Homeless Encampment Clean-up at Venice Boardwalk
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- The City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, in collaboration with Clean Harbors Environmental Inc., carried out a cleanup operation of homeless encampment at Venice Beach on Friday, April 28, 2023. Sanitation workers were donned in white hazardous materials suits as part of the safety protocol for the cleanup.
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.
To ensure the safety of all involved, Los Angeles Park Rangers and Los Angeles Police Officers were present at the site throughout the cleanup operation. This weekly cleanup activity takes place every Friday in Venice and is intended to maintain the cleanliness and hygiene of the area.
The City of Los Angeles has been actively addressing the issue of homelessness in the area, and the Venice Beach clean-up is just one part of their ongoing efforts. The clean-up not only helps to improve public health and safety but also helps to restore the restrooms to their intended use.
It is important to note that these clean-ups 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.
Overall, the clean-up of homeless encampments at Venice Beach is an important step in improving public health and safety, and 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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They need to sweep every 24 hours and start enforcing overnight camping laws, and littering and open drug use.
sunsensational: Bingo.
Have you found an answer? It can't be just because city workers need work. There's plenty to clean up. Why the police let these bums establish a foothold is beyond me. The police are just letting people rot first and only try to help second. Why not help them first? And the police could start be enforcing a very simple law: no overnight camping.
Democrats would lose their minds
This is mental illness going unaddressed. No states want to budget for this and tax accordingly and local municipalities (breeding heart) undermine dealing with the problem.
3-4 ‘do-gooder employees’ standing around observing. This has turned into an industry.
@@chrispnw2547
Very true.
And its weird to see so many police just standing around watching.
If the police would not let them set up residence in the first place, MOST problems would be solved.
I am starting to think American police hate us (and by "starting", I mean 50 years ago through today).
Being homeless is one thing but accumulating that much stuff and especially trash is unbelievable.
This crap MUST STOP. It should be illegal to camp out on public property like this.
Good to see that Venice is doing something about it, although all these workers are taking more than two times as long to clean it up. Instead of picking through it and moving one piece of debris to another place, put that piece of debris in a large garbage can the first time you touch it. Then, when the garbage can is full, roll it over to the garbage truck. 🙄🤦🏼♂️
The sign says that they cannot sleep or camp within 500 feet of a certain area. So, those people will move 500 feet away and become a problem for somebody else. This conduct needs to be illegal. These people should be put in a home someplace and rehabilitated. If they are not able to become rehabilitated, they should be put in a prison, for life. Sorry.
Where is that disgusting man going to take his disgusting garbage now? 500 feet away and become a problem for somebody else.
What must stop is outscoring and greed.
My hoarder neighbor allowed a woman friend to "camp out" in his backyard and as soon as she started to unload her huge garbage bags she had customers coming through the alley way. Every day it was like a damn day care watching this ONE woman "entertaining" all her "friends" and later jumping our fences to steal whatever she could carry with her. All she did was traffick, get paid and screamed and threw all kinds of things at her "boy" friend who wanted her money. This happened 24/7 every single day until i just calling police about it. She would run out of our yard and everybody else's before we could do anything about it. It took my 2 years to get rid of this tick because my neighbor wouldn't set boundaries on her. He got tired of the cops being called on him! But she left a huge damn mess scattered across the yard that the city came to clear it all out and his junk as well.
@@sadenbrick ooh you really hurt me
@@sadenbrick found the piece of 💩
Number one rule of the street - Never Trust A Junkie. I am truly sorry you had to endure this. I hope your neighbor has better decision-making skills now. Peace.
@@DurararaX2 I lost 2 dogs to poisoning during her trafficking, never ever lost a dog like that. Then I found out my neighbor lost 2 dogs to poisoning too, what a coincidence! These dogs always alerted us to strangers, so yeah the only way to control them further was to call police every time I saw her from them on and she would hide.
I would have shot her the very first time she trespassed over the property line, but if you don't own a rifle or gun or you are anti-gun- throw a tactical spatula at her .
I live near a large park in North Hollywood, and the tents are dotted all over, and derelict campers and vans are parked all along the main street. On two corners, some homeless have a pile of garbage and junk. That park is for exercise and leisure, and people walking their dogs and play.
The homeless are making it so, THEY rule everything, and no one else can safely use ANYTHING in this ENTIRE COUNTY!
I just got a huge federal tax bill, and I can't afford it.
It's badly stressed me too. Looking at the piles of such garbage, spending so much just to live, and this is what's to show for it!
