This Is Someone's Idea of a Discharge Plan?
The recording looks like a typical police crime scene video. Ambulances and police cars pull over on a street in downtown Los Angeles. Patients are wheeled around on stretchers. But this is no normal crime, and no normal crime scene investigation. The patients aren't being loaded into the ambulances. They are being unloaded.
The video was shot by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers on Sunday amid the grime and litter of Skid Row, the name given to an expansive area of downtown that is said to be home to 12,000 homeless people. Earlier this year, rumours abounded that hospitals and other police forces were dumping discharged patients and released offenders there, partly as a way to avoid having to deal with the thorny problem of what to do with people who might not have anywhere to go.
The video was shot by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers on Sunday amid the grime and litter of Skid Row, the name given to an expansive area of downtown that is said to be home to 12,000 homeless people. Earlier this year, rumours abounded that hospitals and other police forces were dumping discharged patients and released offenders there, partly as a way to avoid having to deal with the thorny problem of what to do with people who might not have anywhere to go.
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