Skid Row, Explained 

yes indeed, one title i was considering for this was "The Cecil Hotel is Haunted (by bad urban policy)" I like your's better!

@@memelyshorts643 your mom is a male?

@@johnnyharris Its not really systemic poverty: its blatant neglect and refusal to address the insanely prevalent volcano of mental illness that continues to flow its lava out onto the streets of our country. Instead of spending 6 million per day just to operate an Aircraft carrier strike group, by which we have 19 of them.. At 128 billion, The new 12-ship Columbia-class submarine is the Navy’s highest-priority program, ranking third in cost behind the $406 billion F-35 jet program and the $153 billion missile defense program that includes Army, Navy and Missile Defense Agency programs. The military has 71 submarines in active service.. We have nearly 5k military bases on US soil, over 600 bases over seas. Think of all the money it takes just to operate this stuff, not to mention the Trillions of dollars it took to build it all. We have more military spending than the next 10 countries below us, COMBINED.. its pure insanity. Even if we cut our military spending in half, we would still dominate that spending chart. Johnny, please do an in depth video on military overspending-- its so important. I don't think people understand: Congress and the Trump administration agreed to spend $746 billion on wars and the military for the fiscal year running through September 2020. That is nearly three-quarters of a trillion dollars. More than $2 billion every day. So did clinton, bush even more, so did obama... and Biden started moving troops in syria in his first couple of days, it would not surprise me if he gets us into yet another war; he's been in office for 2 months and he's already spent 2 trillion dollars-- Why are we allowing this overspending to continue.. it baffles me.

Its the forgieners obsessed with America for me

@@calholli All we need to do is raise taxes and thats billions more to invest into our society

5. Profit

6. Put a line around it and blame the people dumped there

7. Capitalism

@@benfelps this is what happens to Black people across most of america. typically the next step is gentrification if people refuse to leave the area of their own. if that fails within a "reasonable" time frame , well Breeona Taylor case illustrates how to get rid of black people when all houses around have been bought.

9. Trivago

I’m sorry you had that experience :( I volunteered at a soup kitchen in Skid Row and all the homeless people were really nice. Don’t want to invalidate your experience at all, just wanted to provide a different experience. This was almost 10 years ago so idk if anything has changed since then.

Let’s get something straight, even the homeless are entitled narcissists in Southern California. They feel entitled to get anything that they want, and they are obnoxious and dangerous.

@@lucho_1980 chill out

@@lucho_1980 Do you live in LA?

@@lucho_1980 When you have a choice to be kind vs mean, why do you choose to be mean?

Some skidders were also called grease monkeys (to make the ground easier to skid on).

In the show Malcolm in the middle, was the older brother a skidder logger? I remember him going away and always being in a decrepit bar while living in Alaska

Well those loggers weren't really poor, but I would say, as they visited the brothels, that they were exploiting the poor.

thank you for the factual clarification. This guy doing this documentary is so disingenous in nature is unreal. He represent nick name term as factual labels. I don't know where this guy gets his facts. But its obvious this guy has never been to los angeles (and if he has, he sleep walked his visit) Maybe his other videos are spot on - but NOT this one

Yes we have a lot of geographic influences in America. On every scale. If you want to go to a better place to live you have to behave yourself better and work hard and have enough money to go. If I go to Chicago the police are not very nice to me. If I go to Lincoln Nebraska the police are a lot nicer. The murder rate in Lincoln is very low. Everybody who comes to Lincoln gets treated better than the police in Chicago treat people.

I'm sure the people you're helping are very grateful, you're doing god's work, thank you.

I’m totally shocked to know about these policies. What kind of a human would see another, less privileged and needy person as an unwanted element. These administrators are not only heartless but have a blatant disregard for humanity.

Hi hi hi my little droogy

One solution would be to develop a massive housing project there similar to cyberpunk blocks where it's basically it's own city. Then you put in gyms, central market, schools, medical clinics, etc. There are some elements of Cyberpunk that I think would be beneficial and mega-commie blocks is one of them, they could even have a drug clinic and courtyard to make sure everyone's mental health is all right. EDIT: changed restaurants and cafeteria to central market because there’s no reason to separate the two as you could have a market that sells both prepared and unprepared food. This is something the US has seemingly forgotten.