I absorb these digital tragedies . . .. consuming a carbonated sugar water (COKE),, watching these tax payer funded parks turned into inner city slums. Things don't go better, with COKE Likewise, tax payer provided attractions, don''t operate effectively, without enforcement (which is tax payer funded, as well ). Only in America - 'Land of the free, home for the homeless' ! 💀 🇺🇲 😖
Yes. For a while they were keeping homeless tents out of that park. Now, something has obviously changed and they are letting them in without any restrictions. This how it is done. You can pass all the laws you want but, as long as some bureaucrat officials sitting behind closed doors can quietly overrule those laws--and the will of the people--this is what you get.
That is what they want, they want stressed out weak people. Talk to your neighbors, band together demand and force the change that we deserve.
That guy is a hoarder that probably burned all his bridges so now he’s on the street still hoarding out of dumpsters.
So get the hell out. Even in its best days why anybody would want to live in North Holywood is beyond me.
It’s like giving a two year old a time out. I will give them a times up. Put the stuff in the truck.
I’ve seen many of these videos. It’s one think to pitch a tent and live there homeless but they hoard all this garbage they don’t need like old toilets, bookcases and junk. It’s a health hazard. When they first cleaned up there were rats scurrying around when the workers started to dismantle. That’s how the black plaque started I believe. Homeless have more rights than residents and business owners who work hard to keep their properties clean & pay huge taxes. It’s just not right.
It’s really amazing how much they accumulate and what they determine is valuable.
That’s what I thought, seen old toilets and other garbage you don’t need while living in a tent.
Reminds me of games where you collect random items on a map that later become important to complete a quest later.
Just imagine the amount of bed bugs in that pile of stuff! Hopefully the people cleaning this up don't take any home because you know 💯 they are in there
It looks like a land fill 😮
That is the most disorganized cleanup I have ever see looks about right for California.
Probably court ordered just doing their community service
Wow the beaches in SoCal use to look so nice. So sad!
They still do...plenty of beautiful beaches with not so many homeless/bums
@@romanjaimes4948 I wonder how San Diego beaches are? I'm going this summer.
Go to Orange County beaches they are a lot cleaner. Or if you go more up north malibu and up are nice. Wherever the super rich live cant camp out there they don’t tolerate it apparently
@@MayorMcheese12 yeah republican areas are actually civilized.
@@trollpolice exactly
The city of Los Angeles does this several times a year. They clean the mess up, kick the transients out, hose everything down and within a day or two, they have to start all over.
Well that's nice. They're going to clean it up so the homeless can move back in.
How does a homeless person acquire so much material? I think other people dump their unwanted stuff off rather than pay for to get rid of it.
Their brain is ruined from years of choosing to take drugs.
Yep
They dont have a job or any responsibilities. They have plenty of time to go around and collect junk.
Folks addicted to meth in particular do this. They collect junk,take things apart ambitiously & never accomplish anything. If you become homeless because of loss of employment you're going to take a few important things & throw the rest in the dump like a responsible person would.
@@av2245 Because jobs are outscored. Now , robots will replace fast food workers.
How/why do they accumulate all that junk?
The same reasoning that makes them think it's okay to bite off a Sargent's little finger.
It's mental illness. Severe OCD.
Where do you think the name Junky comes from ?
Did you see him with the blue tent? He moved it back to the same spot basically. Right at end of video you see him there
No law that says he can't.
They should of taken the tent first. It took 8 people way to long to clean that up. So long in fact the the owner of the trash came back and started collecting his trash smh....
Time to take out the trash-----again and again and again and again!
Why are the workers sorting each item in the pile while the garbage truck is sitting there idling?
My guess is they are looking for flammable things so they don't put it in the truck?
Looking for drugs to share
My guess was pee and poo
How many times are we going to clean Venice ? The city needs a nightly roundup.
Here's an idea:
The moment the police, city worker, or citizen sees someone start putting up a tent, they're stopped.
Why on earth does the city let people establish position in the first place?
It won't work because it makes too much sense! (in California) 🎓
Because the courts have ruled that the homeless have a right to exist, that's why.. If you don't like it you should get in your time machine and go back to 1930's Germany where I'm sure you'll be much happier.
@@chinaskee1015
No, I meant that the homeless should seek state sponosored shelter first, not set up a tent at a random place.
I think of the hell I've gone thru keeping my home whenever I see this.
Ahh nothing like birds chirping and the smell of feces and urine in the morning!
