Homeless Encampment Clean-up in Venice
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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2023
- On Friday, June 16, 2023, the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, in collaboration with Clean Harbors Environmental Inc., conducted a cleanup operation at Venice Beach 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 motivation behind this operation was the significant health and safety concerns posed to both the unhoused individuals and the general public.
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. It also aims to restore the restrooms to their intended use. 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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They need daily sweeps.
No, HOURLY sweeps!
Daily sweeps and anyone cause more than once gets a year in jail but hell they would probably like jail a free roof over there head and food
11:37, the homeless have tagged the trees. The vile, spiteful manner in which these insufferable people treat and react to public servants is disgusting.
Why do they have to set up their dirty beds, tents, blankets just in the most famous and most beautiful and most expensive places, where people and tourists want to visit and relax??
I wouldn’t accept that, I would prohibit that
Homeless people leave a big mess wherever they go. Oscar the grouch
Where do they get all the mattresses and seats and stuff from lol tho 😅
Where are the churches?
@@elvirareis9634 Good question.
@@Bebedollie The car seats with head rests, especially. How exactly is that happening?
@@Bebedollie stealing, dumpster diving, etc.
These videos are great for Tourists to see while planning vacation 😂
Yes for sure! I would think twice to travel all the way there again! I used to stay there about 20/25 years ago, it wasn’t so “crowded “ with Outdoor sleepers!
They need this daily. It costs more to clean up then to jail them for vagrancy.
These people are disgusting. That one guy sitting there clipping his toenails. Just nasty. These people are becoming a scourge of society.
I envy these peoples who don't have worry about paying for any bills like I do, no utility bills, no insurance bill, no mortgage bill, no tax bill, absolutely no bill to worry about.
Just remember they have no roofs.
They suffer the rain and no one cares.
@@elvirareis9634 they themselves don't care, why should anyone else care. There should be zero sympathy for these working age adult white males (in a country like USA) doing nothing but drugs and sleeping. There are billions people working hard supporting themselves who are more many times worthy of respect and empathy than these lazy bums
They just have to worry about their next meal and where they’re gonna sleep at.
I don’t envy anything about any of this. I like working and paying my bills and mortgage I like it. This lifestyle is full of drugs, craziness danger…etc. No thanks
And I'm a homeless man who doesn't envy any of you. I think rents have become so ridiculously over-priced that housing has become a luxury item. I've been living the homeless life for 15 years now. And I plan on living it til the day I die.
You're paying at least 15 city employees to stand around and wait for them to pack up for an hour and then they come back. Plus several vehicles. There must be a better way. But I don't know
LOCK EM' UP, Some may say ! 😬 🇺🇲
@@paulsuprono7225lso, multiple sweeps on random days and hours. No "official" clean-up time like the fellow was complaining about
Wasting tax payers money
It's a shame that grown adults have to be treated like 3-year olds
But I’m sure they knew it long ago, they can read the notices everywhere! So they have enough time to pack their mess! When the cleanup team arrives, its too late and the team is wasting time!
So, all you have to do is refuse to get up. Seems like this plan is working well.
Just so sad 😔 Displacing the displaced. I do understand they can't live on the sidewalks like that, but I don't have the answer to this crisis.
Get up get out dont come back no questions dont scream at police if you do your going to jail for disorderly conduct
Maybe our jails can help them recover.
@@elvirareis9634 may just be the trick there. sober is best way . i made it out. i know any one can.
They just leave so much trash!
They know we pay to clean up after them while they enjoy living on the beach.
Not only trash but urine stank and💩💩💩
HERE we go again, cleaning up the shore (PU) 😬🇺🇲
CAN'T REASON WITH CRAZY!!!!!!
why cant arkham be real.
Good job you guys.👏👏👏👏👏👏
They are waking up the sleepers at the unthinkable hour of 6 am.
Home sweet home.
