i got into my diction my addiction landed me in front of the judge he said because you're doing robberies he said you have to go to state prison so he says sinister mean to eighteen year state prison. when i was doing my time in prison i became really more radical i was like go on the revolutionary side before i got out you know i i promised all of that when i get out i would give back 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 steal a role. so one day to bicycle security guards from the business improvement district called suburbia shirts had this woman twisted her 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 goes you crazy because like i shot a pic 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 i know my line is i lied right so

she tried to run she moment of her head to learn to go i said my letter goes with a little girl and she opened up her hand it was a my lighter so i told myself when i was a homeless in medicine that we don't know but it's preferred i'm still the 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 an l.a. can go 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 exploit 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. the reason i admire so many people.

is really somebody who grew up here. from the rights of other folks here. did nine years in the state paying six of those nine 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. maybe even. looking. a smile.

came from saul was going on now and that's what really helped me. far did every possible future today the reason why i get up and go do what i do every day you know when i go work for you but oh yeah that's me. as first responders to emergency calls the skid row fire station has been busy as 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. where the unwashed wanted would be contained literally some of the. for humanitarian reasons that it would be easier to access services if there were in the same place and so on but also for. the people or for. the redevelopment that was. one of the other important things to understand. is. 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 you'd build them out in the desert says no it was skid row as skid row is principly 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 builds housing for a single adult whose total income is a two hundred twenty three dollars generally check. the majority of people in this community. service are social security argy all their stories and we call this community a whole we don't use what we can afford. you know we have to go to the community redevelopment agency moratoriums that stuff to do immediate 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 not housing. which new people come in and they have higher income. and the economic good old 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 anyone 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 house . 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 i mean he crossed about sixteen to twenty four thousand dollars a year to have someone. support of housing and housing with the services that help them stay in that house where he forty percent of your returns from right. like compares to anywhere from forty five thousand to one hundred thousand dollars a year people through the emergency room for trails the court system and so on. this is the famous soon to be a street prosecutor's dream is fine there's no. leno . the guy up in the tree behind me having to get there they are what

we're there so i was there. that i threw him a little can think if they never knew that. there were three knew who feel for a. bit of. this here is a reasonable thing that they do down here they're harassing people. topple over and they'll stop a person maybe a five times in one day. and this goes on all day loaded just clouded if you wear

a white t. shirt and shorts you're considered a good don't they are arguing so that probable cause to be stopped which is. nowhere in the world in the neighborhood could not stand the street enough to know five all the way no way but don't tell us if the only place to get to the bit. that you can court is neighborhood still quite all that. you just did a street all day but it could downtown off in black large brown you can still sidewalk little break can't close street kids just use 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 said the shooting cost the city of los angeles

six million dollars in its first year alone. please 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 in september of two thousand and six and there was an effort that was really targeted by where there were girls she's bred. as a comprehensive approach to skid row. there were going to be two problems there was going to be the 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 but zero dollars him to the services side to come in so hard with the enforcement without having the the enhancement. patients getting the services

that are necessary to make this album community it's kind of backwards if you make me get off the sidewalk where i'm going to homeless where i'm going with you till you go where my grower you know take me. so i know where there are drugs just sit here i can't stand here i can lay here so nowhere do i go when you look at the kind of her hair and skin and when you see that drug be. like you need prostitution and the preying on this we have every right and every responsibility giver sponsibility to address and i stand behind these safe cities in the city because. you would think that the mayor was you know east in the way talked about safer cities you would think it 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 city and i don't know why we have a mayor. grew up you fools you. see quality of life and ten minutes was the last night maybe three. 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 new town. the same tactics that was shown and the broken windows theory in new york right where they're saying concept by you the same way he justified new york in the same way you plan on jennifer california but that's when there's a really bad story for hours of the people here especially people with disabilities

in the first year there were nine thousand arrests in your area as a photo or thirteen thousand people or twelve thousand citations issued for most for starters. littering or jaywalking someone who under the thirty dollars far. away a warrant for their arrest. dramas the chance to be ignored to the. stories of others to the fuse to notice. the faces change the world writes never. so picture of today's leaves no politician from around the globe. dropped. to fifty. so they are in

foreign countries and their state polling company says they're nationalized companies who are buying into britain who is in the process of privatizing these assets they're making them available so foreigners just know so they've convinced britons they should sell the edges sell the energy companies sell the rail system trucks sell the education system sell everything so do all the pay the debt keep racking up the debt just keep selling all these assets to. the welfare states of other countries who will then use that to give their citizens a nice juicy enable income based on this recurring revenue stream forked over by these hapless brits. news today violence has once again flared up. and these are the images for world

has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. every gives jaywalker tickets this way to get the check you for all sorts of warrants says you know every time which is trying to do something to get a jaywalking ticket 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 if you sit there with your hairs on your head these guys are all shaky and you 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 ruthie officers walking down the street why. they walked up to

a camera and everybody will get out you know and they lined up against the wall to they threw coffee on the street. sixth place and said they're going to play the sidewalk so when i get my. soul and put 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 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 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 we can get back and get right up and that was all of blankets over people's heads and they'd been killed in my fish and mean stole and they lost their blankets and i no telling what else has a place just down the line i mean said is going to clean 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 a soulmates 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 billy's issue and that's one of my greatest means to take

people to sidewalk to take the. feeder next to a shooting some time when i started to do. rest just to get off the sidewalk because my days homeless people to me. and let me behave and let me lay up and sleep in their house and i have to do pat. saunders philip to have some time when i first do both things when i hope people don't know tonight you know could be called because you got a call to a photo of some. body in a real world. skid row a war or 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 your country. your part fresh out the stuff that got a lot of. fire so it's. you know you forget things you would never think about that

you need you need the dish soap and. strokes very cooking oil with salt and toilet paper a cleaner supplies and 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 one was and i was very completions for homeless court i got on total like one hundred fifty tickets and what i 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 would clue about all the tickets and this one has a picture of my dad and is my step mom i like to feel the ocean and i'll tell but i don't really like their faces so i just kind of stuck a target i had a little picture on my table that in my view when she was a gold tiny little tyke 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 why 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 you're feel like not a pop pipes over here i would rather have a couch and i added 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 inside my house which is the best house in the world my home alone oh it's not about what i did and what i've done 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 taking 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 hale thank god i'm not in here because that one little step makes a damn big difference because this help this i have been. i . believe. this sharing here for now. they're going on camera. is a part of my life were she's a very special person she's very. hard ok when you come into my home. pitches a wall. or you know more for his courtesy to go who's a little. your business. is really more i think about a long time. for

a person. to become rich. maybe on sixty acres a sunset i should care our own house catches me she can have it all to share she will. there ever be fenced off from mary by you know for a foreigner move there go bombing de. calais to. stores is so she can store food for the gardeners. because that makes her head being continually makes me contain what i see she have. jesus loves me this.

is due here. very. birth through. year. of me year. to. jenny harrison is maintaining a surprise he began on skid row today 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 ellie can. detroit finally got her own apartment building with support services. she's still a member of. land was homeless for twenty four years in two thousand and eight she moved into lamp larch she continues to feed the cats and birds of skipper out 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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at one time i saved money to hire a hitman to shoot me dead from the next building 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 be like deprived disabled will. i'll catch up with you know you won't. the battery is. a little everything about him i've grown 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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