Monday I wrote about LA County’s decision to brush off Gov. Newsom’s executive order asking cities to start cleaning up homeless camps. Here’s what ABC reported last weekend:
“We can’t arrest our way out of what’s going on in the streets,” said L.A. Board Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who is one of five board members who unanimously voted this week against Newsom’s executive order on dismantling homeless encampments across the state…
Showing a united front with the board of supervisors, L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna said during the meeting Tuesday, “Being homeless is not a crime, and we will maintain our focus on criminal behavior rather than an individual’s status.”
Given that LA County is home to about 1/4 of the state’s entire population and about 40% of its homeless population, that definitely threatened to put a crimp in Newsom’s plans.
So yesterday he decided to show up…
