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Thursday, September 5, 2019
HOMELESS IN MEXICO'S SECOND LARGEST CITY OF LOS ANGELES WHERE ILLEGALS GET HOUSING SUBSIDIES..... Legals get the concrete
He was homeless. He died Sunday on a
West L.A. sidewalk. He is part of an
epidemic.
STEVE LOPEZ
The balding, middle-aged man was facedown on a flattened piece of cardboard, arms at
his side, a small pool of blood near his mouth. He wore bluejeans, his feet were bare, and
headset buds were still in his ears.
Two LAPD officers who responded to the emergency call from a passerby had pitched a
white pop-up tent around the body, which lay on the sidewalk of Massachusetts Avenue
between Sepulveda Boulevard and the 405 Freeway in West Los Angeles.
CORONER’S OFFICIALS remove a man’s body in West Los Angeles. On average, nearly
three homeless people die in the county each day. (Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times)
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It was Sunday morning, the middle of Labor Day weekend, three-quarters of the way into
a year in which deaths of homeless people in Los Angeles County are on a record-setting
pace to top 1,000, according to preliminary numbers from the county coroner.
“I hope this will be another wake-up call that urgency is the order of the day,” said County
Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, who called it incomprehensible and unacceptable that
dying on the streets has become routine.
On average, nearly three homeless people are dying daily in the county, nearly double the
rate of deaths by homicide. Illness, addiction, accidents, suicide and the ravages of being
unsheltered are among the primary causes of death.
“We know the research says that people who are what’s called rough sleepers, those who
are living on the streets and not in a shelter or a car, are 10 times more likely to die than
the regular population,” said Dr. Susan Partovi, citing a study in Boston. Partovi has been
administering to homeless people in Los Angeles for years.
The average age of the first 666 homeless people who died in L.A. County as of Aug. 25
was 51, well below the county’s average life expectancy of about 80. Homeless people are
dying on sidewalks, along riverbeds, and in tents, parks, shelters, vehicles, motels and
hospitals.
You can call it a travesty. An emergency. A call to action.
It is all those things.
Bodies are being found in virtually every corner of the county, a grim consequence of the
intensifying epidemic of homelessness. In 2012, 407 homeless people died in L.A. County.
The number has gone up sharply every year, to last year’s record high of 921.
This year, the toll hit 525 in just the first six months — 88 more than over the same period
a year earlier — and the pace has been steady since then.
New York City has roughly the same number of homeless people as Los Angeles County
but has moved tens of thousands of them into shelters. Despite much harsher weather,
New York recorded 292 homeless deaths in 2018, fewer than a third of the Los Angeles
total.
“We’re seeing homeless deaths in areas where we didn’t see them five or 10 years ago,”
said Brian Elias, chief of investigations for the county coroner’s office.
Elias’ boss, Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner Jonathan Lucas, said his office is stepping
up its analysis of trend lines and causes of death to help address the crisis.
“We need to be taking this information and looping it back to the departments of mental
health and public health, to the policymakers, the county supervisors, and present it in a
way that can help inform their decisions,” said Lucas, adding that he’s passionate about
what he considers a duty to the community.
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The coroner’s office noted that the six-month increase in deaths over last year was roughly
proportional to the increase in the total number of homeless people from a year earlier.
The first 666 deaths of the year included 42 homicides and 27 suicides. Males vastly
outnumbered females, 83% to 17%, and the victims included 253 white people, 220
Latinos and 168 African Americans.
Substance abuse and heart conditions, sometimes in conjunction, were among the leading
causes of death, but no cause had been determined in about 100 of the cases.
The coroner’s reports, filled with clinical language and dispassionate narratives, are
ghostly sketches of social disorder, poverty, violence, addiction and isolation. They speak
to a breakdown that extends beyond homelessness and reaches into our economy, our
schools, our criminal-justice and healthcare systems.
In a region of abundant wealth and world-class hospitals, people die penniless, they die in
pain, they die alone.
On Jan. 1, a 37-year-old African American woman died at Providence St. Joseph Medical
Center in Burbank after being found unresponsive a day earlier on a sidewalk in North
Hollywood, one week after giving birth to a girl. The woman had a history of asthma and
substance abuse. On her left arm was an “RIP” tattoo.
