WEEKLY CLEANUP: Three People, Two Shopping Carts all in One Restroom Stall!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 เม.ย. 2023
- The City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works sanitation workers, in collaboration with Clean Harbors Environmental Inc., conducted a cleanup operation of homeless encampments at the Venice Beach restrooms and on and around the Venice Beach Boardwalk on Friday, April 21, 2023. The operation was prompted by significant health and safety concerns for both the unhoused and the general public, as many of the unhoused individuals had been using the restrooms as living quarters.
Sanitation workers, donned in white hazardous materials suits as part of the safety protocol, worked alongside LAHSA (Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority) to provide homeless outreach during the cleanup. To ensure the safety of all involved, Los Angeles Park Rangers were present at the site throughout the operation. The cleanup takes place every Friday in Venice and aims to maintain the cleanliness and hygiene of the area.
There are two separate waste management teams with different roles working in collaboration. City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, wearing the yellow safety vests, and Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc., wearing the orange safety vests. The Clean Harbor team goes in first to sort through the garbage to identify, collect, and segregate the hazardous waste items such as batteries, urine, syringes, etc. Once they finish collecting the Hazardous Waste, Los Angeles Public Works sanitation workers take over and collect the remaining garbage.
The City of Los Angeles has been actively addressing the issue of homelessness in the area and sees the Venice Beach cleanup as just one part of their ongoing efforts. While these cleanups are essential to improving public health and safety, they are not a solution to the larger issue of homelessness. The City of Los Angeles continues to work on implementing long-term solutions to address the root causes of homelessness and provide resources to those in need.
The Venice Beach cleanup is an important step in providing much-needed resources and support to the unhoused individuals in the area. The City of Los Angeles remains committed to addressing the issue of homelessness in the area and will continue to work towards long-term solutions.
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Looks like the handicap bathrooms are now the luxury suites with ocean view .
Yup! 😂
If it were required that the city council members, mayor, governor, etc. clean this themselves your problem would be solved.
Exactly how would they solve this?
they would resolve it by doing the cleaning and knowing first hand what they created by not enforcing the law. Maybe you should house them and tell us your experience?
That low life, Mayate thinks he's Mr. Cool!
Its amazing how much crap people have when they're homeless.
They become trash hoarders.
It's that 'I might need it later' mentality
I could never be homeless. I can't be without all my stuff. It's my livelihood. What would I do all day?
Am I just a paycheck away from this? No. Most people aren't unless they're subsidized by the government which won't support you if you have alot of savings.
Ive been homeless, and I have to agree.
probably stolen
If I throw trash on the beach I get a ticket. They leave piles of garbage and nothing is done. No wonder they continue to do it.
What’s the point of cleaning up after them ? Let them live in their filth. Lock the doors permanently.
@@richard3536 . Lock the doors permanently....with them inside.
Come back a week later, and hose it out.
Their was one man who had received enough tickets to "make a roll of toilet paper" out of them. If he could not afford to pay the first fine, then was the City really expecting to receive payment from any subsequent fines? I see his point on that.
But clearly they need a better approach than this as they are literally shuffling the problem around.
If they’re not working how do they pay ?
The reason you get a ticket and they don't is because they have no revenue and it cost them (us) taxpayers to house and feed them and no one wants a freebie loafer to take care of in jail.
Next week! 4 people a dog 🐕 and 3 shopping carts.
the heavy doors should be locked by a ranger at 10 PM and opened at 7 AM with a thumb lock divider inside so the floor cannot be used as a bed
Ameryka jest jak Getto Żydowski, jedni umierają a drudzy jedzą ciastka z kremem.
That would take work and little pay when these arses get paid 22 an hour
@@waza9986it's getting more and more like that everyday. The government is killing the middle class.
Miser
@@jeffreyconnor9769 you say miser until you have to poop and a squatter is in each room
This is progress now get the homeless in CCC type camps: detox, 3 square meals a day, adult supervision, and work projects like picking up litter, panting, etc.
