Chapter 1822: SKIDROW

Los Angeles is really an interesting place.
This SKIDROW is not far from Beverly Hills, just a few streets away. But there are definitely two worlds.
This SKIDROW is not a street, but contains 54 blocks, between Third Avenue and Seventh Avenue. It’s also very interesting here. Maybe this street is very prosperous. Turning the corner to the next street, the sidewalk is filled with mountains of garbage, and the air is filled with the smell of feces and drugs. A row of tents is leaning against the corner. Many people here live in tents.
It's very lively here. Many people sit on the single sofa and chat by the wall. Some people don't have a sofa. They find a car tire to sit there and watch the pedestrians passing by. There are also many cars parked on the roadside. They are not as shabby as Xiao Peng imagined. There are no shortage of luxury cars like Mercedes-Benz and BMW, and some of them are broken bread, and some people live directly in the car.
In the words of 50CENT,
SKIDROW is just a little messier here in Los Angeles. In comparison, it’s still thriving and sunny. If this is considered the most dangerous place in the Stars and Stripes? There is at least one in the Stars and Stripes. Hundred blocks of dissatisfaction. The'camden' south of Philadelphia, Detroit, and East St. Louis are much worse than here."
In fact, there are actually not so many tents in this SKIDROW. After all, the economic accommodations and homeless rescue centers in this star-straight country are here, but just a month ago, the Los Angeles government announced a decision. There is no limit to the number of homeless properties in SKIDROW. This directly caused the surge in tents here. There are currently more than 4,000 such tents in these 54 blocks of SKIDROW, and each of them is a homeless tramp. This includes drug addicts, alcoholics, patients with mental illness, and violent criminals. About a quarter of the homeless people here have more or less mental illness.
This is also thanks to the poverty alleviation strategy of the Los Angeles government. In the past ten years, they have invested 28.5 billion US dollars in the construction of houses in the entire Los Angeles area to improve communities, including SKIDRAW homeless shelters and affordable housing.
There are about 60,000 homeless people in the entire Los Angeles area, and SKIDROW is only one tenth of them. There are already a considerable number of homeless people living in homeless settlement centers and affordable housing. As of last year, more than 15,000 people have been provided with housing, but this number is far from enough.
The number of homeless people in 50 states has decreased, but the number of homeless people has increased in 20 states, and California is one of these 20 states.
How did Xiao Peng know this? Because there was a tour guide named Joseph Foreman sitting beside him, all of whom he introduced to him, but the tour guide was wearing a police uniform.
He works for the Los Angeles Central Police Department, and SKIDROW is under the jurisdiction of the Central Police Department. As soon as Xiao Peng's police car arrived here, he stopped him, saying that Xiao Peng was not familiar with this place, and he wanted to serve as a tour guide for Xiao Peng.
Xiao Peng knew in his heart that this must be Director Moore's arrangement, but he didn't say anything. Understand Long live, Moore must be afraid that something might happen to him.
Facts have proved that it is correct to have Joseph as a tour guide. SKIDROW has a total of 54 blocks, seven affordable housing areas, and two homeless assistance centers. Without him as a tour guide, even with the address Xiao Peng
I don't know the year of the monkey to find Alessi.
And Joseph is not unfamiliar with this place. He drove directly to the apartment building where Alesi lived, which was also one of the affordable housing communities in Los Angeles.
Xiao Peng got out of the police car: "This place looks great!"
He was really not talking coldly when he said that. Although there were homeless people, tents and in the place where they parked, the road was spacious, and there was a six-story office building beside the road with many vehicles parked at the door. On the opposite side is a small park, which is very lively. Many people are there, some are basking in the sun, some are chatting, some are playing RAP, and there are sports facilities such as basketball courts. Young people play basketball inside, and many people watch the basketball game and cheer inside.
This is a great catch for random parking in Los Angeles, but there is no problem in this SKIDROW.
Joseph explained: "This is one of the two homeless shelters in SKIDROW. In addition to providing free accommodation and food, it also provides opportunities for study and employment. Of course, it may not be a good job, such as a cleaner. President Apu promised to solve the employment problem in the Stars and Stripes, and he did it, adding 500,000 cleaners and other professional jobs nationwide."
Xiao Peng looked at Joseph, always feeling that he was telling the truth.
Joseph looked innocent: "Even if it is a job like a cleaner, if you are willing to do it, you will always support yourself, right?"
Xiao Peng pointed to the car at the door of the asylum: "Don't tell me someone is driving a Mercedes-Benz G63 to get relief. I can't accept it."
