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. maybe even. looking. a smile. came saul was gone oh no next would really help me. through today the reason why i get up and go do what i do every day you know when i go to work for. 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 or

a ghetto where the unwashed wanted would be contained literally. for. that it would be easier. if you're 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. 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 generally check. the majority of people in this community. service our social security our g all and so that's the reason why we call this community a hole we could use what we can afford. you know we have to go to a community redevelopment agency in good moratoriums that stopped. conversion of low income housing units into condos in los. we lost a thousand units and 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. and economically 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 anyone 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 by 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 i mean only. twenty four thousand dollars a year to have some warm. supportive housing or more services. for the forty percent of your return true right. 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 security of street prosecutors history his fate is no longer we're. on the train. there they are what we're there someone with their. whole world can think yet they never know that.

every. little. girl read. this hears and 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 loaded just decide to see if you wear white t. shirt and shorts you could soon be there don't they are arguing so that's probable cause to be stopped which is. no where in the world in the neighborhood could you not stand in the street not still not great nowhere but downtown boston still in place to get the best. court is neighborhood still quite all there. are still a street off it but it could downtown off in black large brown you can still

thought well ok great can't street kid. the 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 center she cost the city of los angeles six million dollars in its first year alone. in the search for service 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 it was launched with a vengeance on september of two thousand and six and there was going after it there was really tartar by mayor of the overdose of chief bratton. as a comprehensive approach to skid row. there were going to be

two problems there was going to be of 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 him to 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 we're i'm going we need to really go where my grower you know take me and. 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 crime that every area of skin and when you see the drug dealing. like you need prostitution on the train on endless. right and the

responsibility never sponsibility to address and i stand behind the c c's in the city because. you think that the mayor was you know east in a way talked about safer cities you would think he was mother theresa. and instead of being the most fascist democrat and the most you know he's always allowed the fascists to take over his city administration of 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. rule of new schools here. where i. think we'll see while you like me and said this was the last time that many streets filled. police chief william bratton made his name cleaning up new york city with the controversial broken windows theory of crime wave action. say for sleaze how to

implement that same policy and he's telling. the same tactics that was shown and the broken windows theory in new york right where they say concept by you the same way he justified new york in the same way you plan on jennifer. california but consequences are really very devastating for hours of the people here especially people with disabilities the first year there were nine thousand arrests an area that has a photo or thirteen thousand people or twelve thousand citations issued for most for starters for littering or jaywalking someone who kept under the thirty dollars for their merits or a warrant for their arrest. and

call at business. insider brags for americans who feel insecure about their country in light of china's impressive achievements it may be reassuring to know that while the chinese would rather move to the united states or the stay at home yesterday chinese are getting green cards in record numbers do they love you for your freedom well not exactly for according to the headline china's wealthiest citizens are fleeing to the u.s. amid corruption crackdown yes you americans should feel so insecure because apparently america is the best place to flee if you are corrupt. creating these sustainable operations focused on making him and from what you are advocating. interests and so that is what you don't want has always been the case and have conscious businesses for hundreds of use without using the label. but i think what we're going to capitalism do was this notion that economists brought to

it which was the idea of profit maximizing. there's a certain you know when you're in the arctic you have feeling toward a world at your feet she looks like a fairly simple shit but really she's no simple little. room full of people able to have access to the nuclear icebreakers the real king here is that the polar bear and ice breakers come second not a single complex expedition to the arctic can be conducted with the russian nuclear powered fleet of ice breakers we undertake in a unique operation. the northern sea route rushes on to icebreakers.

an article at business insider brags for americans who feel insecure about their country in light of china's impressive achievements it may be reassuring to know that wealthy chinese would rather live to the united states and stay at home yes rich chinese are getting green cards in record numbers do they love you for your freedom well not exactly for according to the headline china's wealthiest citizens are fleeing to the u.s. amid corruption crackdown yes you americans should feel so insecure because apparently america is the best place to flee if you're corrupt.

