Venice Beach Homeless Encampment Undergoes Comprehensive Cleanup
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- On August 18, 2023, the collaborative efforts of the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, Recreation and Parks, and Clean Harbors Environmental Inc. converged to address homeless encampments at Venice Beach. In adherence to established protocols, workers donned white hazardous materials suits to ensure safety during the operation.
Recognizing the vital need for efficient coordination among multiple departments in managing homeless encampments, Councilwoman Traci Park's office took a proactive step by appointing a dedicated Homelessness and Housing Coordinator who was onsite during the cleanup.
The cleanup operation unfolded through the coordinated efforts of three distinct waste management teams, each assigned specific responsibilities. While the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works and Recreation and Parks teams donned yellow safety vests, the Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc. team stood out in orange vests. The Clean Harbors team initiated the process by meticulously sorting through refuse to identify and segregate hazardous materials like batteries, syringes, and urine. Subsequently, Los Angeles Public Works and Recreation and Parks sanitation workers managed the collection of non-hazardous waste.
The support for the cleanup initiative was significantly bolstered by the active involvement of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) and St. Joseph's Center. These organizations played a critical role in providing essential outreach services to assist individuals experiencing homelessness and meet their fundamental needs. As part of their efforts, the homeless outreach team distributed food and water to those without homes throughout the cleanup operation.
To ensure the safety of all participants and secure cooperation from the homeless community, Los Angeles Park Rangers maintained a vigilant presence throughout the cleanup operation. The objective was not only to uphold cleanliness and hygiene standards but also to ensure safety protocols.
Notably, despite the enforcement of Ordinance 41.18, which prohibits sitting, lying, or sleeping in public places, as well as storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property in the public right-of-way, no citations were issued during the cleanup operation at the Venice homeless encampment.
It's imperative to understand that while these cleanup initiatives, exemplified by the one at Venice Beach, are integral to the City of Los Angeles' larger efforts to address homelessness, they form just a part of the comprehensive strategy. Acknowledging that these actions do not represent a comprehensive solution, the city remains deeply committed to devising sustainable, long-term strategies that address the underlying causes of homelessness and provide vital resources to those in need.
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Thanks, Fabian. Steal carts, bikes and everything that's not nailed down then leaves their trash behind which is littering. No one gets a fine or citation. But smoke one cigarette and that's a $100 fine. I can't make sense of this level of crazy.
yes
Sympathy for the homeless is only enabling thier bad choices not helping....
"You guys cant be filming??". Yes they can. We want to see the truth.
I SPY GERMAN IN VENICE. GIV 🙌🙌🙌
They need to get a little more aggressive with the enforcement. Right now, they are just doing maid service for the homeless by cleaning up their mess every day. Why not make them carry their trash to the trash trucks at least. As for them sleeping in the restrooms, they need to be forced to clean the bathroom if they are caught living inside the public restrooms.
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That's what they used to do in California the police would either make you clean it up or go to jail but it's still getting cleaned up. Now we are coddling them giving them needles and pipes..
@@HomeSkillitjail will not fix this. You would turn the jails into a homeless shelter. Who wouldn’t turn down free room and board versus a toilet? You can’t keep them locked up forever.
Laziness is the motto of the homeless. You would have to pay people to watch them all day as they clean up one restroom. Also, what would the California liberals say about forced or slave labor? There is a reason why prison road work gangs have been outlawed in most states. Not to mention the overwhelming number of mentally ill, would you also force them to work?
Trump was right again. Please MAGA 2024.
I never miss a video...I see GIV in the background a lot
It's like watching an episode of hoarders but out in the open.
Thank you for all the work you do.
Imagine the balls to tell you that you cannot film when they are illegally camping on the beach each day and polluting the environment.
Not balls, it's delusional entitlement.
@@euphoricmonk Both
@@deedeedavidson8193 no balls requires bravery far from that.
There’s GIV, filming!.. I saw him!… Hi, GIV👋🏻👋🏻
None of them want help because help is not dope.
These homeless people cost taxpayers so much just picking up their garbage. They should provide garbage bags and force them to clean up their own mess.
@@BeachLife66 well they have so called rangers that could arrest them. Otherwise they could just push them aside and confiscate stuff they don't need and throw it away. We're dealing with adult children that won't clean their room. What we're currently doing isn't working.
@@notanomad9320arrest them? For how long at taxpayers expense? They will just come back.
Start throwing all that junk away, ALL OF IT!!!!!
By force
So they can steal new stuff.
Homeboy is moving right back where he was the moment you drive away.
They know that. It's called job security.
Choices have consequences
Same guy they evicted from the restroom in another video.
Isn’t that just a mess those people who think the world owes them a living should be held accountable for their mess
Make them clean up after themselves!! They have enough time and energy to litter everything up, so they should be able to handle picking the 💩 up.
Sure how do you suggest we force them to work?
