Alternet: Los Angeles Police Are Gentrifying the City' Skid Row — with Force

I'm sure this is not the first you've heard of this, but alternet offers a short analysis of what is going on in LA:

The LAPD's "Safer Cities Initiative," launched on Skid Row last summer, is based on the "broken windows" theory of law enforcement... What the theory is doing is reading poverty as disorder and using those 'signs of disorder' as an excuse to bring additional police attention and additional sanctioning to areas where poor people live."

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