Like YMCA camp for adults.
Thank you to the community workers, police, etc. for taking this on.
Keep filming these and let’s give the workers what they need to expand this across America.
There is hope!’
Without hope nobody has anything
In between shooting up right?
I had said the same thing about the
CCC camps, my father was part of it as we're his 2 brothers, and thousands of other young Americans, We as a Country need programs like that, Many of the young don't know how to do anything, They just want a free handout an do drugs all day... They've never had direction, responsibility, Those programs would help so much...Many of the homeless problem is the fact that once you have a felony,or some type of drug arrest or even one eviction will turn your life upside down...We need to be compassionate to our American Citizens, Not just Migrants...
YEAH! IT'S ALL SET UP AND RUN ! BY THIEV'IN, LYING AND MANIPULATING! CHRISTIAN'S . AND YOUR HEAD DRAGON 🐲🐉 RIGHT.
Omg yes she literally lives there and not one person ever saids anything to her. It really is once a week cleaning up of the toilet hotel
Hahahaha any rooms available
Who pays to clean these stalls which are intended for people who visit the beach and need to use the facilities and are expecting to have a safe stall free of needles, & other "things" ? Can't have a family outing anymore because of THIS abomination!
Yea it's a real shame i grew up in Venice and the beach and the boardwalk were over run with people and charactors of all sorts when i was a kid but it was still a fine place to take your kids.
@@Momma-_-Dew 😂😂😂
I feel like we are watching a days in the life of this couple
Knock! Knock! Housekeeping! 😁
And free pancakes with syrup and coffee! Sorry we don't have cream or milk for the coffee!🥲
The one guy who was removed from the restroom was just sitting nearby so he could go right back in as soon as they leave!
Thank you for all your hard work Fabian😊😊😊😊😊
Jail is too expensive? How much does THIS cost!?? I feel like it's just as expensive-- lock em up for drugs and atleast give them hope to recovery. Living in the beach toilet is disgusting.
AT 6:10, DID HE REALLY TELL THAT DOG TO MIND HIS BUSINESS?😁
WHEN DOES IT END!? WHY DO POLICIES ALLOW THIS. CHANGE THE LAWS OR FOLLOW THEM. THIS IS EMBARRASSING.
Aren't your tax dollars suppose to prevent this problem?
It will never end, only get worse.
Poor taxpayers!!! They get to pay for this every week!!!!!
3 people & 2 shopping carts in that small bathroom, like sardines in a can.
Not sure what species would spend the night in a pubic restroom with 2 others. At one time may have been humans but seem to have been morphed onto 2 legged cockroaches.
Its mental illness from drug use or plain drugs!!
The soon as they leave he will be back
Looks much better..thank you for doing a great job
It won’t last long.They’ll be back,come nightfall.
@@eh-i1841 , whats your solution? At least they took action..
Don't just pound on the bathroom doors, give them one warning and then give them a tear gas eviction notice.
that would probably prevent them from coming back
Yikes again and again clean up after the homeless same old cycle at some point the state has to do something as the beach isn’t a camp ground I feel bad for that dog it should have a actual home.
Groundhog's Day!😊
This is why we can't have nice things!
I have been watching these videos. I also find it fascinating that they all have up to date cell phones. I work full time and I own an Apple 10
They need to say in contact with the drug connections.
You and them have different priorities, sad but true 😢
Almost a dozen paid employees just standing around waiting on the same problematic trespassers ... $$$$$$ every week. Pay one employee to lock up and open with legal beach access hours.
The politicians that made the laws all live in plush gated communities and don’t have to deal with the consequences of their actions. Think about that next election.
Well said.
THEY ONLY WANTS THE PEOPLE'S VOTES , THEY DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE!
Waste of breath. Do you think if people cared they would be in office in th PW first place?
Three people, two shopping carts. I keep thinking of Mary Poppins and her travel bag. It's like magic. I keep wondering what else there going to pull out.
