I used to work at the first building on the right. I used to open up the gates. It's not dangerous really, just drug addicts and homeless people trying to make a living. California is super expensive now so everyone and their momma is on the streets.
@2:51 I just looked up how much an Apartment costs at 600 So. Alvarado street. A 400 SQ FT Studio starts at $1,295. I can't imagine paying that much to live near this Hell Hole. The ad said that it's a great area for biking and walking. By walking they must mean "Street Walking".
This area is horrendous. The first 2min of the alley crawl is just next to the street from a project I worked on (Westlake). We would walk in a group of 5 or 6 of us at 5am. I’ve worked in Compton, watts, blah blah blah. This McArthur park area was the worst. Its like international waters out there while it’s dark.
Govermnet fucking sucks. That shit ain't even worth a dollar. It puts the PS5 and 1000 dollar phones to shame. Hey! This hellhole is 200 dollars more than an actual decent living phone. "Oh this other place? It's the most peaceful place around. That's why I made it 100k dollars so it's harder for you to live in nice places!" We just want you to be homeless that's fine!"
Unfortunately you're striking at the heart of the problem. The rent is too damn high across the country! We are living in an era where billionaires pay little to no taxes while the rest of us live off crumbs. America is becoming a third world country due to long term system corruption. It's shameful that any person in the richest country in the history of the world is homeless, yet we allow thousands of fellow Americans to die in the streets from poverty and lack of healthcare.
1/4 of the money sent to Ukraine could have made a difference... Why do Democrats push so hard to send your money over seas, to fund a war? But hey, marijuana is legal guys, and drugs are decriminalized.. stay contempt, stay hi, zoned out, zombified, and broke. The weather is nice, till it ain't, then the government can fix that too!
@@crystalj.8131 Eh.. Yeah, Koreatown is definitely rough in some spots, but overall I wouldn't say it's a full blown destitute drug den overrun with tent cities and all that lol at least not AS bad as the other places I mentioned
As a Dane living in Copenhagen, I would be scared as shit living there. Once i thought GTA San andreas was wildly exaggerated, Now i see it isn't that far off. LOL
Can you imagine the horror if you rent an apartment or own a business in that mess? Back in the 1950's and 1960's people didn't used to act like this. People actually cared about themselves and others. Really disturbing.
I lived there and it was awesome. I shared a huge loft space for so cheap. You just have to get used to not having a pleasant peaceful walk around the neighborhood lol. Outside of my building I spent most my time in other parts of the city anyway.
what happens when the city expands, you fuck up one neighhood and everyone moves outs and lives else where. when i was in vancouver, i never seen so many homeless people in my life, and this is downtown vancouver with tourism. like freaking 20 blocks of homeless people. tents everywhere
Across the street from MacArthur Park. I don't go anywhere near there once the sun sets. Heck nah. People get stabbed, robbed, even shot at almost every night i get notifications on the Citizen app about something going down.
This is the Westlake/MacArthur Park area in the beginning. It's been like this since the 80s. Just north of downtown and skidrow. There are multiple gangs that war in this area, 18street, MS13, Crazy Riders 13, and Rockwood Street.
@@LUIZBSANTOSLb Am only trying to be sarcastic but in reality the country is nice and so are the people good and bad everywhere but it’s ashamed the country has government that are for themself and not the people then you see this 💩 USA government spends Gazillions abroad to spend in the name of freedom and democracy and when you see this it’s makes me chuckle 🤭 Brazil is an amazing country wish to visit and you have the Best football players and Team well I think the whole of South America is the best in football 🇬🇧✌🏽
@2:51 I just looked up how much an Apartment costs at 600 So. Alvarado street. A 400 SQ FT Studio starts at $1,295. I can't imagine paying that much to live near this Hell Hole. The ad said that it's a great area for biking and walking. By walking they must mean "Street Walking".
That Yoshinoya restaurant is really keeping up the good fight...how could you operate there any longer though? Also tons of streetlights out in your video...place is wild!
as a Michigander Detroit is on a HUGE come up in recent years. When I was a kid going to red wings and lions games I remember it was so dark and trashy all the time. Now the streets are clean people smile as they walk by you and the overall vibes are good! I am so happy for the people of Detroit!
