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A coalition of law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, DEA and LAPD, brought a welcome crackdown on Thursday.
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coalition → include → Thursday
As the California Post reported, “Operation Free Skid Row” nabbed 28 dealers of meth, fentanyl, cocaine and PCP, authorities said — with agents seizing drugs, guns, luxury cars and cash.
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agents → report → drugs
Agents first descended on alleged dealers’ homes, then swept through Skid Row to target street pushers.
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Agents → descend → pushers
It’s a sprawling, squalid swath of DTLA replete with rodents and human waste.
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It → ’ → rodents
It’s an epicenter of serious violence, especially homicide.
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It → ’ → violence
And it should be cleaned up and eliminated — not abided and managed.
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it → clean → ?
That means treating Skid Row’s misery at its source.
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That → mean → source
It means channeling those on the street into rehab and mental-health treatment — not handing them taxpayer-funded needles through misbegotten “harm-reduction” initiatives and chasing “housing first” fantasies that do nothing to curb substance abuse.
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that → mean → abuse
It also means impeding the free flow of drugs — in Skid Row and in LA’s other homeless hotbeds — as the Trump administration and local law-enforcement partners have begun to do.
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administration → mean → hotbeds
LA’s top federal prosecutor, Bill Essayli, called Thursday’s crackdown a start.
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prosecutor → call → crackdown
“We’re going after the dealers who prey on the homeless,” he said.
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he → go → homeless
That salvo follows a similar operation at LA’s MacArthur Park: another hub of crime, waste and homeless misery.
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salvo → follow → crime
Authorities on Thursday added that Skid Row drug pushers blended into the scene — a ploy for eluding police.
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pushers → add → police
The alleged culprits used disguises, storefronts and homeless tents to hide lucrative narcotics operations, law enforcement said.
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enforcement → allege → operations
Per investigators, one dealer had even bought a Bentley.
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dealer → buy → Bentley
Dealers’ tactics included impersonating homeless service providers, posing as homeless themselves, and stashing drugs in homeless housing units, authorities said.
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authorities → include → units
It makes one wonder: How many of LA’s squalid encampments have become, in effect, massive drug operations?
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many → make → effect
For years, elected officials — LA’s mayor and City Council and the county Board of Supervisors — have tugged at public sympathy for the homeless to drive ever-higher taxes to lavish on fighting homelessness.
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officials → elect → homelessness
It’s long been clear that much of this money is spent ineffectively, consumed by nonprofits and other groups that reap tax-funded windfalls by entrenching, rather than relieving, homelessness.
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that → spend → homelessness
The mess also includes entrenched networks of drug dealers; they, too, reap windfalls from keeping things wretched.
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they → include → things
The homelessness status quo in LA, including the unconscionable Skid Row, is a high-cost failure.
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quo → include → Row
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