Businessmen Demand More City Services
A dozen east Wilmington businessmen joined this week in demanding that Los Angeles city departments do more to rid their neighborhood of crime, garbage and vagrants.
“We’re very disappointed with the service we’re receiving from all branches of government. And I think all of us are disgusted that businessmen are so much better off being just down the road in Long Beach than here in Wilmington,” businessman Manuel Louis told officials of the Port of Los Angeles, the Police Department and a representative of harbor-area Councilwoman Joan Milke Flores in a one-hour meeting this week.
The businessmen were concerned about deterioration in an especially blighted area, nicknamed the Third World by local activists. It is just east of the Dominguez Channel and north of Anaheim Street.
Officials said they are willing to look into the businessmen’s complaints and to meet with them again in two weeks.
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