Why L.A.'s homeless camp cleanups seem to be futile [LATimes.com]

Samantha Sangenito 9/28/154:00 AM

When the workers in hazmat suits arrived there wasn't much left to do.

Rosa Torres had received the mandatory 72-hour notice, posted on a tree beside her lean-to in the crescent-shaped median skirting North Hills Community Park.

She had moved about 20 shopping carts bulging with her belongings across Parthenia Place and deposited them in a nook just outside the park fence.

The workers sprayed some leftover debris with disinfectant and took it away in a big white truck, leaving the shopping carts behind.

Los Angeles Police Officer James McDonald, who monitored the cleanup, didn't think Torres would be gone long.

"She'll go somewhere else tonight and then come back," McDonald predicted.

[For more of this story, written by Doug Smith, go to http://www.latimes.com/local/c...-20150924-story.html]

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