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COMPTON, CA (FOX 11) - Residents in neighborhoods on one of Compton’s busiest streets were fed up with a human trafficking problem they said was growing due to city officials’ lackluster response.
On Long Beach Boulevard from Rosecrans to Alondra streets, scantily dressed, young women can be seen looking down at their cell phones while walking on both sides on the street.
Neighbors said at first glance, the women could easily blend in as residents dressed with minimal clothing because it was hot outside.
But then cars would pull up and the women would walk up to the drivers and passengers and begin talking with them sometimes right in the middle of the street.
One neighbor, who didn’t want to be identified on camera due to fear of retaliation, said the women could be seen loitering sex at all hours of the days and nights.
“It makes me feel very uncomfortable. I mean this is something that’s against the law, as we all know, and nothing is being done about it,” he told reporter Leah Uko. “They’re not afraid of walking up to your car. If you do try to record them or try to report them, they’re not even running away.”
Other neighbors said the women would often use their apartment complex’s parking lot as a location for sexual activity.
“If this was somewhere like Culver City or Beverly Hills, I think this problem would be eliminated within a day or a week’s time.”
When FOX 11 visited a complex, used condoms were on the ground in the lot.
As evening hours approached, more women would come out to attract customers.
Mike Dardashti owns property on the street. He said after getting complaints from neighbors about the prostitution traveling to their area, he was going to look into having a fence installed that would close off the property.
But he said the city was giving him the runaround with getting approved.
Darshati was unavailable to speak at the time FOX 11 covered this story, but said he would speak at a later time.
The issue was also affecting nearby businesses.
Charles Jones, who worked at R.O.A.D.S Community Care Clinic, said many times the women’s’ pimps would force them to approach patients waiting to go into the clinic.
“Guys pull up in their cars and the ladies be in the car doing whatever,” Jones said.
Jones said the site of seeing the young girls selling sex didn’t make him angry, but rather sad.
“I have all girls. This here, it doesn’t make no sense really.”
Residents reached out to Compton mayor, Aja Brown on Twitter back in September 2017.
Brown responded, tweeting the city had worked on the issue for years by launching diversion services and other programs dedicated to treatment instead of criminalization.
She added in another tweet that, “it takes community members to get involved. Problems are easy to identify, working toward solutions takes commitment, hard work.”
I still like 8 hours of sleep, just getting it because of taqking care of my dog
He told Uko when the women are arrested, they can only be held for 24 to 48 hours then released. And whenever deputies patrolled one area, the women and their exploiters would relocate to other areas.
Hall said the bureau was working to tackle the issue by going after the sexual exploiters and customers, rather the women because they were considered as victims, not criminals.
This was an approach one resident said gave the women too much of a break.
“If the situation is that someone is a victim, if they get arrested and they get into a program where they can be rehabilitated that’s great. But if they get that opportunity once and they come back out on the streets to do it again, then I don’t understand what the problem is. They should be arrested just like any other criminal. They’re breaking the law.”
@retiredDep - They rub our noses in it - sheer arrogance
There is no such thing as a normal life, if you know natural is normal.
A small group demonstrated outside Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Windsor Square residence Saturday morning, targeting the mayor over homelessness and calling on him to support the disbandment of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Protesters chanted, shouted and hurled expletives via a bullhorn as they stood outside the Getty House, the Tudor revival-style home that serves as the official mayor’s residence. The peaceful demonstration, which drew about 20 people, was organized by the Democratic Socialists of America’s L.A. chapter.
“ICE out of LA!” protesters chanted. “Shame on you!” “Housing not handcuffs!” “Black Lives Matter!”
It’s unclear if the mayor was home during the 7 a.m. protest. His wife, Amy Wakeland, briefly emerged from the residence shortly after demonstrators left. A Garcetti spokesman didn’t immediately provide a comment.
normal is a relative state
heya rambler
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Friday refused to overturn Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision denying parole to former Charles Manson follower and convicted killer Leslie Van Houten.
In his ruling, Judge William C. Ryan said there was “some evidence” to support Brown’s decision in refusing to release Leslie Van Houten, 68, who in 1971 was found guilty of taking part in the brutal killings of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in Los Angeles.
If released, Ryan found that Van Houten “would pose an unreasonable risk of danger to society.”
Ryan said the brutal and terrorizing manner in which Van Houten and her accomplices killed the LaBiancas demonstrates how the crime was more heinous than most and stands apart from others.
US Rep. Maxine Waters kept up the heat on President Trump at an immigration rally Saturday in Los Angeles.
"How dare you?" said Waters, a California Democrat and frequent Trump critic. "How dare you take the babies from mothers' arms? How dare you take the children and send them all across the country into so-called detention centers?"
Waters has been warring with Trump lately amid a broader discussion of "civility" in politics, which gained some traction after White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was asked to leave a Virginia restaurant.
Waters then encouraged people to heckle and harass Cabinet members in public.
In response, Trump tweeted that Waters had called for "harm" to his supporters and spoke against her in rallies.
Waters denied calling for violence.
Her speech Saturday was part of the "Families Belong Together" rallies held across the country. Protesters gathered to show opposition to Trump's "zero tolerance" toward undocumented immigrants, which has separated thousands of children from their parents.
She continued, "You are putting them in cages. You are putting them in jails. And you think we're going to stand by and allow you to do that? I don't think so. Donald Trump, you think you can get away with everything, but you have gone too far when you are trying to break up families in the way that you do."
Waters likened the situation to slavery.
"As an African-American woman, I was raised on the stories about what happened on the auction block when they auctioned off Africans" and broke up families, she told listeners.
She also had caustic advice for those who have made threats against her, increasingly, she said, since she and Trump have sparred.
"If you shoot me, you better shoot straight," Waters said. "There's nothing like a wounded animal."
NAPPER
Nearly 1,800 Puerto Ricans who survived Hurricane Maria will be forced to move out Sunday from hotels on the island and the U.S. mainland, where they’ve lived rent-free on assistance from FEMA.
The program was designed to be used for about two weeks but it had been extended repeatedly. FEMA spent more than $432 million on lodging for tens of thousands of hurricane survivors.
Thousands of demonstrators are taking part in rallies across the country, including New York and Los Angeles, to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Protesters are calling for the immediate reunification of immigrant families separated at the border and an end to family detentions and separations. http://on.ktla.com/mn0jY
Some will mistake the illness for the cause... When actually the illness is just another symptom of the cause... I was laughing due to memories of my own path his words brought to my mind... Hope that helps...
Two Orange County cousins say they were roofied and robbed by two women they met at a Beverly Grove club earlier this month.
The men told KTLA that after meeting the women at the Nightingale on June 4, they invited people over to their home for an after party and the women stayed later. They believe they were drugged because when they woke up, half a million dollars worth of high-end watches, sunglasses, clothes, shoes, luggage, Persian rugs, home security cameras and computers were missing.
The men believe they were targeted because they were wearing expensive watches at the club.
The men hired private investigator Michael Yousef, who said he is investigating several other cases of women who have drugged and robbed men.
“We have four active cases right now with the same scenario—ladies coming from clubs or bars, going home with the men,” Yousef said. “These men wake up in the morning, remember nothing, and they’re completely robbed of everything.”
The men are offering a $2,000 reward for information. Anyone with information can visit www.NowPI.com or call 800-901-1360.
Mary Beth McDade reports for the KTLA 5 News at 10 on June 29, 2018.
I believe that biggest shock and surprise would be to learn that there are aliens. My rational mind can not get around it as possible
Wonder where he was going with ammo and weapons
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