Can’t they put signs up “Camping, tents, sleeping, littering strictly prohibited “!?
And you think they pay attention to signs? 😂😂😂
Bumbs want a free ride it’s so satisfying to see them get moved along sadly they will just keep moving 50 100 feet at a time and as soon as the sanatation people leave they will be back
wieder ein Paar Müllkippen weg so das die urlauber sich wieder wohlfühlen können super Arbeit von euch den Reinigungs-team
DECLARE MANDATORY SHELTER FOR ALL LAZY PEOPLES HOMELESS AND PROBLEMS SOLVED.
Well they wouldn't do it anyway as I here homeless people don't like the rules
Most of them wouldn’t move into a shelter. They like that street life. I think the street life alone is addictive to most of these people.
I enjoy these videos☺
Now who will use the restroom there that’s nasty even when they clean wow this crazy
It will only be clean and vacant for about 24 hrs.
I guess this will tend to change the minds of little kids who want to grow up to be Park Rangers. No bears, no crystal clear streams, no mountain goats. Just human feces and bottles of urine, peppered with needles.
Urban California was a mistake. A massive testament to human ego and stubbornness. The tectonic plates, the wildfires, even the air and water themselves; the entire planet chafes at the existence of that giant coastal eyesore. Naturally the people tend to match, the height of urbanist sociopathy.
Maynard was right. The only way to cleanse it is to flush it all away, learn to swim and I'll see ya down in Arizona Bay.
Afraid so. And not just at the beaches, so many people are ruining the forests with graffiti, illegal campfires, Satanic rituals, or acts of arson resulting in brush fires as a result, more trash from parties and beer blasts, and other kinds of other damage or destruction. Thirty years ago this wasn’t as bad, when I used to visit the wilderness as a Girl Scout.
The caution tape and silently waiting for the homeless folks to pack up and leave seems very effective. Was that process designed by a psychologist or did it just naturally develop?
Why don't they just post no camping on the beach. Then they would be violating the law if it was made illegal.I like to konw where they get the money to replace what stuff they fhrow away. C.M.
The city waited too long to address the homeless / vagrancy, and filth problem... it is now out of control and is a serious public health and safety problem. When vagrancy becomes normalized, which it is now in LA, its a huge problem because it expands exponentially.
They should really remove that building that has the toilets
It looks yucky 🤮 in the toliets
The tourists need toilets.
Where do you want them to go?
The city should but they won't I am sure the restrooms are pointless to have as its always destroyed by them
Watching from uk 🇬🇧 good work clearing up the trash
That big ranger looks like he's there to kick some homeless ass and take names.
Looks like he ate a few of the homeless.
Close area from those homeless. That they can not come there. Security.
The root of this problem is hard drugs being ok.
All hard drugs are still illegal so it's not okay
The real root of these problems with the homeless started when they were little kids at home. That’s where all of this begins.
@@bcatblues725 I had a lousy childhood and since I don't do drugs or drink alcohol I know I could live better than this. (even if nobody would hire me and welfare was my only option)
Never will be shortage within menace, in Venice.
I hope tourists don't go to this area it's disgusting.
Smells urine everywhere !
We go there and we love it
Tourists will see how selfish we are.
We see their weaknesses and just walk away.
I want that book tho ❤
Hope those workers get haz pay cleaning that filth and dirty needles, seeing that Shakespeare Book of Works could be a scene from an apocalyptic film such as The Omega Man.
Good God, imagine what it would look like if they did not have city workers doing this service.
Nucking Futs. Sad sad stuff.
In the long run everything eould go smoother for all
Ig it. Was a one cart per person
Did the beach area get a weekly clean up during the Covid era ?
First developer within steel sole foot ware, will be most famous person in u.s. Needle protection act bill.
Another title for these videos is "you know the routine".
