EXCLUSIVE: 'It's become an outdoor psychiatric ward!' How California's scenic Venice Beach has become a homeless hotspot with tent cities, violent crime and rampant drug use pushing families and tourists out
Venice Beach, California, is known as a tourist hotspot with an iconic boardwalk filled with tarot card readers, tattooists, wannabe rappers and the artists trying to make a buck by selling their work
But visitors' numbers have decreased as they have to contend with an ever-growing army of homeless and the crime that accompanies them
The homeless have abandoned downtown LA's Skid Row for Venice Beach where a city of tents are set up along the boardwalk and on the sand