Tense Situation at Venice Cleanup Deescalates: LAPD Helps Overcome Homeless Encampment Challenges
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- Опубліковано 10 січ 2024
- Venice, Los Angeles - January 11, 2024. A significant joint operation was conducted by the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works and Clean Harbors Environmental Inc. in Venice to address the homeless encampment issue. The initiative is part of the city's ongoing efforts to manage homelessness and maintain public sanitation.
During the operation, a challenging situation arose with a distressed homeless individual resisting the cleanup. Despite initial uncooperativeness and aggressive behavior, the situation was de-escalated by the police without the need for arrest. The officers, prepared to use non-lethal force, managed to persuade the individual to vacate the encampment, allowing the cleanup to proceed.
The officers were equipped with a 40mm less-lethal projectile launcher, which fires foam or sponge projectiles effectively from a distance, ensuring safety and minimizing harm.
Concurrently, a section of Rose Avenue was closed for the cleanup, stretching from Lincoln Boulevard to 7th Street. Workers in white hazardous materials suits conducted the operation, adhering to strict safety protocols.
In preparation for the cleanup, the city had earlier posted notices, alerting residents of the upcoming activity and requesting the removal of personal belongings from the area. These notices stipulated that any items left behind would be removed by city workers.
The unhoused individuals were given a 15-minute window by Los Angeles Sanitation to relocate their possessions before the cleanup. Police officers assisted in moving people away from the cleaning zones, and unclaimed items were cleared by sanitation workers.
The cleanup operation saw coordinated efforts between two waste management units: the Department of Public Works and Clean Harbors Environmental Inc. The teams, identifiable by their yellow and orange vests respectively, focused on segregating hazardous materials from non-hazardous waste, ensuring a thorough cleaning process.
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) provided crucial outreach services to the homeless during the operation.
Los Angeles Police Officers ensured the safety and compliance of all parties, particularly the homeless community. They focused on maintaining cleanliness and hygiene standards and ensuring adherence to safety guidelines.
Despite the implementation of Ordinance 41.18, which restricts certain activities in public spaces, no citations were issued during the cleanup. This operation is a part of Los Angeles' larger strategy to address homelessness, highlighting the city's commitment to both immediate and long-term solutions, focusing on the root causes of homelessness and providing essential resources to those in need
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I used to be homeless, all it takes is work and a shelter to start in and move back up to having a regular life. I never did drugs or drink and the first job given to me I took and gave it over 100%. I hope everyone gets that chance and takes it.
That is a good sentiment, but most of these guys are chronic meth, fentanyl addicts, you give them a room and they trash it, you give them opportunities to get clean and most refuse, what I'm saying is most of these guys are not in thier right minds and can be dangerous, no matter what you offer them, they will choose the drugs and the street, over shelter aand employment.
Well said
But doing drugs in a tent is so much easier than actually getting a job.
Good on you for turning your life around.
I was homeless too. Even with a shelter once an employer finds out that u were homeless ur chances of getting hired r out the window. That brother is rt. At the end NO ONE gives a fukk. Before they tell people to go they HAVE to have another spot for them even if it's the streets. That ALL they ever do is just tell u to go. Glad u had luck. The majority of the homeless will NEVER find it
If true, you were truly down on your luck…
Most of these people have chosen this lifestyle and get no sympathy from me.
It’s enough that they get my tax money!
How nice of the city to clean the living space of the homeless so they can move right back in after they get done disinfecting the sidewalk! Most of these people are there because they would rather spend their rent money on drugs and or alcohol. The majority of these homeless people refuse to use services that get them cleaned up, employed and in stabile housing!
Truth! I've been there done that! On these exact streets in this Town of Venice.
If you don't like them, find somewhere else to be. No one cares about your opinion.
A thankless job and the health risks involved . Thank you.
It's just like Whac-A-Mole.
It’s amazing what they get away with. The police are still criticized for being heavy handed even when allowing this.
There are countries that are not fighting against the homeless, but against homelessness. Finland, for example, has all but abolished homelessness with its "housing first" strategy.
@@DrHydro-mq7sw in the US there are two opposing forces fighting over the homeless problem.
@@bguerra4 That is a problem in many societies. Even in Germany where I live. . In the USA, however, it seems to have got quite out of hand. As I said. The Finns have solved the problem with a consistent policy. That should be taken as a model.