Or a clown car at the circus.
That's skateboard guy and his girlfriend. The go thru this once a week. The city cleans up after them weekly. I still wouldn't use the toilets!
ADA family compliant restroom. At least there were no mattresses or beach umbrellas in there.
Black leotard lady has been seen in virtually every episode of the cleanup.
Daisy the Healer? Oversized bolt-ons?
Beautiful blue sky and looking out to the water 🩵
The garbage workers are weird people. They toss the rubbish from side to side several times instead of throwing the crap straight into bin bags. This is how you can get a job...
Looking for needles and drugs
@@ksmith2852 I get that. But if I already grab the parts with the gripper tongs, I can throw them straight away into a garbage bag.
Ha ha They're looking for left over drugs for them selves !!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As if everyone does drugs. Such a lame joke.
@@helloitsme9808 If the police or drug investigators go through the rubbish and pick it up with the pliers, you can throw the individual pieces into a rubbish bag immediately after checking them out.
Nice video coverage of the clean-up. Sanitation Dept does a very good job, too! Park Rangers/LAPD certainly treat people with lots of respect. This is coming from a former homeless person.
THOSE BATHROOM'S ? ARE FOR RESPONSIBLE AND RESPECTED? GAY AND LESBIAN + PEOPLE POPULATION? "RIGHT"?
YOUR! ANOTHER, NON-PROFIT PROFITEER. MORE MONEY, MORE TIME. RIGHT!
Such beautiful scenery,you guys don't take it for granted 😕😕😕
Don't you think it's time get the night patrol's in to protect the park and the beach too!!
That's what I'm saying.
Even a low-paid security guard to call the cops when someone starts squatting at night.
This is 💯%how it is and 80%Are veterans
So sad I was one of Tham USMC. HOMELESS isn't a good thing
77% of all statistics on the internet are made up on the spot.
Thank you🇺🇲
No they are not.Veterans would have more pride,in the way they kept their surroundings clean.
Same damn people!!! If the city wants to continue this crap then this is what they deserve!! It's ridiculous and could easily be fixed with 🔐 🔒 🗝 🔏 🚪 lock up!!
Or just demolish them. And make new ones that require one main entrance in order to access all of them through an indoor hall so like that all you have to do is lock up one door for each 8 or ten restroom stalls!
负责清理工作的工人太悠闲了！ 美国真好，轻松的工作！ 为啥不去参加这种工作，挣钱租房住呢？
Automatic ceiling watering flushes with drains in the floors on a rotating schedule at all hours of the day and especially at night. No locks on the doors with no solid doors. Scheduled random checks and locked doors at night.
Those full size doors need to be changed out to just regular swinging doors. They won't feel too comfortable knowing it's open on the top and bottom, I know they could still block it, but maintenance will know immediately that there's people in there.
I grew up in Hawaii - the beach park toilet stalls don't have doors at all. It always freaks out mainlanders.
Here you should hire a leaseholder who monitors the toilets or changing rooms, people have to come to him for the respective toilet or changing room and can borrow the key and then have to give it back, locking, only possible with a key, it needs to be managed and controlled to respond immediately . !!!
Smart!👍
I agree but the druggies can get crazy.
It seems like more tents every week are popping up at the beach.
They could easily lock the restrooms after 8pm or so, but then 8 rangers and 10 cleaners, garbage truck, 6 following trucks, and one picture taker would lose their job. 57:00 cop spreading dangerous broken metal and glass in the sand so someone will walk by and have to go to emergency room needing tetnus shot.
They locked ours and they just tear it off and totally destroy the bathrooms.
Couldn’t pay me to be a tourist there! So many others feel the same way but they sure are trying to get things ready for the summer. Good luck.
Don't know what I was expecting but was not expecting a man in a leopard print hoodie, Pikachu pajama pants, smoking a pipe carrying a handbag ... to come out of that stall.
