Homeless Encampment Clean-up in Venice
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- City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works sanitation workers in white hazardous materials suits, with Clean Harbors Environmental Services, clean-up homeless encampments at Hampton Drive in Venice on Thursday January 20, 2022. Los Angeles Police Officers were on site to provide security.
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People would be more tolerant if the homeless cleaned up their own mess just like us homeowners who have to keep our own property clean.
nah, not really. people dont want to have to step over junkies nomatter how tidy their hovels are.
Answer! tropical island where they run free to do whatever in their own province. The island of "freedom"
@@thatdude3977 why would you give them an island, and a tropical one at that? a better solution is to lock them in the city sewers where they belong.
@@thatdude3977 or Slab City the last free place on earth they say.
@@megaflux7144 well out in the pacific ocean there is no escape they are forced to be sober. In a sewer they can always get stuff down there.
I'm still baffled how all that junk fits and gets swallowed/crushed by that one truck! When does it say enough already!
These people know how to get a job done and efficiently and even power washing the sidewalk.
I lived in Venice 30 years ago. It was close to the beach and Santa Monica. Homeless starts moving in and became a dump. House values and rent start to go up and squeeze out those who cannot afford the housing. The homeless are NOT the poor, they have nothing so they stay! The city should do this kind of clean-up every other day to make sure encampments do not exists.
@UCSjFn9xAYA8leC2vTSMRIAQ the poor either move out of the city or become homeless. The poor have no real choice. It would be longer commuting or find another job. Of course, if the poor get on welfare like section 8 rental, they may be able to stay.
and you should lose your job and go thru misery
I remember passing through encampments a few months back at night and would see needles and pills on the floors. Good job santa monica
blame it on over population
It is funny that they were explaining this stuff before the Superbowl was coming in the only reason they are doing this is because they going to try to look all clean for the Super Bowl
This team works hard and does a terrific job!
Thank goodness they’re working every day trying to eradicate the hoarding situation 👍🏼💯😬
Such a pleasant neighborhood and then to see all that trash is such a shame 😞🌴☀️
What’s the point? They’ll just trash another street or park. They need to be put in a hospital where they can get help. Why do the rest of us need to deal with their crap
Agreed!
The problem is that the SCOTUS, some time ago, ruled that being homeless/crazy is not illegal. LE has to wait until the crazy brakes the law before they can move them into the system where MANDATORY help is available ---a -bigger problem are the courts going easy on the crazies because of some whacked ideology or if the court does mandate treatment --there isn't any available 'cause the politicians won't fund it/public refuses to pay higher taxes.
What's the point of wiping your ass every time you shit!!!!!! It needs to be done, Do Ya get it now?
Even tho the ppl move back in at least the “stuff” is thinned out. cleaned up washed down for sanitary reasons. There’s so many homeless this is about the best they can do. Appreciate all these workers very much
They have cleaned that street before its seems like it will be a never ending job. They spend a lot of money and it's not helping anything. They clean it and they come back.
Great job CLEAN TEAM
That's a hard working crew!
I kno right, my ass would be exhausted at the end of the day.
Put signs everywhere stating if you set up camp you stuff will be trashed!!!!
These videos are extremely informative about the Quality of Life issues facing the Los Angeles and surrounding communities. I hope the Santa Monica Pier becomes family friendly soon enough.
In 1970, I used to often ask to get dropped of at the Santa Monica Pier so that I could fish overnight. I was 13. I'd have to take a bus home was the only issue I ever had, except for a single time I encountered familiar bullies from Eagle Rock Junior High. They said they'd beat me up and throw me off the pier, and I jumped up and said, "Ha! Race you to shore! Somebody grab my pole for me, okay?" and then did a backflip into the water.
They won the race, but I won their friendship(for a time). If you want to destroy the enemy you need simply to have them want to be a friend instead.
@@willoughby1888 The Pier of today compared to the one of even the 2000s is horrible and horrific to say the least! This Pier has become a mess and the city needs to clean up the riff raff to avoid making it a slum spot.
