PLAN TO CLEAN UP SKID ROW

Leaders from the ACLU, downtown business interests, and the City of Los Angeles have come up with a new plan for cleaning up Skid Row. The proposal involves a crackdown on crime without sweeping the homeless off the streets. At its heart is the theory that the city must reduce crime on Skid Row before it can tackle the underlying social and medical causes of homelessness downtown. Larry and his guests George L. Kelling, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, and a fellow in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Carol Schatz, President & CEO, Central City Association, and Paul Tepper, Director of The Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart Center, in downtown Los Angeles discuss the new plan.

Leaders from the ACLU, downtown business interests, and the City of Los Angeles have come up with a new plan for cleaning up Skid Row. The proposal involves a crackdown on crime without sweeping the homeless off the streets. At its heart is the theory that the city must reduce crime on Skid Row before it can tackle the underlying social and medical causes of homelessness downtown. Larry and his guests George L. Kelling, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, and a fellow in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Carol Schatz, President & CEO, Central City Association, and Paul Tepper, Director of The Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart Center, in downtown Los Angeles discuss the new plan.