Metro Sweep in Santa Monica: Deputies, Mental Health Teams, and Security Ensuring Passenger Safety
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- Santa Monica, May 31, 2024: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies and Metro Armed Security conducted a comprehensive sweep of the Metro train system today, with a special focus on the downtown Santa Monica Station. This daily operation aims to ensure the welfare of passengers and uphold public safety standards.
At the downtown Santa Monica Station, Metro Ambassadors, the Metro Outreach Team, and The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Mental Evaluation Team (LASD MET) were present, offering outreach and assistance to riders.
The LASD MET provides crisis assessment, intervention, and targeted case management services to diffuse potentially violent situations. They prepare documentation to assist in the placement of persons with mental illness in acute inpatient psychiatric facilities or to link them to outpatient mental health services or appropriate community resources. Each team consists of a deputy sheriff and a DMH licensed mental health clinician who is Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (LPS) designated to initiate involuntary acute psychiatric hospitalization, in accordance with the Welfare and Institutions Code (WIC), section 5150 or 5585. The goal of this co-response model is to reduce incidents involving use of force, reduce hospitalizations, and avoid unnecessary incarcerations of severely mentally ill citizens. LASD MET also provides in-service training for de-escalation, crisis negotiations, and reducing incarceration of mentally ill consumers.
Metro Ambassadors support riders on Metro buses, trains, and stations, connect them to resources, and report maintenance and safety concerns. They are part of a multilayer plan to improve public safety, which includes security and law enforcement, homeless and mental health outreach workers, and cleaning crews.
Metro Homeless Outreach Teams engage with unhoused riders on buses, trains, and stations, connecting them to resources. These teams are also part of the multilayer safety improvement plan.
Metro Security also checked passengers' tap cards as they exited to verify fare payment. Those who did not pay the fare were issued citations.
The downtown Santa Monica Station serves as the terminal stop for the Metro line, making it a crucial point for authorities to ensure that all passengers exit the train upon reaching its final destination and re-tap to continue on the train. This measure is particularly significant due to reports of some unhoused individuals utilizing the train as a makeshift shelter, remaining on board for extended periods and even sleeping onboard.
Sheriff's Deputies and Metro Security stationed at the downtown Santa Monica Station have a multifaceted role, combining security duties with passenger welfare checks. Their responsibilities include monitoring trains and platforms, enforcing the code of conduct, tackling fare evasion, and upholding the rule of law to ensure safety and security for all passengers.
The increased law enforcement presence at the station is part of a broader effort to address concerns related to criminal activity, instill a sense of safety among commuters, and ultimately restore confidence in the Metro system. This proactive approach is designed to deter criminal behavior and encourage ridership without fear.
Authorities urge passengers to remain vigilant and report any suspicious or unsafe situations promptly. In emergencies, passengers should dial 9-1-1. For non-emergency security concerns, passengers can reach security personnel at 888.950.7233. Additionally, passengers can use the train intercom or station intercoms, marked by red signs on station platforms, to alert Metro staff to any incidents.
The heightened security measures underscore the commitment of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies to ensure a safe and secure travel experience for all Metro passengers, with a renewed focus on the downtown Santa Monica Station as a key point in the transit system.
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YESSSSSSS!!!! THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. Occasionally, I have to catch trains at 4am, and it can be frightening. People are sleeping under filthy blankets, spread out across the middle lane, and involved in drugs. I am so happy to see the Sheriffs doing this- they are appreciated.
Problem is the police stop working at night
Before u get on the train mess up your hair, wear your shirt inside out, untie your shoe laces and leave the show laces just hanging, do a weird walk as you get on the train, but dont sit on the seat normal, you have to lay back and spread your whole body out so you take up 2 seats and all the crazies and criminals will just assume youre one of them and not even give u a second glance and you’ll be just fine.
