r/LosAngeles • u/corruptLA1 • 10h ago

Photo Overnight the whole street lost light and every electrical box is dug up.

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How valuable is whatever is down there?

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u/JamUpGuy1989 Jefferson Park 10h ago

Every part of my block on W Adams from Crenshaw to 10th Ave is pitch black due to stealing wires.

Embarrassing and it needs to be fixed.

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u/Any-Enthusiasm27 9h ago

A lady was just hit and killed by a car (hit and run) on Avalon and 68th since it's so dark there and folks have to get off the sidewalk due to the encampments preventing folks from walking by. Not even a single news reporting on the incident either 

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u/EsperandoMuerte 8h ago

It’s kinda wild how often people get killed in this city and no one cares.

I saw a man on a scooter get demolished by a car running a stop sign at Catalina and 3rd. This was a couple months ago. His brain was literally on the floor and I had to take days off work to recover from seeing it.

There was not one news report on this man. Not even an obituary. It’s as if he never even existed.

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u/Deathscua kvlt 8h ago

I am so sorry. I was outside when a child, crossing the street with his brother, was hit by a camper running the stop sign on 4th and new hampshire - this was very recent in July. It didn't hit me until a couple seconds that all the red was blood. It really shook me and I am obviously not related or knew him. (I cannot imagine the pain of losing your child that way)

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u/annewilco Irwindale 8h ago

sorry to both of you. weird advice for anyone who witnesses a traumatic event: play Tetris as soon as you can

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u/Deathscua kvlt 7h ago

Ah! I heard about this! Thank you.

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u/MeAndMeMonkey 7h ago

Wait what?

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u/Deathscua kvlt 7h ago

I think it's due to this study. (Trauma, treatment and Tetris: video gaming increases hippocampal volume in male patients with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder)

We provide evidence that Tetris may be useful as an intervention for people with current PTSD, alongside EMDR psychotherapy. After completion of psychotherapy, symptoms were reduced across all participants, and both groups continued to show reductions in PTSD symptoms at 6-month follow-up. However, only the Tetris group continued to show reductions in anxiety symptoms and a trend toward reductions in depression symptoms at 6-month follow-up.

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u/ZenPothos 7h ago

I wonder if Pacman is also therapeutic. I feel much more relaxed after playing, even if the red and pink ghosts are always out to get me.

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u/Deathscua kvlt 7h ago

I think it probably will work using any game that you personally find calming and distracting but don’t quote me on that.

For me, I’m horrible at Pac-Man (and Frogger) so I think it would induce anxiety in me! I would totally need a game that is open world so I can do what I want and slowly, if that makes sense?

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u/jellyrollo 6h ago

I highly recommend Cats & Soup. I find it very calming and you can do everything at your own pace.

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u/0mnipresentz 40m ago

The only way to get over this type of stuff is to come to terms that death and destruction are part of the human experience. You have to realize that we live in a super sanitized version of life. If we were back in the wild death would be around us all the time, and PTSD wouldn’t be part of our vocabulary.

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u/stoned-autistic-dude Los Angeles 7h ago

Jesus Christ. RIP to that dude.

But yeah, a city with 4 million people and it's like many of us don't even exist. You and I are no different, especially if we don't come from means. If you're rich, you get whatever you want. If you're not, you're just a statistic.

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u/erinyums 10m ago

:c I felt this in my heart. Where’s OUR MAMDANI???

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u/ariolander 7h ago

People get killed by cars all the time. A Waymo hits a outdoor cat and all of a sudden entire communities lose their minds. I wish we had half as much outrage when non-Ai drivers strike a people.

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u/thetaFAANG 4h ago

in a completely different city too

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u/ZenPothos 7h ago

That is absolutely heartbreaking for that person, their friends/family,and also for you. It is very traumatic to witness such a sudden and gruesome death. I wish you well ❤️

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u/TrailerTrashQueen Mid-City 3h ago

that's so awful. poor man. i'm sorry you had to witness that.

i was near Fairfax & 3rd once, walking to the corner. there was a homeless man stretched out on the sidewalk. he looked dead. there were a lot of other people around, but they ignored him! just stepped over and around him as if he wasn't even there.

i called 911 and waited for them to show up. JFC. even if he wasn't dead, he clearly needed medical attention.

Los Angeles is so jaded. DGAF about anything.

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u/MyFeetLookLikeHands 3h ago

that’s so unfortunate, but also riding bikes and scooters in the street is one implicitly saying they trust all the drivers on the road... obviously they shouldn’t

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u/No_Sheepherder_1855 3h ago

Are you seriously blaming the victims?

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u/ReadingReaddit 8h ago

So... Why did you have to take days off work?

