Santa Monica Police Clean Up Homeless Encampment at Crescent Bay Gazebo, One Arrested
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2024
- Santa Monica, May 21, 2024 - Santa Monica police officers conducted a cleanup operation at the Crescent Bay Gazebo on Tuesday, addressing a homeless encampment discovered during a routine patrol. Officers encountered several homeless individuals occupying the gazebo, which was cluttered with numerous belongings, including a stolen shopping cart.
During the investigation, officers arrested a man for an outstanding warrant and possession of drug paraphernalia. Additionally, they identified a woman listed as a missing person. The police contacted her family to inform them of her whereabouts and will be removing her from the missing persons list. Despite being found, the woman expressed a desire to remain on the streets and declined assistance or services offered by the officers, walking away after the encounter.
The police continued the cleanup of the encampment and subsequently transported the arrested man to jail. Officers gathered the man's belongings, including his bike, and will store them for him while he is in custody.
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The homeless literally trash everything. It’s disrespectful to not pick up for yourself.
I have found a connection that it is difficult for people who don't care about themselves to care about anything else. The direct correlation has been demonstrated time and time again. A lot of these people need a lot of kindness and compassion, and it's really hard to be kind and compassionate to people who have no consideration for anyone else.
The city just came and basically took everything she owned. Including the bicycle, which in case you didn't realize it's probably her only mode of transportation. Most of it was garbage. But the few items that weren't? They took. Why would anybody who has hit on Hard Times give a f*** about anybody else? This is the Vicious Cycle and why nobody wins in the end.
She will get it back when she is released
@@alymshep no she won't. You're absolutely moronic if you think she's getting that bike back.
It will get misplaced and she will never see it again. And you'll sit there stupidly thinking that stupid thing that you stupidly thought.
@@idcyco3623yes it is hard to have compassion, but I have learned that it's much more than them just not caring about them selves, most are addicted to very toxic street drugs, so much so that they refuse to cooperate with any detox and rehab services, so there only care is where they get thier next fix from, and as for the bikes one looks like its being taken apart, some of them have stolen bike chop shops to fund thier drug habits, I know this sounds harsh, but far to many times I've seen disturbing incidences of drug use depravity and lawlessness from them that I can no longer ignore...
Such an eyesore, huh? Maybe one day if you find yourself homeless you'll be neat.
Police shouldn't be cleaning up after these people.
The used to not and basically just stood by as sanitation workers did the work but there were a lot of complaints by viewers about it so now they actually help.
Such a waste of police resources, have people that do community service for crime clean these dirty places up 🤔
It's too bad law enforcement has to do this... there are so many other things they are needed for! Thank you for your service officers!!!
It’s their own laziness that led them to doing these jobs. LA is crawling with police there is absolutely no reason for all these “encampments”
Once again it's the politicians
Thank you officers , and clean crew .
Yeah I'm not thanking them for taking that lady's bike. Most of that was garbage but the bike clearly wasn't. These people become more animalistic and disgustingly destructive the more you dehumanize them. And then every Rich f*** with a trust fund cries about how they're destroying the property value. This is a monster of your making.
Sterling effort by S M Police. It's not your job but you did it anyway. Thank you.
We can also thank the Santa Monica City Council and everyone else that reduced the budget for maintenance staff that would normally clean it up for a third of the salary.
I saw today that two German tourists were stabbed by a homeless guy in Santa Monica. This is one of many warning cries. I know three people who have been assaulted by homeless guys in the LA area. When will politicians stops this madness.
This police officer is very caring, really great. !!! Really great to clean up like that. !!!
He makes too much money to be doing that and there is real crime being committed nearby.
A vicious cycle, but good work by the Santa Monica Police Department.
Thank you SMPD and everyone who helped in this cleanup! This gazebo is a beautiful local landmark.
Excuse me is that an amp?!
Looks like a Fender Twin Reverb tube amp. Expensive amp.
The one cop doing all the work deserves a raise, the other cop doing nothing a demotion in pay and desk job.
SMPD is literally cleaning the streets!!
Than you to theses officers for going above your job requires!! 🎉💙👍😎
DISCUSTING-DISGRACEFUL 😢
Normal day in Santa Monica
This is Not. Police officers job to clean up these encampments. The Department of Sanitation is paid to provide sanitation for Santa Monica’s issues like this! Extremely poor Management Recourses use. Better yet, instead of crowding sidewalks, streets and parks, the homeless, addicted people should be given the job and training to clean up after themselves. In our town that is exactly what our policies are! You want good hot food, you cook it, clean clothes, you clean them, a bed, you earn it. Everyday you do work! The city is not your mommy!
Why is that one cop doing all the work while the others stand around doing nothing?
I wondered that too.