Late night trains between Manchester Piccadilly and Chester and from Chester to Holyhead late night here in the U.K. are a scary experience if travelling alone and no sight of any armed British Transport Police Officers - leaving Dublin Ireland late at night with no armed Gardai (police) on the trains is also a scary experience when travelling alone
@@ciello___8307we also need more routinely and visibly armed police everywhere to act as a deterrent to and prevent illegal and criminal activity, with support from the Milltary as and when required - curfews and police issued travel permits also play an important role in crime prevention
I ❤ trains, trams, take a ride, I have a folder on ''transportation''
(folder 2, in playlists) you will love them too :)
Those trains must smell like park bathrooms. The woman at 21:49 looks like she was getting ready to drop a massive hot steamin deuce. Officers need to start using smelling salts for the ones who don't want to seem to wake up. Thank you to all the people keeping the trains clean.
@@pigjubby1 Well... the city has billions of dollars for this kind of thing. Where do you think the city gets this money. Yes, you and I. Hard working tax payers. People working for the city or county or state working on some planning board. Getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to come up with ways to spend hundreds of millions of dollars. Oregon has the same thing goin on. I'm not sure of the other states that have trams, trains and busses etc but Oregon keeps trying to pour money into these tram systems yet riders are declining. Riders are declining, fares are skyrocketing. It is a bottomless pit with a dead horse that hard working Americans keep having to pay taxes on in hopes of an attempt that is nowhere in sight at bringing the horse back to life. Tax payer monies goin to people with absolutely no clue what tf they are doing.
@@yettimannettii2039Stop generalizing. The ridership on the LA Metro has increased every month for the last 16 months. There are almost 1 million boardings per day on LA Metro. Many people use it.
I hate to say it but those seats need to be bleached after every run just like the airlines do. God knows what the druggies carry on their hands and pants. Kids ride these trains.
😂Lol
Those in the know…stand.
@@pigjubby1 This is why I bring something to sit on when I see a seat on the Metro bus that LOOKS clean. I put some cardboard on the seat and try my best not to let my back touch the backrest. When I get home I strip everything off, throw it in the laundry, and treat my street clothes like quarantined biohazard material because they are! I wish I could stand up the entire ride but I unfortunately have very long commutes to and from work and some of the bus drivers have an issue if you stand up at the front of the bus. Good thing that I can sometimes take the Commuter Express to wherever I need to go. The Commuter Express is like a coach bus and it only operates during hours of the day people need to get to and from work, and you have to pay to get on the bus, therefore NO BUMS ride this bus so it's relatively clean and safe and you can sleep on this bus too after a long day of work without worrying about getting robbed. There is no back door on the bus that bums can sneak in either.
Thank you to the women and men and of course the police,
for always keeping the trains so clean.
A big compliment. Thank you
This is what we need to see, more officers on foot patrol visible and accessible to the community.
The problem is, it’s not consistent. Metro already spends hundreds of millions of dollars on police. But they dont get consistent enforcement from LEOs
I think more in-house security is a way to go
@@ciello___8307inhouse security unless armed and paid very well are not going to do any better and no one competent will take a job where getting stuck with needles, shot or stabbed and spit on daily is a risk.
@@ciello___8307 Las Vegas security are on all of the buses and the have some waiting at each bus stop to switch over and put off anybody or homeless person that doesn't have fare, making trouble, or sleeping on the bus, and it goes on all day up to midnight. At midnight the buses don't run, so they have no choice but to stick it out wherever the choose to be for the night
@@ciello___8307 Las Vegas security are on all of the buses and they have them at each bus stop to switch over and get on. They put off anybody or homeless person that doesn't have fare, causing trouble, or sleeping on the bus. They do it all the way up to midnight, at midnight the buses don't run that have security. Only one that runs are the buses to the strip and the bus to Henderson. They don't wanna go all the way to Henderson because there's really nowhere to sleep and it's too far, they still sleep on the strip bus but as soon as they get to the transit, the security are already waiting for them to put them off and then they take their picture and they can't ride the bus for the rest of the night. They started doing it that way because they caught onto the scam of them transferring to different buses once coming from another transit center, basically riding the same buses back and forth to both stations at night. They don't let the homeless shelter on their buses.
cops doing actual cop work ???
too busy in the office filing out papers waiting for retirement
Good for you Metro. You are not a homeless shelter. ENFORECE FARE PAYMENTS and crime will go down significantly.
