Fun Things to Look Forward to in Los Angeles this Holiday Season (NOT)
This article has been compiled in conjunction with the growth of the Homeless Industrial Complex/humanitarian crisis research conducted by Kay Smythe; if you wish to contribute to her ongoing writing and research, please get in touch via the contact form.
The chance of you suffering a petty, violent, or indirectly from crime in Los Angeles this holiday season is very high. Official stats from the last few months are hard to find because the LAPD have stopped filing many police reports, but the rates of attacks on citizens and tourists alike continue to rise throughout Los Angeles county, and there is a single reason why: the Homeless Industrial Complex.
More than 60,000 vagrants, transients, and mentally unstable societal dropouts now crawl the streets of LA, almost all suffering some form of mental health disorder, with others reporting a 100% rate of drug and alcohol addiction within their demographic. Mayor Eric Garcetti is one of the many ignorant fools to blame for this crisis, and he’s looking to pull a full Rick Snyder this winter and ensure that potentially tens of thousands of Angelenos are at risk of genocide [upcoming article]. He’ll be making money just like all of the other crooked politicians and people claiming to help while hiding in plain sight as this nation burns around them.
As if the new LAX ride-share pick-up and simply having to be in Los Angeles wasn’t detrimental enough to those of us looking to enjoy this holiday season, the vagrant and homeless crisis has added a whole plethora of potential festive fuckups for you to navigate as you journey West this winter. Here is a listicle outlining some of the wonderful things you’ve to look forward to, because apparently prose doesn’t land a point anymore…
Selective Policing (ie: no policing for most vulnerable populations)
Los Angeles Police Department and other local jurisdictions have started practicing selective policing thanks to calls from local DNC leadership to make Los Angeles appear like a happy, clean, safe place to live to visit when it simply is not.
The way these selective policing initiatives manifest are really interesting. For example, Santa Monica Police Department are reporting lower crime stats because they are no longer filing the necessary information when someone suffers a crime. I discovered this when I called to find out whether anything had been done to find the man who pulled his car over at three o’clock on a Wednesday afternoon on Centinela Blvd to physically assault me as I walked home from the dentist. One of the local officers took me home in his shop after the assault and stated he would file the report. In the months since, a plentiful number of women have come forward with the same claim, many having suffered far worse violent sexual assault and attempted murders.
Selective policing is also playing into rates of property crime, with many local residents suffering from the comfort of their own home.
Stolen Packages
On my way home from Hinanos this week, I watched as one of our severely mentally ill vagrants stole someone’s Amazon Packages from their front porch. Even though there was an intense police presence in the area at the time, no one seemed to bat an eyelid. The guy jaywalked across Pacific Avenue, toting his brand new theft to his friends. I’ve found more Amazon and FedEx packages strewn across the sidewalk, the contents still somewhat in-tact, than I’d ever be able to count. My Nextdoor feed is filled with posts showing the various homeless porch pirates that roam the Westside.
If you’re one of the Wealthies or Sensibles of LA county, you’ll already have one of those motion sensor cameras that picks up on people on your property. If you don’t, invest now, so you can watch one of these people steal your gifts this Holiday Season. Yay!
Extra Ticketing for Tourists and Locals alike (unless you want to sleep in your car to avoid paying anything at all, and maybe even get paid by the state to do so)
Parking enforcement in Venice recently described how they’ve been told to stop ticketing vagrant cars or RVs, despite their presence being a health hazard and a crime. There is a growing wave of understanding, backed up by comments from local law enforcement, that it’s impossible to make money from vagrant and homeless populations, so policing them is pointless. Though this is a good thing for many of the homeless populations (and I do support the fact that ticketing is an unnecessary further punishment for many of these individuals), I do not support the further exploitation of this failed form of capitalism that seeks to squeeze and fuck over the middle folks in American society.
Commit a Major Crime and Get Away With It
If you commit a major federal crime, just lurk within the homeless community and you’ll get away with it. It really is as simple as that. If you’d like to punch two people in the face, get cited and released, you can do that. If you’d like to burn down an apartment building, you can do that too.
On a far more serious note, local residents are being murdered by violent vagrants. A 63-year-old woman was beaten to death with an electric scooter in Long Beach in May by a transient. A cab driver was stabbed to death by a homeless man earlier this month. Attacks by homeless populations are on the rise in California. Local leadership are doing little about it, leading to deaths, and some of the most revolting horrors one could ever envision suffering…
Get Covered In Human Feces
A local woman was recently covered in more than a month’s worth of warm human diarrhea. An attack like this does not last a single day. Aside from the eternal PTSD, the victim will need to be tested for infectious diseases every three months for the foreseeable future. The contents of the bucket covered the woman, the interior of her car, and though the police caught and charged the man responsible, the victim’s calls to the LAPD went unanswered after the attack.
Catch a Disease That Doesn’t Even Exist in The Developing World
Life on the streets is often significantly shorter than life with a home, and yet the populations living here are more comfortable being outdoors. As a result, doctors are being sent into homeless encampments to administer care. Though this is a good thing, it is also a short-term solution to a rapidly rising epidemic of various archaic diseases.