G is on the lookout
The side of Whole Foods Venice needs a sweep
i seriously did not know that it now also is forbidden
to film a talking blue sheet of plastic.
but i am happy that the all-knowing hooked-on-drugs lady told me so .
addicts really have a hard job informing everybody ; how wonderful would it be if they put all that energy in a real job.
ENDLESS WORK BUT NEEDS TO BE DONE
Endless on purpose, they don't want the taxes / fed funds to end.
You have to remember you're relocating these people to "nowhere" so allowing them to take all the garbage they can carry just puts the trash in another location. Meaning you'll be back next week and catch up with them again, vicious cycle! I know these people turn down help also which can be frustrating.
Exactly! All these folks in the comments complaining about the law and enforcement. These 'law-abiders' are only thinking about the initial part and negating the follow through: There is NO sense in enforcing a law(s) that exist solely based on wealth inequality, with regards to homelessness. When the people on the streets are allowed to reoffend at nauseum (cause they have no home), it's time we review our own moral compasses and see what alternatives our society can come up with for dealing with them besides what were doing right now- cause it ain't working.
California must open mental institutions! These people should be in lockdown. They won’t go to shelters. They want their drugs and cigarettes. Put an end to vagrants with mental health issues. Lock them up!!!
@@thebluewhale8891 moral compass? Alternatives? There aren’t any, they’ve all been tried. Do you not know the definition of hopeless?
Why cant you set the trashcan by the homeless and tell them to pick up their trash? Why does someone have to go behind them and clean up? Littering is illegal. Not mention the biohazards they leave behind.
Heck back in the good ole days of law and order… Messing up public walls with paint used to get people into trouble! This is absolutely ridiculous!! Grown people picking up after & babying grown arse people! 😂 What a mess.. Embarrassing! They need a “who and a what for!” They need to be told to gtfo! This is not their home nor their room. It’s a beach! Not a trash 🗑! 🙄 Take care. ✌️
You should run for governor of California.
California you need to open mental health hospitals.
Just California? This is in every major city.
We had them but governor Ronald Reagan started closing them in 1967
A lot of workers standing around on taxpayers dime. Got to be better way of dealing with this!
The storm will clear them all out.
GIV 41:01 and 44:15 getting on his bike 😂
Is that the GiV I saw going by? Yep, time for them to get up so room service can com clean their room! What a waste of California’s tax dollars! He doesn’t want to go to a shelter he would have to get of drugs *if doing them* and no alcohol
yh that looks like GIV!
It's absolutely insane that the City of Los Angeles sends these Park Rangers out to enforce laws unarmed against deadly force. The majority of the homeless people that they are dealing with suffer from addiction issues, and mental illness. These Park Rangers deserve better.
Kudos to Fabian for the excellent filming. I thought Venice was cleaned up but it seems that things never change.
Big, Big rain event coming in this weekend. Warnings for flash flooding and you name it.
Unfortunately the "constant harassment " strategy will only move them inland. Several areas already being bivouacked
well done guys keep up the good work
Imagine the mice and rats that come out at night and they get in your sleeping area
Same crap different day. 💸💸💸💸💸💸💸💸💸💲💲💲💲💲
Start collecting those stolen carts. Every single one of them is stolen.
Not cheap either! We’re paying for them every time we shop.
To much talking Let's move it😮
Too much, you’re right though.
Need that hurricane to strengthen back up to a category five!🤠
I see you GIV!!!!
It never ends with this homeless problem it’s a repeated cycle what a shame I am sure skid row is even worse today.
Cameo by the GIV. 😮
Authorities are gonna have to get their act together and put all these ppl in a homeless community...Where I don;t know, not from there, but I watch this every week, and how angry and out of control they are with their own lives..It is not gonna go away..The parl rangers can police the new homeless community...Which can allow thier tents, and maybe four other things. This is where they should be made to live, until they decide to get a job...This becomes mandatory, no choices to go elsewhere..If so, then confinement in jail....This could clean up the beaches and bathrooms.etc....won't be cheap, but the ppl are stealing other ppls paid belongings..Especially bicycles.....I am sure the powers that be don't want to get their clean hands dirty, but politics are also dirty...So need to establish new laws for ppl who are totally rebellious, and lacks respect for authority.this is only gonna grow if not stopped....Set a precedent for other states...Homeless ppl do not need a choice, they need rules..
Basically you are simply moving them on to where
they have no real homes or they wouldn't be sleeping
on the beach, no money obviously, so the bottom line
is they just find another place to doss down until
they are moved again,it's a no win situation. 🤔
Gee! Never thought about it that way.
Parabéns para o fotógrafo Fabian 👏🏻excelente.
Nos mostrando a realidade.
Why don’t they split the teams of workers up to cover more hours so it doesn’t get so bad. Some people might not like when they have to work but other might prefer starting later in the day. What they are doing now is not working.
Have good day Anthony
That’s loitering.. get up and keep it moving.. The law is not enforced, if there’s any in California.. He should be arrested, give him a cozy cell! If they carry, push, all that stuff around.. they can work!
