• 50 years ago: Few homeless on skid row. Police pick them up in patrol wagon, take them to jail or hospital, given 30 days on county farm to dry out, eat well, find shelter.
• Now: 57,000 homeless in LA. Courts and ACLU forbid police to do anything. Unsheltered from cold, torrential rain. People, especially children, learn to walk by them without looking. We call this progressive, but is it progress?