The handbag was for the tabacci'
Beach front property what a life! Back in the day there was no homeless at the beach. They’ll just keep coming back, the beach is the place to be😊 poor folks it’s very sad the homeless problem it’s rapid in California, with its perfect weather. 😊
I love the way they just saunter out!!!
Loved how the ladies in the last part just moved a couple feet over from their camp site. Like they only heard “move your crap” but tuned out “off the beach” 😂
The fact that these Sheriffs don’t wear gloves , don’t wash their hands is more disgusting than those restrooms. Nasty At least wash your hands
They just chilling!!
Good news! I didn't see a single plastic straw in all that garbage.
The city needs to put some type of hostile architecture on the floors in the bathrooms to make it very uncomfortable for people to sleep on.
How about they spend that money on micro housing for these people? A freaking box for them to sleep in safely. That might help with their mental health.
@@Wernotfree These people would shit all over them and tear them down. Too much work to clean and stuff.
@@Wernotfreeyep you’re an enabler..
@@boofert.washington2499 what do you suggest... We lined them up against the wall and start shooting?
This comes down to the city and state …
Blue policies. Word gets out, they are softies, then BAM, overnight, it is a garbage pit.
I think carrying all that crap around just makes the unhoused a target. Basic backpack w sleeping bag and tent. Toiletries. Clothing? Couple pairs of jeans, tshirts, underwear...depending on season. Survival until change happens. God moves.❤️🙏🇺🇸
"God"?
Haaa! Haaa! Haaaa!
Yeah. "God". As if.
Crack pipe, needles, dirty clothes. These people have no faith. They're junkies
You're thinking rationally, that's not what we're seeing here. Mental illness, drug addiction and/or a hoarding compulsion. Now combine 1 or more or worse all 3 and you get the daily circus fire we see here.
WTH does god moves mean? You obviously are not seeing the big picture. If these people could get it together to "backpack" they probably wouldn't be homeless. We need better and mandatory mental illness care. Just moving them on and doing nothing to address the main issue isn't working.
I agree
12:00 that’s definitely a bathroom. Gross , stalls over a few steps away . Pee and poop on the beach.
They sound well adjusted FOR A SINGLE CELL!
I should have invested in shopping cart production years ago.
The park rangers are being way too nice
Sweet babies at birth …. My God how do people end up like this ????? Terrible 😞
Should post signs that say no camping on beach. No loitering after certain hrs.
They don't care about signs or self respect.
There ARE signs.😲
I have seen some bad burns from people stepping onto hot coals buried by sand, it does not cool the heat at all just contains it......good job Guys....🥰
Как будто с собственного дома выселяют 😜они подождут, когда все уедут и вселятся в чистые номера 😂
And free house keeping service!
🤣😅
Far too nice with them. If it was me, it would be "You're out of here in 5 minutes. You can spend that time flapping your mouth, or you can spend it packing up. Either way, you're out of here at that time."
I hear ya,👍
You can threaten them with your keyboard, tough guy.
Then your inhuman
You will be there somday and regret your views
If Fentanyl and Xylazine is killing the homeless by the thousands, my question is:
What can I do to get more of it on the streets?
After the rangers and clean up people leave, how long will it take for the guy to move back into those bushes?
they always come in the morning, set your alarm! take a walk for an hour, then come back and sleep peacefully!
Totally agree. Shocked it hasn’t been implemented thus far.
Daily sweeps would help a lot. The money is there,, but it ends up in politicians pockets instead. "The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous." - Orwell
How long does that guy have to wear that outfit for losing the bet at 43:00? The fashion police should also be called for this violation.
See 52:06 --- My cousins husband is a City of LA policemen who told me that this type of fashion slows, or will stop them from running a long distance from a crime scene. They loose at least 50% speed for this stupidity. The police love it 👮
Its so sad that so many People are homeless
She's quite the ranger 😍
The market for extra large clear disposable trash bags must be booming in Southern California. @40:58 - Tells you everything you need to know. @47:01 - From the Internet, my nose senses danger.
