you tried to run it for him to learn to go i see my letter goes they let it go if you want upper hand it was a night light or so i told us of. some that we don't but its purpose i'm still a general so i tell myself i 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 lead human rights work and 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 gen. 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 spends all his energy or clearly trying to

from the rights of other folks down here. did nine years in the state paying 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. that he was a career criminal and now he's on a postage stamp. date may second. and even. down on skid row out on the prowl. looking. 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 over. far. fewer today the reason why i get up and go do what i do every

day you know when i go to work for but. as first responders to emergency calls the skid row fire station is good busiest in 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 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 at 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 people 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 check. the majority of people. themselves are social security by g. all so. we call this community a hole because well we can afford it. you know we have to go to the community redevelopment agency moratoriums. lower income housing units into condos in los. we lost him. breyer

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 gesture for. which new people come in and they have higher income. and the economically the older people were forced to leave. and 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 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 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 for nearly . twenty four thousand dollars a year or more. supportive hauser. urgency for trails the court system. this is the famous security of street prosecutors history fame it's no longer we're. on the train. there they are we're there somewhere.

that. whole world can think war a war that. every kid who feels. this hears reasonable things that they do down here they harass people. 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 wear white t. shirt and shorts you could soon be though don't they are our gang members so that's

probable cause to be stopped which is. no where in the world is a neighbor who could not stand the street not still not great no where but don't tell us is the only place to get to vent. that you keep for his neighborhood still play all day. just in the street all day come downtown los is black are you brown you can still say i will kill you no break can cross the street kids to supply. taishan. 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. the safer cities 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 to out of by mayor of the overdose of chief bratton knows a comprehensive approach to skid row. where we're going to be to promise 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 our one of those things happened and the other one didn't. really put zero dollars into 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 i'm going to really go where my grower you know terry community. so there were there are drugs just say here i can't stand here i can lay here so you know where you are go when you look at the crime that every parent has skin and when you see that drug dealing. in life you need prostitution on the train on unless we have every right and every responsibility giver sponsibility to address and i stand before. you see cities in the city because i believe. you and. you think that the mayor was you know east in a way talked 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 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 stamp city and i don't know why we have a mayor that would rule you fools. to see. while you're like me and said this was the last time maybe three still. 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 and that's a concept by you the same way he justified new york in the same way you plan on jennifer. california but consequences are really bad devastating for lives of the people here especially people with disabilities in the first year there were. arrests in areas as

a photo or thirteen thousand people or twelve thousand citations issued for most forest fires that were littering or jaywalk there was someone who kept under the thirty or five americans who are a warrant for their arrest. dramas that can't be ignored two. stories others too. houston noted. the faces changing the world writes now. to pictures of today's leaves no longer on from around the globe and broke through. the lens.

of. the few. economic ups and downs in the final call a long day the longer the deal sang i and the rest because i was going to make it will be every week long named the of. the in. morning news today violence is once again flared up look these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are all today pledge maam. every gives jaywalker tickets this way to get the check you. see every time

a 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 hair's on your head these guys are all shaky they 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 camp near you and everybody go get out you know in a line folds up against a wall to they threw coffee on our street. sixth place and said that the plain sight more telling thing 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 i'm honored at all in the skid row area and outs 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'll 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 because they were 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 their blankets and on no telling what else is in place just 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 my lover he became my guy. has a dream of being married to my guy i want to walk down the album when he rests on without. you know that the knees issue and that's one of my greatest strength i take people to sidewalk and take. that i feed extra to shoot some time when i stay true to. rest just to 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 get back. so i do feel up to have some time when i.

do 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 way. now i'm not good road 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 took your country. your part fresh out the door gotta love. 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 cleaner supplies and a broom and a hot this is my walking. he's got all my pictures my certificates of completion

this one there was a stiffer gift 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 through 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 would clue about all the tickets and this one has a picture of my dad as stone and as my step mom i like to feel the ocean as a 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 cane but you know my baby when she was a gold tiny little tyke tells me she's my youngest are facts probably 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 be like not a pop pipes over here i would rather have a couch and i had 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 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 it's not about what i did whatever 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 he stay preached 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 be. i never. had a full circle begin. to keep getting better and i want to do things

so i'm going to 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 was a listen 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. was

. a really. good caring for now. they're going on camera. is a part of my life recurve she's a very special person she's very. hard ok when you come into my home. more for his coalition to go who is a little. business. i don't really. think about that on. the front door for her son. to become rich. maybe on

sixty acres a subject i should care our own house cats mean he she can have a lot of fresh. they would be fenced off for mary by you know for a foreigner to go bombing de. calais to. stores do so she just stored food for the corvus. because that makes her head being continually makes me contain what i see she have. jesus loves me this is. followed by. live to. us do him. very. good through. year. me year. no.

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. and 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. general doggone continues to advocate for the homeless through his community work with l.a. can't. detroit finally got her own apartment building with four of surfaces. she's still

a member of. leanne 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 chase was shot and killed inside a skid row residential hotel. he was forty nine years old. whole.

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assets they're making them available so foreigners just know so they've convinced britons they should sell the edges sell the energy company sell the rail system try out sell the education system sell everything sell 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. who at one time i saved money to hire a hitman to shoot me dead from the next building work 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. do you

know you want. the battery is thrown out. i love everything about him i have grown to love every hair everyone just fingertips to him 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. it was a. very hard to take a. look at that i had sex with that her hair.

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