you have to go to state prison so they say as soon as me to an eighteen year state prison. when i was doing my time in prison i became really more radical i was like oh the revolutionary stuff before i got out you know i i promised all brothers 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 so when i got out the first thing i did was i came back to steal a role. so one day to bicycle security guards from the business improvement district called a suburban shirts had just one twisted home up in the air and there 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 go break girl because you got a pipe and i am so the lady was dramatic i know my back i know my line is i lied right so she tried to run she mobile up her head to learn to go see my letter go so

they let it go and she opened up her hand it was a nice lighter so i told myself when i was a homeless in medicine that we don't but it's preferred 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 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. going 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 messes 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 of us will stay on the toast of 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 are always.

did nine years. six years 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. a smile. 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 you but yeah that's me. as first responders to emergency calls the skid row fires. 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. 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. 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. 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'd build them out in the desert so it's not with skid row as skid row is principally a 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 built housing for a single adult whose total income is a two hundred twenty three dollars generally check. the majority of people this community. service our social security our g all their stories and we call this community a hole we don't use what we can afford. you know we have to go to the community to redevelop me there you can see it good moratoriums that stuff. conversion of 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. which new people who come in and they have higher incomes. and the. older people were 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 to 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 living 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 loss in the area the city could convert that into housing i mean he crossed about sixteen to twenty four thousand dollars a year to have someone you know supportive housing and housing with the services that help them stay in that house or 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 for trails the court system and so on. this is a famous and truly a street prosecutor's dream is fine because you know. we're. in the back of the train family having to get there they are what we're there someone with their. whole world can think yet they never knew that.

everything needed to feel for. her. this here is a reasonable thing that they do down here they're harassed people. topple over and they'll stop for a person maybe or five times in one day and this goes on all day loaded just decided if you were a white t. shirt and shorts you could soon be the adult the arm. arcuri so that probable cause

to be stopped which is. nowhere in the world in the name we could not stand a street not five off not great nowhere but downtown boston the only place to get to this. picture peace corps is neighborhood still quiet all day. just did a street all day but it could be downtown off in black large brown you can still sidewalk can still break can't close street kid. it's 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 in the. police say for cities 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 on september of two thousand and six and there was an effort that was really targeted by mayor ever goes chief bratton knows a comprehensive approach to scarborough. where we're going to be to promise there was going to be of a serious crackdown on what was called serious crime in 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. really put zero dollars into the services side to come in so hard with the enforcement without having the the enhancement piece giving 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 hold. where we're going we need to really go

where my grammar you know take me home. so no word or are going to sit here i can't stand here i can lay here so you know where you are go when you look at the crime they are in their skin when you see the drug. he likes to do the prostitution and the prey not unless we have every right and every responsibility governor sponsibility to address and i stand behind these safe seats in the city because i believe. if. you think that the mayor was in you know east in a way talked about safer cities you would think he was mother teresa. instead of being the most fascist democrat and the most 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

a stand sitting here and i don't know why we have a mayor. rule of new schools here. for the poor. quality of life and said this was the last time that many or three phil. police chief william bratton made his name cleaning up new york city with the controversial broken windows theory of crime reduction. safer sees how to implement that same policy and he's seen. the same tactics that was shown and the broken windows theory in new york right where they say concept by you the same way 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 you know an area that has about twelve or thirteen thousand. people. issue most

forthright word literary. thirty or for. a warrant for arrest. wealthy british style the stock. market. is going to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred global financial headlines tune into the report. and it's not enough just to say 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 had 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. with. some of. the concerns to. choose the opinions that you think. choose to stories could impact who might

choose. to. every gives jaywalker tickets this way to get the check you. see every time a change try to do something to get a jaywalker 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 go get out you know in the line up against a wall to they threw coffee on our street. six policemen said that the plain sight

more telling than anything i can. tell it but 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 in the street because the police kept blinding me to and i'm going to clean it and i think those people stop 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 and blankets and i don't tell what helps those in places down their 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. find acceptance. to be free. one of the first people that i met and that was robert. he became my soul mates he came a 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 that's one of my greatest strength i take people to sidewalk and take a moment to bury the. feed next to a shooting some time when i started trying to. rest just get off the sidewalk

because my days homeless people to me. and leave me babies and let me lay up and sleep and eat in their house and i have to give back. so hard 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 koto a photo of. bob in a real way. now i'm not on skid row more or 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 take a country. over part fresh out the stuff that i don't love there are certain 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 and a broom and this is my walking. this got all my pictures my certificate to completion this one there was a star for get from the class foundation there's 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 through completion for homeless court i got 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 are cool but all the tickets and this one has a picture of my dad as state and as my step mom i like to feel the ocean and i would tell but i don't really like their faces so i just kind of stuck a typewriter i had a little picture of my cable that in my baby when she was a role kind of that's right how she's my youngest are tax proudly 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 at your i feel like no pop pipes over here i would rather have a couch and i had it in a chair i don't have a ten i have to sleep on the couch constantly and there i think this is just fits me more you know to me 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 inside my house which is the best house in the world my home below zero so it's not about what i did when it is what the hell until he. let me 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 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. 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 that a lot sicker than that. well that's 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 web 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 damn big difference because this help this i have been. a we've. been hearing it here for now. they're going on camera. is a part of my life were she's a very special person she's very. smart ok when you come into my home. pitches room wall. more for his coalition to go who's a little. business. i don't really. think about their long time. for person.

to become rich. maybe i'm sixty acres and some think i should care our own house cats mean he she can have it all to trash she will. they will be fenced off from everybody and never a foreigner move and go about indeed and collect in. stores is so she could store. garbus. it continually makes me continue with r.c.c. have. jesus loves me this. follow. us do here. very. birth.

year. me year. 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 he. 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 l.a. 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. were shot and killed inside a skid row residential hotel. he was forty nine years old.

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what this man would be like deprived disabled. with you know you want the battery is ruined. i love everything about him i have grown to love every here everyone just fingertips him actually be healthier than 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. of. course outside to active camps. where patients are forced that this comes after a mouse or strike the world's attention to the place that some. of our rights.

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