This is why drugs should have a hefty punishment and the state should not be giving out free drug paraphernalia and safe spaces for them to continue this harmful and illegal addiction. We need more mental institutions to help these people who need it. The public deserves to be safe, these liberal cities and their policies must change or this will continually get worse. We must make it harder for them to attain drugs and the paraphernalia. If we need more homeless shelters, then we need to open them. Those that are mentally ill need to be in mental institutions. What’s going on now is not working.
Ever noticed :
The only good friends broken
dow⛺ transients have :
Mr. & Mrs. Filth
When this nonsense is going to be over.
It’s supposed to be for the public to enjoy, not walk through a drug addicts living room while they sleep or scream.
Put them in jail man talking not doing nothing but making things worse
You think the bums are buying all this stuff that goes into the landfill? No way. It's all somebody else's property that has walked off with some bum.
I can't help but feel bad for some of these homeless people. There are some that want to be homeless, bu there's also a lot of people that are struggling to get back on their feet. Very sad indeed ❤🙏
HUCK THE FOMELESS!
Fentanyl is killing the drug-addicted homeless vermin by the thousands.
What can we do to get more of it on the street?
People that have 8 hour a day jobs shouldn't feel sorry for people that lounge around the beach all day getting high on drugs
11:18
"Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes.
Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back."
- Shakespeare
Once a week isnt going to work. Apparently.
Ohhhh, a skateboard. Who knew that he was employed?
3:28 It's black Casper the Ghost.
WHERE ARE YOU DAISY ???
Another thing is to ban animals on the beach.
many are homeless because their relatives got tired of supporting them and their drug habits and kicked them out. we should help those that need, seek, and want help. I have seen interviews of the homeless that say they have been on the streets for years. YEARS!!!!????? don't tell me that they are trying to better themselves....thats BS.
I lived here and most of these people have homes and family to go home to but they rather hang out at beach, do drugs, get free stuff and be close to rich and famous. These people have homes!
Se que no esta bien que esten durmiendo y acampando en las playas , por que tienen sucio pero no dejo de sentir compasion por Esa gente que no tienen donde vivir pobre gente que Dios los ayude a salir de eso
Seems like they take their time getting up.
He works on the "night shift"
I grew up here. Has the we gole world gone crazy. We only had surfers bad then. Oh God. Horrific
I think maybe the government needs to spend more on housing than cleaning up.... we don't know these people's situations, we can't judge. It could happen to any of us. Yes, there are so many beyond help but there are more in need of help.
And so where do they go from there to another hole.
NO LIVY LIVY AT THE BEACHY BEACHY...........LIFE IS A BEACH........
Yep take all those old abandoned houses if you got people sleeping outside I bet you got a bunch of abandoned houses make your own American can manufactus up and make some good canvas
STOP MESSING WITH AMERICAN VALUES IF YOUR LIFE IS GET HIGH KEEP MOVING THIS COUNTRY IS NOT FOR LOOSERS.
No homeless problem in North Korea--they will help educate you so you can keep a job or you will go to prison for Life....
Million $$$$ Ocean front property and they let it fill up with drug addicts , mental cases , felons, and Bums.....these no accounts need a xxxl camp out of town where they are kept away from tourists who pay the taxes that provide the services it seems like its a constant battle with these deadend bums..
harsh
That's straight savagery there
They lucked out, they have an open air asylum right on the beach
Now facing in it ain't no Police test City is just somewhere we make them a shower some they can take turns if somebody make sure they don't think this is somewhere to do things they are not being doing to each other that's only kind of lawyer they need cuz everybody don't like living in the house you got a deal with the mouse anyway so you might as well move outside with him😮
There is no way that one guy can carry all that stuff. I don't think it will all fit on that skateboard.
More like housekeeping maids
What I don’t understand how come you guys don’t enforce the law and arrest them for littering look like they’ve been there for quite a while. How can you allow it to happen them to Dragon so much junk
Even with weekly cleaning, I wouldn't want to walk barefoot, sit or lay on that beach for any amount of money 💉🩹🩸😲
Did the country really save money shutting down State Hospitals
It was fraud.... holding mentally ill .. until days ran out...state steps in ...to pay is what was needed not dropping off when days run out.but keeping them.
