From JustTheNews.com….
Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva is urging the County Board of Supervisors to declare a local state of emergency to address the county’s homeless crisis.
“Enough is enough,” he said, citing increased crime, unsanitary conditions and struggling businesses.
“We’ve been inundated with calls, with concerns, with images from the news, from people picking up the phone, emailing, sending us letters, about what’s going on in Venice,” Villanueva told reporters at a news conference this week. “And that is a microcosm of what’s going on throughout the entire county of Los Angeles.”
Roughly 200 people live on the famous Venice Beach Boardwalk, where more than 10 million tourists used to visit every year. Another 2,000 homeless are camped throughout the neighborhood, the second largest concentration of homeless camps outside of Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles.
