LA sheriff and politicians spar over homeless debacle
“California Gov. Gavin Newsom and local politicians refuse to declare a state of emergency or employ commonsense measures to combat the destruction created by homeless encampments throughout the county, Los Angeles County’s sheriff told the Washington Examiner.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva sent out letters to Newsom and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors detailing the horrors of Los Angeles’s struggles under the weight of an expanding homeless population. He asked for a state of emergency declaration to free up federal funds to combat the problem, but the politicians rebuffed his request.
‘They are ignoring a crisis in our midst, and we need to resolve it,’ Villanueva said. His July 8 letter to Newsom was ignored, and several exchanges with the board between June 23 and July 28 had no results.”