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Los Angeles is a really interesting place.

Ski row is not far from Beverly Hills, just a few streets away. But it's definitely two worlds.

The ski row is not a street, it's 54 blocks, between third Avenue and Seventh Avenue. It's also very interesting here. Maybe this street is very prosperous. When you turn the corner to the next street, the sidewalk is filled with mountains of garbage. The air is filled with the smell of excrement, urine and drugs. A row of tents lean against the corner of the wall. Many people live in tents here.

It's very lively here. Many people just sit on a single sofa, lean against the wall and chat. Some people don't have a sofa. They sit there with a tire and watch the passers-by. There are also a lot of cars parked on the roadside, which are not as shabby as Xiao Peng imagined. There are some luxury cars like Benz and BMW, and some of them are broken bread and so on. Some people live in the car directly.

In the words of 50cent, "ski row is just a bit chaotic here in Los Angeles. Comparatively speaking, it's still full of people and plenty of sunshine. If we say that this is the most dangerous place in StarCraft? There are at least 100 blocks in that country. "Camden," Detroit, East St. Louis, on the south side of Philadelphia, are much worse than here. "

In fact, there are not so many tents in ski row. After all, the affordable housing and homeless relief center in xingtiao are all here. But just a month ago, the Los Angeles government announced a decision not to limit the number of homeless properties in ski row. This directly led to the proliferation of tents here. Now, in the 54 blocks of ski row, there are more than 4000 tents, each of which is a homeless homeless man. It includes drug addicts, alcoholics, people with mental illness and violent criminals. About a quarter of the homeless here are more or less mentally ill.

Thanks to the poverty alleviation strategy of the Los Angeles government, over the past decade, they have invested $28.5 billion in housing and community improvement across the Los Angeles region, including ski raw's homeless shelter and affordable housing.

There are about 60000 tramps in the whole Los Angeles area, and ski row is only one tenth of them. At present, a considerable number of homeless people have been living in homeless resettlement centers and affordable housing. As of last year, more than 15000 people have been provided with housing, but this number is far from enough.

Now, the number of homeless people in 50 states of Star State has decreased, but the number of people in 20 states has increased, and California is one of the 20 states.

How did Xiao Peng know this? Because there was a tour guide named Joseph foreman who was introduced to himself by him, but the guide was wearing a police uniform.

He works for the Los Angeles Central Police Department, and ski row is under the jurisdiction of the Central Police Department. As soon as Xiao Peng's police car arrived here, he stopped him and said that Xiao Peng was not familiar with it and wanted to be a tour guide for Xiao Peng.

Xiao Peng understood in his heart that this must be the arrangement of director general Moore, but he did not say anything. Long live understanding, Moore must be afraid of what happened to him.

Facts have proved that it is right to have Joseph as a tour guide. Ski row has 54 blocks in total, seven affordable housing areas, and two homeless relief centers. Without him as a guide, Xiao Peng does not know how long it is to find Alicia even if he has an address.

And Joseph is not unfamiliar with here, and directly drove to arecia's apartment building, which was also one of the affordable housing communities in Los Angeles.

Xiao Peng got out of the police car: "this place looks good!"

It's not a sarcastic remark. Although there are tramps, tents and garbage in the parking area, the road is spacious. There is a six storey office building beside the road, and there are many vehicles at the door. There are a lot of young people playing basketball in the park.

It's hard to stop in Los Angeles, but there's no problem in ski row.

"This is one of the two homeless shelters in ski row, which offers free accommodation and food, as well as learning and employment opportunities," Joseph explained. Of course, it may not be a good job, such as a cleaner. President AP promised to solve the employment problem in StarCraft, and he has also done so. There are 500000 jobs for cleaners and other jobs in the country. "

Looking at Joseph, Xiao Peng always felt that he was making irony.

Joseph's face was pure: "even if it's a cleaner or something, as long as you're willing to do it, you'll always support yourself, right?"

Xiao Peng pointed to the car at the door of the shelter: "don't tell me that someone is driving a Mercedes-Benz g63 to get relief. I can't accept it."