Why dont you "hope" with a more intelligent vote.
@@mikemccormick8115 When the “majority” votes DemoRat, any other vote is nullified by the Supermajority on questionable grounds. They control the money purses and salaries of elected officials. How would you change the voting then?!
@@player4life11111 Well theres a bigger picture and voting is really useless. There is a ruling class with a master plan to control, subjugate us and make us poor. Until we understand who and what this ruling class is and that simple, too tolerant, cowardly working class like us have no access to real, open information, we will continue social deterioration. This is inevitable. The two party political system has evolved to massive failure. We arent smart or courageous enough to help ourselves at this point. We make mistake in thinking either party is interested in our condition or welfare.
They should have the police to check if the blue expense Mt. Bike (probably over $1,000.00 bike)stolen, that stupid that they crushed it
Police don't have the time to mess with stolen bikes, they can't keep up on the stolen Cars...
I’m sure one of the city workers will take it home 🤣
@@b.h.7423 👍
I think the same thing. Why does one homeless person have 15 bikes.... Then you look around and they all have 5 - 15 bikes each....
@@standdown4929 steal sell and repeat
Just like they did the beaches. A good name for this is " City on the move". They should continue to keep this project going never letting the streets go stagnant. It's the people's common area and public sidewalks not for anyone to claim as theirs. Not rich or poor alike.
They just go right next to a new location. The only way to reduce the problem is to bring jobs back, have universal health care and more family programs. Public transportation helps too.
@@ursulasmith6402 Thats why I say " city on the move" never allowing it to go stagnant. They can move to somewhere where it does not effect the populous w their crapping and pissing and trashing public walkway.
The only reason they're doing this is for 🎪 superbowl. I have an idea: Show the L.A. and surrounding towns' homeless situation during a superbowl commercial so the world sees how serious the situation is. I'll hold my breath...
The joke is that all sports events are rigged.
Keep coming every week or every other week until they see you are serious!
The homeless are dangerous and out of control. Don't let your loved ones like a mother , wife , daughter go to the store by themselves. The homeless are dangerous ....
I would disagree because I did security and would give them food water and my recycling goods over time. I even would show them a safe spot sleep. All comes down treating people with kindness.
@@judgeparker2767 many are unstable and dangerous. Not all, but many. Women need to be careful. West Coast homeiess are frightening. Saw it.
Not sure why anyone thinks they can take over public sidewalks & streets in front of businesses and neighborhoods and live there like they own the place 🤦🏻♀️… and have crazy amounts of junk … I guess if your homeless then all you need is a suitcase, duffle back & sleeping bag… these people had whole bedrooms & living rooms 🙈…
top 5 homeless accoutrements ; skate board, guitar, back pack, pitbull and fat bitch
This is both sad and necessary. But I say make the city government come out and clean up these neighborhoods. Mayor, city commission, etc. You can bet your ass they will come out with an array of solutions to the homeless problems........
volunteer
A great clean up 👏👏👏👏
YOU DON'T BRING your living room with you when your homeless. These are folks who want to do drugs instead of paying their rent....
Removing the filth, needles, and disease. It should have never gotten out of hand like this. Truly an example of government incompetence.
Why don’t we start with you first
I live in the northern CA foothills where we never see homeless camp sites. Oh wait. I just saw one with about 40 tents and less than a mile from an elementary school.
ha ha
I know it's only a small piece, but it's a start. Great job by all involved. Thx LAPD for providing security.
You should haft to get a federal tax stamp for a tent in California. That fixed the gun issue lol
Ah what the hell, just put em up in your backyard
Where in the hell do the homeless get all that crap from
Dumpsters
Dumpsters, alleys. Crap thrown out by the rest of us consumers/users. Most of it made in China. But hey, we need our "stuff".
They are tougher on the homeless than they are criminals.
no difference between the two these days
BS
Give people an inch and they will take a mile. This is awful , I understand people can be homeless under all kinds of circumstances but they don't have to live like pigs and live among trash , trash that they have caused and made themselves.