@@KRYMauL ok, but how are you gonna pay for that?

Congrats you got the entire point of the video

True, knowing the local government policy for Skid Row. That is way more horrific and simply worse than ghost stories.

Because human are the dark energy/power they described in that documentary

@@peterhsueh5214 False

the whole point of this video is saying America has homelessness and drug abuse problems, like every other country in the whole world lmfao, this youtuber always demonizes the US as if its the worst place on earth or something, reality is its one of the best places to live in worldwide, and if you can't make it in the US you probably can't make it anywhere else.

The Scumbags that live in Skid Row are not decent people, these are drug addicts and gangs run the streets by selling drugs to mental cases with drug addictions... The other name of this hell hole is "The BOX" #Pollyanna #ignorant

the problem are not the residents in itself. THe problem are the politicans that do nothing against homelesness

No thanks

I think I'll pass, I'd rather stay in MN and freeze to death than go there.

@@thedevils5599 😂😭 fr 🗣️

No thanks bro 😭😂😂

Sorry but no, no, no

Ummmm isnt that everyone on RU-vid barr Phil DeFranco?

Your mommmmmm

You spelled his name wrong

Or when....

He's a pleasure to watch

there wont be a johnny harris video without a map because thats his forte hes done motion graphics

Thanks for sharing, very tragic circumstances. Wish you well.

God Bless you. I’m from San Diego and it just seems to keep getting worse.

Undesirable population element

Thats just sad. 😥

Thats creepy

@@Chuked ?!$::! how

I know it’s been a while now but I’m sorry for your loss. she seemed like a very kind woman and I would’ve loved to meet her (i’m in canada too)

@@summerhunny that he knew how elisa lam looked her entire life, its very creepy seeing them die like that after so many years

@@Chuked more sad than creepy

Indeed

Borders

@@luisivanmedina6906 Vox can Fire him, but he ain't stopping the BORDER's Show.

Agreed

actually this channel kinda reminds me of nerdwriter due its wide range of topics and the way he explores them

It happened to me in SF but they call it The Tenderloin and since then I've changed a lot. I save money now, ever since then. I never realized how much that experience changed me.

How did u get out and have a better life?

i mean he was a vox joirnalist for a reason

Actually he is clueless. Taking a fictional documentary and make it a story

His material has me hooked. So original!

@Eagle Johnny Harris is very biased & he tries to be woke. Why is his anti-colonization viewpoints always anti-american? He never talks about european colonization which is by far the worst!

@@nochatter7134 He has spoken about colonization from European countries. Perhaps you didn't notice or don't recall, but he has.

@@memelyshorts643 your mom’s a he?

@@memelyshorts643 davinci resolve is a great FREE editing software

@@memelyshorts643 use kdenlive its free opensource premiere alternative. you can watch videos of "my linux experiment" he makes all his videos in kdenlive to get a demo how powerful that software is

No it's completely necessary, and 8if you dont think so then let a few of these animals in your own home. It's easy to sit behind a computer and say it is bad. It is not bad, containment is necessary, especially with virus and drug addicts.

@@ReliableGuy-sb8fb Containment is necessary, but it also fosters a culture that just encourages other drug addicts/homeless to migrate there too. Also, don't you think it would be better to actually solve the problem? Most developed countries in Europe don't have so many homeless per capita, so it's not inevitable

@@jennifermarie3158 solving the problem would involved revoking the 19th amendment, women voting has caused this problem, and it needs to stop. As long as you’re all voting blue there will be issues like this. But you Democrat politicians don’t even acknowledge there is a problem

@@jennifermarie3158 maybe the problem is people neqed to stop becoming drug addicts. The problem is the people and their decisions. Not some skid row policy. You can’t force these people to not do drugs/ alcohol. People who don’t want to contribute to society and only care about being high or themselves. I work in skid row 3 days a week and I work in low income affordable residences in Skid Row. These people were homeless and have been able to find shelter and jobs. Some even keep their units/home clean and care. For the other 75% you can see why they are in this predicament. They don’t care. Everyone has a chance at life it just depends how you want to use it and how hard you are willing to work to get out of a shitty situation. I would like handouts too why should they deserve it even though I had to work my ass off to not be homeless. But because they mad bad decisions they are entitled to a fix. They need to fix themselves. We can’t do it for them. Other countries aren’t as big it’s easy to help your population of people 5-30 million we have 10 million 1/3 the Canadian population living in LA county alone.

