because you're doing robberies he said you have to go to state prison so they say as soon as me to eighteen year state prison. when i was doing my time in prison i became really more radical i was 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 school a role. so one day to bicycle security goes from the biggest improvement different color suburbia shirts had just one twisted home up in the air and it 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 a shot pick she got by i say so you don't 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 lighter

right so she tried to run she mobile up her head to learn to go i see my letter going so they let it go and she opened up her hand it was a highlight or so i told us of when i was a homeless and then some that we don't 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 here to talk to one of my friends and he told me man 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 taking going through leadership development classes and now three years later he's our lead human rights work and as are my job is to is to keep trying to wake up the messes you know and keep you know exploiting you know standing with the system is doing. gen. the reason i admire him so much is the reason i admire so many people. he's really somebody who grew up here. from the rights of others.

here. did nine years and stay pain 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. x. he was a career criminal and now he's on a postage stamp. basically. maybe even. looking. a smile. came from always going on now and that's what really helped me. the far.

field today the reason why i get up and go do what i do every day you know when i go work for you but yes me. as first responders to emergency calls the skid row fire. 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. you people are. the root of all. of your 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 it you'd build them out in the desert says no it was 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 builds housing for a single adult whose total income is a two hundred twenty three dollars check. the majority of people this can really be zero and service our social security by g. all and so their stories while we call this community are whole we don't just what we can afford. you know we have to go to a community redevelopment agency is a good moratoriums there's stuff to do immediate 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. which new people who come in and they have higher income. and the economic gulu 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 skid row if you think about it if thousands of people on main street. there 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 lost in the area the city could convert that into housing for me and he crossed about sixteen to twenty four thousand dollars a year to have someone. supportive housing and housing with the services that help them stay in that house or maybe forty percent on your return trip. to anywhere from forty to one hundred thousand dollars a year people through the emergency room records. this is the famous soon to be a street but your dream is fine there's no. leno . the guy up in a tree down even having to get there they are what we're there so i was there.

that i threw him a little canceling if they never knew that. there were three new field for. this reason that the. do down here there harass people. topple over and they'll stop think person maybe all five times in one day and this goes on all day loaded just cloudesley if

you wear white t. shirt and shorts you're considered a good dope they are arguing so that's probable cause to be stopped which is. no where in the world in the neighborhood could you not spin the street enough to know five all not great don't live a downtown austin slowly place to get to this. bitch cheap or is neighborhood still play all day. just in the street all day but it could downtown off in black large brown you can still sidewalk can't feel great you can't close street kid is this a plantation. for years officials turned a blind eye to skate 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 cost the city of los angeles six

million dollars in its first year in the. police say for surveys 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 first two thousand and six there was an effort there was really targeted by where there were those chief bratton. as a comprehensive approach to skid row. there were. so there was going to be a serious crackdown on what was called serious crime in skid row and there was to be a big expansion of services. well one of those things happened and the other one didn't go so he put his zero dollars into your 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 am i going to homeless where i'm going we know you go where am i going you know take me home. so no where to are going to just sit 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 you skin when you see the drug dealing. the life you need prostitution and the preying on this we have every right and every responsibility giver sponsibility to address and i stand behind you see police in the city because i believe on the. weekend. you think that the mayor was you know east in a way talked about safer cities you would think use 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 stand city and i don't know why we have a mayor that would rule you schools. where you're going. to see. quality of life and. this was the last night that maybe three. police chief william bratton made his name cleaning up new york city with the controversial broken windows theory of crime wave action. safer cities how to implement the same policy in his new home town. the same tactics it was jones and the broken windows theory in new york right where necessary concept by you the same way he justified new york is saying well 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 your own area

as of a tour with thirteen thousand people or twelve thousand citations issued most for starters. literary or jaywalking someone who counts buried under the thirty dollars fine their memories are of a warrant for their arrest. with creating these sustainable operations focused on often making at me and what you are advocating my term self interests and so that is what your government intends has always been the case and there have. businesses for hundreds of years without using the label. but i think was what got capitalism do was this notion that economists brought to it which was the ideal profit maximizing the.

