FULL COVERAGE: Fighting for Skid Row

November 16, 2006

L.A. files patient `dumping' charges

The Los Angeles city attorney's office filed false-imprisonment and dependent-care-endangerment charges against hospital giant Kaiser Permanente on Wednesday, the first criminal prosecution of a medical center accused of "dumping" patients on skid row.

October 9, 2006

EDITORIAL

D.A., Do More Downtown

IT HAS TAKEN FAR LONGER than it should have, but the city and the police department are finally starting to wrest back control of skid row. Two weeks ago, officers began arresting transients for sleeping on sidewalks during daylight hours, removed scores of homeless encampments and have made more than 800 arrests.

September 27, 2006

Drug Offenders to Be Banned From Skid Row

Frustrated by their inability to curtail skid row's burgeoning drug trade, Los Angeles law enforcement leaders on Tuesday unveiled a new but untested weapon: prohibiting people convicted of drug offenses from returning to the area while on probation.

September 26, 2006

Certainly Not Child's Play

Shu Woo runs visitors through a grim digital slide show of life in the heart of skid row.

September 21, 2006

THE STATE

Attempt to Settle Skid Row Suit Fails

Defying Police Chief William J. Bratton and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday rejected a legal settlement that would have allowed homeless people to sleep on the sidewalks of skid row at night and permitted police to remove them during the day.

September 20, 2006

Bid to Settle Homeless Suit Causes No Celebration on Skid Row

From the vantage point of her family's Sensy Gifts store, Yvonne Song has witnessed the daily push and pull of the downtown district's struggle with its burgeoning homeless problem.

September 19, 2006

Plan Would End Homeless 'Tent Cities'

Los Angeles officials and the American Civil Liberties Union have reached a compromise to settle a lawsuit that has prevented police from arresting homeless people who camp on the streets and sidewalks of skid row, Police Chief William J. Bratton said Monday.

August 22, 2006

No Skid Row Accord for City, ACLU

Los Angeles officials and the American Civil Liberties Union failed to reach an agreement Monday on a lawsuit that would prevent the LAPD from arresting homeless people for camping on public sidewalks.

August 16, 2006

EDITORIAL

Help the Homeless Don't Need

AFTER NEARLY 12 MONTHS of platitudes from civic leaders about confronting the homeless crisis, skid row in downtown Los Angeles this summer looks worse, not better. And the people who claim to be helping the downtrodden bear a good portion of the blame.

July 12, 2006

Sharp Debate on Skid Row Efforts

The push to clean up Los Angeles' skid row reached an unlikely milestone Tuesday morning when downtown business leaders moved in to steam-clean the sidewalks on one of the district's filthiest streets.

April 19, 2006

Appeal of Skid Row Ruling Is Urged

The city attorney should challenge a court ruling barring the arrest of homeless people sleeping on sidewalks, Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton said Tuesday.