@@DrHydro-mq7sw also homeless people in California seem to be from all over the US, they all come west to settle down because it’s most comfortable/lucrative place to live that lifestyle. Finland doesn’t have a 350 million population with a percentage destined for homeless.
@@DrHydro-mq7swGood evening
I want to move back to Germany I was born in Frankfurt Germany. Military brat came to the us when I was 5 been back here and there but it’s been awhile. What’s flat prices out there small houses I would sell everything no need to travel heavily. I’m sick of the USA need to go back to my roots
Guarantee that guy has a long criminal record .
Who?
And as soon as the workers leave, the homeless moved right back in!!
It’s God’s earth
The city actively moves them. From the boardwalk, to S. Venice Blvd. or N. Venice Blvd. They have different streets that they move them to. It is complete and total insanity in Venice, Beach California.
What 6 months ago like $1.3M and Back !!
@@JesusistheFather_ then go be a farmer and be productive. not hard. Gods earth but people live in it.
@@JesusistheFather_ God’s earth? So god condones drug use? And here I thought god helped all his people! Crazy, guess god doesn’t care to provide for these folk then!
So that really helped. They started moving back in as soon as crew left
You know I can understand someone being upset about their things being stolen or thrown away, but when you live on a sidewalk I’m hard pressed to feel bad. Why on earth you are going around lugging furniture makes no damn sense. You live in a tent on a street that gets cleaned every week, you really need furniture?
And why can't they just live in a campground? They wouldn't be asked to move every week. Problem solved.
They pi$$ and crap all over the camp ground! They're disgusting!!
i think it would be less of a problem if they would stop hoarding useless shit and making the city their own personal dumpster..
So why don't you open up your home and invite them in, maybe they can set up tent in your place, or overpriced apartment.
@@tekkamanviper2783Crapfornia
I’m sorry for the folks that find themselves in these situations, but setting up your camp on the freaking sidewalk in front of a Whole Foods?! Give me a break.
All belongings should be limited to the confines of the tent. Except bikes. But only one bike per person.
YES MASTER!!! LOL
In Tampa they give you a year in jail for being homeless
Nevada gives a 6 month jail sentence on a work crew... cleaning up homeless camps...public trash, pulling weeds, pruning greenery, removing paint graffiti, etc.
Then, a one-way Greyhound ticket to any other State! IF caught in NV homeless again, the sentence doubles.
I’m feel especially sad for the residents in the immediate area, thank god the police does everything within their authority to keep the area safe.
yeah- can you imagine living in those yellow apartments and having that as your view every time you looked out? and it is only clean for about 15 minutes a week
Maybe someone should do something about housing for the homeless.
@@blackshagreen5984 especially for the mentally I’ll and homeless people who have fallen on hard times
@Freedomforall1290 unfortunately the truth is most of these people do not want to work. Beleive me.
work is so good for the human spirit... i wonder if these poeple are just unable to hold down a job so they have given up. honestly, no traditional work place is going to hire them bcus of different variables... one being liabilities.. they have no address, no recent work history and if they do certain drugs forget it. non hirable. why we need nomad safe camps with recycle centers right next door that they can work at-if able bodied- for staying at the camps.@@Bryan-jd7os
Why not have county trustee inmates do the manual clean up on the side walk ? Save tax money , keeps them busy ? 😅😅😮
I stopped coming to Venice due to how bad it looks and smells. It’s just sad because these people really don’t have any where to go😢
🤡🤦♂️
They DO have places to go. Except they don't want to go to a shelter or whatever place to get help because they don't want to because they can't drink alcohol, smoke meth, crack, and fentanyl.
they have no desire to go where they have to follow rules
Then let us provide shelter. Why are our taxes NOT spent on this crisis?
they do have shelter- but the shelters have rules and regs and they dont like that. cant do their drugs there@@blackshagreen5984
This is how they live, imagine if they are given an apartment how filthy it would be. I guarantee they would trash ANY surroundings they live in.
I bet they still pee in water bottle
imagine blaming everybody else for your mistakes, and laziness because that’s all it is laziness
Yep, the big difference between us and them is…we get up and go to work every day……..
@@patk1254 So, all of them were born homeless then, right, they never worked? Idiot.
"tHeY aRe aLl lAzY aNd dOo dRuGz aNd aLcOhOl!"
