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Shocking new pictures from downtown LA capture the huge problem it faces with trash and rats amid fear of typhoid fever outbreak among LAPD China is going in the other direction. Paul Craig Roberts describes it as Third World America. In an op ed for The LA Times reporter Steve Lopez called it 'the collapse of a city that's lost control', writing: 'We've got thousands of people huddled on the streets, many of them withering away with physical and mental disease. 'Sidewalks have disappeared, hidden by tents and the kinds of makeshift shanties you see in Third World places.' He called the city 'a giant trash receptacle'. The police union has demanded better protective equipment for officers and called for the station to be regularly sanitized. The Police Department
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Shocking new pictures from downtown LA capture the huge problem it faces with trash and rats amid fear of typhoid fever outbreak among LAPD China is going in the other direction. Paul Craig Roberts describes it as Third World America. In an op ed for The LA Times reporter Steve Lopez called it 'the collapse of a city that's lost control', writing: 'We've got thousands of people huddled on the streets, many of them withering away with physical and mental disease. 'Sidewalks have disappeared, hidden by tents and the kinds of makeshift shanties you see in Third World places.' He called the city 'a giant trash receptacle'. The police union has demanded better protective equipment for officers and called for the station to be regularly sanitized. The Police Department
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Shocking new pictures from downtown LA capture the huge problem it faces with trash and rats amid fear of typhoid fever outbreak among LAPD
China is going in the other direction.
Paul Craig Roberts describes it as Third World America.
Paul Craig Roberts describes it as Third World America.
In an op ed for The LA Times reporter Steve Lopez called it 'the collapse of a city that's lost control', writing: 'We've got thousands of people huddled on the streets, many of them withering away with physical and mental disease.
'Sidewalks have disappeared, hidden by tents and the kinds of makeshift shanties you see in Third World places.'
He called the city 'a giant trash receptacle'.
The police union has demanded better protective equipment for officers and called for the station to be regularly sanitized.
The Police Department said exposed areas of the Central Division were being disinfected and officials were reviewing the state's 'concerning' report that found health violations at the station.
The building lacked an effective extermination program and had 'rats/rodents, fleas, roaches, flies, gnats, mosquitoes and grasshoppers,' according to the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health's May 14 report.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says typhoid fever isn't common in the U.S. but affects 22 million people annually in other countries.
It is different from typhus, which can spread from infected fleas and caused an outbreak earlier this year that sickened homeless people who live near City Hall and a deputy city attorney.