Letting the Homeless to do as they please is the “Tail Wagging The Dog”
this is thoroughly satisfying...its like ASMR for me
Wonder why they allowed that homeless man to take the tent and 2 boxes. Was that his stuff?? He'll go & set up home somewhere else at the beach. Oh, well.
I remember as a kid down there you did see homeless people but you never saw that it was never just a pile of garbage in the middle of a parking lot a sidewalk a park it was never like that I just don't understand how it's so acceptable now
Everybody has more stuff now.
I thought this already happened 🤔
Great work guys 👍
Yup but you’re really didn’t think it was going to last did you? Its LA after all. Idk why so many people want to go to that pos city. Place is a dumpster
They do weekly cleanups
@@MayorMcheese12it’s actually not, they do these cleanings weekly to keep the beach clean. Sorry we have people that keep coming to our city to chase their dreams without always the resources to make it happen.
Ongoing.
Must be nice to work slow and get paid for it
You're right about that. I don't know what the job pays but they sure take their time.
Community work instead of jail ??
I think they are work-release prisoners who are not in a hurry to get back to their cells.
Maybe a good video would be a timelapse of one of these encampments over a few weeks, then cut it into one video.
Why is this done by hand? Piece by piece? Just bring in a mini bulldozer!
Thank God for Santa Monica....Fresno CA needs to learn from them and start saving our beautiful City before it is too late. These folks are burning down our City and we need to do something about it sooner rather than later!
Glad to see Venice & Santa Monica getting back to a great place to visit. I loved walking that area, but haven’t visited it because of what it became. There used to be art shows.
When we the people who built our communities decide that we want our communities back, it will be swift and rough.
Remember that for every Homeless person who can't support themselves and contribute to Society there are 556 people who are not Homeless. Homelessness represents 0.18% of our population. 556 to 1 odds are not in favor of the Homeless. If you're Homeless you've lost your opportunity to choose. Freedom is an earned privilege.
When we're tired of the Homeless ruining our neighborhood's we'll drive them out with force.
My crystal ball shows a Dude wearing Camo Gear on a Bulldozer pushing an entire Homeless Encampment into a big pile and torching it. When enough is enough we will take our community back from the Bumms. Just Sayin.
Alicia Browndocken You hit the nail on the head!! Can't wait to see the Bulldozer!!
They are just relocating them. Millions more on the way-FJB
Anything that is "Public" in Cali should be avoided.
Thanks for sharing 🙏🏾💙
CA needs to wake up and bring back a Cash Bail system, and bring back Three Strikes. And maybe outlaw street camping? just a thought. Weaponized squatting needs to stop. Peace.
How many times is this? This is like what 6 times they've cleaned this up.. How about they don't let these people start putting their crap on the boardwalk... Don't they have security walking around..
Levanten toda la basura y no pidan permiso. Estas personas viven fuera de la ley y no pueden usar las areas para acampar. Basta del caos.
Imagine your full time job is cleaning up all the trash at the beach wow, keep voting them into office.
These guys are working there community service instead of being in jail .
What don’t some of these people understand about unloading their junk anywhere they please? Some hired hands need to keep vigilant for preventing this over & over again. They need to put signs up that say: “ Dumping personal items will not be tolerated! “
they playing the shell game again, just move them around...
Go to CA if you enjoy loitering and homeless
If you read the book of revelations or hear it on youtube in video you will be so shocked to notice how we are in the end times. Im 52 and i blew off all that talk all my life. Now, knowing what i know these last ten yrs i am just floored. How true it has become
The vast majority of people will continue to blow you off,...until it is too late.
Make them camp out . . . In a JAIL CELL ! 🇺🇲
China , Russia and the United States will create Armageddon
Get em up! Move em out! Ride em in Raw Hiiiiiiiiiide!
thank you for cleaning all the sh**ttt
Dont worry it will look the same in two days.
Exactly!
Ship them to cargo containers in the desert. Air drop supplies. Block them from returning to the cities.
Cuba has plenty free space for this communists.
About time they clean that mess up.
Animals are cleaner.
The hippopotamus community would respectfully disagree.
Also the police need to stop shuffling them from place to place once again putting a bandaid on the situation and not fixing the problem.
The problem would be "fixed" if these people chose to become productive members of society
I saw some group out walking around serving them sandwiches and snacks on silver platters one day
That's the least we could do maybe some lobster and champagne?
Keep voting democrat lol
affirmative action in action
They will be back..
About time!!!
Throw the tent away ! 💀
This is ridiculous
Our tax dollars at work and they want an unlimited budget.
The CEO of Homelessness for LA hired in January by Bass has a base salary of $430k. That's where are taxes are going.