@JohnSmith-nr5tx You don't need to throw random insults in defense, I was just saying how I don't understand why people like to go online and randomly make posts against countries they don't live in. There's not much point to it, is there? Does it enhance your life? I said nothing about you being wrong, nor did I defend the US. Lmao. But sure, a jog would be good. That's a good recommendation for you to do instead of this too 😊
@@Walrus101 That was exactly what I was thinking about people like yourself who have lack of knowledge and speak absolute nonsense.Does it enhance your life? Like I said to earlier if truth is too hard for you to handle maybe platforms like this is not suitable for your kind.
Yeah it stinks really bad there. Even in the nicer parts of downtown lol. I remember the last time I was walking to the last bookstore and it smelled pretty bad
@@MargaritaMagdalenaI promise all the aspiring actors are from out of state 😂 no LA native thinks about becoming an actor or working in that field. All the people I know that work in showbizz are ALL out of state 😂 go figure huh
I'm from san jose but have family in La that i always visit and ever since I was a kid I always had that Strange creepy vibe visiting la, just like you said. Still do to this day, it's like I break my bubble of life when I visit. There's so much going on that it's mentally stimulating
90% of this video is showing the sane 5 square blocks of Skid Row that countless other youtubers have shown adnauseam. It's a tiny fraction of Los Angeles. Lame.
I lived here around Wiltshire and Alvarado back in 2008-2010 and you could barely find trash or graffiti. At night the sidewalks and streets were empty. On the weekends downtown and Skid row were like a ghost town. I remember thinking wow I guess the old Los Angeles is gone forever. Good to see it’s back like I remember it in the 80s and 90s, nice and violent
Homelessness in L.A. is an incredibly complex issue. The lack of accessible mental healthcare plays a significant role. Childhood trauma often leads to substance abuse. There is an influx of people from other states, drawn to L.A., further adding to the homeless population. Then add the high housing costs and inadequate social services... it goes on an on, so complex. At the end of day these are Americans, our brothers and sisters. More important to try to help them than to argue about who did what.
@@likwidshoe I mentioned that, as well as the lack of social programs. In comparison, Portugal's decision to decriminalize personal drug possession and use has benefitted both addicts and society. By shifting from a criminal to a public health approach, Portugal has reduced stigma, increased access to treatment, and lowered overdose rates. Drug use among youth has declined and incarceration rates for drug-related offenses have dropped. The policy has proven cost-effective, redirecting resources from law enforcement to public health initiatives.
That’s pretty much just skid row but bro I love L.A can’t wait to go back..Being from Detroit them damn palm trees and sunny skies make you feel like you on a island some damn where 😂
AGREED THIS IS A VERY VERY SMALL PART OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HE KEEPS DOING CIRCLES AROUND THE SAME BLOCK TRY SIXTH STREET AND CROCKER OR SAN PEDRO IT ARGUABLY GETS WORSE... SKID RIW BEEN THERE FOR MANY DECADES NOTHING NEW HERE
I have visited South America a few times, the streets there are cleaner than LA in this video it's crazy how 4th world LA has become. I tell the locals about how dirty LA is and they do not believe me, I will show them this video now.
@@aSome1I was in São Paulo in 2022 , trust me cracolandia is cleaner than here. I was surprised how clean the streets of São Paulo are compared to Los Angeles
Grew up in front of Belmont High School crazy to see my old neighborhood and Alvarado st in just a mess. The 90s was something else but this is insane. Keep pushing young guns there’s a way out of that hole.
Man this place wasn’t this bad ten years ago, not even close. Bad policies did this. And the lockdown during covid didn’t help. Though I guess that’s also a bad policy
90% of this video is showing the sane 5 square blocks of Skid Row that countless other youtubers have shown adnauseam. It's a tiny fraction of Los Angeles. Lame.
@@usernamesrlamo if he runs for president we will see 1963 happen again, and it didnt end well for JFK did it? im surprised the people of California haven't done it already
That's some pass time you got there. Do you slow down to video at car accidents too? I like how you made sure to follow the screaming woman with her pants pulled down. Was she violated, attacked off to the right of the lens when she first started screaming? Just a part of the show.
