Boise is why L.A. can’t legally clear its streets of homeless encampments

Re:Boise is why L.A. can’t legally clear its streets of home... by tppiotrowski on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:55PM (#21272572)

I have heard the hundreds of dirty needles sentiment from people but have never encountered a neighborhood in LA where there are hundreds of dirty needles on the ground. Is there any photos of this phenomenon online you could point me to or is this mostly hyperbole?

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Re:Boise is why L.A. can’t legally clear its streets of home... by _t0du on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:58PM (#21272606)

Caps are way more common, but every monday morning the front stoop at my old office would have a handful of used needles on it. I suppose the hyperbole would be implying "hundreds" of dirty needles all in one place. When I walk to work, I see many, but rarely are there more than 2-3 in one spot.

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Re:Boise is why L.A. can’t legally clear its streets of home... by tacotime on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:57PM (#21273299)

https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/7n446x/everett_w...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/q13fox.com/2017/10/23/ex-addict...

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Re:Boise is why L.A. can’t legally clear its streets of home... by heavyset_go on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @07:02PM (#21276991)

These pics were taken out in the sticks of Everett, apparently in the woods where no one lives.

Where are the the piles of needles people keep claiming they need to walk over on their way out of their apartments in Seattle?

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Re:Boise is why L.A. can’t legally clear its streets of home... by big_chungus on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:46PM (#21273153)

"Thousands of pounds of human waste, close to 14,000 hypodermic needles cleaned out from Santa Ana River homeless encampments" - https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/08/thousands-of-pounds-of...

They will also need to remove a few inches of topsoil to clean it up. This is the sort of procedure that is used to clean up toxic chemical spills, high levels of pollution, and nuclear waste.

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Re:Boise is why L.A. can’t legally clear its streets of home... by GauntletWizard on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:58PM (#21273320)

Don't forget actual toxic chemical spills, caused by looting: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/the-city-...

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Re:Boise is why L.A. can’t legally clear its streets of home... by coldtea on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:08PM (#21272725)

Doesn't have to be "hundreds of dirty needles on the ground" in the same spot . It's enough that there are hundreds of dirty needles on the ground to be discovered in the span of a couple square miles or so...

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