Joseph shook his head: "These are the cars of volunteers who come to work here. Some people in the society donated clothes and other things that need to be handled before they can be handed over to the homeless, including the cleaning of homeless clothes and These volunteers do the food preparation."
Xiao Peng blew his whistle after hearing this: "Someone is waiting to take care of food and laundry? Your welfare is really good."
Joseph shook his head: "This is raising a group of rice worms. Do you think these people will starve to death? They can receive food stamps without paying taxes. There are 804 US dollars in social security every month and 109 US dollars in subsidies. The money can be used to pay rent. Although the average rent in Los Angeles is now more than two thousand dollars, the state will bear most of the rent for these people. They only need four or five hundred dollars. But they would rather Spend this money on drugs, alcohol, and looking for women! Then I dreamt that one day it will rise to the sky one step at a time, it!"
Xiao Peng was taken aback after hearing this: "Looking for a woman?"
Joseph tilted his head to look at it. Xiao Peng didn’t know what he was looking for. He suddenly walked two steps quickly toward a corner of the roadside, motioning for Xiao Peng to pass, Xiao Peng walked over and took a look, and put it on the ground in front of Joseph. Holding a needle.
"You have this, you have no shortage of women here."
Xiao Peng whistled: "Joseph, how do you think you have a big opinion about this place?"
Joseph grinned after hearing this: "Can you see it? I thought I was hiding it well." After saying that he kicked the needle into the sink, and then suddenly said a number without thinking: " 247."
Xiao Peng was taken aback: "What 247?"
Joseph replied: "I entered the Central Police Station in 1992. It has been almost 30 years now. 247 is the number of police officers sacrificed in our police station since I became a police officer."
"So many?" Xiao Peng's eyes widened: "Wait? You said 92? The year of the Los Angeles Riot?"
Joseph nodded, took out a cigarette from his pocket and asked Xiao Peng, "Do you smoke?"
Xiao Peng took the cigarette: "Thank you!" After speaking, he took the lighter out of his pocket and lit it, and at the same time lit it for him.
Joseph smiled and shook his head: "I thought you would control me not to smoke."
Xiao Peng was taken aback: "Why do you say that?"
"You are Samuel, aren't you?" Joseph asked rhetorically.
Xiao Peng looked helpless: "Samuel is just a title. I am also a human. I have to eat, drink, smoke, get married and have children."
After hearing this, Joseph laughed. He took a cigarette and suddenly said, "I have been to Huaxia."
"Oh? Really?" Xiao Peng was taken aback.
Joseph nodded and said, "It's not surprising. At least one in ten people in Los Angeles have been to Huaxia."
Xiao Peng asked: "Then what do you think?"
What he wanted to ask Joseph was whether he liked the country of China, but Joseph replied: "After I went, I particularly envied the police in your country."
"Huh?" Xiao Peng didn't know why.
Joseph replied: "Mr. Xiao, you must have often read news about our country in China, saying that the police brutally enforced the law, killing people and causing ethnic conflict, right?"
Xiao Peng nodded: "I don't deny it, I do see similar reports often."
Joseph took a breath: "Then I don't deny it. Basically, the reports you have seen are true, but we are the police, not the murderer, and we don't want to kill. If we really shoot and hit the suspect , We have to write a report and receive psychological counseling, it is very troublesome. But we really can’t do it. This is the Stars and Stripes Nation, maybe those people smiled at you one second, and the next second they took out their guns and shot them. Every time we move a gun, it will cause an uproar, and we will put some racial hat on our heads, but we just protect ourselves. Is this wrong? So many police officers are killed every year, and after their deaths At best, a flag is placed on the coffin! But if we kill the suspect? There must be demonstrations, especially if a black person is killed, it will directly rise to the height of racial problems. They don’t care about the suspect. What they did and what crime they committed, they only saw the police killing people. Fortunately, the police now have law enforcement recorders."
Xiao Peng smiled and said: "Such stupid X is also found in our country. Whenever the police kill a criminal, someone will always ask themselves wisely: Why don't you kick the legs? Fuck, these people have paste in their heads? When the Olympic champion misses the target in the competition situation of absolute quiet and slow aiming, you let the police kick in such a tense environment? Do you really think that the police are the heroes filmed in the TV series? Kill a person? Shot on the eyebrows? Is this clearly IQ arrears!"
Joseph nodded: "Especially after the drug dealer took the gun, they were all lunatics. You Huaxia prohibits guns and drugs, and your police are much more comfortable than us. My last partner died in the hands of the drug dealer."
"The one shot?" Xiao Peng asked curiously.
Joseph shook his head: "I was pierced by a drug dealer with a needle like the one just now. I contracted AIDS and committed suicide. I was attacked by a drug dealer just under the basketball shelf."