Law and order, we all need a clean and safe place to live. Homeless have too many excuses !
No, who can pay $ 5000000000000 for a studio?
4:29 there goes a 🔵 mansion.
Wonder if they found any change?
All show for the super 🍜
Not city workers they'd be there weeks. Contracted out I'm sure.
Oh cool they can come back an live on a clean street again. The homeless have it maid.
‘We can’t pay these workers enough. And in 6 months they’ll be back again to the same spot.
Sooner after the superbowl when all the money has been tabulated and collected tax revenue is recorded
Que bueno que estén limpiando las veredas .estaban con muchas cosas .
I am wondering why you do not spray the area down with a disinfecting agent after it is cleaned a sweep?
There might be disinfectant going through the pressure washer as well so it penetrants at the same time.
@@travelling_stephen They have even found cases of TB in the recent past, so I hope they use a disinfectant.
It kinda breaks my heart seeing everything a person owns thrown in a dumpster.i was homeless for about a yr,and will admit that it's hard to find a safe place to store your belongings.but,theres also alot of nasty shit that I wouldn't touch with a ten foot hole.
Sorry to hear that Where did these people end up? Hope they shelter them at hotels, but I feel they can’t shelter them forever, eventually they’ll come back. They lost a lot of good stuff it seems Be safe!🙏🏼
@@siry5164 alot of them come back later,or just move down the block and set up a new spot.luckily,I kept clean so I was able to stay at a shelter.most don't want any rules,and choose to stay on the streets so they can continue to drink or do drugs...it's sad,but not all homeless are like that.everyone needs a chance!!
I don’t live there but in Bakersfield and the homeless nuisance while no comparison to LA and such, but still very bad. I work security and constantly have to run them off property or have PD assistance; Only few times did they ever arrest any. However, I am glad to see some bigger cities taking action.
Annie, get your gun...
How many times and for how long will the *Cities/states,* supervisors continue to allow this? They have cleaned up that very street numerous times. The so-called homeless activists are enabling this, they're the ones providing materials for the homeless. I believe those activists should be given hefty fines and probably prosecuted!
What is also frustrating, most of these homeless are not even from the area, a lot are not from California. Cities and other states have been sending homeless and ex prisoners to certain parts of California. Local officials know this but do nothing about it.
Fell free to leave
@@bcmcboot.... Says, the-dummy with poor grammar.
🚨 This cleanup effort is fine, as long as we understand that this does not fix the problem; ee need to address the homeless issue as a priority, just because you kick a bunch of homeless out of a block that will not fix the problem! 😎✌️
We have already paid billions in taxes! Where's the accountability? By the way, part of the homeless money is going to cleanup crews.
I hear one of Pelosi's properties has acreage
It fixes the problem for that block.
Keep up the good work .... if they did this every day ... they would be working for years ... 🙄
Well that is their job!!!! Daaaa!!
Actually they'll be working for days
Alot of good stuff Probably sloten
I had a micro panic at 4.15 minutes when the blue and white tent was put into the truck.. i thought
there was a person having a little doze in that tent.....
City does this clean up in Toronto too, poor homeless just move on to another park, and start collecting shit again. These people really need Govt. assistance
♦️"I have never been homeless. I have seen what being homeless has done to people. They are NOT, I REPEAT NOT, the scourge of the earth. They are unfortunate people who do not have a home. They need a place to live, food to eat, clothes to wear, friends and family to care about them, and most of all dignity and salvation. Do something to help - do not heap on criticism."♦️
For some but most of them have some kind of a drug problem 😢
Also mental issues is the most needs I see. People need mental help.
@@edward1967able , They still need help, even if addicted to drugs.
@@msdecemberloveangel8236 , very true too.
Make a law no homeless camps withing 500 feet of a residential zone. Except foe the skid row area.
Venice is gonna be lookin good very soon, it seems!
Nice to see Newsome trying to clean up for the Super Bowl visitors.
smoke pot off clock.
thank you Newsome
Did they steal someone's surfboard ? Lol
This had to happen a long TIME AGO!!!
