L.A. Homeless Deaths Spiked 56% in 2020—From Drugs, Not COVID – IOTW Report

L.A. Homeless Deaths Spiked 56% in 2020—From Drugs, Not COVID

RedState:L.A. County’s Department of Health released a report Friday showing that deaths among the homeless shot up 56 percent during the pandemic’s first year, tallying a staggering 1,988 deaths. COVID was not the main cause for the spike, however—drug overdoses were.

Los Angeles has seen a dramatic rise in homelessness in recent years, with the population growing by 50 percent from 2015 to 2020, to a total of 66,436. Tents crowd sidewalks and dilapidated RVs cluster beneath overpasses.

The biggest congregations are downtown, where tent cities stretch for block after block in a dystopian scene, making it nearly impossible to enter local businesses. more

20 Comments on L.A. Homeless Deaths Spiked 56% in 2020—From Drugs, Not COVID

  1. That worthless POS pictured looks like she’s dead. She’s nothing more than a cadaver. As for the homeless, well, we all will die from something, it’s their choice. Life can be cruel.

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  2. Build it and they will come.

    You have a straight supply line from the southern border, nice winter weather, full govt bennies and a luxury shorting gallery in the park. A junkies dream.

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  3. How come no ones invented a drug that makes you put on a suit and tie and work 8 hours a day?

    “Jensen, how’s it goin’?”
    “I finished the Cortez account and got ahead on next quarters reports.”
    “That’s fantastic.”
    “Nah, I’m high as fuk.”

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  4. That looks like the Dude from “Tales of the Crypt Keeper”.

    Anyways, she/it is reducing the A.P.S.I. # and that is probably good.

    LESS ASSHOLES PER SQUARE INCH index

    The problem rests in Democrat policies which increase poverty & Homelessness, and that is definitely VERY BAD for the future.

  5. According to page 5 of https://tinyurl.com/LA-County-Mortality-2017,
    the death rate per 100,000 in LA County in 2017 was 590 or 0.59%.

    The homeless death rate in LA County in CoVID Year One was 1,988 / 66,436 or 2.99%

    Carry the one, (i.e. 2.99% / 0.59%,) and the death rate for homeless people in LA County in 2020ish was about FIVE TIMES the overall death rate in LA County in 2017.

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