Skid Row Sketchiness

We're not quite sure how Captain Smith could have been confused by what he saw when El Segundo officers dropped off a homeless gentleman on Skid Row with his bag but El Segundo's Police Department claims he must've been. See, they, like Pasadena, Burbank and El Monte would never do such a thing. That the LAPD had to issue an order to stop other out-of-area police whom they suspected of delivering their homeless to downtown is just proof of even more confusion.

There was a Law & Order episode like this. It had to do with a mental health institution but the issue was similar. After his mandatory time in the institution, a mentally disturbed man was put on the street without his medication or any other materials and left to fend for himself. In the fiction, the guy killed a woman in a psychotic rage.

In the real world, the question is: why are other municipalities pawning off their citizens in need onto our already maxed out homeless services?

That ain't cool, El Segundo.

Villaraigosa doesn't think so either and is looking for legal recourse.