It’s comforting to know that I have the same taste in content as Damon and his 1 wrinkle

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I love seeing you comment to videos I also watch

Class warfare.

gentrification. like california and san francisco. skid row will finally die when they open up a starbucks there and turn cecil hotel into a hippie 1980s style we work loft office ala casey neistat.

However, it did work out right in the case of "don't F**k with cats"

@@omarhasanothman Well, after they actually did bully another person to suicide first.

@@JamesMoreauDrew true, the bad exceeds the good in this case. I believe these internet deticives are the same people advocating flat earth. 🤣

@@omarhasanothmanOn Don't F*ck with Cats, the question was openly raised as to whether the attention received from these internet sleuths had goaded Magnotta into committing murder. Maybe without that it would have remained a cat-only thing and a man might still be alive - although I admit I wanted to believe the opposite at the end of the documentary.

@@KSJAFN 100% why I was pissed the internet crazies were portrayed as “ heroes “

The term "skid row" came from Skidders Row. Skidders were loggers, specifically the loggers tasked with skidding (getting) the logs out of the woods in The Pacific Northwest. They were on the lowest rung on the ladder in the logging camps. When they got paid, they would head to the most decrepit and cheapest section of the nearby towns, the sections of towns with the cheapest bars, hotels and brothels. Soon these areas of towns took on the identity of the patrons that frequented there, skidders row. From there the term "skid row" (now shortened) was applied to the seedy, poor, decrepit sections of all towns/cities. Unfortunately, terms like these almost always become a label to create separation between the haves and the have-nots, the educated and the uneducated, the poor and everyone who is not as poor.

@@banchoshawty, nicely done. 👌

I was gonna say this, I live in Seattle and I went on the Seattle underground tour and heard about skid row, and when I clicked on this video I was confused to hear skid row was in LA

They're still there in Vancouver.

@@nectarshrub yep. I went there for vacation and that was the first time I saw a "skid row"

@@nectarshrub Yep isn't it like hasting street in vancouver was there accidentally when I was on holiday that a country can get such a mess with homelessness.

Glad I'm not the only one that caught this. This came from Vancouver, not LA.

You may find a lot of people are not staying home, even further, people are travelling and living like pre Covid ☺️

@@markn4504 u

@@mtizirawaylernyika7653 well yea I am one of those people but just saying there is a large part of the States and other countries that are all living 99% like before - a mask in a shop is as far as limits on my life have been 🤷🏼‍♂️

Yeah as soon as June rolled around I was traveling like normal.

@@ltakethefatlplease.3380 same. I’ve been on many holidays abroad during the pandemic. No point sitting around waiting for it to be “over” because I have 1 life to live and throwing years away is just pointless.

tough love lol

Did it work?

That's child abuse. I hope they aren't like that now.

@@swallowedinthesea11 not abuse just bad parenting

@@swallowedinthesea11 if THAT'S child abuse 99.5% of all asian parents would be in jail now

Not too late to bulldoze it

@@whatevergina9401 Seriously, some people don't want help and don't have the capacity to follow societal rules,, getting them out of society and into a institution where they can be cared for is the only way forward.

@@AllRightsss or bulldozing the human trash that ruins that part of the city.

You should check out soft white underbelly then if you haven’t already..

not forgotten but ignored

Exactly...

Except it took all of what you said and squandered it into a convoluted, unfocused, hot mess of a documentary that didn’t stick the final landing. They spent way too much time on the, “internet sleuths” who yet again proved they had absolutely zero substance, contribution, or standing in the case. The episodes needed more editing and explicitly stick to related specific topics to make a tighter, coherent narrative - they could’ve easily combined episodes 2 and 3.

