Massive Homeless Encampment in Venice Beach Restroom
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- On Friday, July 14, 2023, the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, in collaboration with Clean Harbors Environmental Inc., conducted a cleanup operation at the Venice Beach Restrooms to address the homeless encampment. To ensure safety, sanitation workers wore white hazardous materials suits as part of the protocol. LAHSA (Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority) was also present, offering homeless outreach during the operation.
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.
Recognizing the need for efficient coordination among the multiple departments involved in addressing the homeless encampments, Councilwoman Traci Park's office has enlisted a dedicated Homelessness and Housing Coordinator to facilitate a streamlined approach.
The cleanup involved two separate waste management teams with different roles working together. The City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, identifiable by their yellow safety vests, and Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc., identifiable by their orange safety vests. The Clean Harbors team began by sorting through the garbage to identify, collect, and segregate hazardous waste items such as batteries, urine, syringes, and more. Once the hazardous waste was collected, the sanitation workers from Los Angeles Public Works took over to collect the remaining garbage.
In order to ensure the safety of all individuals involved and secure compliance from the unhoused population, Los Angeles Park Rangers maintained a constant presence throughout the duration of the cleanup operation, which aimed to preserve cleanliness and hygiene in the area.
The City of Los Angeles has been actively addressing the homelessness issue, and the Venice Beach cleanup is just one part of their ongoing efforts. It is important to recognize that these cleanups do not offer a solution to the larger issue of homelessness. The City of Los Angeles is actively working on implementing long-term solutions to address the root causes of homelessness and provide necessary resources.
In summary, the cleanup of homeless encampments in Venice is a significant step towards improving public health and safety. The City of Los Angeles remains committed to addressing the homelessness issue in the area and will continue its efforts towards long-term solutions.
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Police should check where all those bicycles come from, probably they're all stolen.
Take all that stolen stuff away from them, then they won't have so much crap to spread around!
SMH, this is the city fault, they should give fines, and lock thosd doors at 9:00pm.
If it was one of us we be fucking FINED
@@anacleta424 I agree.
The vagrants would break the locks to get in. And imagine how many cops and workers they'd need to get people out of those bathrooms at 9 pm at night.
Every street homeless neighbor on our streets needs a hug full of love, and a big bowl of healthy soup.
@@sarbantz Or a good kick in the ASS
That same ol guy again , he leaves then moves back in soon as they are gone.
I know, it's every week, him and his 5 bicycles.
Tune in tomorrow for the sequel.Spoiler alert it will be the same guy with stolen bikes in the same bathroom.
I already know him
The guy with the gray hair & beard was the some person from last weeks clean up
and the week before and the week before ......
Don't worry, he's going to move in with his daughter on her 19 acre ranch...only problem is she is a headless mannequin...he seems harmless but definitely needs to be institutionalized.
That one with all the bikes and other stuff,you can't even get to the toilet,at least thats what it looks like. How depressing having to go through this every week! Lock the doors. They deface the property,its a mess I'd give them tickets every time they are caught sleeping in rest rooms.
they have no money, so they would never be able to pay for it. In the end you would have to put everyone in prison and for what...
@@Frankily2005If they cannot pay, then they'd have warrants for their arrest!
Nice uniforms, but no power..
Is that his real hair ? , looks like a wig.
Crapper and free wifi.....life is good.
He wears a different color everyday!
This is always sad. I feel for the beach crowd or tourist that needs to use a bathroom. The bathrooms are torn up in every video.
Clearly they seriously need to address the mental health issues as well as the homeless. Pushing people from one spot to another isn’t fixing the issue.
Where is the ongoing profit in fixing the problem?
It’s actually a drug problem causing their psychosis do drugs for ten years your basically capable of no independence
@@THXx1138 what profit??
Room service is here to clean the room. Suggestion, remove the doors.
Don’t understand why they can’t call the police and have that woman held on a psych/mental health hold. Clearly, she will get more help that way, than languishing and rotting away in a bathroom while smoking crack all day.
Because she will be held for 72 hours at a hospital and then kicked out. That's not help.
Why don't you have Gleam Davis, the mayor of Santa Monica come down and tell us why she can't do anything more to clean up this area? What is a permanent fix?
what is the point of doing this over and over again?
Is this a re-run? Must be groundhog day
Jail or rehab! Give em the choice!
Jail, rehab, or mental health treatment. That will cover their choices. Leaving that woman like that is not humane in any way. I guarantee if she was held on mental health and treated (and had the ability to detox), she would at least have a chance.
Idk about that. I'm talking about myself having a chance to enjoy the beach and use the shitter. Pushing these people back and forth around the neighborhood ain't doing much. We need to bring back consequences with enhancements. We're all tired of this deal and it's the DAs fault. LA needs that tourism dollar or we can't pay for this mess! Its unsustainable!
Yo pienso que ese hombre debe ir preso xq todas esas bicicletas son robadas es un desastre 😢.
I can't stand that screaming! She needs help.
