Our time in LA was uneventful. It's such a big sprawling place that I can't even say whether or not it is a city that "works" in the sense of an ordered, well run place. Of course there were occasional glimpses of the seamy side of things. What you've read about homeless encampments being wide spread is entirely true. Semi permanent villages of tents and plywood are found under a lot of bridges and freeways. I left those sites alone in my photo journalism....these are people with problems and I have no reason to pry into their affairs. But we did run into a couple of "crime scenes" in our strolling about.
Most of the homeless encampments seem to be officially ignored. But once we ran across this:
You can see the outlines of a couple of shopping carts under these tightly wrapped tarps. And the tape....
Not far away we peered through a chain link fence and saw a broken open suitcase; things scattered all over the place.
Something happened here. We could see several different Bibles, lots of Covid masks, at least two different passports, and a large sized bra. I was very tempted to retrieve the passports - those seem like they should not be circulating in the wild - but was not about to scale a fence in the attempt.
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