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U.S. District Judge David O. Carter’s order to Los Angeles officials to sweep homeless people off skid row into shelters or housing is grounded in his conviction that a wrongheaded focus on creating permanent housing has perpetuated racism, spread encampments and caused the avoidable deaths of Black people.
But the complexities of the lives of homeless people on skid row suggest that shelters may be, at best, an incomplete and unwelcome solution to the homelessness that has persisted in the 50-block district downtown for more than 50 years.
“They’re putting the smallest Band-Aid on a hemorrhaging wound,” said skid row activist and poet Suzette Shaw. “They don’t think we are real people.”
LAPD s Robbery-Homicide Division Shuts Down Sex Crimes Unit
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The Los Angeles Police Department announced its Robbery-Homicide Division (RHD) was forced to disband its Sex Crimes Unit within the last two weeks. The unit s elimination comes amid budget cuts and the movement to defund the police.
High-ranking officers and law professionals have criticized the move, claiming high-profile cases like Harvey Weinstein and Ron Jeremy will be far more challenging to investigate.
Critics say the special unit consisted of detectives with expertise and special training to properly investigate cases. Now, those cops will be spread out to other LAPD divisions and will decrease the manpower needed to properly work sex crime cases.
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Self-initiated dwellings in Southern California support the formalised housing systems that surround them, while bearing the brunt of all risks
Southern California has remarkable topographic diversity, boasting mountains, rolling hills, canyons, valleys and deserts. Across this varied terrain, developers have built ticky-tacky houses, ‘little boxes all the same’. Yet woven around and between the multimillion-dollar mansions, luxury condos and middle-class stucco is an architectural diversity unseen in the everyday: repurposed materials have been shaped into housing and tucked into canyons. Tent cities emerge from dry riverbeds. Homeowners quietly rent out converted garages. Unhoused families use cars as bedrooms and living rooms. Most homeowners and renters are aware of alternate housing systems, but they are also uncertain: they do not know how many people are housed where, or un