On Jan. 20, a security guard noticed a man sitting awkwardly, with an open beer at his
side, near a business on Telstar Avenue in
El Monte. The guard
touched the man, got no response and dialed 911. Paramedics pronounced the 71-year-old
white man dead at the scene.
On Feb. 6, a 27-year-old Latino male with a history of depression died on Foothill
Boulevard, west of Osborne Street, in Pacoima. According to the coroner’s report, the
young man had attempted suicide a week earlier and was placed on psychiatric hold.
At 8:45 p.m. on the 6th, says the coroner’s report, the man’s “father heard the decedent
moving around outside their tent. He heard a gasp of air but did not check. 10 minutes
later the decedent’s father went outside of their tent and found the decedent hanging from
a tree. He cut the decedent down.”
In the case of the man who died Sunday in West Los Angeles, I arrived on the scene at the
same time as coroner’s investigator Adrian Munoz, 29.
He sized up the scene. No drug paraphernalia was visible. There were no obvious signs of
struggle. Munoz ran his gloved hands over the man’s head, feeling for evidence of trauma.
He found nothing.
Los Angeles Police Officers Jeff Duarte and Ray Leung told me there were a lot of
homeless people in the area, most of them veterans who get services at the nearby
Veterans Affairs campus.
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The victim, who was African American, appeared to have been traveling lightly. No
shopping cart filled with belongings. No tent or tarps. Just a red sleeping bag, his
backpack and a few Budweiser tallboys he never got to.
Munoz performed his duty with an air of respect, taking care in offering this one last
service to a fellow human being. He crouched, laid his hands under the man and turned
him onto his back. The man’s mouth was bloody. His gray eyes aimed skyward, in the
direction of wispy clouds and sunstruck palms.
Munoz checked inside the man’s mouth for signs of trauma. Nothing there. He lifted the
man’s shirt, examined his torso.
“A scar in the middle of his chest,” Munoz said. A possible heart procedure.
Munoz laid a clear plastic sheet over the man, then placed a white sheet on top of that.
In the man’s wallet, Munoz found a driver’s license, a bank card and a state medical
benefits card. In the backpack, he found a little blue packet of Alka-Seltzer, several pairs
of fresh socks and some medicine vials. It appeared that the man had been a patient at the
Venice Family Clinic. Those details should help the coroner’s office in the next phase of its
investigation: trying to determine who the man was, how he ended up alone and dead on
this stretch of sidewalk, and whether he had family to notify.
Only a few days earlier, I had spoken to Carrie Kowalski, a physician’s assistant at the
clinic. On her street medicine rounds, she had told me, she sees every conceivable malady
and a lot of addiction. A common theme among her patients, she said, is that “something
went wrong from childhood and started someone on a path” to physical, mental and
addiction issues.
“It can be physical violence, abuse in the foster care system, sexual abuse, the experience
of veterans, and you become homeless and now you’ve got more trauma,” Kowalski said.
“You get hit by a car or you get raped and you get beaten. Your stuff is stolen and it
becomes this huge mess, and it snowballs.”
As does the death count.
Ridley-Thomas recently called for creating enough shelter and housing for everyone, and
imposing a requirement that homeless people come indoors.
Those are big, expensive, difficult challenges. But losing ground, as we currently are, is
not acceptable, Ridley-Thomas said. We need more psychiatric emergency services, more
addiction rehab and more recuperative care so that homeless patients don’t go from
hospitals straight back to the streets.
In the area around the West L.A. death, I couldn’t find anyone who knew the dead man. A
homeless guy named Kenny told me he knew of someone hit and killed by a car nearby. A
homeless guy named Emerson said someone was found dead on Westwood Boulevard.
“I got to get off the streets,” said a homeless guy named Adam.
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A van from the coroner’s office pulled up to Massachusetts Avenue about 12:30 p.m., and
Munoz helped the driver lift the body into the vehicle.
The day was young as the van headed to the morgue, but the man was already the third
homeless person to die Sunday.
And the 680th to die this year.
steve.lopez@latimes.com
Times staff writers Ben Welsh and Maloy Moore contributed to the column.
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