LA Times: Skid Row Deaths Stun City Council

Four people were found dead on skid row Monday, a toll that shocked even veteran police and social workers who are used to seeing routine misfortune.

None of the dead appeared to have been the victims of foul play. Three of the deaths were suspected to be the results of overdoses; the fourth victim wore a hospital band on one of his wrists and may have died of complications from stomach cancer.

The overdose deaths prompted police to warn skid row health agencies about the possibility of a particularly dangerous batch of heroin that might be making its way through the community.

Capt. Andrew Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department's Central Division said the deaths were the most that he could remember in one day on skid row — an area that is notorious for drug use and homelessness and where the LAPD says suburban law enforcement agencies and some hospitals have routinely dumped homeless people, criminals and drug addicts.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-skidrow21dec21,0,896799.story?coll=la-home-headlines

The tourists will think they are in Calcutta

Calcutta, if you pretend the canal is the Ganges.

and addicts given untainted drugs like they do in Britain, three of these tragedies might not have happened. And if we had national health care the fourth poor soul would have died in dignity in a hospital bed and not in the streets. Where is our compassion? Where is our common sense?

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