I totally agree with the zero tolerance and zero patience approach, as so many public transport systems around the world are so unpleasant these days - being totally dependent on public transport myself, I live in the U.K. and travel alone to family in Rural Ireland and at many points, it can be a scary experience - I’d feel far safer if there were armed enforcement officers on board trains and at station platforms
Yep
Hope you know this is all PR, and that is it. The metro does not care about the safety of ANYONE as long that money keeps coming in, they will look the other way and create an illusion. And yes, I know the system, I work for that system
@@michaeljohndennis2231нулевая терпимость ,что по вашему человеческие способности утеряны ещё при жизни ,или уже умер при жизни ... а полиция не имеет права контролировать ,если нет особых распоряжений ...имеется в виду не подозреваемый ,нет ориентировки на разыскиваемого и т.д. просто никого не имеют задерживать или требовать документы и обязательно основание и причина основана на законодательстве , и тем более билеты за проезд проверять ,вы что смеётесь 😅...не загоняйте себя в лагерь для военнопленных 😅
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I hope this lasts. No one should have to live in fear of their safety just to get to where they need to be.
In fact, this fear is something you create for yourself. Don't blame people for your fear.
Don’t gaslight me. Many people share the same concerns for their safety and the crumbling infrastructure of the West.
May mercy be shown to you when you meet your maker - should irony play with your safety.
@@gianniclaud realize that everything external to you is a manifestation of your inner world. If you have fear inside you, you will always see a hostile environment around you.
@@gianniclaud change yourself and love the world, and you will see the world change. It will become friendly to you and just as loving.
@@justspartak an insufferable "spiritual" troll lol
Blessings.
Reopen Asylums
Make
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Great
Again
Democrats destroyed California
Yup 👍🏽
Reagan shut them down and Newsome and Gascon are mere enablers
don't you all enjoy railroad
trams, trains etc are just so cool
take a ride in my ''transportation'' folder, (folder 2 in playlists) :)
So the homeless and mentally ill can just walk on and not pay , while normal people have to pay. Make it make sense.
If only it did. But people who follow the rules are easier to tell what to do unlike the people who **don't.**
@@PauloHernandezXDespecially when they reward and dont punish the ones doing wrong anymore
All comments from privileged people not willing to address the mental health crisis in America. It will only get worse until we all start changing the system itself. More have nots are growing and everyone is annoyed with metro riders. Missing the whole point America has to change the founding itself was built on inequality and bias and the data shows that in the outcomes. Wake up folks.
That's why they're enforcing fares more often now. Many of the older stations don't have fare gates. That's a problem, too. Much easier to evade fares because of it.
Whoever said they're not paying they pay for a day pass.And they just keep switching trains and ride all day so they have some place to be
So if this was the end of the line where action was taken what about the poor people who had to ride all the way in accompanied by all these unfortunate who use and abuse the Metro as shelter. The paying passengers going about their daily-life routine going to work or school should not have to tolerate these conditions.
You simply stay away from them. And you never know how long they've been on the train. I've seen the homeless take the train for a few stops and get off. Most of them don't ride it all day long.
Exactly!! They have to do it all throughout!? Every line!! Smh
this is what I want to see. I want to see way more of a police presence everywhere. Especially public transportation. I’m glad Santa Monica is investing into this. Law enforcement is the only way to solve the current crisis right now. Thank you for putting yourself in harms way to keep the community safe. Thank you.
They are there only for a few weeks. Once the heat goes down, you'll never see one
Hope the mayor of New York is watching and do the same for the people of the city.
This wont work in NYC, the homeless and mentall ill would attack the cops
New York is a dying city.
Mayor of NY will defend the free loaders....
roses are red, violets are blue
there's trains and trams in my playlist two
there ya go, that somehow rhymed :))
What's needed in NYC are transit police who will do their jobs. I've watched so many Cash Jordan and other videos showing NYC transit police just standing around shooting the breeze while the NYS National Guard performs security theatre 🎭... 🙄
The percentage of zombies is steadily increasing…..
I’m starting to see them in my city too. They’re slowly creeping in. I live an hour East of Santa Monica.
If corrupt politicians, judges,landlords,real estate industry,banks are able to keep doing what they do every American citizen in the Next 20 years will be in this situation.