I need to buy stock in a company that makes large plastic bags.
the town where i lived opened a motel to the homeless. Instead of respecting the room they were given. They tore it up.
Hotel California, such a lovley place.
I love what you've done with the place! Who would have thought a toilet stall could look so homey? I honestly feel bad for the guy who works 3 jobs and never see's his kids vs drinking and drugging all night and sleeping all day blaming society for their problems.
What happened to the vagrancy laws?
Cut a foot off the top and bottom of the doors,then they might not be as prone to live in the restrooms.
Democrats in power. FAR Left ones.
If I were homeless I wpuld have a backpack and a roll up bed that I cpuld sling over my shoulder no way would I be pushing a cart.
je viens de m abonné de france
That poor couple is always getting removed, i heard she is paranoid schizophrenic. He must be one of the only guys that doesn't judge or want her to change, bc they are always together and u know she is insanely hard to deal with in episodes.
I send that bathroom stall 47:00 to hell , I’m not gonna lie. Fire 🔥 or some type of abrasive cleaner. But Mainly fire ….Heroin users can be biohazards at times.
Maid service Friday. & restroom roundup always make da folks comply.😵💫🇺🇸💉🔪😎
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! WOW THESE HOMELESS DON'T ASK FOR MUCH. 😂😂😂😂
God bless the Park Rangers and cleanup crews. No one has the right to move into and take over a public restroom.
Electric cattle prod ought to get the point across- sorry, not sorry!
Fantastic job Law enforcement, health department and sanitation for their unlimited hard work seven days a week keeping our cities safe. 👀♥️💯😇😇😇👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. Congress must pass a law illegal to be homeless.
You are Something else...So what happens..When you get burned outta your home, and you have no one to help...Bro, I hope you never have something happen to you... Because we all Could Be Homeless Some Day...EVERY F$# CKIN ONE OF US!!!!
They're on the beach throw the garbage away
I’ve heard for several years that California has spent millions on homelessness. But it just gets worse.
Such a beautiful place. A shame it’s become such a mess. I hope no one walks barefoot on those beaches.
You get what you vote for.
WOULD IT BE MORE QUICK IF YOU ALL HELPED HIM MOVE HIS GEAR?
They're there to kick him out and throw away his garbage collection, not help him move his trash back onto the beach.
There is no way that I would use those beach bathrooms. Ugh.
They should be forced to clean up all the trash and mess they made or get arrested. Why can't they get arrested for trespassing?
Que Aviso es y uni travajando que chingones
I'm just as messy as these homeless ppl.. My studio is basically the same. SMFAO!!!! I need to clean up!!!!
It's like having a maid service they should make them clean up after themselves or go to jail
Looks like they had a good campfire going to make their Hobo stew and grilled weenies.
Santa Monica know how to take care of the homeless yeah right
Santa Monica is extremely proud of their free range mentally ill.
They let you leave
If anyone can clarify after they clean them out the people can just go back in?
There should be a weight requirement for PD. Just like the military.
What a waste of tax money
Well the clean up crew has a guaranteed lifetime of work they move slow enough , why do they not help by folding up some things instead of just throwing things away , tarps are expensive how about ID and things hidden in there ?
There has to be a way to lock the changing rooms at night.most are looking for a safe place to do drugs so their not botherd.and to cram 3 people,and 2 carts in a barhroom stall should speak volumes.there are shelters for the homeless,but the rules are you cant be drunk or high.when i was homeless,the shelter i stayed in made everyone do a breathalizer,and random urine drops just for a safe place to stay.but hey,its a roof over your head,so being clean is worth it!!!!
Эх, мне бы туда на пляж, солнце загар 😢
Overall, it looks like last night, it was a helluva shoot up party.
🤷♂️😐🙄
Thank goodness I have never wanted to visit California