THIS IS WHAT WE NEED CLEAN THE STREETS... LEAVE STREET VENDING ALONE!! THOSE r hard working people
Also, there's "hardworking people" who drive automobiles UNLICENSED and uninsured and have caused accidents, will you have the same sentiment if they hit YOU? 🤨
@@TrainHornPranksandMore 'different things, same premise'! 😉
2:26 dude picks something up and puts it in his pocket 😂
Much respect ---nasty job.
Why isn’t this happening in Kensington Philadelphia. Remove the tents.make it a fine too
Loiter in front of businesses.this is what should happen.too clean up sidewalks so others can walk.
No help for them people
Only sick people use drugs
Most of these homeless people are perfectly capable of finding employment. They just choose not to work and expect others to take care of them because it’s easier. There’s nothing wrong in cleaning this garbage up.
Some of them are working poor, can't afford a place of their own. Many are mentally ill and self medicating with drugs or alcohol. I have no answer for this problem.
@@roseannparker5800 they're mentally ill BECAUSE of drugs and alcohol, stop making excuses for them.
Many do work. They steal bikes and sell parts. They steal items from open yards. They collect cans and sell. They beg outside a store. They'll wash your window at a light. They'll prostitute themselves. Break car windows if they see a bag in seat. It's hustling for whatever reason. It's maybe not acceptable to many buts it's work.
There was a time I’d help.
Not anymore. It’s disgusting what this state has become. And please don’t say housing cost or mental issues
You are right, as you can see most of these people were able bodied.
@@dircia7754
My wife runs a skilled nursing home and homeless show up there. Very able people
They get surgery and need care for a week and go back out. The social Dept does interviews with each. They can work but most say. Why.
Yes there are people who do need help but not as many as you’d think.
And welfare gets me mad. It was supposed to be used to help you out. Not live on.
Our system is shit.
I know of people who have kids every few years to keep the checks coming.
I know of people who have been on welfare for 20 years. Never worked a day. Rent paid. Free food. Medical.
I’m so over it
This should have been addressed when they first started camping out in our streets . Go to a shelter . We are tired of these people trashing our cities ,leaving filth in the streets . Shame on the city mayors for not getting a handle on this before it gets to this. Thanks go out to the people cleaning up this mess.
The shelters don't let you stay in them. They kick you out assuming you were let in. If there's proper reform and use of the shelters than it'd be ok.
you should be helping them
Canada doesn't have this problem, Scandinavia either. They must be doing something right, oh, programs for families and universal health care. People losing their houses over a hospital bill, outrageous! No where else do people know those words, hospital bills! Couldn't get me to live in the U.S.
you have to have insurance in ca if not the state provides it they didnt lose their house because of medical bills ,they are addicts and mentally ill in the us you cant make them get treatment they call them homeless because there is a cottage industry that gets billions of dollars each year it is wasted on the salaries of the people who run the programs very little goes to the people
Stupid comment, these deadbeats didn't lose their homes to hospital bills. They live this way because they choose to. Too lazy to work. Canada has their share of problems as well. Stop pretending they dont.
your misinformed. Good, stay there
This ..this shopping cart is all I’ll ever need ..
(The jerk take 2)
Lord, don't take her she's all i got. She's everything in life i'll ever need. (who did it?)
That person with the shopping cart going for round 2.
WHY NOT MOVE THEM OUT BY SALT AND SEA THEIR A OLD MILITARY BASE THAT LETS THEM LIVE THEIR GIVE EACH ONE A TINY HOUSE THEY CAN LIVE IN
Food and drug drops weekly so they STAY out there.
@@myprophet1 THEY PROBLEY GET DRUGS IN SLAB CITY AS WELL AND NOT MANY COPS TO BOTHER THEM
LOL
Soon as...I'm bringing my tent right back🤣
Unbelievable all this garbage, dirt and debris on public ground! 👿These people are hard working and doing a great job! 👍 Venice used to be a nice place, also for tourists. It’s not a garbage dump.