@@dragonf1092 that surely doesn’t help either, but switch your answers to: bad choices ie out of wedlock children, lack of education, destruction of positive role models and culture, addiction choices, then the vast majority of these zombies wouldn’t be zombies. Yes there’s a divide from the top earners to the working class, but the backbone is the middle class and we’re tired of having to cater to other people’s poor choices, whether political or poverty. This is how a vigilante purge happens. Many today would speak German or Japanese before fighting or working for the war effort if WW2 broke out now. Zombies, addicted to a cell phone and stupid games that contribute NOTHING to benefit society when sh@t hits the fan. You feel bad for them, but not really because they are doing their best to do the absolute minimum to just barely survive and they don’t want a better quality of life, they want celebrity lifestyles. I’m a country boy, have lived for years in a major city, moved to the Caribbean and now 20 years in Hawaii and am striving to go complete self sufficient yet able to defend my plot from these zombies who become locusts when there’s any slight interruption in there government assisted living conditions.
Props to these guys I can’t imagine dealing with this everyday.
This is a straight-up homeless metro.
Lol the homeless train
Finally, someone figured it out
They won't do this on a rainy day. So many homeless people just sleeping on the seats and stink up the trains. So bad.
So bad 😂😂😂
Ok
Not true.
Sad to the bone.
This was strangely gratifying, thank you for posting. ❤️
Really good to see private security working well with the professional sheriff department those guys are on their A game! Great video thanks for sharing!
North Houston City I...: Chicago's CTA very badly needs this type of patrolling which is virtually absent on the CTA. Also badly needed on Philadelphia's SEPTA this patrolling badly needed!
THEY DONT DO CRAP WE PAY!!! THE HOMELESS CAUSE PROUBLEMS,,.. THE COPS JUST STAND AND TALK TO EACH OTHER OR ON THE CELL PHONE,,.. WE NEED THEM AT EVERY STOP............ NOT AT ONLY A FEW STOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RED AND BLUE LINE!!
Privet security is just to observe and report, cops and sheriff are so useless, remember ALL OF THOSE UNIFORMS ARE DOING OVERTIME, SO THEY DON'T CARE
Too many years of NO accountability, don't have to worry about law enforcement, paying tolls, piling their trash all over, lodging, $$, harassing the tax paying, hard working people who are trying to use to sidewalks, streets, beaches and public transportation. I am so sick and over HOMELESS. They need to follow the laws and be held accountable! No more camping wherever they feel like it
Politicians, landlords,banks, realestate agencies corporations are responsible for all the homeless in America, and around the world.
Love of money is the root of all evil.
Let them in your house then 😂
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You’re so great to share this. We watch all your videos. Great job showing compassion for both LE and the homeless. Tough job I’m sure to see and experience this daily. Also enjoy the joyous times and beautiful photography. Much Aloha and blessings from across the Pacific.
Yes, this should be extended into bus services as well.
@spiralflame88: Not only bus services also but all the transit systems in the USA. ESPECIALLY CHICAGO'S CTA L TRAINS AND PHILADELPHIA'S SEPTA L AND REGIONAL RAIL SYSTEMS buses too I agree with you.
Enjoy your city. I hope you know that you voted for that. I'm not rich and must settle for Santa Clarita. Poor me. Have fun in the Santa Monica paradise.
Its about time the leadership in this city did something about the problem. God bless the men and Women of the Sheriffs department.
Thanks for seeing the silver lining...the positive.
And LA Metro.
This is great to see LA Metro enforcing fares and assisting passengers on how to navigate the system. Well done.
Only PR
@@hectorsilva133exactly!! Now do the red line, blue, line, etc!! L.A must do better
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@@AndreaAmmonsthey do on the red line
So many bums on the trains!
True 😕
@@alopezjrI think they aren’t smart that’s why they are homeless and some have trauma
There are more Cuckoos than riders on the metro
Everybody in public transportation are "cuckoos"~Some classist person😂😂
When you're broken to a debased state and have nowhere to go and nothing to do you commonly will just wander. I see ppl do it all the time even when they aren't "cukoos". Bus riding is therapeutic and gives them air condition.