What a great idea, a TH-cam channel for California clean-up. Now on to Sacramento
There's G.I.V.
Instead of standing around all the time get the garbage truck back and throw all that trash away. They dont learn as they dont do anything to them. 😮 a waste of time and money
I See GIV!
There is GIV filming!….I see him!…Hi GIV👋🏻👋🏻
All this is worthless they just moving the trash to another place, and the workers are too slow 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️all this people are doing is waisting time and money on this
I see the GIV in this video.
I have a question, what's your opinion of project roomkey during the COVID lockdowns and should homeless be banned from the Venice neighborhood?
That’s two questions.
The beach is a perfect place for "Hooverville". It is out of the way.
I miss the regular fights with the illegal street vendors lol. Anything in the pipeline ?
Green shorts man, move him, back tomorrow…exasperating.
當執法人員要求離開，他們只是移動垃圾去另一位置，完全沒有解決，應該強制清理垃圾
👍 Muy Buen Comentario 🤗
Or else what? Will you beat them if they don’t comply? Or give them free room and board at taxpayers expense (jail)?
Take America Back!
I just saw abother video where the guy with the green shorts got evicted from a public restroom. Vicious circle.
So entitled, same ole people as always
get some ball it not working
Cleaning up our country one block at a time
May I say, debris is under the surface, that sand,has 2 be sifted. One love, everytime
Whats with meatloaf hanging around
I feel like I have been here before.
The sand looks different, it looks very pretty. At least the parts without druged out people on it
Thank your democrat DA who doesnt prosecute these people
All these people to watch 2 people clean
2:06, here come the germaine in venice guy, now buy him a caw-fee
Reopening Mental Health Facilities would exceedingly mitigate The Problem
Send our homeless to the border to protect our country.
Mooi klaar mee 🥲
Have they removed the waste of skin from the picnic pavilion.
Hi SMCU 👋🏻 how are you ♥️
Hurricane coming maybe it will blow all the ctsp away😂 OH YEA
The never-ending story.
very nice work police officer all kind people who clearly have like this just talk stand there wow 👏👌👍
I see the "German in Venice" filming in the background, lol
46:00 Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. 😂😂😂🤦♂️
Throw it ALL away.. what a s… hole of so called humanity.
53:50 GIV!!
Very pityful People's homeless, Needs help not blame poor people's very stress, cannot no how to clean her his body because of sad hurts how to recover life please understand situations ,Love each other's ❤💙💟🙏
How about removing them from the beach?
He just moved 50 yards away 😮
The tragic wars led by the United States around the world ended successfully. Congratulations to you
Me pregunto, de donde sacan tanta bicicleta ?
There has to be a better way to handle this issue on homelessness and drug addiction and mental issues and other problems. Should be a better way.
В США очень много бомжей , я столько в жизни не видел, у вас стана третьего мира, а Россия - это сердце мира.
Its not the homeless that bother me, it's the mountain of garbage that seems to follow them around. If I have more stuff than I can fit in my house, I have to pay for storage. If you don't room for all that stuff, don't acquire it!!! They will be back the second you leave, so all you've done is cleaned their house. For free.
Homelessness has ingredients and also missing ingredients. Let's get started. 1. Greed
2. Outsourcing, 3. Insecure economy, messed up by politicians. 4. Medical bills, 5, loss of their homes, illeagal immigrants. Missing ingredients, child aid, housing first program, universal health care, secure employment, mother hood allowance, child raising allowance, there we have it. No one wants to be homeless, people, including me are more terrified of being homeless than be victims of crime or have a permanent illness.
You forgot laziness, mental health issues and DRUGS!
My question is this: if these homeless people were offered a job, would they accept it?
Never ending job
There needs to be a comprehensive plan to reduce homelessness. Part of that is dealing with why people are experiencing homelessness. Figuring out long term solutions, instead of wasting money and resources on short term solutions. Fort Worth TX actually employees the homeless to cleanup trash
Comprehensive plan to reduce homelessness? Hitler had one. Most won’t work because it interferes with the drugs. It doesn’t work in Texas either.
Drugs man drugs. Mental health.
Several people stand around making who knows what per hour and one guy controls the whole scene.what a waste. They need to backup the mental health facility truck and off they go. The facilities are for the public and no one should be able to loiter, blocking employees from doing their job. Apparently the park ranger can’t do anything and they know it.
I can’t believe all the haggling that goes on with these clean ups. Arrest them, take them to jail, and throw all their shit away. Like what’s the problem?
Who is the other dude videoing I saw him in a lot of videos riding bicycles, and other stuff that he’s on.
Sick of da homeless
Need backbone in this country voter trump ❤
Take all their stuff (GARBAGE) and then let them go, when they come back DO IT AGAIN they won't learn until they have CONSEQUENCES.
Out of Soilent Green. Bring in the scooper trucks.
the most famous guy in the video the g i v
Satisfaction guaranteed or double your trash back