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Surprise homeless sweeps aren’t just disruptive, say activists—they aren’t working

David Busch has lived in Venice Beach on and off since the 1980s. He started out with a $350 monthly rental on the boardwalk and continues to live nearby. Only now, he sleeps in a tent and must contend with the city’s periodic sweeps of homeless encampments.

“They chase you from spot to spot to spot,” says Busch, 63. “They make you move your stuff constantly.”

A former bus mechanic, Busch says during sweeps he’s seen police confiscate items homeless people depend, from sleeping bags to bicycles. That’s why he supports “Services Not Sweeps,” a campaign launched this month by a coalition of local groups, including the Los Angeles Community Action Network, Democratic Socialists of America, and Venice Community Housing.

The campaign is calling on Mayor Eric Garcetti to post notifications of all sweeps two to three days in advance rather than randomly and to use outreach workers during the process instead of police officers. Organizers also want the city to provide waste bins and sharps disposal containers during sweeps as well as other health resources.

They say the concerns they’ve raised about sweeps stem from the mayor’s “Clean Streets LA” initiative, a citywide cleanup effort he launched in 2015.

“The main problem is that homeless residents, for a long time, have been asking for street services and just some general care,” says Becky Dennison, a campaign spokesperson and executive director of Venice Community Housing. “Once the city finally invested the resources, it’s all about policing and moving people and taking their things. It’s using street cleaning as a means of harassment and criminalization, when we could be improving the health and safety of people who live on the streets—and the entire community.”

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Venice has the the largest concentration of homeless residents on the Westside, with nearly 1,000 residents. More than 85 percent of those residents live outside of shelters and on streets and sidewalks, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.

The neighborhood stands out as one where tensions between the wealthy and the homeless have intensified. The Venice Stakeholders Association, a group of property owners, has raised more than $200,000 to fight the city’s plans for an emergency shelter on a former bus yard owned by Metro at Sunset and Pacific avenues.

Venice property owners have raised more than $200,000 to fight the city’s plans for an emergency shelter in the neighborhood.

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Alex Comisar, a spokesperson for Garcetti, says the mayor’s office has already discussed many of the issues outlined by the Services Not Sweeps campaign with “stakeholders.” He declined to say whether city officials have agreed to implement any of the organizer’s demands and, if so, which ones.

“We will keep working together toward the goal of ensuring that our policies keep streets clean and sidewalks passable, while protecting the rights of all Angelenos,” Comisar says.

Elena Stern, Department of Public Works spokesperson, disputes how the campaign has characterized sanitation cleanups. She objects to the terms “sweeps” and says that comprehensive cleanups of homeless encampments are legally required to be scheduled at least 24 to 48 hours in advance to allow enough time for residents of these settlements to remove their belongings.

“Any personal property remaining on the day of the cleaning is bagged, tagged, and stored,” she says. “Trash is removed and hazardous materials (such as weapons, needles and human waste) are disposed of. The sidewalks are then power washed.”

Not all sweeps, however, are required to be scheduled in advance. The campaign is specifically targeting Garcetti’s “Clean Streets LA” sweeps, which organizers allege sometimes take place with little or no lead time. They also say that notices aren’t always posted in areas where the homeless can easily spot them. Sometimes they’re posted right before a sweep, Parriott says.

The city conducts three types of sweeps: Clean Streets LA, Operation Healthy Streets, and the Homeless Outreach Proactive Engagement (HOPE) program. “These are not comprehensive cleanings and usually entail the removal of trash, hazardous material and/or bulky items and almost always involve situations where sidewalks are completely blocked and out of compliance with the ADA,” Stern says, referring to the HOPE cleanings. The HOPE program doesn’t require advanced notice, but the campaign is focused on Clean Streets LA.

A remark Garcetti made during his state of the city address earlier this month has rankled some Services Not Sweeps advocates. The mayor suggested that “lawsuits focused more on keeping people’s stuff on the streets than how quickly we can move them indoors” has slowed down the city’s efforts to curb homelessness.

Pete White, founder and executive director of the Los Angeles Community Action Network, called the mayor’s comment a “political cheap shot.”

“No one in the coalition or no one doing this work is opposed to street cleaning,” he says. Rather, they want the unhoused population to have “water, soap, hygiene products, and all of the things necessary while forced to live in informal setups.”

