Law Practice
Dec. 6, 2007
Diverting Skid Row’s Homeless — But to Where?
LAPD officers move in to arrest a homeless woman sleeping on a sidewalk downtown. Of the 7,528 people arrested in the first 10 months of the police crackdown on Skid Row, only 34 people graduated from the Streets or Services program, the social service arm of the policing initiative.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Sometimes it's hard to understand Dorothy Mendez when she speaks. The 56-year-old homeless woman is missing her top dentures, which were confiscated when she was arrested in December for illegal lodging, she said.
"They were in a cup and I asked, 'Can I at least get my teeth?' and [the officer] said, 'No, you should have had them ...
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