Venice Beach Cleanup: Multi-Agency Task Force Engages in Major Effort to Address Homeless Encampment
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2024
- Venice, Los Angeles - May 117, 2024: On Friday, a significant cleanup operation was conducted at Venice Beach, targeting a local homeless encampment with the involvement of a multi-agency task force. This team comprised members from the Los Angeles Police, Los Angeles Park Rangers, the Los Angeles Police Department, the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, Recreation and Parks, Clean Harbors Environmental Inc., the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), and the office of Councilwoman Traci Park.
The operation was safely and efficiently managed with the presence of Los Angeles Police Officers and Park Rangers. It marked a concerted effort among the Department of Public Works, Recreation and Parks, and Clean Harbors Environmental Inc. Team members donned protective gear to sort and appropriately dispose of both hazardous and non-hazardous waste.
This cleanup is part of the City of Los Angeles' broader strategy to address homelessness while improving public health and sanitation. It underscores the city’s commitment to addressing these pressing urban challenges.
Additionally, the initiative at Venice Beach includes weekly maintenance of beach restrooms, which are often used as shelters by homeless individuals. This effort aims to enhance public facilities and directly tackle homelessness issues. LAHSA plays a crucial role during these operations by providing support services including food, water, and hygiene kits, reflecting a compassionate approach to the crisis.
Notably, no citations for public camping violations were issued during this cleanup, indicating the city's preference for supportive over punitive measures.
This cleanup is part of a series of ongoing actions, including regular Friday cleanups along the Venice Beach Boardwalk, all under the supervision of Los Angeles Park Rangers. These initiatives are essential components of the city’s comprehensive strategy to maintain cleanliness and safety while addressing the root causes of homelessness. Effective coordination by Councilwoman Traci Park continues to be crucial, highlighting a balanced and humane approach to these challenges.
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2:25 She needs to realize that anyone in a public place can be recorded. She can’t sue. Get real.
As if she could even afford a lawyer
😪💔 it’s really sad what Venice turned out to be.. it was a yearly destination taking my family there. It was fun place now it’s dangerous and disgusting.
The Venice Beach Crier never disappoints. Always puts on his act.
Venice Beach Crier in Act #2 of "The Life of an American Drug Lover."
just when I was thinking "those handball stadium steps would be a nice place to sit and watch the ocean"... BAM! they turn the corner, and each handball court is a living unit.
It never ends yikes
They seriously need night time security around the washrooms.....
The fire dept needs to power wash the restrooms.
Remove doors...there...fixed it!
Looks like a lovely place to vacation. 🤮
Thanks for sharing your videos Fabian.
New laws need to take effect and unforced, our beaches are turning into a garbage dump.
That's impossible. They banned plastic straws.😀
Remove bathroom doors!
@@user-jc7jb3bu5s that or look them up during the night.
It's California...
@@alimcally279 it’s the politicians that run California, but maybe that’s what you’re implying.
Low physical fitness standards for park rangers.
Welcome to the 21st century
That female parks ranger can barely walk.
@@lisjones6874 oh come on. She was walking just fine.
@@Cassie00111you must be quadriplegic 🙉🙊🙉🤪😄
This guy with the black beard moves right into a cleaned John and moves right back in. Plays the LA homeless suffle very well. No one is intimidated by the NO POWER PARK RANGERS. The streets belong t0 the lawless as we now have to lock up products in stores!
He plays crazy. When he got into it with a black guy and the black guy rode off with his bike, he all of a sudden became VERY lucid, looking for help from the people standing around. Hilarious.
Aluminum dolly and shopping carts are a nice waste of landfill space...
I can’t believe the amount of good scrap metal that goes to the landfill. Yet the CA government forces tax paying citizens to recycle or be fined.
Shopping carts are around $250-$400.
5:12 How would like it when you go buy more charcoal and come back and find the grill is gone lol
Don't leave things out if you don't want them stolen. They should've brought it with them to the store if it mattered so much, lol
The cleanup is every Friday. Everyone knows this. If Ken and the crew want the carts, why don’t they collect them BEFORE the Park Rangers show up and just take them rather than complain! Easy solution!
Sad😢
How sad, the mental deterioration of using drugs. One of millions who have falling to addiction, across the United States.
Mental illness untreated is a big factor.
Tip to the homeless: Less is more. Travel light.
That nasty sock could have walked to the truck itself.
Was it Daisy’s day off?
People are coming thousands of miles just to have daisy healing them.....some quotes....dear hard up..
