Gilbert T. Sewall

Los Angeles is in freefall

Can the election of a new mayor save the city from squalor?

(Photo: Getty)

On August 9, a crazy homeless woman riled by community activists stormed a Los Angeles city council meeting, shouting obscenities and threats at members, closing the assembly down. A proposed ban on homeless encampments within 500 feet of schools had been on the table. For the city’s extremists, ‘criminalising homelessness’ is cause for mayhem.

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