To the editor: Steve Lopez’s coverage 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 kids can not safely use a public park, it’s the c ouncil member’s accountability to take motion that may rectify these unsafe circumstances.
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 understand that permitting anti-social and legal conduct shouldn’t be an appropriate part of their outreach packages. The picture displaying a reclining avenue camper holding a 24-ounce can of beer very clearly displays the circumstances that space residents are made to just accept.
Lee Meister, San Pedro
..
To the editor: Sadly, the “trash abatement” and “peace ambassadors” proposed by Councilmember Hernandez to handle the disaster round MacArthur Park can be laughable if the state of affairs weren’t so severe.
Town clearly has a rampant drugs-on-the-street drawback. Why do police sit again as neighborhoods deteriorate in plain sight? Why do they not implement present legal guidelines? Is that this metropolis coverage, Mayor Bass?
Town ought to undertake Lopez’s glorious suggestion to quickly direct present sources from different sectors to quadruple outreach and implement present legal guidelines to wash up the damaging open-air drug bazaars on our streets and in our homeless encampments.
This could be a superb, sensible begin in the precise course.
Mary M. Emmons, Los Angeles