The rangers look like they do not know what to do and the people take advantage of it.
LMAO! It's "Bathroom Barry" strikes again at 13:33 mark on the video. This guy is becoming quite a regular popular sensation in these videos.
LA needs those self washing bathrooms like SF has. After every use it sprays itself down and nobody can camp in them.
Take bikes to police lost and found . That's theft, take them to jail !!
Unbelievable. God bless the sanitation workers and officers.
There should be a program to reunite the stolen bikes with the theft victims
$1,000 a month sounds about right for California bathroom rental.
same homeless faces everyweek
Isn’t stolen property more then $700 a felony?
I thought it was $3000 to qualify a felony.
It’s a misdemeanor level of $900, new property.
Everything there doesn’t qualify, it’s all dumpster diving junk & stolen bikes traded in to the old guy for drugs.
HE is the hard street drug distributor, the sign is, he’s not fit for nights of dumpster diving, but he stacks up stolen bicycles over the course of MONTHS?
He’s the drug dealer the bike thrives go to.
This is getting RIDICULOUS!!!!!😠😡😠😡😠
Most stupid thing this government is doing. Why don’t they close the washrooms forever. No sane person is using them any way.
Every week they clean the washrooms for the homeless why don’t they hang a sign saying for homeless people living only. It’s a shame. Government surely can do better than have homeless people live in the toilet. It is shameful for the rich ca state to allow this to happen
They’ll just move back in like cockroaches
Commit her!!!
It is perverted to treat property common to all, as if it is personal private property. Those restrooms belong to the public as one community, not to any one person in particular. This is stealing by these bums. But then apparently you can steal up to $1k these days without any kind of enforcement, which equates to lawlessness, so the criminals rule. Why the knocking??? "Excuse me, may I please do room service? OK, I'll come back later." What insanity... we live in a dying empire. It would be better to just tear down those restrooms all together. As for the free WI, what madness.
Saquenlos de las playa y llevenlos a un campamento donde puedan vivir en paz. pero no les permitan vivir en la playa donde van niños con sus familias.
Start giving out tickets
I’m sure those bikes are stolen 🤬
Why are they yours
@@bryanyoung4016 Yeah, that yellow one is mine.
Those structures gotta go. A few porta potty’s is enough. This is absurd
20:23 If living in a toilet at the beach and yelling uncontrollably does not warrant a 5150..what the hell does? Enforce the codes and laws that we have!!!
Prendam eles ou mandem para os hospitais psiquiátricos ou mandem todos para alguma ilha deserta.
Why are they being so nice to them? That woman should have been dragged out by her hair.
I am not from America. But can someone please explain how they have four sanitation workers and two cops. On the clock. Standing around waiting for one lowlife to be moved out of a public facility. What's all this costing. For goodness sake just take them out by force. If l was a rate payer l would be totally OUTRAGED!!!
I bet if they just let the maintenance workers deal with these people they wouldn’t return as fast
OMG how did he ever get all that in and 3 bikes (you can onlymride one at a time) an himself. Agzin people sitting around waiting for him to clean out. As usual they wait till cleaners go then movd back in.
wow, tom's got 10 times more bikes and stuff then he had a week ago, he don't hang around that lady all day but leaves her to watch the stuff while he's gone so it don't get tossed. He cleaned pretty good, leave her in there and shut the door.
I knew his name when she didn’t. Thanks to GIV interviewing them.
I wonder how many people watch this and say.. Hey that's my bike that was stolen No doubt !😮
Single story hotel, same guy last week, different hotel room.
I'm sure that person bought all those bicycles, right?
That's the same bearded guy they kicked out of the first stall at the other end 2 days ago
If they can't show receipts for these bike's, or grocery shopping carts, remove it all!!!!
So let's see FREE: ☑beach side room with lock and private toilet, ☑running clean water, ☑sink with soap and on the other side of that wall are ☑showers, ☑once a week Room Service with a 😁 That's better than 🌏🌍🌎 country
Don't forget that free wifi for their government phone.
Look at the bright side (if there really is one). When all the stores and companies leave San Fran, LA, and California as a whole, there will still be a few job openings on the DPW departments to clean up after these homeless BUMS who are destroying every city and beachfront in the whole State!! Good Luck to those taxpayers who still live in what was once a beautiful State and once had great leadership!!
It is only going to get worse. LA rents. Check it out. In fact rent everywhere is out of control. GREED.
Might be better off just tearing down the restrooms
That's the same people always in the restroom
12:22 That is not how you pack up a tent. O lordy !
Just remember everybody they are not doing this clean up for free or some dam charity benefit this is coming out of our pockets our dam taxes just remember that so we are the ones paying for all of this everytime this happens o.k. wouldn't that piss you off 😡
Same people, different week. A big sandy beach on the Pacific Ocean, and they choose to live in a toilet.
$1,000 a month sounds about right for California bathroom rental.
They clean up the beach but they keep coming back with stolen shopping carts full of crap.
$1,000 a month sounds about right for California bathroom rental.
