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Insane: The LA City Council just voted to hand more parks to the homeless

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What kind of city councilman facilitates more grime, dysfunction and public disorder in his own district?

The kind named Hugo Soto-Martínez.

The LA councilman, a loony socialist, convinced the full council to lift restrictions on homeless camping in more than a dozen parks and public spaces in Hollywood and Silver Lake areas.

Council members on Tuesday voted 10–3 to indulge the crazy, strip police of a tool to keep neighborhoods clean and invite drugs and squalor to spread through Hollywood.

It’s insanity on steroids.

The council should be shifting the homeless into treatment and accountability programs, not letting them commandeer more public spaces.

Among those hurt by the council’s inane homeless policies? Hard-working Angelenos — and the homeless themselves.

Residents, for their part, are taxed for millions of dollars in Band-Aids that enrich “nonprofits” but do little to alleviate homelessness. They also pay to scrape up the messes that encampments invariably produce. 

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