@@Saratrooper yeah because the documentary was about the specific case and all the stuff related to it. It wasnt about skid row specifically. But despite that, the message about skid row was clear.

Exactly I have been going through the comments and wondering why nobody is saying this. documentary was good and focused on right elements and told the story truthfully.

@@Saratrooper yes I agree there could have been less time dedicated to the internet sleuths but a lot of their obsessive behavior was a lead up to the poor guy who was wrongly accused and suffered a mental health breakdown because of the bullying. However they also are knowledgeable about the case from start to finish, so they probably had a lot to contribute in terms of narration. I also agree there’s valid criticism regarding the organization and rhythm of the material which would have made a great video if Johnny would’ve actually touched on that instead of criticizing something they actually did.

Agreed. I thought the Netflix docu made it very clear by the end that the Cecil is in fact not haunted.

Exactly! The docu series even had a whole episode diving into the neighborhood of skid row and how it played a big part in the history of the hotel.

I thought the same thing.

@@HaikoEitzen Dude... they saw Richard Ramirez walking by in underwear covered with blood and they never react... Don’t expect them to see a ghost, they’ll think it’s a albinos.

I thought the same. And then I thought if he could have just said he was adding more info it would’ve been better than simply bashing Netflix for saying it was simply haunted. Anyone who has watched the documentary knows this was mentioned. In detail.

Agreed. I was worried they’d take the spoopy haunted route but they did steer the conversation towards facts.

I agree

yep, his title is really clickbaity and misleading.

yes，it did explain that

Came here to say this. Fan of this channel but seemed like the whole series wasn’t watched. Not saying the series is great or anything but they drop the “dark energy” thing throughout all the episodes

🇺🇸 Americuh 3rd world cUntry with a gucci belt 🇺🇸

I disagree, I think people are currently focusing on the horrors of L.A. Everytime you search up L.A, you will see videos showing the darkside of L.A only. I think we should focus more on the golden side of L.A and why its such a great city. I'm glad these sides of L.A are getting talked about, but I wish that was not the only thing being discussed . Its always the smog, homelessness and not the sunshine, diversity, Good paying jobs, and the adventures.

Not really. Everyone thinks LA is a shithole

LA is a terrible place. The Dodgers are the only good thing about it.

@@diamondmax5141 whoosh

Chicago's (current) Skid Row is technically Uptown. Chicago had a "plan" to overdiagnose everyone so that the city could gather social security checks and pass people off from one clinic to the other in order for business to make money off the situation. It ruined so many lives that many commited suicide to escape the system's grasp on them. People were just shoveled into human storage closets and treated like dumb pets. If anyone tried to get a job or any kind of training or education, the police would be called and people were threatened with institutionalization. It's still going on. They get around the suicide statistics by fasely claiming people were just addicts that overdosed; they do this without toxicology reports. Most just took entire bottles of the prescriptions they were forced to go on in order to make dozens of sister clinics financially happy. They tried to turn the homeless into a comodity that could be transported around. It wound up greating a sea of death. It's not like it would be hard to just house, educate and employ people... but then social workers wouldn't feel superior to anyone and neither would the general public. People would rather kill or exploit than treat people with dignity and respect. History isn't going to look kindly on anyone during this time period.

"butt" lol

I wish Johnny was my high-school teacher.

2nd that

3rd that

So valuable that he can tell a story you already knew before like it's first time.

Totally agree, always happy to see a new upload

Preach

20 years lol thats long. how

YOUR perspective is what America needs. Thank you for your insight

A positive effect of americans finally taking care of their own shit would be that the rest of the world gets a well needed break from getting "generously defended" back into the stone age.

As a non-American I always thought the practice of „thank you for your service“ was weird. No other job gets the same treatment, not even medical personnel for keeping everyone alive or farmers giving people food. I mean everyone knows that while in US military you do defend your own country, but also attack others occasionally. So its like „thank you for…being in this organization that caries out a war that everyone lost track about what its even about?“

This is the most balanced view and deserves more likes, you can’t use a one size fits all approach to homelessness, likewise people have the right to make unwise decisions. It not as simple, even to have free healthcare, access to housing and education it’s far more complex in many cases.