Yeah, keep on believing that, and hope you never have to experience a missed paycheck or two, or have a sudden health problem, or any of the thousands of other things that could land you homeless. And pray you won't have to see first hand just how quickly and badly that shit will break you down in every way, or just how damn hard or near impossible it is to get out of it.
"This will never, ever happen to ME. This only happens to other people."
Keep believing that...
As soon as the police and clean up crew left, the tents are back.
I don't get why these homeless people like to bundle so much trash together it's ridiculous
psychic
Good job police officers, thank you 👍
For the what, homeless should stay where they are. Goes well in the crap democratic run state.
Good job? Is there something wrong with you? You have zero pity or empathy in you. Shame on you. Karma would see you homeless.
Oh please let us know what state you hail from. Don't be a coward.@@AmericaFirst069
Thankyou for sharing this video ❤
Unbelievable how disgusting that sidewalk is
And how the cleanup crew has to pick-up up bottles of urine. They couldn't pay me enough.
This is nothing I got a friend who works for the City downtown by skid row they clean up down there every day always the same s***. Really f/up.
Some people cannot communicate without filth coming from their mouth
They are giving this guy too much time……move him out !!
Flavor Flav fell through rough times
I'd imagine that the people living across the street are paying $2500 or more a month only to look out and see this filth.
This is a drug problem. Where were these people 30 years ago. Not homeless because drugs weren’t so accessible. I have family member who was physically attacked unprovoked by a mentally unstable homeless man. This must stop.
The Chinese way is certainly superior.
@@Booklovr1276
CALIFORNIA IS OFFICIALLY A FAILED STATE…AND SO IS MOST OF THE BLUE WOKE LIBERAL LEFTIST DEMOCRAT STATES AND CITIES. NAME ME A CITY WHO IS LIBERAL WHO DEFUNDED POLICE THAT IS A SAFE PLACE TO LIVE AND VISIT….THERE ARE NONE.
too bad ACLU HAS encouraged the problem by putting lawsuits on every city trying to really solve it.
How much was a house 30 years ago
@@JesusistheFather_ you are right. and how much was a house 30 years before that ? what exactly has our govt done to make housing affordable except to pile on regulations every year and raise the cost of energy ? look at inflation. food up 33 percent under biden. the voters have done this to themselves, and they dont even realize it.
I am thankful he didn’t have a dog. 🙏🕯️
It's a shame that miserable governor let's that beautiful state go.😢😢
This is the most unbelievable s___t I have ever seen. Cussing out the police! Only in California! LMAO 🤣 Good luck 🤞
bcus of BLM the law coddles them now and they know it. also aclu likes to sue cities if you dont kiss their arse
Living in this truly become painful in these last days
@@alexale6-qh2co k if that's so
I remember living in Santa Monica for years and i used to go down
To Venice Beach every day on the bike. Trails it was so clean and nice
I really don't know what happened to beautiful southern California 😢😢😢
Yes, many are choosing this life, but many have tried and struggle. What I have never understood is why cities think letting unchecked camping in prime areas is the only option? Why don't cities allocate more open and quieter areas off the main drags for the homeless? It's almost like it's the plan to damage the prime business and tourist areas? Why?
This bald cop could be nicer about it. Maybe offer some type of help moving and/or ideas. Sometimes that's all people are looking for, concern.
The people wouldn't stay out there they want to be where everything is close drugs people to beg from steal from loot the stores if there was a place way out of the way it would almost be empty
these people get offered numerous suggestions. most of them are beyond caring or looking for solutions. they are mentally ill and no longer know how to function in society@@otrdriverchris
Clean 🧹 🗑️ up time? 😯
Loudmouth needs a disorderly conduct arrest & a 72 hr hold.. Simple..
Churches and non profits are paying the fines and tickets the homeless incur.
Lol 72 hour hold sound like medical torture almost
@@832738 - It certainly would be for him..
Yup, he got serious issues
yes and get rid of his hoard while he is in jail
“I wanna break some fingers!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
All you guys who walk around filming should be using HD Camera Shades. The audio is great and you won't be conspicuous while filming.
I noticed those clean up crews are slow as a turtle 🐢
Cuando se esté instalando el primero hay que aplicarle el desalojo y no cuando ya hayan formado una tribu !
I’m so glad that I live in Florida. I will never visit California again.
I have worked my ass off since young ,this has nothing to with this
There goes my stuff? 😭
That's my crib!! 😯
10+ gov workers standing around...Whose policies allow this??????