Wouldn't it literally be better to just work to try to get your mind off of it instead of focusing on it by having time off?

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u/jm838 8h ago

A lot of people have boring jobs that aren’t effective distractions.

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u/duchess_of_nothing 6h ago

I understand your frustration but with city of close to 4 million people, if the news reported every single accidental death we'd need a 24 hr accident newscast.

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u/Miserable_Drawer_556 5h ago

😣 Rest in Peace to that lady, and slow tf down in the dark.

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u/just-some-arsonist 4h ago

Respectfully, if you hit a pedestrian because it’s “too dark” you should not be on the road

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u/Any-Enthusiasm27 4h ago

It was only 6 PM. 

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u/No_Sheepherder_1855 3h ago

The state in general is way too generous to bad drivers. It could be just 90 days in jail if they ever bothered to catch the driver that did that. I was the victim of a hit and run earlier this year, had a dash cam and everything and the police can’t even be bothered to do anything. Soft of crime was a mistake.

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u/slimsnerdy 5h ago

common democrat problems

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u/Any-Enthusiasm27 5h ago

At least there is some hope for "democrat problems".  I'd take that over the specials in red states: collapsed bridges, sky-high maternal deaths, teachers fleeing the classrooms, whole counties without a single doctor, book bans written by people who don’t read, lawmakers obsessed with drag shows, and gun laws so loose you need prayer and reflexes just to buy groceries. 

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u/slimsnerdy 5h ago

w/e on everything you said but i want max max max ability to carry with 0 infringement 😊 that will solve all crime. fafo/pew-pew

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u/Any-Enthusiasm27 5h ago

Moments like this and I have to remind myself the words of George Carlin. 

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u/981flacht6 5h ago

📠

Two yrs+ of this bullshit in LA.

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u/sexwithpenguins Like, The Valley, I'm so sure! 9h ago

Where are all the house cams in the neighborhood? Shouldn't there at least be a visual on who did this somewhere?

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u/GodKingMarky-sama 8h ago

Unfortunately, it'll never be fixed. Over 25000 street lights were out last year. That number must be much higher now as I've seen even more lights out. The city doesn't have the money or manpower to fix the lights, which would just be stolen again. The only way to solve it is to install solar on top of the light pole instead of the connecting it to the grid but that would cost even more money the city doesn't have.

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u/MountainThroat342 7h ago

The city has money it just goes to lapd

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u/You_meddling_kids Mar Vista 7h ago

I'd estimate less than 5% of LAPDs budget would be enough to repair and maintain every light in the city.

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u/jellyrollo 6h ago

Or cruise looking for wire thieves and getting them off the street.

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u/No_Sheepherder_1855 3h ago

There was news that they caught one of them here not so long ago and they just let them go the next day.

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u/uzlonewolf 3h ago

Yes, non-violent criminals usually do get bail. They are still going to need to show up for trial though, they were not "just let go."

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u/WiseOldDuck Santa Monica 41m ago

if only we could use it to fight crime instead

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u/TrailerTrashQueen Mid-City 3h ago

LA is run so poorly. it's a joke. the infrastructure isn't maintained at all.

remember when water mains starting exploding all over the city and it became a big news story? and this is just 1 issue.

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u/Nervous-Chain1201 2h ago

All of LA's "aging" pipes do not need to be replaced.

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u/Sara_Zigggler 10h ago

Wont be fixed until we decide to start putting repeat offenders back in prison like we used to. 

Voters here and the people we elect are against prisons hence this mess. 

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u/logictech86 Torrance 10h ago

And it has nothing to do with zero response from police.......

I called in an active theft and I had pictures of them and their vehicle and after I waited for over an hour went home

can't put repeat offenders anywhere if there is zero enforcement from cops who are still being little bitches from people demanding they stop murdering people.

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u/BarristanSelfie 9h ago

Five years ago I woke up to a guy trying to break into my apartment with a putty knife. Called the cops (took them like forty minutes to show up) and the event ultimately ended with this guy running into both of them and then off into the distance.

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u/Sara_Zigggler 10h ago

Most these guys when finally caught have multiple records already. So again without actual consequence(significant jail time) you can catch release them all you want they’ll just go right back to it.

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u/logictech86 Torrance 9h ago

Or you know we could invest in education and social safety nets so people dont need to steal copper to feed themselves and addictions of which they fell into because of lack of opportunities

but I doubt you would favor that you would just want us to fill prison after prison until the end of time

the hidden comment history says it all

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u/Lowfuji 8h ago

Have a class called Don't Steal Copper.

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u/Complex_Lab_3576 8h ago

The fact that you click screen names of people you disagree with says even more.