It doesn't help that a lot of those homeless "services" require you to give up your dignity and self worth to obtain health, ie claiming to be suicidal so you can get access to said services. Otherwise they could care less and only want the "easy" cases; ie single moms or veterans

Not true. Much of the population does not want the help. They prefer crime and drugs to doing anything to move up.

💯 truth. Johnny, bless his heart, one can tell he is terribly naive in his assessment in both cause and solution. As a native whom has done a wealth of social work in L.A., I concur many do not want help. For most, this is their community and lifestyle. Throwing money at the problem does not fix anything. If the person does not willingly want to participate in their rescue, there is little that can be done, unfortunately. I’ve seen it happen countless times.

@@jamesj3395 this is such a bullshit take. People with mental illness and no insurance, no job, no house, etc KNOW they cannot afford to take medication. Giving them a minimum wage job in one of the most expensive states in the country does nothing. Giving them a temporary home does nothing. Giving them temporary healthcare does nothing. I would probably choose drugs and community over slaving at 2-3 jobs to try to afford a place to live, food, healthcare and my medication too if I knew that these things weren’t free or permanent.

Sounds like he didn’t finish the documentary or he used a click bait title to get more people to watch his video

It seems like he just watched the first episode.

This is just really lazy on his part. Does he just bash Netflix for no reason? Some of that stuff is bad but they make some good things too. It's almost like he has a grudge against them. I could see him watching the first episode and just ignoring the rest of the show because it confirmed his bias. I expect him to put some sort of clarification in this or are we dealing with someone who has no ethics?

@@FrostySumo So you are saying that not watching Netflix is laziness?

Exactly

🙏🏼🧡for real

💀

Well, when you're a reporter, investigator, historian etc. You have to jump around a bit. Who knows what next week might be about.

Leave Johnny alone, he’s freaking awesome!

Maybe you should watch the video. He's talking about skid row.

@@loulouloucindy Come on people, I was just referring to how fast he can jump into different subjects, and it’s awesome. P.S I’ve watched all the videos from the beginning🙏🙏🙏

the saddest part is that some of them don't want to be helped and would rather live that way.

California politicians actually make money from poverty in California by continuously funding programs to aid them that don't work. I remember seeing a man building tiny houses for homeless and was told to shut it down in a video. In another vid a rights advocacy attorney was trying to fight the corrupt government assistance programs designed to enrich the pockets of political cronies with failed gov programs.

@@steevieg that is for sure NOT the saddest part. Did you hear the part about dehumanizing the poor and people in need?

Humble police stopping be here! What you experienced was more the opposite of humbling. To be humbled means to feel lowered in importance or significance. Living on skid row would be a humbling experience certainly.

Got an extra bedroom?

👍

He's great reporter and gets to the causes of misconceptions. The editing is better than most as well!

Very competent and not just factual but..... artistic or something like that

Nothing in the World is Free. Unless you would use a Addblocker😂 but for some People like this dude here, Turn your addblocker off. Have a nice day everybody

@@thedirty530 there are criticisms of his partnership with the world economic forum so he's far from perfect

They litter if they have dumpsters. Happens in WA. No excuses. Fucking up "protected" wetlands and making it difficult for emergency vehicles...

@@sn1ffy85 my interpretation of what ur saying could possibly be different from your intentions, but there can’t be a black and white thinking to this; no simple explanation. there are more then five thousand homeless people who live in condensed areas where there are more amount of people then there is space that can be provided for those people. nowhere in washington is there an overpopulation problem as great as los angeles, so that’s why you can’t just simply compare and use the same reasoning for the littering issues. the waste management people can’t just pick up trash there 24/7, and trash piles up fast. it’s not about individual responsibility, or a community responsibility, as many people are trying to live. they have the mentality of trying to survive.

They should have chutes that feed into an underground dumpster. it would make the place much cleaner.

