L.A.: You Can Sleep On The Street, But You Can't Sleep In Your Car

Try to follow the rationale of shitheaded L.A. City Councilmember Mike Bonin:

It was illegal for decades to live in a vehicle in the city until a 2014 federal court ruling struck down the ban. The City Council then drafted a law that made it illegal to live in a vehicle in residential neighborhoods or near sensitive locations such as parks and schools.

Councilman Mike Bonin, whose district includes Venice where a high number of homeless people live, expressed frustration at the “essentially unenforceable” law but said he supported its extension.

“This is just an incredibly frustrating and really stupid situation. It’s through the looking glass. It’s a policy designed by the Mad Hatter,” Bonin said.

Bonin said problems with the law include the difficulty for police to prove that someone is living in their vehicle. He also said vehicle dwelling should be preferable to sleeping on the sidewalk — which is legal to do overnight.

"Duh, it's a stupid unenforceable law but I'm votin' for it anyhoo. Herp derp." Fuck you, Mike.

The Homelessness and Poverty Committee ignored the pleas of some homeless advocates who asked the city to allow the law to expire because they believed it unnecessarily criminalizes homelessness, but the panel asked for a number of reports from city departments aimed at improving the law, including recommendations from the police department.

“It seems especially punitive to criminalize people sleeping in their cars during nighttime hours when outdoor sleeping is actually allowed,” Dawn Hicks of Venice Community Housing told the committee.

Oh, yeah, let's have recommendations from the police who are nothing but thugs looking for every chance they can get to brutalize & terrorize anyone w/o money or power.

Meanwhile, in other atrocities against the very least of you, enabled by bureaucratic bullshit:

It took more than a decade to open public bathrooms on skid row. After three months, they're already gone

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's unveiling of the first new public bathrooms on skid row in more than a decade was seen as a possible turning point for the homeless enclave, which remains mired in misery even as downtown development closes in around it.

But after more than three months of operation, the trailers with toilets and showers shut down in late March for a planned expansion and now are gone. Across town, bathroom access for Venice's homeless people is hung up over approvals from other agencies.

Also from said shitheaded mayor of L.A.:

Garcetti Signs Order Fastracking Homeless Shelters

How 'bout fast-tracking those toilets & showers, jerk?

Mayor Hypocrite is the son of a former two-term L.A. County D.A. Guess he still has Daddy's persecution complex. You know, where he's compelled to persecute the poor & powerless. I urge every American not to vote for this useless shitheel when he tries to run for president in 2020. Or any time thereafter.