LA Police Run Human Dump

Life is full of irregularities. Beneath the surface of everything you see lies another much darker layer and this is as true for fast food as it is for crime. In the case of LA police purportedly dropping off the addicted and homeless to burnt out ends in Skid Row, the dark layers continue to span out like a magician's deck of cards. In particularly brutal and inhuman fashion they spill their secrets, and when loftier ideals fail we have to contend with questions like this one:

Why are the forces of law systematically throwing away human beings?

'For decades, it's been an enduring urban tale about downtown Los Angeles, often talked about but never proved: Police departments wanting to get rid of society's lost and neglected — the homeless, mentally ill and criminals — simply drove through downtown and dumped them in skid row.

But on Tuesday, evidence landed in the lap of the person who most needed it: Capt. Andrew Smith, commanding officer of the Los Angeles Police Department's Central Division.

Smith said he was out on patrol with his partner about 10 a.m. Tuesday when he noticed a Los Angeles County sheriff's car driving down 6th Street.

The cruiser, he said, turned south on San Pedro, then west on 7th Street to San Julian Street. There, Smith watched in disbelief as two deputies "pulled over, took a guy in handcuffs out of the car. They took off the cuffs and handed him a bag," Smith said.

The captain and his partner immediately got out of their car and questioned the man and the deputies. Smith said the deputies told him that the man had been released from the Men's Central Jail and was standing outside on the street when a supervisor ordered them to take the man to a downtown mission.

"But there was no mission nearby," Smith said. "Only a line of guys sitting on milk crates."-'

Via Sploid, Dumping of Homeless Suspected Downtown (Yahoo)