🇺🇸 Americuh 3rd world cUntry with a gucci belt 🇺🇸

I always thought Hollywood was some posh place but my friend lived there in the '70s and told me it was a seedy area with lower income housing. He worked for the railroad, which pays pretty good, but I guess not good enough. He did eventually buy a house in another area of LA. He moved to the mid west in the late '70s and a few years ago saw that house on the news being devoured by a forest fire. Said he was glad he wasn't living in it. LOL

I thought it was one street!

I think LA being liberal and warm is why it ended up like this. They refused to acknowledge it is a problem and victimize them, the only victims would be veterans who end up homeless.

@@uchennanwogu2142 as a veteran I know all too well how many veterans are homeless. I have been one. But all these people are a victim of a system that has failed all of them, not just veterans. We privatize everything these people would need to be a functioning member of society.

@@dragonsoldier1829 I know. its unfortunate- the government should create recovery programs to get the homeless on their feet and mental help.

LA and Southern California as a whole was a conservative stronghold when these policies were put in place in the 70's. Don't forget where Ronald Reagan came from.

@@knut true but the democratic leadership has done nothing to change it. Don't get me wrong I can not stand either party so I am not defending Reagan but pointing the finger at the other for past mistakes is all either party does. It is just an attempt to shift blame and accountability and then nothing really changes. Meanwhile the human cost only grows. You see something wrong then change it. Apathy and inaction is killing this country.

There is a great piece on the Cecil Hotel and the people that stayed there , by Biographics

This is why i hate Netflix real crime docs. So many creators on RU-vid do a far better job telling these stories in 20 minute videos.

idk, even if it seems like they did that on purpose to waste time or whatever, i really think it was good, more like showing what the people thought at the moment and why it was such a boom on the internet

I hate them for slandering death metal

They do it that way to tell the story in chronological order. Not all information is known from the beginning. Certain things aren’t found out until later. This is how some crime podcast stories are told too. It makes you feel like you’re living though it as it was happening.

can you explain more about your experience

Skid row is known for drugs , she was just high on drugs

That was the American Dream sold to people in and out of America. Come here, work hard, and you can succeed. This idea that anyone could just show up somewhere, put in some elbow grease, and eventually become successful is still being peddled to people around the world.

​@@angelintraining8199 Not just to people around the world, there is still an entire political wing that believes and perpetuates this childish nonsense to all of America.

@@angelintraining8199: 😢

The Greyhound station compound is still in there

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This video missed the point of the documentary. It wasn't saying that the Cecil Hotel in itself is haunted, trying to overshadow the history of Skid Row, but rather focus more on Elisa Lam and her unusual disappearance.

@@DylanRomanov totally agree, low and bad energy will be there for sure.

@@DylanRomanov "dark energy" doesn't exist, well not in the context you want it to. the definition of it is "a theoretical repulsive force that counteracts gravity and causes the universe to expand at an accelerating rate." not some thing that makes it scawwy and spoooooookyyy

@@DylanRomanov "negative residual energy" i'm not even gonna get started on that stupid shite. also, There*

Ye skid row is a place for ex prisoners and drugs I know a dude that sold drugs growing up in skid now his whole life , she was just on drugs. Who give it to her is the mystery

I stayed in DTLA for a week and i thought the exact same thing

Why didn't they bulldoze the entire area, set up a new one on the outskirts and set up a high speed rail underneath the city? It would have made so much more sense.

Homeless are all over DTLA, skid row is not hidden, it is easier to not be harassed and shoot dope there. That is why all the homeless are there.

@Bilbo Buttplugins ah, Bilbo Buttplugins, the moral authority we should all listen to. Telling us how some people deserve to suffer and die because they got addicted to meth. Sublime.

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the area is getting smaller and it’s population is growing

Those edges are about to be snatched.

Yeah homeless are usually out at least 5 blocks outside the area and are grouping in other parts of LA as well.

@@lordofchaosiori yup, but it's "contained" as the vast majority of homeless stay there but skid row has only expanded even further.

