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With rats running everywhere among piles of decaying garbage, these shocking images of a tent city look like a sordid third world shanty — but are actually downtown Los Angeles.
The horrifying photos show what the Los Angeles Times calls “collapse of a city that’s lost control” — and what is believed to have left at least one LAPD cop with typhoid.
“The city of Los Angeles has become a giant trash receptacle,” Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez complained.
The decay covers large chunks of Skid Row, a sprawling 50-block area that is believed to be the base for around 4,200 homeless people.
“What century is this?” Lopez asked.
“Is it the 21st century in the largest city of a state that ranks among the world’s most robust economies, or did someone turn back the calendar a few hundred years?”
He described someone even dumping “a fat load of poop” in the streets among the rest of the dirt and depravity.
“It used to be that illegal dumpers were a little more discreet, tossing their refuse in fields and gullies and remote outposts,” Lopez wrote.
“Now city streets are treated like dumpsters, or even toilets.”
More at the link: https://nypost.com/2019/06/02/insid...d0Zm-_SJjS4cPmCWBRQfl803Fj2D-HMDfqXE-PeTwBkhk
Poster's note: wanted ask for prayers for our brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus who are doing Kingdom work in and around Skid Row. Here is one such ministry which runs a shelter: Union Rescue Mission - Helping People in LA Overcome Homelessness
The horrifying photos show what the Los Angeles Times calls “collapse of a city that’s lost control” — and what is believed to have left at least one LAPD cop with typhoid.
“The city of Los Angeles has become a giant trash receptacle,” Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez complained.
The decay covers large chunks of Skid Row, a sprawling 50-block area that is believed to be the base for around 4,200 homeless people.
“What century is this?” Lopez asked.
“Is it the 21st century in the largest city of a state that ranks among the world’s most robust economies, or did someone turn back the calendar a few hundred years?”
He described someone even dumping “a fat load of poop” in the streets among the rest of the dirt and depravity.
“It used to be that illegal dumpers were a little more discreet, tossing their refuse in fields and gullies and remote outposts,” Lopez wrote.
“Now city streets are treated like dumpsters, or even toilets.”
More at the link: https://nypost.com/2019/06/02/insid...d0Zm-_SJjS4cPmCWBRQfl803Fj2D-HMDfqXE-PeTwBkhk
Poster's note: wanted ask for prayers for our brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus who are doing Kingdom work in and around Skid Row. Here is one such ministry which runs a shelter: Union Rescue Mission - Helping People in LA Overcome Homelessness