No. In the short term maybe, in the long run, no.
You have to do something immediately before it becomes a 3rd world country, 1 tent turns into a 100 in a week, stop it with the 1st tent.
THIS is disgusting!!!!I've never seen this in HUNTINGTON BEACH or NEWPORT BEACH!!!
I blame the Metro line
Orange County is why. Orange Count don't put up with it!
@@catherinerumfield4945 To be truthful these people were all in Orange county first by Angele Stadium. They said it was so bad it smelled like death, they all migrated here. Thanks Orange County.
@@MoneyGreen I don't think All of them.
@@catherinerumfield4945 Of course not, but sheep follow the herd.
What will they do when most of us will be homeless its going to be the new why of life. And all the military flying in the cities I think there getting ready for Martial law
Never seen a more obvious and negligent use of tax payer money ever.
Are those homeless using drugs? And then people is walking in the beach and children. Needles? 24/7 cleaning and security. It is dangerous to walk there. How many man needs to clean there. One or two clean others watching. Build new toilets. Restrooms. And worker that homeless can not live in restrooms. Time for toilet using and out 10 min. And out. What is coverment thinking and President?
Nice 250k $ playground next to where these drug addicts use and no one says anything. It’s not their money!
Some Americans have just GIVEN UP on life and choose drugs and homelessness over a job, and there is plenty of work out there.
They work hard every day at getting high
@@BarryWinner2075cool emoji
Environmental hazard for the local population.This is a health and safety issue.
The solution is to reverse the Supreme Court's 1983 decision that struck down Vagrancy Laws. Then take these moochers to the County Farm for adult supervision.
Republicans did that, Ronald Reagan did that in order to create this homeless crisis.. this whole disgusting and pathetic mess was created by the GOP and conservatives
интересно . а куда людям идти ...ужас ..
That big dude probably ly needs to be wearing shorts cause he probably has high blood pressure.
Why not use prisoners/trustees to do these jobs ?
Make that crime to live in outside. That they must go in jail. How many days it takes homeless to get that much trash to the beach?! that is on the video. Car seat?😂it is heavy urin bottle. And they left trash. Homeless i mean. All that stuff/trash. Make homeless clean the own shit trash. No workers. That dont work i think. If homeless dont clean them self. Jail If they don't clean. Example you must clean restroom/toilet every day. And those are dirty because homeless live in it. How about if children need toilets? Get away toilets in there. New toilets and time line for using and money locks. It is dangerous to be there aroud homeless. People make money in work and buy and pay aparment, Houses and they must watch homeless on The Window. In Expensive area.
Not being rude but those public toliets look disgusting
Who dumped all those mentally sick homeless off....there insurance days ran out... couldn't pay anymore...
It's time to make posting graffiti a serious crime. Corporal punishment is appropriate here. Post graffiti and you'll get a savage beating.
Always the same people, just move from place to place.
They need a vagrants laws again
OFFER THEM A HELPING HAND.
IMMIGRANTS HAVE A BETTER CHANCE TO BE RELOCATED.
OUR HOMELESS ARE SENT AWAY AND START THE ENDLESS SEARCH TO FIND A PLACE TO SURVIVE.
THE LITTLE TREASURES THEY
HAVE ARE THROWN AWAY.
They aren't thrown away. Those 'treasures' are all catalogued and inventoried and stored for months in case the person decides they want their abandoned stuff back.
What a waste of life
Not giving out tickets to these bums?
Lol. I don't blame this person I'd be like F off man.
More Alcohol and Drugs!! Down with the system…
The homeless needs weapons to protect themselves..
This is not right. The homeless wake-up call is noon, not 6 a.m.
Lol 😊yes !