Vagrancy has spilled over into the San Fernando Valley. Encampments now occupy freeway overpasses, and parking lots. LA just cleared out Echo Park and has closed it off for renovation. Venice Beach is becoming a disaster area, but the city is beginning to clear that out too.

wait so there deadass was just a woman cracked out, acting tweaky in the hallways and they just said it was paranormal activity? wtfff

@@cinnamonthecat9661 yup. They suggested that she was possessed and the hotel was haunted because a serial killer stayed there once

@@cinnamonthecat9661 they did say what happened in the end. But it was a waste of time getting to that point. But then again, knowing that she was bi-polar and hadn’t been taking her medication from the beginning would have taken away the story

@KG Sniper oh ? i have no idea tbh, i never watched it

@@OBIIIIIIIII 😧 bruh

Me too, I thought it was a term coined from a mixture of death row and skidders as in sh*t on the side of a toilet. And now that I’ve said that, it’s starting to sound a lot more real lol. What a shame though. To have a staunchly democratic state/city with higher than average tax rates to “fund public goods/services” and yet still blindly refuses to deal with this issue straight on like they’re supposed. What a sh*t show, or should I say Skid Row.

Being taught how to be a psychopath, Do you still want to continue or looking for another direction to go?

It's also the same kind of mentality that gets us hostile architecture and laws against begging and prostitution. Make sure the citizens don't see the homeless and other people in need of help, and they won't nag you so much about doing something about them.

@Geo Leo maybe it's the only thought she felt like sharing, Why so much hate?

I hope this doesn’t come off as rude but how do urban planners get jobs when most urban areas are already pretty established and many people just keep moving to these cities? I understand sometimes some other cities pop up here and there but I’m sure there’s way more urban planners than how much that happens.

@Geo Leo shut up and stop being an elitist

I used to never see any homeless people or camps here until recently. It's looking more like Portland everyday.

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herzog was shot by an air rifle in LA he continued filming

Chickens wont stop dancing.

absolutely

@David Wang Aww thanks dude. I'm flattered by your assumption. But I am not a home owner. I think that my acceptance that owning a home is a catastrophic life-goal, and finding other things that make life worthwhile as a renter, contributes to that "good grip" on life you picked up on. Cheers!

Not all cities have slums. Northern European cities solved it with their combination of affordable housing, mental help enforcement and whatever else but they don’t have this hell

LAs homeless population is complicated to say the the least. This coming from someone who lives in the LA area that moved from a place with less complicated homless population. Here in LA we got a large portion of homeless that cannot simply be helped with a flick of a finger. Mentally unwell people, mixed in with drug addicts, and you know both at once. Short of forcing back institutionalization and forcing rehab those people are not going to get the help they need. You can give them a house or apt but in the end your ignoring what got them on the street in the first place. Then tack on the people who want to be living on the street. Who choose to be nomadic and feel it's their right to live without a home. Yes, there are homeless that can be helped. Elderly who are down, working homeless, those seeking employment/housing; but those a drop in the bucket. Fixing the problem here is not being bleeding hearts and pitying anyone, it's taking a step back and looking at the layers and understanding the population and deciding logically how to get things improving.

@@RoMayDrako thank you. Having also spent time around a large population of homeless it’s sometimes infuriating hearing people act like society and city governance are just throwing these people away. There are more than enough resources to get people out of this situation if they truly want to but the reality is that most of them choose and prefer this lifestyle and some people and their politics can’t fathom this.

@@zeroh7671 And their free housing are always empty. They’d rather be in the streets

Theyve spent billions on fighting homelessness and poverty. Most of that cash ends up on Democratic politicians pockets and their friends in special interest groups. What does make it to the homeless is wasted because you cant help people who dont want to be helped as they would rather live on the street doing drugs than stay in public housing with sobriety rules and curfews.

@@RoMayDrako Exactly. I understand that majority of us are good people who don't want people living in such terrible situations. But sometimes, that's the life they choose. Sure, drug addicts and mentally ill are part of that population. But you can't force them to go to rehab or send them off to an institution. Many choose to live this life, so what do you do? There are more than enough social programs for these folks to get out of there. They just have to decide for themselves if they want to get out.

