To the editor: Steve Lopez’s protection of the carnage at MacArthur Park west of downtown Los Angeles is vital.
If the world surrounding the park is the “Ellis Island of the West Coast,” as Metropolis Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez claims, why has MacArthur Park been turned over, in impact, to teams of people that can and do terrorize this immigrant inhabitants? When immigrant youngsters can not safely use a public park, it’s the c ouncil member’s accountability to take motion that can rectify these unsafe situations.
Hernandez, who took her seat on the Metropolis Council virtually two years in the past, claims that “others waited too lengthy to do one thing about it.” This place is akin to, “The canine ate my homework.”
Leaders reminiscent of Hernandez and Mayor Karen Bass should notice that permitting anti-social and felony habits shouldn’t be an appropriate element of their outreach applications. The photograph exhibiting a reclining avenue camper holding a 24-ounce can of beer very clearly displays the situations that space residents are made to simply accept.
Lee Meister, San Pedro
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To the editor: Sadly, the “trash abatement” and “peace ambassadors” proposed by Councilmember Hernandez to deal with the disaster round MacArthur Park can be laughable if the state of affairs weren’t so critical.
Town clearly has a rampant drugs-on-the-street downside. Why do police sit again as neighborhoods deteriorate in plain sight? Why do they not implement current legal guidelines? Is that this metropolis coverage, Mayor Bass?
Town ought to undertake Lopez’s wonderful suggestion to briefly direct current sources from different sectors to quadruple outreach and implement current legal guidelines to scrub up the damaging open-air drug bazaars on our streets and in our homeless encampments.
This might be a superb, sensible begin in the best course.
Mary M. Emmons, Los Angeles