Bidens
So so sad for all parties involved. I understand both sides.
Very true
Dont be upset you have to move after you set up a tent and surrounded it with a bunch of junk. :)
They got a French pitbull?? Man these homeless people are rich
These homeless have good taste.They want to live close to the beach.There’s plenty of space in the desert, but they prefer the beach of course!…no rent, fresh air,good view ,free
clean up now and then.
Or set up tent in a garbage land fill. Nobody would ask you to leave or clean up
Invaders are allowed to campout just not our Americans
You know you have to pack it up every week. Stop creating so much work for yourself.
There is plenty of shelters and help out there to get people back on their feet. Most are on the streets by choice because they do not want to go to a shelter where they have to be sober and put in a minimal amount of effort.
now government should make places public camps for homeless people they can stay instead of sidewalk on downtown or neighborhood
One "unhoused" guy I met in San Diego, had been in the Army, but had just got out of prison after arrested driving a vehicle stuffed with drugs.
He had been married, wife wanted to go back to her home town, so she left him, took kids.
He began drinking so much the Army kicked him out. He was arrested for "being homeless" in Nevada, did six months in a jail work crew.
Then he was ordered out of Nevada, given a 1 way voucher for Greyhound. If found homeless in NV again, sentence would be double.
He went to L.A., but the street gangs politics were bad he said, you could not walk around alone. Drugs were everywhere.
He drifted to San Diego, which is mellower, but too close to Tijuana, Mexico.
It wasn't long before he was recruited to drive drugs over the border. Now, he did federal time, and has that on his record.
I bought him some lunch, but no beer. I did not ask about his ex & kids, he finally said he did not want his kids to see him like this.
Never seen again around San Diego, never knew what became of him.
Keeping on keeping on. You can’t give end. I know it is hard work. Venice is looking much cleaner. Thanks for your help. People can tell the difference.
🚨 Officer should say :
" You got problems, take it up
your employer"....
"Hit the road, Jack. And don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more."
I miss the guy who yelled "This is getting very irritating." He must have figured it out and moved on! Keep up the pressure it's working. Way Less Homeless!
i am sure he is still around... just not on that street
OK, this is how it works, you put more effort and money into this homeless situation and you get more homeless, all the time.
Every year you will have more homeless, more diseases and more crime. Vote Democrat to make things worse.
Good job.
Great job!! The homeless are absolutely disgusting and have no care for anything. It's horrible to be a home owner in the area and see all the drugs brought in by the homeless
How in one week do these people collect so much stuff? I thought they clean weekly. They’ve got furniture and everything out there.
You'd be amazed at what people throw out, which is why so many people do the dumpster-diving thing. Seriously good stuff, people will just toss it.
There has to be a solution to this outrageous problem in America! This is totally unacceptable in the most prosperous country on the planet!
Step 1. Quit making excuses for people unable or unwilling to follow the law. Step 2. Involuntarily relocate people who refuse help. Step 3. Build housing and treatment facilities on undeveloped land away from large urban areas.
did you mean to say the most indebted nation on earth ? all this "prosperity " is debt on a national credit card. if it werent for govt handouts a third of the population would live on the streets . america is in major decline and the voters vote for more freebies every election. the freebies arent free. why wasnt it like this 50 years ago in america ? look for that answer.
@@nandi123 We are already doing that for illegals. New apartments food and medical care for illegals.
AskSOB Newsome.He’s not doing his job but giving money to illegal I’m migrants
@@wanarazCorrect. They need to spend money on homeless Americans.
LA Sanitation Dept workers are awesome ! I feel for the homeless people though !
GET EM OUT!!!!
yes, but then they just settle somewhere else
@@arthurmario5996 I dont care if homeless people exist. But we have PLENTY of empty and abandoned towns in the USA to move them too. I just drove through Trona Ca and it was filled with abandoned homes. Venice Beach is a multi-Billion dollar neighborhood and they dont belong there. It isn't the 70's anymore.
and I don't care if they dump you there if you are disabled or when you are too old to work.
So where were the cops when he was putting that tent up
Prime example of someone who doesn’t want to work and blames the world for his failure
Most but not all
Where's the mayors team supposed to help these people find temp housing ?
This guy obviously never heard of the lyrics from the Closing Song: "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here." Dick Sporting Goods must do a land office business selling tents in that neck of the woods!