Joseph shook his head. "These are the cars of the volunteers who come here to work. The clothes donated by some people in the society need to be handled before they can be handed over to the Vagabonds. These volunteers do the cleaning and food preparation of the tramps."After hearing this, Xiao Peng whistled: "is someone waiting to take care of eating and washing clothes? Your benefits are really good. "

Joseph shook his head. "This is a group of rice worms. Do you think these people will starve to death? Although they are willing to pay rent of more than $80109 in Los Angeles, they will not have to pay the rent of four hundred dollars in the state Drugs, alcohol, women! And then I'm dreaming that one day I'm going to step into the sky. Damn it

Xiao Peng was stunned: "looking for a woman?"

Joseph looked left and right. Xiao Peng didn't know what he was looking for. He suddenly took two quick steps toward a corner of the road and motioned for Xiao Peng to pass. Xiao Peng went over and looked. There was a needle on the ground in front of Joseph.

"There's no need for this woman."

Xiao Peng whistled: "Joseph, how do you think you have a big opinion here?"

Joseph grinned: "can you see that? I thought I was hiding well. " Then he kicked the needle into the well, and then suddenly said a number: "247."

Xiao Peng was stunned: "what 247?"

Joseph replied, "I have been in the central police station since 1992, and it has been nearly 30 years now. 247 is the number of police officers who have died in our police department since I became a policeman."

"So much?" Xiao Peng widened his eyes: "wait? You said '92? The year of the riots in Los Angeles? "

Joseph nodded, took out his cigarette from his pocket and asked Xiao Peng, "do you smoke?"

Xiao Peng took the cigarette: "thank you." Then he took the lighter out of his pocket and lit it. At the same time, he lit it.

Joseph laughed and shook his head. "I thought you would stop me from smoking."

Xiao Peng a Leng: "Why say so?"

"You are Samuel, aren't you?" Joseph asked.

Xiao Peng had no choice but to say, "Samuel is just a title. I'm also a person. I want to eat, drink, smoke, marry and have children."

After hearing this, Joseph began to laugh. He took a puff of smoke and suddenly said, "I have been to China."

"Oh? Is it? " Xiao Peng was stunned.

Joseph nodded and said, "it's not surprising that at least one tenth of people in Los Angeles have been to China."

"What do you think?" Xiao Peng asked

What he wanted to ask Joseph was: do you like China or not? But Joseph replied, "after I went, I envied the police of your country."

"Well?" Xiao Peng doesn't know why.

Joseph replied, "Mr. Xiao, you must often see the news about our country in China. It is said that the police enforce the law violently and kill people to cause ethnic conflicts, right?"

Xiao Peng nodded: "I don't deny that, indeed, I often see similar reports."

Joseph smoked his cigarette: "I do not deny that, basically you see the reports are true, but we are the police, not the devil, we do not want to kill, if we really shoot the suspect, we have to write reports, accept psychological counseling, it is very troublesome. But we really have no way. This is star country. Maybe one second those people smile at you, the next second they take out guns to shoot. Every time we use a gun, it will cause a great disturbance. Some kind of racial discrimination will be put on our heads, but we are just protecting ourselves. Is this also wrong? Every year, so many policemen are killed. At best, they put a flag on the coffin! But what if we killed the suspect? There must be demonstrations, especially if a black person is killed, and they will rise to the height of race. They can ignore what the criminal did and what crime they committed. They only saw the police kill. Fortunately, the police now have law enforcement recorders, "

Xiao Peng said with a smile:" this kind of silly x also exists in our country. As long as the police shoot down a gangster, some people will ask themselves cleverly: why not kick? Lying trough, these people's heads are full of paste? When the Olympic champions miss the target in the absolutely quiet and slow aiming competition, do you let the police kick in such a tense environment? Do you really think the police are the heroes in the TV series? You don't have to shoot. You're going to die when you shake your hand? The gun hits the brow? This is clearly the IQ arrears! "

Joseph nodded: "especially after the drug dealers took the gun, they were all crazy. You ban guns and drugs in China. Your police are much more comfortable than us. My last partner died in the hands of drug dealers. "

"Shot?" Xiao Peng asked curiously.

Joseph shook his head: "I was stabbed by a drug dealer with a needle like that, infected with AIDS, and finally committed suicide - it was under that basketball rack that the drug dealer attacked."

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