To the editor: Our good mayor lacks the talent of sample recognition (“Bass’ Inside Safe teams went to these places again and again. But so did the homeless,” Aug. 9). She ought to have seen that since her election and introduction of her Inside Secure program, homeless encampments have reestablished themselves in the identical places hundreds of times. As that sample emerged, she ought to have taken the recommendation attributed to Gen. George S. Patton: “I don’t pay for a similar actual property twice.”
Town’s anti-camping regulation, L.A. Municipal Code 41.18, which permits town to arrange exclusion zones for any mendacity, sitting, sleeping or storing of private possessions, ought to have been amended a number of years in the past to ban any returns to those zones as soon as they’re cleared the primary time, with penalties of arrests and jail time for violations. The entire freeway websites famous within the article, together with alongside the 110, ought to have been declared 41.18 exclusion zones, and as soon as cleared may have been stored clear by the Los Angeles Police Division beneath the amendments I suggest.
Simply hoping that these places won’t be repopulated just isn’t efficient public coverage, and as famous by Councilwoman Nithya Raman, is extraordinarily costly. (After all, Raman doesn’t support LAMC 41.18 zones within the first place and prefers to permit the homeless to camp anyplace they need.)
Mark Ryavec, Venice
This author is president of the Venice Stakeholders Assn., a nonrevenue devoted to civic enchancment.