Work shall set one free Comrade @@m.htruth8880
And they literally attack other people just for being on there, like you're an unwanted guest in their house or something. I saw a homeless guy on the bus nearly attack a passenger just for sitting in his seat and riding to his destination, it was crazy. One day I was on a bus from Santa Monica and a homeless lady sat in front of me and started threatening me to herself talking about knives and I'm a very quiet person, so I played the game with her and started talking to myself as if I was gonna stab somebody and so she got quiet and moved to the back of the bus. Alot of them aren't crazy, they just feel the need to attack people that they think won't retaliate or fight them back.
@@Janet-h2wThat's crazy talk, either way.
I appreciated the Santa Monica police for their patience and good intentions. 🇹🇷
I took this metro every morning, and things are getting worse. Those who sleep on the trains never pay for the tickets but the cops are tired of arresting them.
Not true.
Blame your corrupt for profit politicians and terrorists calling themselves landlords, realestate organizations,banks for it.
Well start getting the train without paying too we all have rights 👍👍👍👍
Checking all civilians as they disembark to ensure fare payments, and only remove the fare evaders who reside on the trains? Why aren't they being penalized? It seems like only paying civilians are being fined while others enjoy free rides. This lack of consequences is why the issue persists.
Why didnt they Arrest that first dude for being intoxicated in public ??? he will just run down the street creating havoc!
All these officers are extremely polite. THIS IS WHAT MEETING A POLICE OFFICER SHOULD BE LIKE. ❤
They are polite for the cameras
Así debe ser un oficial de policía pero hasta que no sea atacado. Hay que respetar la autoridad.
They shouldn't be polite for shit, they're dirty crackheads to who can't tell the difference between reality and their needles.
@@hectorsilva133 Bad experience fighting with cops?
@@duckman5274he's just stating the truth, especially out here in long Beach, they are entirely different off camera. While I do think this intervention on the trains is currently necessary, fact is, cops ain't nice when they don't see a camera.
I am impressed with the attitudes and actions of the Police in maintaining the safety of Metro Commuter passengers. Enjoy your work. God bless you all.
Big Thanks To SD & Metro, your arent Social Services, Your in the business of Transportation. Congrats on getting your trains back!
Thank for your service all of the law enforcement officers keep the public transportations safe and clean hopefully this will last long
The City of LA have people Working there. That Not Need. We Can See. To Clean yes. SHERIFF department YES.
That was city of Santa Monica!!...not los angeles...
@wolfmansicario4482 LA Metro runs the transit rail system for the whole county, not just Los Angeles. So it's LA County who is mainly responsible for LA Metro.
@mrxman581 ....not in the city of Los Angeles...even Union station is patrolled by LAPD!!..On trains leaving city limits, ya..
I hope these sweeps help keep people safe, and the transit system running, cause who can afford 5.50 a gallon?
This is the way to discipline society , No none sense firm instruction with no exceptions. Good mayor/governor!
37:23 the Tyrone Biggums scratch!🤣😂
I’d be afraid to catch bed bugs on these trains and buses
Jeezesus kreyest, some are actual zombies.
Maybe signs should be put up inside the cars stating that you WILL have to exit and re-tap to board again at the final stop...no exceptions.
Or do they already exist.
How do you expect the city to move forward with All this nonsense going on.
It is moving forward.
Congress needs to pass a law either
All landlords must put all rents paid to them into a high interest account, when the tenant/investor moves or is evicted the landlord must pay back every penny invested into the property by the tenant/investor, the landlord keeps the interest on the account.
Or
A law no landlord can charge no more than one hundred dollars per bedroom per month,no pet fees,no pet deposits,no pet rents.
And background checks, credit checks to rent apartments are unconstitutional and should be illegal. No landlord should be able to pick and choose who to rent to. They are the cause of the homeless problem in America along with banks and realestate agencies extorting human beings for the basic human right to shelter.
The main security guard was a great hire he is definitely also on his A game and a great asset for the company Inter Con just sayin…
Saw this yesterday in city of industry metrolink station! It was reassuring!
We need this in long beach, please help us officers!
22:21 Florida trailer trash on vacation in California….
Thank you law enforcement the world over. Law & Order is the foundation of civilization.
No, the foundation of civilization is agriculture.
Chicago's CTA needs to learn from this video to hire constant patrolling on all their lines. I hope CTA is seeing and learning from this video. Also the sam should be said for Philadelphia's SEPTA both extremely badly in need of these constant patrols!!!