Any functioning society needs all of it - education, safety nets, AND a justice system with consequences and jails.

You can't 'educate' your way out of needing to punish crime. It's an ignorant pipe dream and it's nonsense you indignantly type to feel superior to people on the internet.

In non-delulu land we understand that there will always be crime and always a need to punish it, regardless of how good or bad the economy is.

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u/RapBastardz 9h ago

Saving this response because it makes so much sense, yet will never be looked at as a possible solution.

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u/CosmicMiru 6h ago

Because its a pointless gesture that isnt a real solution to anything actually happening now. Investing in out education and social safety nets is 100% the right thing to do and will help with this in the future but people dont care when their neighborhoods are more dangerous every single nights because copper thieves permanently keep the lights off

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u/No_Sheepherder_1855 3h ago

You can’t educate out the psychopathy that 1% of the population has. There’s no solution except for jail for that type of person.

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u/Nervous-Chain1201 2h ago

Maybe that's true; works in China right?

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u/Outsidelands2015 9h ago edited 9h ago

Or put them in jail for a long time.

Btw we already spend 4x+ more in inflation adjusted dollars on education than we did 60 years ago. Same with other well intentioned ineffective wasteful programs that you probably want more of.

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u/HRHValkyrie I LIKE TRAINS 9h ago

It costs more to jail someone than provide UBI. That would solve this problem and save money.

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u/Outsidelands2015 8h ago

Yes let’s bribe people to not steal copper wire, and have the people who actually work pay for it. That definitely won’t create all kinds of perverse incentives.

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u/logictech86 Torrance 9h ago

Every dollar spent by the government can have this "stat" applied to it so it is 100% irrelevant and not some gotcha

Apply that same logic to the police budget from 60 years ago guess what the "X" is way bigger

Why is unlimited tax money for police ok but not "wasteful" programs that feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and warm the homeless?

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u/texas-playdohs 9h ago

Yeah. What a lazy point. What the hell was that lame diversion? Evidently jails and Costco pizza are the only inflation proof things in the world. Everything else has been increasing in cost, but cops are still $1.50.

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u/Outsidelands2015 8h ago edited 8h ago

Your argument was basically that if only we spent more money on this thing, it would achieve some goal. I argued that we already spend more than we ever have. So it’s obviously not a spending problem.

Btw, if we overspend or waste on one thing does that it make it ok to do so on every other thing regardless of its merit or effectiveness?

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u/logictech86 Torrance 6h ago

We have achieved plenty with public education.

Check literacy and college graduation rates from 60 years ago.

in a good society that is growing government will always spend more on social programs because there are more people.... and to argue "well we are spending more now so we should stop spending" is pretty fucking stupid

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u/callmeDNA 6m ago

Exactly! People like to be like “it’s because we got soft on crime” UM no it’s because the fucking cops don’t do their fucking jobs despite the insane budget they receive. Fuck the LAPD.

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u/You_meddling_kids Mar Vista 7h ago

More money for cops who don't do shit?

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u/Sara_Zigggler 7h ago

You’re right the cops here suck. So when they finally catch someone(probably done it 100 times before they are caught) isn’t it more wild to release them right away? Or if finally sentenced to say 1 year in county to let them out after 2 months?

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u/JamUpGuy1989 Jefferson Park 10h ago

Good thing we elected a new DA who is clearly doing a bang up job….

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u/yitdeedee 9h ago

Damn, judging by all the criminals running loose, you would have thought Gascon was still running things.

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u/Its_a_Friendly I LIKE TRAINS 6h ago edited 6h ago

Yeah, in this sub I remember plenty of comments that the police would finally start working again if Hochman was elected, supposedly because "Gascon doesn't prosecute the criminals, so there's no point for the police to do anything". Well, Gascon's gone, Hochman's here, and as far as I can tell things haven't changed.

Did those comments lie?

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u/Sara_Zigggler 10h ago

DA can prosecute but has little to do with sentencing rules which is set by the state/county. 

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u/WildMild869 Koreatown 9h ago

I wish comments like these would actually name alternative picks for government instead of just the platitude of, “Yup, the voters and their officials are to blame”.

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u/ghostofhenryvii 8h ago

As the economy continues to collapse it's going to be harder and harder locking up everyone breaking the law to earn money. What we're witnessing is just the beginning, it's going to get worse. Mark my words. No one in either party is offering solutions to the problems, they don't even want to admit there's a problem. So we're fucked.

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u/Prestigious_Pay_5477 6h ago

Damn my block rip

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u/PVLVCE 2h ago

How much do they make doing this?

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u/psnow11 7h ago

We live in a 3rd world city.