Real Estate News: Outreach workers went tent to tent early this week with offers of homeless services as the city launched an unlawful crackdown on encampments around a new shelter in downtown Los Angeles. In unending spasms and fits, social workers and LAPD delayed, started, stopped and then delayed again. | COMMENT
L.A. LOFT BLOG OPINION
The City of Los Angeles continues to foster a major problem with discrimination regarding law enforcement. Laws are applied with tremendous unfairness, based not only on skin color, but particularly on appearance of income class. Against the wisdom of America’s founders, big cities like Los Angeles today continue a strong bias of “prince or pauper” treatment. When it comes to law enforcement, the middle class generally receives mediocre enforcement or neglect, often with little or no law enforcement compared to other municipalities. The wealthy and poor are singled out for special enforcement, delayed enforcement or no enforcement at all, which has deplorable consequences, and is utterly unconstitutional in the United States of America. #dtla #homeless #tent
The LAPD even goes as far as creating a written bias designation for rich or famous individuals in their police report paperwork. Los Angeles created Skid Row about 100 years ago when locals decided to ignore the constitution in an incorrect belief that the poor should not be treated equally under the law. Laws have been skirted, including laws against urban camping, loitering, littering, blocking sidewalks, trespassing, aggressive panhandling, traffic obstruction and J-walking. Many other laws have been wrongly tabled. Homeless continue to be treated like animals who require no law enforcement.
Homeless need extra help. They don’t need to be neglected and they don’t need extra legal discrimination. They need more counseling, housing and assistance from successful experts, caring citizens and private charities. They do not want or need to be treated like feral animals.
Creating unconstitutional “special enforcement zones” for homeless is not the solution. It is the cause of the problem because it misallocates enforcement, violates human rights, violates the U.S. Constitution, delays law enforcement and misallocates funds. Homeless persons deserve and require the same speedy, reliable law enforcement that wealthy and middle class should also receive. Wealthy, poor and middle class living under different laws is the definition of corruption and tyranny. “Special Enforcement” is the opposite of the cure. This kind of zigzag, willy nilly haphazard enforcement is unconstitutional and extremely ineffective. Inconsistency and class prejudice are the root of the problem.
The homeless want prompt and equal protection. LAPD officers want new orders to begin applying the law fairly to everyone. Angelinos must stop allowing uneven, biased legal treatment of rich and poor. Only solid, consistent, unbiased enforcement is legal and effective. The City of Los Angeles will eventually figure that out. What do you think? | COMMENT
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