This reminds me of the problems on Chicago's CTA L trains. Notably on the Ohare Airport Line which runs 24 hours a day. Patrols like here are non-existent on the CTA.
Living in DFW, I desperately wish LE would invest in performing this function, no fun getting on a train where every other row has a homeless rider and you have to take a risk on if you can sit there without then having a mental episode
I'm glad sheriffs are doing their job but where can they go after they leave the train? Most shelter are full. I feel bad for them
They ask them if they need help. If they don't want it, they can't be forced to get it. That's the huge problem with getting these people off the street and into treatment. It's only voluntary. It needs to be involuntarily residential treatment, too, when it's warranted.
PR at its best, but is just BS
Thank the SHERIFF'S for removing that Scarey Individual.
Outside of a metro station in west Hollywood it looked like a 3rd world street market...underwear/fruit be sold on state property
23:50 The train is free for low income but you need to put a little effort in to get your Tap card.
Meh, it's not technically free. (Metro LIFE program) You get a free 90 day pass when you're approved and if you have papers/prove you're a LA County resident with low income/homeless. After that you just get 20 free rides monthly, or you can opt in on discounted fares/passes, but they have mileage/roll over. Which is still good. Otherwise a one way rail trip on LA metro is 1.75 on your tap card. I'm Black and gay and homeless and I'm on the life program.
props to these officers for dealing with this.
It's their job. They're not volunteers. They get paid extremely well.
It is worse than I thought!
lol this isnt even bad you should come ride the train in houston its a rolling homeless encampment 24/7. I was just on there last night there was literally 40 homeless in one car and three actual passengers lol
@@BigfellaAutoExpress Look another dodo trying to use their anecdotes as evidence. It actually IS that bad out here, look up the facts. Just because you had your experience doesn't mean that you can undermine what's happening out here smh
@@Yasmine91646LA Metro has improved noticeably over the last year, and ridership has increased every month for the last 16 months. You don't see 40 homeless on a train on the LA Metro today. I've been riding the A, E, and D lines regularly.
It was worse during the three years of Covid. It's gotten much better over the last year.
@@mrxman581 I was in riding it when i was in santa monica and thought it was so quiet a couple months ago it didnt get sketchy until you switched to that other line in downtown LA but the one that runs to Santa Monica i wished houstons was like that I propbably saw two homeless in the entire car all the way to downtown LA and back. We have no gate in houston just a platform its an honor system so anyone gets on from the streets so it packed full of homeless riding back and forth harrassing people.
Hey, Los Angeles transit systems. Thank you. I know we all have our situations, but thank you.
Common sense. Right? Be safe and clean. No more excuses. Well, done. Guys
Excellent work officers 🙏
This Homeless are Making thing Hard. You can See there Some good But more Bad. What going on in the evening and night. They are Still going in and Sleeping in there.
Free ride for the homeless
You prefer the drive from their 2 car garage?
Instead of telling someone, be the example and give homeless people free rides. Their all over skid road. Nothing stopping you from helping the community
Check for fares on the trains not only when they get off. Paying riders don't need to ride with people who are not paying their fares.
I was waiting for that crazy lady from the boardwalk to appear
No, not her-please!
She probably doesn't feel comfortable with her act , in SM.
Thank you officers. I appreciate chew .
Saw another video around the downtown area where several riders stated they hadn't seen any security or LE, this is how Karen Bass addresses the problem. The amount of money it costs for these extra officers is very high so the homeless will wait until the officers become fewer and go back to what they've been doing for 30 years.
Nothing but idiotic exaggerations by people who don't ride LA Metro or even live in the area.
@@mrxman581 Have seen numerous security companies posting jobs working on the rail lines, one is Inter-Con, must be armed. For many years private security wasn't involved in getting contracts.
Most of these comments don't even make any sense. All the homeless people have to do is pay a fare and they can still ride on a train, and do the exact what they're doing. In fact they got programs that will help homeless people get Motley bus passes for free, or just beg people for spare change. Either way they're not banned from getting on the trains. So nothing really changed. It's all about your money not your safety
End Of The Line !
I live a few blocks from this stop in Santa Monica and have never seen the inside of the metro train in person. Looks lovely.
Looks better than it smells. Hopefully you have a good experience when you choose this option.
