so one day to bicycle security goes from the biggest improvement different color suburbia shirts had this woman twisted her home up in the air right there and there was about to break the woman on so i say what are you doing man this little woman could go arm goes you crazy because i got shot a pick she got by i say so you go to break girl because you got a pipe and i am so the lady was dramatic i know my back i don't know why because i don't use eyeliner right so she tried to run she mobile up her head to learn to go i see my letter goes with a little girl and she opened up her hand it was a night light or so i told us of 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 i talked 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 were going to his or my job is to is to keep

trying to wake up the messes you know and keep you know exploited you know standing with the system is doing. it right now more 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 here and i'm now sperms always energy basically trying to order from the rights of other folks down here. 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 policy makers 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. that he was a career criminal and now he's on. a postage stamp. base. maybe

even. look. a smile. came from saul was gone oh no no us would really help me. far go to every post my food today the reason why i get up and go do what i do every day you know when i go to work really but oh yeah that's me. as first responders to emergency calls the skid row fire station. 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 to. keep people. here one of the other important things to understand about skid row 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 in the area would 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. the majority of people in this community is you

know and so is our social security our g.r. and so their stories why don't we call this community a whole we don't just what we can afford. you know we have to go to a community redevelopment agency in good moratoriums that stop the. conversion of low 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 to. which new people come in and they have higher income levels and then economically the older people are forced to leave. and all these uptown or some 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 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 and 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 me under. sixteen to twenty four thousand dollars a year to have someone. supportive housing hours or more services. for eighty five percent of your return true or. their computers anywhere from forty to one hundred thousand dollars a year people through your words. star trails the court system. this

is the famous security of street prosecutors history fame it's no longer where you . train. they are where they're somehow well aware. that. your whole world can form a way that. every

. bit of. this year's reasonable things that they do down here they harass people. over and they'll stop the same person maybe all five times in one day and this goes on all day no they just decide to see if you wear white t. shirt and shorts you could soon be though don't they are arguing so that's probable cause to be stopped which is. nowhere in the world in the neighborhood could you not stand in the street not still not play nowhere but downtown los is the only place to get the bit. that you keep for his neighborhood still crying all day. just in the street all day but come downtown austin black large brown you can still say i will kill you no break can't cross street kid is 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. a safer city soonish it cost the city of los angeles six million dollars in its first year alone. police 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 of the ever 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. 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 to really go where my grower you know terry community. so there were to our garage you see here i can stand here i can lay here so you know where you are go when you look at the climate every year your skin when you see the drug dealing. in real life you need prostitution on the train on unless we have every right and every responsibility governor sponsibility to address and i stand behind you see.

nice to see people leave. the field and. you think that the mayor was just you know east new way talked about safer cities you would think he was mother teresa. instead of being the most fascist democrat and the most that 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 this damn city and i don't even know why we have a mayor. you fools. while you me and said this was the last time maybe three. police chief william bratton made his name cleaning up new york city with the controversial broken windows theory of crime reduction. safer cities how to implement the same policy in his home town. the same tactics it was jones 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 the first year there were. arrests near an area of the tour where thirteen thousand people or twelve thousand citations issued for most forest fires were littering or jaywalked or someone who under the thirty or far. away of a warrant for their arrest. will lead to the truth least show thirty five can just spend over fifteen billion euros on culture that says to be one hundred fifty million degrees with the unspoken must

still to sell something peacefully to friends we travel in such as the sun. knowledge we've got the future coverage. interview. syria's last chance as the dates for the geneva conference are being arranged the assad regime may sit across from an empty chair syria's rebel oppositions on the

ground are hopelessly divided the syrian political opposition in exile is divorced from the brutality on the battlefield so what can geneva two point zero hope to achieve. this is the media leave us so we leave that maybe. by the same motion suit your. party there's a. clear shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from . politic only on our team. the pledge was terrible to say the i'm very hard to take out a letter to get along here is a plot that never had sex with others make their lives let's have a little.

