Tretment of the Homeless by the LAPD This paper will be concerned with the treatment

Mild interactions between police and the homeless often occur at the 24-hour Greyhound Bus Terminal on 6th street in downtown Los Angeles. Many homeless people congregate there, hoping to earn tips by helping travelers carry their luggage. Some of these self-appointed valets are street hustlers or drug addicts. However, many are simply trying to earn a bit of money in order to survive. For this second group of homeless people, police crackdowns in the area are seen as being unfair. In the words of one homeless man: "I come out here to work, to get food. The police harass us, run us off." (Ferrell, 1991, p. B5).

A more extreme interaction between police and homeless occurred in 1990 in Santa Ana, a community to the south of Los Angeles. A police crackdown there resulted in over 60 homeless people being arrested "on charges ranging from jaywalking to littering"

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and camping in local parks, are "annoying" (Leo, 1989, p. 56). However, some homeless panhandlers go beyond being merely annoying when they become too aggressive and thus commit either verbal or physical assault on other people. In the area surrounding the downtown Los Angeles Greyhound Bus Terminal, for example, the police must often intervene "on behalf of bus travelers who did not desire free-lance porter service" (Ferrell, 1991, p. B1). In more extreme cases, unsuspecting travelers at the Greyhound station have found themselves "directed into dark side streets to be robbed or assaulted" (Ferrell, 1991, p. B1). In fact, violent crimes of this nature occur frequently among the homeless populations of Los Angeles. In one case, for example, a group of transients living near a freeway bridge in East Los Angeles had three separate killings occur among them over the course of a year. In the most recent one, a homeless man was killed by his peers in a dispute over a radio (Schwartz, 1990, p. A30). In another case, a mentally disabled woman in the beach community of Santa Monica was raped by a homeless man. This crime was particularly shocking because it occurred near a busy street in the middle of the afternoon (Tobar & Mora
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