It just wouldn't be the holidays

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...without grim film noir news from Downtown Los Angeles. Of course the story doesn't point out that the reason all the "services" for indigent people are in Skid Row is to keep them bottled up there, in one of the world's most dangerous square miles. I used to talk to homeless guys downtown who wouldn't go to the missions because they thought they

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[nosrialleon]

We have a name for that practice. It's called "the 1980's"

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SOMEONE SET UP US THE RONALD REAGAN

[threepunchstuff]

I've heard that it's unofficial Irvine P.D. policy to take homeless people up to Santa Ana and drop them off around that civic center area.

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There are similar stories about Newport Beach and Costa Mesa.

It certainly did happen in Los Angeles with the Beverly Hills cops, who would dump people in Santa Monica so often that the cities went at it pretty badly for a while.

dumping

[mcpino]

The CHP does it, too. I personally know 2 guys that were dropped from the force for doing so.

Not birth exactly

[feisty_robot]

Here in Canadia, they call that "breaching." It's infamously done with gang members who have been picked up but not arrested. The cops then helpfully drop them off many miles outside of town or, even more helpfully, in another gang's territory. Gang problem solved!

[trinnit]

This reminds me of the scene from Rambo where the Sheriff drives him out of town.