that scary people 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 web person was a listening if skid row is a step away from the pits of hale and thank god i'm not in here because that one

little step makes a damn big difference because this help this i have been my. mother i'm. a really. good caring for know if they're going on camera. is a part of my life were she's a very special person she's very special and dear mom part ok when you come into my home abode liers pictures on the wall. might more for his coalition to go who is a little. your business. and we're living as a scone now recently the more i think about it all the time. for a person. in

the past to become rich. maybe sixty acres and something i should care our own house ketches mean he she can have it all the trash she. there never be fenced off from everybody in the fruit farm. and be. coming back to the. store just so she could store. a garbage. because that makes her happy it's interiorly makes me continue what i see she have. of me this. follow. us through here. very. birth. year.

me year. danny harris is maintaining a surprise he began on skid row today he's 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 he. is singing with a gospel band she remains hopeful about her health and plans one day to marry and rather. gentle doak on continues to advocate for the homeless through his community work with ellie can.

detroit finally got her own apartment until things supportive services. she still a member of land. land was homeless for twenty four years in two thousand and eight she moved into lamp large she continues to feed the cats and birds of skip around every night. early on easter. morning two thousand and nine. k.k.k. and another man named tommy chase were shot and killed inside a skid row residential hotel. k.k. was forty nine years old.

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