White says he’s not opposed to sweeps as long as they’re done effectively, but asserted the way the operations are handled now serve to banish homeless people from politically influential communities.

“The department of sanitation and the police department don’t get to selectively choose what a person can and cannot have to live on the streets,” he says. “The city of LA has been sued time and time again from the ’80s on for that.”

In March, the Los Angeles City Council settled a 2016 lawsuit, Mitchell vs. city of Los Angeles, that accused police of seizing and destroying the property of four homeless people. Their belongings included blankets, tents, and medication.

Some business leaders criticized the city’s decision to settle the case, citing health concerns, such as a typhus outbreak in Downtown. But White and other Services Not Sweeps organizers argue that very little cleaning takes place during sweeps of homeless encampments.

“Often, they won’t power wash,” says Jed Parriott, a campaign organizer. “They’ll say, ‘We’re here to do a clean up,’ but they’ll leave urine and feces behind on the sidewalk.” Piles of trash have also been found after sweeps, he says.

More than 85 percent of Venice’s homeless residents live outside of shelters and on streets and sidewalks, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.

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Sweeps are used to push out the homeless—albeit briefly, Parriott says. City workers clear the area out, only for them to return a short while later. In Venice, however, homeless residents simply resettle at a different location after a sweep, according to Busch. Then, the police turn up there and clear them out of the newly formed encampments.

“The constant sweeping has had a tremendous effect,” Busch said. “It’s sending us the message that, ‘If you come to Venice, we’ll chase you out.’ It’s a battle for the right of poor people to have access to the coast.”

He has coined the process the “LAPD shuffle,” though sometimes he solely encounters sanitation workers who haphazardly discard homeless people’s belongings during sweeps, he says. That presents a problem, because while he knows how to file a complaint with law enforcement when such incidents happen, the sanitation department doesn’t have a similar accountability system.

“With LAPD, at least, we could go to the police commission and raise holy hell, but with the sanitation department, we’ve been cut off entirely,” he says. “They don’t have public hearings.”

Stern says the public works departments, which oversees sanitation, has a five-member board that holds public hearings 10 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Unplanned sweeps are not only disruptive, says Dennis Culhane, a professor of social policy at the University of Pennsylvania, they can also have more serious consequences for homeless residents, especially if they’re fined or arrested.

“It can set people back, and make it more difficult for them to work their way out of homelessness,” he said. “It could be counterproductive. The guidance is very clear that there should be 72 hours notices before street cleaning. It’s an adequate amount of time for people to throw their things away. It’s a very clear moral voice.”

Gary Painter, a University of Southern California public policy professor, called the sweeps a human rights issue.

“We need to be able to do more,” he says. “There’s no research that the tactics described improve housing outcomes for people who are homeless or improves safety in neighborhoods. We need more productive solutions.”

The ideal sweep would include a multidisciplinary outreach team with mental healthcare personnel and workers with the resources to actually clean, Dennison says.

She would also like to see portable showers and bathrooms during sweeps and for these procedures to be highly publicized ahead of time. Just as the housed population knows which days of the week to expect their yard waste, garbage, or recycling to be collected, their unhoused counterparts should have a schedule to follow for street sweeps, Dennison says.

“Obviously, it works better when people know what to expect and are cleaning up and preparing themselves,” she says. “Surprise sweeps are always the worst. They’re really disruptive, and people aren’t treated fairly.”

Busch says that last week he saw a notice in Venice announcing that a sweep would take place in three days. Seeing the announcement gave him the chance to help his neighbors collect their belongings, but he said he very rarely sees such alerts posted.

Busch says it would also be helpful to give the unhoused population storage space for their belongings. In 2016, Venice planned to allow homeless people to use a senior center for storage, but a community group blocked the plan.

Busch still resents the decision and that Venice has become unlivable for not only the homeless population but for middle-class professionals such as teachers and police officers too.

He wants the community to focus on solutions to the housing crisis rather than thwarting such efforts. That some Angelenos would rather drive out homeless people than stand up for their rights upsets him.

“I can’t say what I want to say,” he says. “So, I’ll say we’re outraged and disgusted.”

Source: https://la.curbed.com/2019/4/25/18516026/homeless-sweeps-encampments-clean-streets

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#Top_10_Programming_Language_and_their_Inventors!!