Just subscribed. If we had more channels like this in the early days, homelessness would not have gotten so out of control and normalized as acceptable.
Santa Monica was once a great city. No more.
We used to live in Los angeles , we used to ride the metro. Back then it was bad.
But thank God now there's protection these deputies keeping everyone safe.
Helping those individuals who have severe mental health to get up and go before they stop breathing.
Saving thier life.
And also while at same time keeping everyone else safe from any criminals .
This what Chicago Transit Authority need !
I see how clean the subways are in Santa Monica, you have to have money to live there. The cost to operate the metro must be expensive for the tax payers.
Thanks Reagan (MHSA 1980)
Ah, yes. Nice to see where my taxed money is going to. 😂
Finally i see the sheriff doing some actual work for the community without being dicks and showing some compasio just for the camaras but a least is a start, keep it up sheriffs earn that respect.
If they're given respect they will give respect. It works both ways
Which country is this video from?
United States
The country is the United States of America 🇺🇸
The state is California.
Oh man see that’s how the metro trains are supposed to be( we LOVE THE SHERIFFS SOOOO MUCH, all over California, thank you guys 🙏🩵🤍🐶🌻🌲🐣🔥🙏😇☀️so being so nice to humans we love you
Whilst during the ride you get to experience such amenities as stenches that clear whole cars, loud music, weed/cig smoke, loud young urban groups, wet urine, various homeless, weirdos, people taking up two seats while disabled/elderly stand, grown adults that cannot stop kicking the back of your chair, loud foreign facetimes, etc. Other than that, it's a pretty peaceful ride. Oh, and to avoid this shakedown, get off on 17th.
❤You covered a lot. It is a bit of a challenge to navigate the detritus.
I don’t mind the loud phones
@@JodyChismI don’t mind the loud phones I just don’t want to smell weed and mentally ill people yelling
Great footage. .
So the homeless get off in Santa Monica? And where did they go? I heard the deputy told one of them to catch another train? How is that sweeping? 🤷🏽
😂 Crime more happening in Santa Monica since the mentally attentions and homeless are force to get out on Santa Monica so they roam Santa Monica hiding and sleeping in that neighborhood. The police might as well say welcome to Santa Monica your last stop or tranfer free to another Metro...
We here need services welfare and a Nasty homeless shelter bed said sheriff 😂😂 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆
No thank you people need to be the enforcement like most other countries do. They wouldnt let anyone do that crap
Other countries it's free to ride the train what are u talking about? Why are u tyrannical
GREAT WORK Fabian! It feels like I'm there.
Only in the USA.
Yep, we specialize best in crazy
Not true. Far from the truth unfortunately.
We see three hispamic (Mexican descendants) sheriff officers and Afro Americans cops doing the homeless detail work. FSLN
Thank you to law enforcement for finally being able to do their jobs!! They were handcuffed for years during the defund the police movement from the Left.
Hello I'm new to the channel I ❤️ the Metro Sweep videos and the camera you're using really shows great videos please keep the Metro sweep videos coming..
They get off the train, the police leave and they get back on the train again. There is no punishment so nothing changes. The only thing that stops people from doing bad things is the fear of punishment. If you don't punish the crime why would they stop?
Yes, that's the problem exactly.
One step at a time. This is progress.
Stop coddling drug and lazy homeless it only promotes bad behavior.
Wow, it's sad that you have to deploy this many police just to Metro stations.
But, it has to be done!!! It's not safe anymore for anyone!!!
1:36 "If I pretend I can't hear them, maybe they will go away..."
...funny how it didn't work out that way...if that was the plan
The first one was a bit of a smart ass!
helo my friend cool friend !!!
if you close your eyes and listen it sounds like s tornado coming at them
Good job Deputies. My question is how is Metro making any money when the train is less than 50 percent full? Shouldn't law enforcement be asking those who are sleeping or living on the train be asked basic "who are you?" questions?
I used to wonder why they give these folks a pass. However , with the recent attacks on bus drivers... probably better to keep a safe distance.
Dope video brother
So glad to see this officer taking care and cleaning all of the Metro Transit Train .
Excellent and informative video.
14:30 NOTORIOUS B.I.G
Frikin zombie nation