I wrote an article about 1,590 Inside Safe participant statuses as of September 2023, and 8 participants had been marked “deceased” as well as 9 incarcerated, 8 moved away and 3 institutionalized/hospitalized. Unfortunately, I don’t have additional information beyond that (like updated statuses) or details into those individuals and happened, and I am not having much luck in getting more info via CPRA. I heard of someone possibly being injured and later dying in a hospital at an Inside Safe location. Do you have any more info or leads?
This is so important for people to know. The rise in those numbers is extremely alarming, and it's even more alarming that police seem content to write tickets punishing the unhoused than they are to solve the murders. We have it on a smaller scale here in my hometown - the city and police seem okay with just sweeping these people under a rug and pretending they don't exist than they are with offering actual solutions (providing low-income housing but the NIMBY criers don't want that, recovery centers for those with addiction problems, financial help, etc.) It's been like that for years here and doesn't look like it will change. It's terrible. Thank you for ensuring this information got out.
Thank you for caring. I think it must be like this many places but the problem is no one is asking these questions, and in smaller towns it can be harder to get answers (it’s hard getting answers in LA but we do have some open data). For example I did a CPRA request for the same data but for 2023 and LAPD won’t provide it like they did last year. Based on the set of open data I do think the number went down, possibly bc of the motel shelter program but not positive. The homicide report usually comes out in March, but between Jan - March, most of the cases that get closed aren’t closed by arresting the suspect.
What about the people dying or disappearing while being " INside Safe"??
I heard another guest was killed by a visitor at a Valley Inside Safe recently, similarly to an incident at a westside location several months ago. 😟
I wrote an article about 1,590 Inside Safe participant statuses as of September 2023, and 8 participants had been marked “deceased” as well as 9 incarcerated, 8 moved away and 3 institutionalized/hospitalized. Unfortunately, I don’t have additional information beyond that (like updated statuses) or details into those individuals and happened, and I am not having much luck in getting more info via CPRA. I heard of someone possibly being injured and later dying in a hospital at an Inside Safe location. Do you have any more info or leads?
*and what happened to them
This is so important for people to know. The rise in those numbers is extremely alarming, and it's even more alarming that police seem content to write tickets punishing the unhoused than they are to solve the murders. We have it on a smaller scale here in my hometown - the city and police seem okay with just sweeping these people under a rug and pretending they don't exist than they are with offering actual solutions (providing low-income housing but the NIMBY criers don't want that, recovery centers for those with addiction problems, financial help, etc.) It's been like that for years here and doesn't look like it will change. It's terrible. Thank you for ensuring this information got out.
Thank you for caring. I think it must be like this many places but the problem is no one is asking these questions, and in smaller towns it can be harder to get answers (it’s hard getting answers in LA but we do have some open data). For example I did a CPRA request for the same data but for 2023 and LAPD won’t provide it like they did last year. Based on the set of open data I do think the number went down, possibly bc of the motel shelter program but not positive. The homicide report usually comes out in March, but between Jan - March, most of the cases that get closed aren’t closed by arresting the suspect.
I had no idea things had become this unsafe for the unhoused in LA.
😟 a nearly 50x increase (2 to over 90) should have been headline news. But that would seem sympathetic