Parabéns aos Policiais e a toda equipe de limpeza. Infelizmente, isso se repete dia após dia, fazendo com que esquinas e calçadas fiquem difícil de transitar, essa tal liberdade sem responsabilidade não cola. Por mais difícil e dura que seja a vida, não podemos deixar de continuar correndo atrás do nossos objetivos e projetos.
Pero donde va toda esa gente? Dónde van a vivir si no tienen dinero para pagar un aluguel?
Gracias, no hay nada por esas pobres, excepto mas sufriendo. Hoy y in la futura.@@mayrasima2898
“Take it across the street” That’s your fuckin problem right there!
It is sad to see this but what really hurts me is a animal has to live this way they do not have a choice.
Fast forward 2 decades and nobody will want to be a cop. We need to keep those jobs attractive to people that could make a difference. Very little incentive to get into law enforcement these days and that's a problem.
Immigrants will do it .
He has plenty of energy to argue….put that energy to a job……
The amount of time it takes to pack up all of their items, it is assumed that they have been there for quite some time.
Make sure you thank Newsolini and his voters for all of this!
We’d all love to hear your solutions.
@@curtg7396 super easy. The majority stops voting stupid! Not rocket science!
@@curtg7396 well first I don’t vote Democrat, boom half the problem solved. Second half I’d actually use the fund money and apply it to drug rehabilitation, notice I didn’t say mental health? Thats because the mental health part is brought on by the drug use. Third thing is close the state border and strength the drug laws to help slow or eradicate drugs in this crap hole state. I know it’s a long shot trying to undo all the crap NEwsolini and his cronies have created. But you asked.
That guy said to arrest him. Even with his aggression he’s not arrested. I think he WANTS to be arrested. Shelter, food, doctors.
Yes please clean it up thank you
Littering is totally legal now. just as long as you're not a working taxpayer.
it is gross and disgusting and that one Black homeless guy just kicked his trash on the sidewalk! no respect at all
I don't understand why this is allowed to continue. Maybe someone in charge is trying to devalue the area on purpose and then buy everything up cheep later?
People need people it is coming to the end for this world 😢😢 hope everyone gets the help they need , let's pray 🙏 for each other!!!!! God is Love!!!!!
The Aliens are coming very soon , they will make everything correct again .
Imagine checking into a homeless shelter and he is your bunky buddy ..that's why he's there
I rember when portland was a logging town.the city of roses where we went to vacation now you couldnt pay me to go their. Good luck oregon
If these folks are homeless where the hell do they get the money to buy all those hundred dollar plus tents to live in.
The hate against the homeless , what a world
And why just us one tent how about the rolls and rolls and rolls of other tents with homeless????
Was there something exclusive about this neighborhood that why they didn’t want him there?
My goodness who is the mayor who is the governor of that place please vote them out
California is run by left-wing people who destroy everything they can.
They are voted into power by the virtue signaling folks that live in the nice areas that don't have to deal with the homeless in their neighborhoods.
Nothing going to change
Why do t you blame the states that don't or won't take care of their homeless problems!!!!..majority of homeless are not from California. They come because of the beautiful weather most of the year!!!...put the blame where it should go.
that tall Black man had WAY TOO MUCH STUFF to move around. a cart overflowing, 3 other large suitcases.. 2 bikes. he finally moved bcus he knows he is just going to move back there in 15 minutes
Another comment, but my last……there is always one of the cleanup crew that walks in circles with a rake in his hands doing NOTHING!
I am surprised they let that dude leave with so much stuff. They usually limit what they take.
Chinese style c a m p s make perfect sense now.
And yet we offer the world to millions of illegals when we have this kind of horrific situation here at home. Imagine if a fraction of all these billions of dollars spent on illegals would be used to help our own.
It's sad but they have to do. I don't know where they going to go but they have to find somewhere for these people.😢😢
Where do you suggest these people go?
Thank you Governor for allowing our beautiful State of California to crumble. This is why so many people are leaving CA. It’s very scary and sad what’s happened to our state.
Well what ya know, here we are again!
Love California
That's so sad. I wish i had the means to help them
Mas que trabalhadores bem moles!!!!
How much of "his shit" was stollen to begin with ?
My new insurance now is calling me it says mental heath
As much as the Government sends to other countries they could build homeless shelters and get these streets cleaned up
There's going to be a lot more on the streets in tents. Rents are sky high any one can end up homeless these days