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ever gives jaywalking tickets this way to get a check if all sorts of warrant says they have to every time a change trying to do something to get a jaywalking ticket right up the street here i've had guns put to my head by the. l.a. finest several times for a smoke americal medical marijuana they have to realize was i got his marijuana and

a marijuana pipe and i got the medical marijuana card they let you go but that's you have to sit there. and they got their guns to your head you're on your knee and knees with guns you had five six cars so get the guns or you joy 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 on they won't. you know you go. up against a wall to see through properly your no street. sixth place inside the plain sight more so when i can. put everything on the street civil liberties or something that belong to people who live west of main street or. 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 our. client is going 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. they lost their blankets and. there's a place just down the line of these surveys go and clean sidewalk and they were. skid row is full of contradictions. it can be violent. 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 there was robert. he became my soulmate. lover he became my guy. has a dream of being married to my guy i want to walk down. you know that dilys you sure yes one of my greatest three. people. off the sidewalk and take a moment beda begin close it i have fetal next day shoot em up some time when i stay today rest just to get off the sidewalk because my days homeless people took me. and let me bay and let me lay up to sleep and eat in their house and i had to give back. so hard to fill up their of something when a man who first do follow things when i hope people that i know tonight he not be coke has got to. we are in real life.

now and 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 capon occupy to keep company. part fresh out the dumpster i love dumpster diving and i find such good 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 and 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 she's got all my pictures my certificates of completion this one here is a star for get from the clare foundation there's a thirty day primary detox this one here i have to say i'll change gendered which was a tough one to get and this was and i was to be a completion for whom was caught i got on to like one hundred fifty tickets and

what i had to do is go and check myself in 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 as stan 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 typewriter i had a little picture of my cable modem my baby when she was a world kind of that's right she's my youngest are tax proudly two or three this is that because he 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 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 no appetite and 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. i don't want to forget how i got here and this is a symbol of what i was what i could be and what i could have been and what i was.

which is the best in the world. it's not about what i did. and. i'm still trying to become the best and i still can it doesn't matter. what 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 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. 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. scary people always say you know what you know just go to therapy maybe talk to somebody and you hear that you think it but who wants to just go and you know because it's all i did all my life was just how. to see maybe the 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 big difference because. yes. it is. a link. here for now. going on carol. lee and of that is a part of my life because of the she's

a very special person she's very special and dear mom part ok when you come into my home abode pitches on wall. ok well you know my well for his coalition to go who is a little boy there is no your business. and we're living in his golden hour is really what i think about all the time. you probably know him and. marry me enough i die for her success. in the past to become rich. maybe sixty acres and suntech and she can our own house catches me she can have a lot of trash. they will be fenced off from everybody you know every foreigner move and go bob and be damned collective. stores just so she can store.

garbus. because that makes her happy and content and it makes me continue when i see she have. jesus loves me this and. followed. them. to. us do him. then. through. year. b. . year. four. danny harris is maintaining a surprise he began on skid row today has 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 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 launch she continues to feed the cats and birds of scale her

own every night. early on easter morning two thousand and nine. tommy chains were shot and killed inside a skid row residential hotel. k.k. was forty nine years old.

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this 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 are definitely the target of the gun lobby and you don't kill them when you're killing money but if

somebody would you would piss with her. i'm noticing more and more and that's really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation on 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. they reduce route. to i was really doing was told to leave it on the signs because it is a market economy and still total budget of the european union what we're talking about is not more than one per cent off that you do feel to your. total budget is about the size of the bunch of the fifteen month and if this is called a socialist concept then look at the size off welfare states on the national level

this is totally ridiculous what's ridiculous about it but you know what those are so ridiculous about the e.u. marching in more list too. to greece and to cyprus to study tiddly socialist. to talk about reading people's private bank accounts to support the european union and this is what they're talking about people of a falling over themselves immigrants are falling over themselves to get into great britain because they know the rest of europe is boss. exhilarating more than our. social media and you have enough on the rest of our lives take news team twenty four take. on.

russia's figure skating team claims the host nation's first gold as the second day of the winter games wraps up in saudi but aside from the celebration of winter olympic sports. the threat of something bad happening in such the western media dishes out an avalanche of criticism raising questions about whether the concerns and panic are justified plus in the weeks other headlines. damage control in washington after a leaked phone conversation made public the depth of the country's meddling in ukraine's political turmoil. you know. the message reportedly coming from of the u.s. assistant secretary of state the comments were called unacceptable by german chancellor angela merkel. and it's.