you know everybody gives you jaywalking tickets this way to get to check you for all sorts of warrants as they now say every time you change trying to do something you get itchy walking stick right up the street here i've had guns put them ahead by the. finest several times for a smoke america medical marijuana they have to realize well as i got as marijuana and a marijuana pipe and i got the medical marijuana card they let you go but that's you have to sit there with your hairs on your head these guys are all shaky and they got their guns to your head you're on your knees with guns you had five six console get the 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 with white gloves whom they walked up to a camp and they took everybody go get out you know in the lifeboats up against the wall to the. six places inside the plane

more so we. can. put everything in three civil liberties or something that belong to people who live west of main street or east of alameda. beyond little tokyo or in the south park area there are no civil liberties 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 with some of these people stuff i went through up the street to the police kept line to clean it and i think those people stop in the street because they were going to clean that sidewalk. back and right up and that was all of blankets on people's hands and they've been. stolen they lost their blankets and.

there's a place just down the line of these surveys clean sidewalk and they were. skid row is full of contradictions. it can be violent. frightening. but it can also be a refuge. a place to go well. find acceptance. to be free. one of the first people that i met and there was robert. he became a soul mate lover he became my guide. have a dream of being married to my guy i want to walk down. without. you know that the leisure. that's one of my greatest. people to walk. some time when i was tied to the. grass just to get off the sidewalk because my

days homeless people to me. and let me beg you let me lay up and sleeping in your house and i have to get back. so i don't feel like doing something when i'm free to do things when i hope people don't know tonight you know can be called because you got a call to a photo of something. in real life. 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 people give my kid comes. over part fresh out this dumpster gotta love dumpster diving fire such stuff you know you forget you need these things you would never think about that you need you need the dish soap and. she wrote spray you know cooking oil and salt and pepper

and toilet paper and cleaning supplies and a broom and a mop this is my lovely walk of fame this got all my pictures my certificates of 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 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 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 were cool but all the tickets and this one has a picture of my dad as that is 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 in my cable of my favorite years of our kind of hike she's my youngest our cats two or three this is that because he condos this is the man. and over here would be to guest house you know i was from skid row with this tent

was on skid row 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. pop pipes over here i would rather have a couch. and a chair and all that but then i have to sleep on the couch constantly and there i think 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 symbol of what i was what i could be and what i could have been and what i was this is. my house inside my house which is the best house in the world. it's not about what i did. is what the hell i. live and. i'm still trying to become the best and i still can it doesn't matter. what age they reached 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 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 . i know that. 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 a lot sicker than the. 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 it's all i did all my life which is talk. to see maybe the web person wasn't listening if skid row is a step away from the pits of pale. not inhale because that one little step makes

a damn big difference because it's helped as i have been like. that was. a really. good caring for our. welfare going on carol. lee and this is a part of my life because she's a very special person she's very special and dear mom hard ok when you come into my humble abode liers pitches on wall. crack. mayor more for his courtesy to go who is a little. i will leave is this golden hour is really what i think about it all the time for sure probably over me. marry me now fogarty for a person. in

the past to become rich. our. maybe sixty acres a subject as you care our own house catches me she can have it all the trash. they'd ever be fenced off from harry by you know for a foreigner move or go bombing the. collective. stores or so she could store food for the garbus. because that makes her happy and continue to be makes me contain what i see she had. me this and. followed by. live to of us do here. very. bush through. here.

me a year. with. no. jenny harrison 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. linda is singing with a gospel band she remains hopeful about her health and plans one day to marry a rather. gentle doak on continues to advocate for the

homeless through his community work with l.a. can. detroit finally got her own apartment in a building with poor services. she's still a member of where. lana 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. and another man named tommy ace wishart and child inside a skid row residential hotel. he was forty nine years old. will.

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i. play. is obviously more for the ladies because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rape they really needed to buy guns environ how to use them i'm. sure this is the one that i want to go with them once again it's the field for women definitely a target of the gun lobby and you don't kill them not want to kill anybody but if somebody would you would just prefer. i know to say more and more if that's really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to own guns to protect their family and young girls shoot out here too so we do have a pink or. more kids young kids choke on food than are killed by firearms if

being armed made us safer in america we should be the safest nation on earth were clearly not the safest.

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