Operating that compactor looks like a lot of fun.
volunteer
So satisfying to see the pressure washing of the sidewalks.
don't go barefoot
So, when the workers leave, they'll move all their stuff back????
ya you’d think they would travel light.
A fun fact Angelenos should be proud of, the top three major cities in the country with the highest rat infestation problem Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.
That's a fact every major City has with dense population....maybe if other states would take care of their homeless population instead of forcing them to come out west it would help the whole countries homeless problem..
@@wolfmansicario4482
I remember when the DC Mayor rounded up the homeless back in the 80's gave them $100 and put them on a bus to Vegas so he wouldn't have to pay fir "heating" the shelters. The mayor of Las Vegas put them on a bus and sent them back.
@@cheyennetapiasmith9056 ...ya..lmao.......seems everybody likes to point fingers but nobody wants to accept responsibility....I understand many homeless don't want help except for taking the money offered....
This need to happen in every state
yes. If fact, we should get a whole new world
Se fizesse parte dessa equipe, diria que estava doente e não iria. Pois não quero fazer parte em destruir abrigos de alguns sem-teto.
Me dói.
Make loitering illegal again
When the very lucrative homeless projects, government funded, some of the non profit organization actually cared about people over money, the streets would be better.
On the other hand, getting free stuff has enabled a lot of perfectly healthy adults to do nothing with their lives, such as get a job.
Make it a no loitering community, no littering community, did I mention no loitering community.
I am 70 years old with a prostate problem , who is going to give me a job, plus I get no benefits or assistance from the government. I am a US. Citizen ! The only money I get is from playing music on the street! Thank you from my heart to yours, Michael ❤️🎶🙏
see wiki for REAL WORLD
You couldn't pay me enough to inhale the air that comes out of those tents..
One day we will all be remembering when they would clean the streets from the homeless😄
Why don’t government have the land for these people to go to and where they can make it into community.
Like Alcatraz Island ??? plenty of prebuilt housing along with water and power ??? Just drop in supplies once a month and all the homeless could have their own "community" and be happy as pigs in poop.
Basically room service
Are only city paid employees doing this laborious wrk?perhaps the homeless should be also involved in cleaning the streets. Give them the motivation to do better for themselves.
Perhaps if they closed the border and kept the drugs out, you wouldn't have nearly as bad of a problem. Perhaps if they hadn't promised FREE SHIT to everyone who came there, this wouldn't have happened. Perhaps if they didn't do this to get a voting block to remain in power, this wouldn't be like this.
PERHAPS YOU NEED TO CLEAN THE DEMOCRATS OUT OF OFFICE TOO!!
need much more but a good start god bless remove the evil
The city encourages this, wastes money that could be helping these people, then they toss what less they have.
if i was homeless i sure wouldnt be camping out in the middle of the city, thats just stupid i would find a wooded area near the city and pimp my home there
@gfydrama
Obviously, not a native Californian
you need to put homeless advocates in the garbage truck
99 percent of these encampments are all drug addicts. No matter what you do to help them goes STRAIGHT to the SCUMBAG DEALER. It’s HARD to have sympathy.
was für eine Müllkippe jetzt ist es dank euch wieder sauber super Arbeit
17:55 throws stolen motorcycle into the trash instead of locating the owner....
Shows JUST how much this state cares for it's citizens and their property.
Homeless people, passive California government and illegal drugs and your worried about a motorcycle? How do you even know it's stolen?
@@lbindert
Yeah, I'm worried about a motorcycle. All those reasons you mentioned are *why* it's there! SOMEBODY *_worked_* to pay for that. At the *very minimum* they deserve to know they can come get what's left.
How do I know it's stolen? *SERIOUSLY??*
By the SAME logic explaining why there aren't a bunch of luxury cars being driven by the no-wash nomads.
@@mikeh8416 .. I'll repeat what Lynn said. How do you know it's stolen? Thousands of motorcycles are tossed out beside the roads to be trashed each year - and the homeless are noted for picking up anything that might be of value, however small.