Does it become a crime scene with the cones and yellow tape? The real crime is using 9 people to clean up the mess.
Bravo ❤
The Great State of California is turning into a dump.
My family moved. Too expensive and much, much more.
I WILL NEVER VOTE DEMOCRAT ever again!
surreal
10 Workers, I am in to the 10 Min Mark and they have not done anything but pick through the shit, 1 guy found a laptop. No wonder there's a problem getting anything cleaned up.
I've read that we are all 2 paychecks away from being homeless. We are witnessing the complete degradation of society.
Not going to stop until the authorities become tough and take it, junk it, and do daily and nightly sweeps. Stop being so nice! Even animals don't foul their living space if possible -like these people do. What has our civilization become where this is a way of life?
Cleanup = ?
Maybe some people want to live like the American Indians ?
People should be encouraged to find healthy solutions.
Zero rent control, loss of low skilled manufacturing to China and loss of cyclical capital by tax evasion has created a drain spiral instead of a cyclically healthy economy.
OMG this TRASH
JUST through it away!!!!!!!!
ENFORCE THE LAWS THAT ALREADY EXIST........
NO CAMPING IN CITY LIMITS.......
NO DUMPING OF TRASH ON PUBLIC BEACHES......
NO PUBLIC INTOXICATION.........
Disgusting, if you ask me ! Can’t even bother to roll up their tents and carry along with them. After all, someone else will give them new stuff wherever they go, right ?????
Now…plant flowers mulch around them plant fruit bearing trees install a wander fountain
I sold my small apartment building in Culver City California , 1 Block from the Sepulveda underpass loaded with homeless drug addicts and mental patients and due to some of them using my front yard as toilet and giving themselves free usage of my garden faucets and most of all giant rats coming out of the homeless camp.
Nope thumbs down. Stop putting a bainaid over the situation! Mandatory shelters they have to go otherwise you’ll take there stuff and then they will just get more. So mandatory shelters and they will get arrested if on the street. That and mandatory meetings. No more of this crap
Those orange vest dudes remind me of boss men running a chaingang of prisoner cleanup duty...
Why do we accept this type of criminal behavior? Trashing our city and public facilities is not okay. We need to build detention facilities for house these drug addicts aka the unhoused.
I remember in the 1980s, I use to check out woman on that stretch of beach as a college man. Didn't have this issue back in those days.
What an embarrassment for the wealthiest developed nation in the world while the drug cartels laugh all the way to the bank
I were homeless I’d have a one person pup tent and nothing more than I could carry in a backpack so would be mobile - homeless people seem to go to dump sites and bring everything back with them
That’s just nasty I’m so tired of the homeless thinking that the rest has to be subjected to this type of felt we want our communities and beaches to be clean and enjoyable for us to take our family to plus I think the city officials need to be forced to live in that felt then maybe they will get off their butts and put in place a system and order that doesn’t allow the homeless and mentally disabled to turn our communities and beaches into third world countries!!!!
What kind of animals are they dealing with.just put in no trespassing signs until things go back to normal also no yard sale signs should be in place. For God sake man them nuts have got to .over on.
If the property is abandoned, take it. If the people are with their property and the government takes it, it is theft and aginst the law.
they didn't evern get the consent of the owner. they should at least put his stuff in storage.right? maybe? lol
My niece got a 17$ hr job 2days out of high school and they can’t work why‼️
40l backpack would be all that I need and access to a bathroom. Clearly mental illness is at play here as it would be a struggle to tote this garbage around.
How infuriating to pay extra for the view, only to have a dump move in right outside your window.
What a waste of taxpayer's money with these doing nothing workers.
This need to be done on the DAILY” it gives them no time to set base camp that way 🤷🏻♀️
how do they accumulate all of this stuff when they are homeless? Where does it all come from? Maybe from other homeless?
Just clean all up right away I don’t know what they looking for ..
make a wild guess, cleaners looking for gold, cash or rolex watch?
was für nee Müllkieppe sieht ja scrhrecklich auch wie gut das ihr jetzt dar seit werd es wieder sauber aus sehn danach solche stellen sehn nicht gut aus für die Turisten die dar urlaub machen möchten
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the homeless will just go to different places ! nothing solved .
Are they all hoarders - lots of stuff to carry around - exhausting!
Florida has a serious homeless problem. They do this in the parks in the poorer areas of Tampa
Parece filme ........de no creer !!!!!!!
Leave the homeless alone don't bother with people one day you going to be homeless to