It's called respect for rank. His job. Firefighters do it too. He's also prob had a father who took him to cub and boy scouts, fishing, camping, hunting, gun range.... Military.... Manly things our now non nuclear families cannot teach a kid. It's too masculine. Wtf society?
When you get a job as a police officer you get to stand around a lot
Remember that a camera is running.
Homeless people keep some strange things.
It’s the drugs their on makes them want to collect stuff or create stupid stuff out of trash
There is the possibility that they are hoarders and that is why they don’t have a place to rent.
Great job of reporting 👏 👍
hopefully they pressure wash and sanitize the area
Imagine the heartbreak of the family to be informed of a missing family member’s whereabouts and then learn she chose to remain on the streets. Very sad.
The green backflow cage belongs to the city it’s to protect the backflow device from theft
Nothing is safe from them sad!!,🔴🫢🤫
Where's the refuse dept ? Why are uniformed officers doing this ?
They must be able to afford to abandoned everything behind for someone else to clean up, it shows the nastiness so many homeless exhibit
Where are the yellow- white garbed cleaning crew? No highly trained police officer should be deployed in this work .
Lots of obese cops on the force can definitely use this type of exercise.
This is police doing community care taking....
Souhaitant que cette femme ne tomberas pas dans la décadence totale /Merci beaucoup à leurs polices locaux👍
Cette situation terrible venant d'un pays riche comme les États-Unis merci à l'humanité de ces Agents
Great job police.
Gracias. Police. U. S. E. Mayo. 5. 22. 2024.
good work ,it has to stop
Big difference between Santa Monica and LA
Looking good.
I thought I heard the one officer say they were calling her a cab to transport her to the hospital (Bellevue). What happened that they decided to just let her wander off?
Aoh my God---AMERICA CITY IS UNCLEAN ..THEN MY COUNYRY INDONESIA...RIGHT NOW...MANY MANY HOMELESS ..OWH MY GOD---it's a bad...please please takecare of your country...from Asia😮😮😮😮
Where is the billion dollars that was supposed to be used for the homeless
In the pockets of politicians
Several billion. The governor knows
When the homeless are camped up next to politicians house.... fighting,doing drugs, leaving trash etc...maybe they might stop STEALING the funding...????
Looks good! Take it back!
I get being homeless and all of that but it’s the disgusting mess they make and leave behind. Maybe if they showed respect for property they would not get moved along
We can't afford to have police officers doing clean up.
wasn't camping out in public supposed to be illegal ? Vagrancy I believe was the word.
cali is back
That’s not the officers job.. that woman should be cleaning up her mess, it’s obvious there are other people hanging out there..They should get choices.. Rehab, Detox, Mental Health, jail! It must be worst for homeless women.. dangerous..
Zombies get a free cleanup and ride from the cops these days. What a joke
Santa Monica is a beautiful city!
The homeless should be banned from these areas.
🙄👍the street are not a normal Home
I can't watch cops doing this work 😡
I can’t watch one do the work while 2 watch
Call SMPD for free moving and storage.
Where do they get all of the stuff!? Most of it does nothing to make living on the street anything easier, most of it is useless junk.
I love how people walk by blocking their faces like anyone's going to care. Unless they're a drug dealer or prostitute, I suppose.
No way
Tax dollars at work🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼
Be careful 😉!Are you done? 💯?
It's a lie!!!😢
They think people will come back to the beach
And they will be removed
Plu personne n'est a l'abri et risque de finir "sans abri".des milliards pour les guerres des pelures pour les pauvres😢😢😢
😢 what a mess 😢 gross
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Keep on voting blue
And this is what will continue happening when the city gives them free housing.
She had little and now she has nothing.
That is someone’s life
But she can’t use a public pavilion as her home
Looks like lapd is just picking on the people that are not doing anything... the funny thing is how much the city is fighting back
That's not the LAPD in this video. It's the Santa Monica PD.
Homeless cannot inhabit public spaces with no sanitation
Why did they take her bike?
🙄🤔she need,s no bike in rehab
@@talkingabouttherevolution
I skimmed through part of the video and didn’t notice they were taking her? There was a lady at the end of the video that they seemingly allowed to walk away after the clean up.
Thanks for your response.
Probably stolen.
Being homeless is not a crime
That’s one well paid pistol packing garbage man I mean no disrespect, but in the typical fashion, one man pushing a shovel with two more leaning on their’s again no disrespect with the situation is certainly disgusting
Now she is alone like ADAM !!!🔴🫢🤫 13:41 sad !!
Righteous job from SMPD 🦾
To be honest I was expecting for you to do the job !!!!🤫but not that kind of job!!!!!great appreciation!!!!,🔴🤫🫢 1:44