@@robinstewart6510 I've owned a few bikes in my 40 years of riding. Not a SINGLE one was "left" on the side of the road (mostly because it's illegal and you get FINED). I have however had one stolen.
Point being is that they didn't even TRY running the vin, they just tossed it and the LEGAL owner might have at least wanted to know.
And again with "how do I know it was stolen?". It's called THINKING. HOMELESS PEOPLE DON'T OWN MOTORCYCLES, THEY SOLD THEM BEFORE THEY CAME HOMELESS TO PAY THEIR BILLS.
@@mikeh8416 .. Yeah, and I've owned a few bikes in my years of riding and you're full of crap. Unless your state is vastly different than mine, it is not illegal to leave bikes and bike parts on the side of the road for garbage pickup. I'm sure you yourself have done it. You're off on a tantrum here that has no point. I've explained how they more than likely obtained the motorcycle parts (just like all the other garbage they collect), none of which necessarily has anything to do with theft.
This makes me sick. I live in a homeless shelter in London, Ontario, Canada and almost everyday in the nice weather someone from the city or elsewhere tears down the tents that are standing.
You can tell by the way the workers handle the belongings they don't care what happens to any of it.
I've been homeless for almost three years and it's getting harder not easier to find an affordable place to live. I'm on pension now so things for me are a little easier.
London is a beautiful city with a lot of old money and old attitudes that go with it.
About three years ago two articles came out in Canadian newspapers. One article spoke of homeless rates on a per capita basis: London had more cases of homelessness than any other city in Canada. The other article spoke of the distribution of government funds. London got the largest share which makes sense as they have more homeless than anywhere else in Canada. There have been no new shelters built here in quite some time.
So where did all that money go?
Let me get that nice umbrella though!
Guy in the blue doesn't look like he wants the job. No mask, no white coveralls, picking up things from the sidewalk and putting them in his pockets. Gross running hands thru hair with dirty gloves.
How far do they actually move away from where the camp was.
Is there still outreach offer Housing for these individuals or is the funding switched to the Rapid Re-Entry Program? Step Up Humans need Love, Compassion, Housing and Food.
They need to work
I'd say about half the homeless don't want to work and like doing what they want.
Definitely can see city government concerns......homeless out of sight, train robberies ok
Does the city are police give these people notice that they need to leave by a certain date OR do they just show up? Will the police make the people on the corner move?
Why don’t government have the land for these people to go to and make it into community instead of letting them be in the street like this.
Find places for people to sleep, my goes out to anyone who homeless
Bonin and Garcetti built that!
I could see where some pitchforks would’ve come in handy.
Yes, it’s labor & time intensive, but they just need to stay ahead of the ‘accumulation’ thing, & make it impossible for them to keep any more than a backpack worth of stuff, & there’s no option except shelter housing.. For most, it’ll require some incarseration, if only to seperate them from their ‘stuff’, so it can be disposed of..
this should never happen in the first place
This should be a NATIONWIDE thing, but replace it with resources ready for the homeless.....don't be heartless! 😥
I could swear there ARE resources for the homeless 🤔. Lots and lots of resources, actually.
@@oldbroad7672 you've got a point, I don't know why the "homeless" won't take advantage of them?! 🤔
I can see a worker being hurt by that big yellow bin coming down or up on them......ladies touch at the end...I like it....well done nice job.....
Excellent
It's heartbreaking. I understand the junk and tarps, but the new tents and pop-up awnings should have been dismantled and put in a spot to be claimed. I feel for the residents and business owners who can't even walk down the street, and in all fairness alot of these homeless make this type of clean-up necessary because they aren't discrete.....they bring junk and garbage and make it impossible for people to even walk by. It is disgraceful than a nation such as ours allows this. The government needs to step in and come up with short-term solutions and long-term solutions to deal with this on-going issue.
PS-----I wonder how long b4 they set up again in the same place.....
Bringing jobs back WHAT EVERYBODY CAN DO!
it about time all over the city's😃
It’s like watching the show Hoarders