Daisy was there you could hear 23.51 her doing her yelling in the back ground and at one part you could see her flipping her skate board in the air 😂
Darth Vatress (Caseworker in Jeans) Stikes again.... 🤣
Hate to see a good bar-b-que go to waste.
"Housekeeping!"
The cleanup is all well and good, but how are they going to be kept from coming back?
Nike shorts dude needs some serious help.
Mental hospital
I’ve often wondered why he’s not been forced into a conservatorship. I mean he is on the extreme end and he’s really gonna wind up killing someone or himself if he remains in his current state.
No he doesn't. it's an act for him, he's just a lazy drug addicted thief.
@sunsensational I agree. For some strange reason, the state of California thinks letting mentally ill and drug addicted people sleep in public bathrooms, under bridges and on sidewalks is compassion. It isn't good for the homeless or the residents who are afraid to bring their kids to the beach.
Every week they kick out that same guy. Nothing ever done.
Easy way to fix the Venice beach restrooms
There is a very easy and cheap way to protect and clean the restrooms at Venice Beach. First, change the DOORS so they are open by one foot at the bottom, so that way it can be seen if someone is inside, and parents can monitor their children for safety. Then install a power wash hose, so the restrooms can be opened, sprayed with disinfectant, and simply power washed each morning. They are already outside entry to be multigender, but take ridiculous time to clean them, and being enclosed they invite drugs and sex trafficking. JUST CHANGE THE DOORS DOORS.
25:19. I've seen this guy a few times and he always seems to be 'bawling'. Then he punches himself. Really messed up.
The homeless people treat the city workers like their bitch. They have to clean up all their trash
Homeless go nuts if you throw away anything that rolls. 😂😂😂😂
Of course, when the caveman discovered the wheel, it was all over from there lol
If I littered i would be fined jubject to jail?
I wonder who is making all the money caahing in scrap metals. . bicycle frames hand trucks all aluminum very high rate in scrap yard
It's about time.
39:14 Fletch
It probably would cost money to enclose that beach, but that’s the way I would do it and just have a way for them to come in and out the people that wants to enjoy the beach because that’s that’s just too much trouble and it’s costing you money just to clean it
Seems like they do this once every 6 months…. Great solution
its not a laughing matter
Assisto esses videos fico.impressionada sou do Brasil e onde moro nao vejo essas coisas tem dorga tráfico mais pessoas assim mas ruas triste demais pessoas.assim
I think i'm watching a slowmotion movie.
2:27 Oof!
But it comes with the territory of this documenting/video journalism, I'd think so :P
Stay safe everyone
imagine being a police officer and your capt tells you your job is public restroom cleanup,not what you went to the academy for,what a waste of time and effort
Keep voting blue💙💙💙 Thank you Biden
Keep voting blu!!
NOT WORTHY. OF TAX DOLLARS TODAY! 🤡🤡🤡
As I watch I was waiting for someone on an oppressor mk ll to show up 😂
American History X already told us that used to be a nice place
The man in black, moaning,,,,He just hit himself..Self injurous ppl like that are usually confined as not to injure themselves , or othr ppl...I am not saying he isn't t capable of normalcy, of some kind, but he needs help, and a bath....He possibly has scabies, which are contagious, but really needs to be elsewhere, where there is help..
That is the same guy that spit on one of the workers a couple of weeks ago.
Venice of my 20s,, 30s 4 wheels roller skates, those were the 70s and 80s.🥴😁☠️🙉🙊🙈😏🐽🐖
Sorry 😔 for the inconvenience, we are cleaning your "room", please, don't get pissed 🤢🙏
And week after week they just let him go. It’s not if he hurts someone it’s when.
I would like to know why LA clean up the beach and the people come back the homeless people that’s what I’m talking about. I mean that’s an ongoing process people that really wants to go to that beach really don’t want to go because it’s that healthy enough to go
Kinda sad they are taking away some of the grit that makes Venice Venice. Wish I moved there when jt was cool. Sad how not a single worker actually wants to help. Tbeu just don’t want them sitting there
respect
So they’re just throwing ppls stuff away?
next day, same thing
This work can be done by two people. So many people go and clean 😂 the city budget is spent.
Jogou tudo da pessoa fora caramba
the workers will save a drill but not a perfectly good large dolly
NOT HELPING JOB .
Na boa isso enxugar gelo com certeza ou eles voltam oi vao.outro.local
Wheres lazy Daisy
Where’s the queen of Venice beach, she hasn’t been in any videos lately, 😢
Which one?
Really, never mind
Daisy
keep up the good work! doing a great job
Homeless in LA have the nicest bikes. 🫣