You know that man stole all those bikes
This has became a business now for all the workers if they get rid of the problem then they will have no buissnes no work
I feel like I’m stuck in the movie Groundhog Day 🤷🏻
And our taxes are paying for this.
That woman really needs to be in an institution And no elderly people should ever be on the street Whether he stole the bikes or not he never gives them any problems they asked him to move on he moves on I've never seen him combative. He may come back but he never causes them any trouble.but she does
Yes. She definitely needs to be committed to an institution for mental health. That’s no life languishing away in a dirty dark bathroom, muttering to yourself, while smoking crack all day. I I don’t know why they can’t do that. My guess is resources are cut short in terms of enforcement commitment, and then housing the mentally ill.
I was actually there yesterday, at that very restroom, it is hideously filthy on the inside, the homeless have absolutely destroyed it.
That lady needs to be in a mental ward! And all those bikes taken away! Probably stolen anyway!
That's that old man's home. You see him removing his stuff every time they call themselves cleaning the bathrooms, which is not. You never see them washing down the toilets, sinks and floors. Just spraying them down with some sort of chemicals.
You need to arrest them all for littering and then if they still don’t want to stay in shelters, arrest them again or send them in Florida . This people are despicable, they made bad and bad decisions, even their families broke the connection with them. This are not nice people!
Send them to Florida?
Every street homeless neighbor on our streets needs a hug full of love, and a big bowl of healthy soup.
@@sarbantz Soup made from boiling the bones of LA's rich people!
@@Alboalt Fentanyl and Tranq horse tranquilizer destroy humans mentally and physically beyond the point of repair very quickly.
@@RobertE-gf2be The problem with that is that a lot of them won't go there. Too many rules, like no doing drugs, and, well, it's full of homeless people who will steal their stuff or assault them.
Hey! That's my bike!
HA! JOKE'S ON YOU MOFO'S! That guy is just building his inventory to start his own bicycle shop! Capitalism at it's best! 'MURICA!
Didn't they just clean this restroom 2 days ago ?
These bathrooms need a hosing out. Who would use the bathroom after just a paint job. Yuck. Park rangers need to do this daily.
They take all there stuff out of the bathrooms,you sweep it out and they move right back in, seem like a waste of time and money!
Just one question, where are they off to a park, under the freeway, behind a house, or an alley cause there were a lot of them. What they ought to have done is thrown them all in a bus and dumped them off in the desert.
I wonder how many dead bodies they've found? 😢
I wouldn't want that job.
Take the homeless and put them Gov.Newsoms front door😊
These bikes have to be stolen.. there is no way ge afforded to buy them all.
I saw something about Venice Beach homeless camps in the news so I checked this out. I know there are plenty of homeless that don’t attempt to help themselves but it’s always tough seeing older people going through it.
What a waste of time if you are just going to let them go back in after the restrooms are cleaned.
Que nojo 🤮
Where are they going to keep all their stolen bicycles now?
Lock up the bathrooms there for beach goers not homeless
Oner way to fix that is get a fire hose and aim it over the stalls
How many stolen bikes can you fit in a toilet?
The reality of it all is most families are one lost pay check away from being homeless
I’m melting…. Cruel world
Is he setting up a bike shop 😅
All of those bikes are stolen
We in L.A. have had enough of this. Our tax dollars should guarantee us the right to be able to walk the streets without harassment. We pay for our parks, and we should be able to sit on those park benches without the stink of someone being there before. Very unhealthy. We should be able to use a clean restroom. We live in Los Angeles for a lot of reasons, and having to deal with homeless people should not be one of them. Get rid of them. They don't care, so why should we?
Insane @
ABSOLUTELY 💯!
Same people every time
God forbid, but if I was homeless I would have minimal stuff. Oh, and the last time I tried, I could only ride one bike at a tume. Why these homeless have so much crap and so many (stolen?) bicycles is beyond me.
The WORST STATE IN AMERICA 😂😂😂😂
That man just leaves and comes back every time after they clean. They should trespass him! So he can’t come ever again! He has more and more crap every time!
Ugh she is so aggravating! She never helps him. She just takes off or sits there doing nothing. Tom? He always wants to be put up in that place nearby on taxpayer dollars. Sure why not!?
Surreal! They have taken over the entire building, crammed it full of their crap, and are howling as they trundle their train of carts off a few blocks and plop down again. How many more years will they last at doing this? Peace will come with the needle.
They should check those bathrooms for lice, and bedbugs. They should be totally scrubbed, and sanitized for possible staph, and bacterial, or virus transmitted diseases. to
What is the point of all this for them to clean this up every weekend for the people just to come right back I see the same people here every weekend just about... Massively in debt taxpayer money on s*** like this..... That's some oxymorons stuff right there!!
The homeless people are just a reflection of the self hatred the people in that given area have for themselves, just keep paying your taxes, that way at least you can still complain.
These restrooms are totally disgusting and should be torn down and replaces with more modern facilities.