Typhus is spreading like the wildfires, and a plethora of rodent-borne, flea-borne illnesses like the plague are also making a reappearance. Louse-borne illnesses, measles, TB, hepatitis, shigella, and trench fever are also making the leap from encampments to the general population. It is only a matter of months, possibly weeks, before something far more insidious starts to leach out into these demographics, making LA a hotspot for biological terrorism (which seems to be a popular storyline on a number of procedurals at the moment).
The risk to homeless people is the greatest, leaving them in a current state of impending genocide. The inactivity of local leadership in supporting the health needs of this population is criminal, and arguably purposeful. A major intervention is needed immediately to mitigate the risk of mass death on the streets of Los Angeles.
Arson Is Also Fine, Despite the Wildfires
LAFD crews were recently dispatched to tackle a fire burning near a homeless encampment. Though there are few news stories on the fire, a colleague of mine was there talking to various LAFD personnel, many of whom stated their belief that the fire was caused by members of the local homeless encampment. Similarly, my friend Josh recently witnessed the start of a wildfire out near his home. After pulling over to deal with the issue, local LAFD officers arrived and stated that the blaze had been started by a vagrant.
After a video was recently posted of a homeless man starting a fire on the westside, local leadership called the filmmaker a right-winger. The same politician has also been accused of paying a local news outlet of reporting the story in such a way that it sends a positive spin... (though I can’t really understand WTF the article is about, it’s that badly written; watch my livestream for more info). What the video actually shows is the homeless man, who was mentally ill, starting the fire. The politician then approaches, before walking away with the fire still burning. Reports suggest that the man had a weapon. Either way, the video was massively manipulated by press spin to make the filmmaker look awful, when in reality, the situation in itself was awful.
Here is a man without a place in society, setting fire to the land beneath him. No one should be put in a position to do this when living in the first world.
Donate to a Charity to Solve This Problem - Sorry, donate to a charity so you can pay for them to have fun and do nothing
Known colloquially to Westsiders as “Bonin Bucks,” the Homeless Industrial Complex has become a serious moneymaker for local leadership in Los Angeles.
With leading groups like United Way still using care-methodologies designed in 1988, there is little hope for Angelenos and tax-paying transplants. Those hired to fix this issue, and help the thousands of decaying bodies on our streets, pocket the cash and will spend it on glitzy parties and further fundraisers this winter.
I wish I could present you with more information on how my colleagues, peers, and neighbors are tackling this issue, but most records requests have been ignored by Democratic leadership. However, when the leadership of Los Angeles (and the rest of California) can make huge sums of money from perpetuating this humanitarian crisis, what reason do they have to solve it?
If Your Loved One Is On The Streets In Los Angeles This Holiday Season
Come here and help them. As a species, we have become so angry at each other that we’ve forgotten how to hate The Man and The System for creating this reality. I know I’m a hypocrite, but family is who you make them, and if your loved one is strung out and living on the streets, you have a few months to save them from the long-term trauma that this town will inflict upon them.
Most of the young people on the street are choosing to be there because it’s a better life than reality.
Save your money. Spend it on gas. Drive here and find them and help them. They deserve it, and no one here is going to do anything for them. Your loved one won’t end up in jail, they will end up dead.
How To Really Help
Before anyone accuses me of being right-wing, or railing against the homeless for being afforded this freedom that those of us without their problems are not, please do not mistake my rhetoric here. The fact that the police are so lapsed in their approach to tackling the many direct social issues from this population is leading to a genocide. In one fell swoop, the entire street people population of Los Angeles could be subjected to any number of debilitating disasters.
What we are watching is a genocide, and I cannot stress this enough. This homeless industrial complex is built from greed, and it is destroying our society while the ruling class watch and laugh. Rome is burning around us, and no one is doing a damn thing. This article is not part of pouring fuel on this fire. It is to shed light on what is truly happening, and to scream for help from absolutely anyone who will listen. The complexity of this issue demands the greatest minds in sociology, psychology, human and physical geography, law, and politics to come together and fundamentally evolve our society.
Never, even after fifteen years of reportage, did I think I’d call for Californians to seriously consider calling for a major overhaul of the Democratic leadership… and if not that, then it’s fairly safe to assume that CA will turn Red in 2022.
Thankfully, as a tax-payer, you and/or your relatives have options. Collective lobbying of federal agencies and national groups like the Securities and Exchange Commission can shed light on the incessant corruption of our governmental leadership.
Citizen-led groups are teaming up to tackle the lack of policing, and are approaching this crisis from every possible angle. Local citizens leaders have made the following recommendations for people living and working in the real problem areas (like the entire county):
Vary your schedule of where you go as criminals study that kind of thing
Vary where you park your vehicle
Vary when which lights are on in your residence
Do not take the exact same route every day, try to vary your times of coming and going even by 5-10 minutes
Always be aware; it’s pretty easy to tell if you are being watched if you pay attention to your feelings and your gut
Let them know you see them; 9/10 times they will run away
Try to always be with another person
Watch if you keep seeing the same person or vehicle in more than one place; that means they are tracking all your movements
Help deal with this issue: CONTACT THE WHITE HOUSE TO START SAVING LIVES AND OUR CITY.
Please get in touch with my directly if you think you can help.
It breaks my heart to publish this piece, but everything here is sourced from primary evidence.
Los Angeles Needs Your Help.