1) Java - James Gosling

Java is one of the most popular and successful programming language. Dr. James Arthur Gosling is invented Java and best known as the father of the Java programming language. Java was developed and supported earlier by Sun Microsystem and now by Oracle, after their acquisition of Sun Microsystem on January 2010. Java is created with mission WORA, "Write Once Run Anywhere" and platform independence of Java is one of the pillar of it's success in the enterprise world. Till date, it is one of the most popular application programming language.

2) C - Dennis Ritchie

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie, An American computer scientist, created the C programming language between 1967 and 1973 at AT&T Bell Labs. C is still very popular and used extensively in System programming. It's older than Java but still maintains it's stronghold. By the way, Dennis Ritchie has also created world-famous UNIX operating system, with his long-time colleague Ken Thompson. If you compare his popularity with Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, he is no where but if you compare Dennis' contribution to the software world, he has no matching. Every Programmer must know about Dennis Ritchie and his contribution to the programming world.

3) C++ - Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup; born 30 December 1950 in Aarhus, Denmark is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and the development of the widely-used C++ programming language. C++, as name suggested is the next generation language at time C was popular. It comes with object-oriented programming feature which was considered phenomenal compared to the structural way of C programming. C++ is still one of the very popular languages and used extensively in the high-frequency trading world because of its close proximity to native System and popular object-oriented feature.

4) Python - Guido van Rossum

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language, whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Its syntax is said to be clear and expressive.Python is designed by Guido van Rossum of CWI. In United States, Python has actually replaced Java at the academic level, nowadays students are started learning to programme using Python instead of C or Java, as was the case of the previous generation. If you are still not sure whether to use Python or Java to start with programming, this infographic may help you. Python is used extensively in web application development, there are lots of python based web framework out there, software development and information security. Python is also used extensively by tech giants like Google, Yahoo and Spotify.

5) PHP - Rasmus Lerdorf

No matter how much you hate PHP, you just can't ignore the fact that half of the internet is running on this wonderful internet language. PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. The main implementation of PHP is now produced by The PHP Group and serves as the formal reference to the PHP language. That time, PHP was a competitor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) server-side script engine and similar languages e.g. Java Server Pages (JSP), but gradually received better acceptance and is now installed on more than 20 million Web sites and 1 million Web servers. It is also open source and used by internet giants like Facebook, Wikipedia, Wordpress and Joomla. PHP is used extensively to to build dynamic web pages and server-side development. Sorry, I forgot to tell you the full form of PHP, any guess? Its Personal Home Page :)

6) Perl - Larry Wall

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. designed and developed by Larry Wall in the mid-1980's. Perl rose to fame because of its excellent text processing capability. It is still main language to develop reports, scripts on UNIX systems. Perl is known for parsing and processing large text files and its used in CGI, database applications, network programming and graphics programming. Perl is also used extensively by internet companies like IMDB, Amazon, and Priceline. For Java developers, adding Perl or Python in their portfolio is a good addition because you often need a scripting language to do ad-hoc tasks for maintenance and support purpose.

7) JavaScript - Brendan Eich

If you ask me, which language is the winner in last 5 to 10 years, I would say JavaScript. It has clearly dominated the client side scripting space in recent past with libraries like jQuery and now moving to Server side development with libraries like node.js. JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions, designed by Brendan Eich and developed by Netscape Communications Corporation. JavaScript is used extensively for client-side scripting, validation, animation, event capturing, form submission and other common tasks. It runs inside the browser and used by almost all websites e.g. Gmail, Mozilla Firefox etc.

8) Ruby - Yukihiro Matsumoto

Ruby was first designed and developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan. Its fun working with Ruby and if you tried Ruby with Rails you know what I mean. Ruby is influenced by Perl, Ada, Lisp and Smalltalk and designed for productive and enjoyable programming. Ruby is mostly used for web application development and used by major sites like Twitter, Hulu and Groupon.

9) Lisp - John McCarthy

John McCarthy , second oldest high level programming language. Lisp stands for List Processor. I have never tried Lisp but its said to be father of functional programming language e.g. Haskell, Erlang or Scala. It is used for AL development and air defense system.

10) Pascal - Niklaus Wirth

Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968–1969 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.

and here is the infographic, which gives you a nice overview of 10 programming language and their creators. It contains some of the language mentioned here, plus some additional language like FORTRAN and Ada.