listen to this little i'm . listening. every gives jaywalker tickets this way to get to check you for all sorts of warrants as they say every time a chance to 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 guns on your door look like i got some place to hide a weapon. i remember just the sight of pretty routine officers walking down the street why. they walked up to a camera. everybody you know you know and they lined up against a wall to they threw coffee on our street. six policemen said that the plain sight more so when i can just tell him that everything in the street civil liberties are 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 on the street because the police kept blind he went 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 right up and that was all of blankets over people's heads and they'd been killed in my fishing means stolen they lost and blankets and i don't know what else has a place to stand there line i mean said is going to clean the sidewalk and they were. skid row is full of contradictions. it can be filing chaotic frightening. but it can also be a refuge. a place to get well. defined acceptance. to be free. one of the first people that i met and that was robert. he

became my soul mates lover he became my guy. has a dream of being married to my guy i want to walk down the album when he was sound without. you know that the knees issue and yes one of my grays three. people pull the sidewalk and take the. feeder next to me to shoot some time when i was twenty two days rest just to get off the sidewalk because my days homeless people to me. and leave me babies and let me lay up to sleep in their house and i have to get back. so i had to fill up to have some time when i first do things when i hope people don't know tonight you know could be called because you got a call to a photo album so. in a real way. now i'm on skid

row more terrible place it's insane and i got my section eight i'm off the street i'm sober and i made comply or. if i took a country. part fresh out the door got a lot of. fire such stuff you know you forget things you would never think about that you need you need the dish soap and. throat spray cooking oil with salt and toilet paper and cleaning supplies in a broom and this is my walking. this got all my pictures my certificate to completion this one here was a star for get from the class foundation this is a thirty day primary detox this one here i have to say i'm changed gendered which was a tough one to get and this was and i was very completion for homeless court i got on total like one hundred fifty tickets and what i had to do is 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 were cool but all the tickets and this one has a picture of my dad as 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 right turn i had a little picture of my cable there my baby when she was a girl tiny little tyke tells me she's my youngest are tax proud 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 want to 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 at your i feel like not a 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 than any 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 just my house inside my house which is the best house in the world my home alone oh it's not about what i did when it is what the hell until he . left and i. am 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 beginning. 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 work i know that. there is illness growing. going to boil over at this point i'm going to

realize. i'm scared to death to find out really that a lot sicker than that. well that's 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 wasn't listening if skid row is a step away from the pits of hale thank god i'm not in here because that one little step makes a damn big difference because this help is something i've been. i . really. caring for now. if they're going on camera. is a part of my life she's a very special person she's very special and dear my heart ok when you come into my

home. pitches and wal. mart more for his chorus you to go who is a little. your business. and we're. really more i think about the long time. for person. to become rich. maybe on sixty acres a subject i should care our own house cats this mean he she can have it all and share she more. they'd ever be fenced off from everybody you know for a foreigner move there go bombing the. collective. stores do so she

just stored food for the corvus. because that makes her head being continually makes me contain what i see she had. g.'s of me this. is due to. very big bird. year. me year. to. danny harris's 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 doak on continues to advocate for the homeless through his community work with ellie can. detroit finally got her own apartment with supportive services. she's still a member of where. land 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.k. and another man named tommy case are shot and killed inside a skid row residential hotel. k.k. was forty nine years old.

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searched through the internet typing things like i'm looking for you i'm waiting for you before i wrote and waiting for you i'm looking for you i didn't care at all what this man would be a lie deprived disable it will. do you know you want. the battery is thrown out. i love everything about him i have come to love every hair every one of his fingertips can actually be healthy years and. 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. deliberate torch is on its epic journey to such. a one hundred twenty three

days. through two films from my mother tongue to the cities of russia. relayed by georgians asking people for sixty five thousand kilometers. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. olympic torch relay. on r t r two dot com. one of the new cultural phenomena was the polish face i just hope you. pleasure to have you with us here on our to today i'm researcher.

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