Yeah... I felt a bit of sensationalist vibes with the title too... not saying that I believe in ghosts, but stating that it isn't haunted, because of Skid Row is clearly a fallacy.

Yeah I have the feeling this guy didn't watch the whole series. The hotel being haunted is more presented as one of the theories surrounding the case, and one which is also debunked in the series itself

@@Vlessgorian yeah the fact that he made this video would make sense if he's only seen the first episode

@@Vlessgorian Obviously your right, youtubers love to only read or watch part of something and present that as absolute fact for a couple bucks.

I think he just watch the first episode before making this video.

@@markusbisma5015 i was surprised, in fact this documentary tought me about Skid Row.

I agree, I never got the impression that they were implying anything supernatural at all

Yeah they dismiss it outright and then talk about skid row for almost a whole episode

Yh he didn't do his research or he just didn't understand it? I dunno. He basically did a video on why Netflix is wrong by giving info that Netflix themselves provide... In the documentary.

literally only the first episode feeds the audience's need for something supernatural, the rest of the history of the hotel, then the history, ELISA (not Carrie) Lam's own mental health issues, then the end is all about what the autopsy reveals. did YOU watch the show?

@@LoboMendez1 I did watch the show. Think about what I said...as somebody who has never been to California (I've only been to the US once in my life, on a business trip), I was able to understand that Skid Row was a problem created by city planning and was responsible for what happened in the Cecil Hotel. Although, I'll say this, as an Indian we have plenty of our own versions of skid row around, so the concept is not new for anyone living in a major city, really.

I think it is officially in what the city considers The Skid Row Neighborhood... (at least Google Maps marks it as so). But outside “the homeless city” of Skid Row. I used to live on the Arts District, which is on the otherside of Skid Row than the Cecil and the boundaries do tend to shift. Development in Little Tokyo and the Arts District eaten a block or two from what you can see marked on Google Maps (which I assume was the original boundary).

Skid row is just a nickname. Its like toy district, produce district, seafood district, something else, no? Boundaries change a lot. The past 10 years, homeless were pushed slowly and concentrated in skid row. The library park, Pershing Square, city hall, angels flight, metro stations had a lot, but past few years, only a handful are there. Even drug dealers move spots. Main st. Where Cecil is doesnt have many tents, many now with covid more. Even LA street reduced a lot of homeless on sidewalks. Many are pushed deeper and deeper.

I've lived at 6th and Main in DTLA since 2005...two buildings north of the Cecil. Johnny gets some things right (the most important being the dereliction of the city in providing mental healthcare, rehab, work training and employment, and affordable housing) and some things wrong (he gets the city-established borders right, but the actual Skid Row activity is more contained--that is, it *was,* until an assortment of laws and a couple of lawsuits and the pandemic destroyed boundaries) and leaves out some things (LAPD's Central Station is in the middle of Skid Row; and he doesn't mention Skid Row's ACLU-supported activist group, LACAN)...but that's what comes from journalists who don't have a long-standing direct experience of a particular subject but want to stir the pot to expand their audience. It's a good start, Johnny...but you can do better.

bravo

I wondered how in Chicago they managed to corral the homeless in one area. Turns out it can be by design.

I was thinking the same thing.

In Germany, we call this Hartz IV. We hold children hostage to their parents.... We let marginalized people down. Once you are declared unable to work, you can be sure to be trapped in ALG II. Germany could help it's more. But we also have Berlin Kreuzberg. Munich-Hasenbergl.... So many conflict zones.

@@Canleaf08 Are you comparing what you've seen in this clip to Harzt IV and aren't our of your mind writing this? These people can only dream of a country that barley gives a crap about them and provides Hartz IV.

Not really they can leave whenever they want. They’re not doing hard labor in death camps. Terrible comparison

Secret?

@@FirstLast-uz6eq I agree. What secret? This is an everyday fact, especially among Angelenos. I bet @gerri577 is a transplant.

@@FirstLast-uz6eq its a secret im just now finding out bout this

Secret my a--. It's even a tourist attraction for a lot of hop-on/off bus tours in LA.

@@dynasty0019 never been to LA so obviously its a secret if ppl outside of LA dont know bout it lol