Photos: L.A. homeless sweeps

A service dog belonging to a homeless woman waits while city sanitation crews clear out and clean a homeless encampment on the Main Street overpass above the 101 Freeway in downtown L.A.

A homeless woman cries while a police officer reminds her that she must take her belongings off the Main Street overpass above the 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles.

Ry Thounry packs up her tent on the Main Street overpass above the 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles while sanitation crews move in to clean the homeless encampment.

The LAPD and city sanitation crews clear out a homeless encampment on the Main Street overpass above the 101 Freeway in downtown L.A.

A rat scurries away while city sanitation crews clear out the homeless encampment.

The homeless living on the overpass were given a 72-hour notice to move their belongings so that city sanitation crews could clean the area.

Officers arrested seven to nine homeless people on outstanding warrants or for possession of allegedly stolen shopping carts and other misdemeanors during Tuesday’s homeless sweeps, authorities said.

Sanitation crews stuff debris, trash and some belongings from a homeless encampment into a trash truck on the Main Street overpass above the 101 Freeway in downtown L.A.