I left SoCal in 2011. I cannot believe how bad the streets have become! There is now portable outhouses on the street?? With protection poles around it?? WTF is going on?! Just wow...Looks like the ol' Governor is doing a stand up job!
Back in the early 2000s my mom and I used to love going shopping in downtown LA, the “callejones” as we call them, or the alleys. My mom grew up in east LA and had a really hard life, so back then my mom always taught us to carry cash in different parts of your clothes. Always carry your cross body bag and hold it close. That was back then. Now we donot even go there anymore. I have no interest In going there. Later on I worked for a concert promoter in DTLA in the early 2010s and it was become a shit hole then. My mom used to drive down skid row just to make us see the reality of what drugs and shit could do to you. Now you can’t drive 20 blocks in DTLA without seeing it.
Tbh this place isn't actually that dangerous unless you're a single woman. I'm a white guy and I would walk around here all the time casually in the hours of midnight-4am when I lived around here and was DJing illegal after hours warehouse parties in the area. They mostly either have mental health or drug problems or both. But they aren't usually particularly threatening. Never attempted to rob me or mess with me 3+ years of living there.
So what, this is very rare, and people will think that this is the case throughout America. We have beautiful, clean cities and shouldn’t be judged by a small area
THIS IS JUST WEST OF DTLA WHICH SECTIONS ARE SIMILAR IF NOT WORSE "SKID ROW" HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE FOR DECADES AND THIS IS PART OF IT TRY SIXTH STREET NEAR CROCKER OR SAN PEDRO
This is not only sad, but embarrassing. To think that the land of the free and land of opportunity could turn into this. Could easily resolve it too if we didn't waste so much funds overseas, bring back mental facilities, let citizens arm themselves and give police the cash they need.
rofl. nothing you mention has ANYTHING to do with the problems shown in this video. america got a huge drug problem and a huge problem with mental illness and these problems dont exist since some years, this is the result of ignoring these problems for decades now
That’s McArthur Park. I used to live pretty close to that neighborhood. There wasn’t that much trash. I mean damn. Revisited a year and a half ago. Even Santa Monica had people living under bridges. It’s got a lot worse since I left. Living in a conservative state now. Yep. Still love you LA but not enough to be near you. Dayum!!!
I used to visit my cousins apartment who lived off Alvarado. Back then it was bad, I see now how worse it’s gotten. It used to be a dangerous place to be if you don’t know anyone in the neighborhood, but now goin down there at night you are taking a huge risk. Props to you
Sometimes I wonder what would be the most surprising thing to people that lived in these areas 100 year's ago if they could come back and see it today would it be the changes in technology or would it be how far gone people in our society has become 🤦🏻♂️
I use to leave on s cerrano and mariposa in the 90s we walk the streets of downtown l.a never seen it like that i mean there was some homeless but this is sad😮!!!!!
This video is 100% more intimidating than the last one I saw about a bad place... This one you definitely don't want to be caught strolling down the wrong alley.
I would never drive down that mother fucking alley.
says the WHITE.
Then you see like a random white lady with grocery bags walking through lol I don’t get it
@@b-rare shes had many trains ran so they wont touch her
I used to work at the first building on the right. I used to open up the gates. It's not dangerous really, just drug addicts and homeless people trying to make a living. California is super expensive now so everyone and their momma is on the streets.
@@243Abolerz And as California goes so goes the nation
Your car tires are now hiv positive😂
++++++++++
Just breathing the air will do that to you.
Really original 🙄
says the colonizer
lol
That rat was so big my wife thought it was a rabbit.
I thought it was a dog.
I thought it was Anthony Fauci...
normal sized rat dude.
@@russell_beddyoisken Wrong again there bucko. Those are mostly Marjory Taylor Greens inbred relatives.
This is what you would expect in Biden Venezuela.
@2:51 I just looked up how much an Apartment costs at 600 So. Alvarado street. A 400 SQ FT Studio starts at $1,295. I can't imagine paying that much to live near this Hell Hole. The ad said that it's a great area for biking and walking. By walking they must mean "Street Walking".
This area is horrendous. The first 2min of the alley crawl is just next to the street from a project I worked on (Westlake). We would walk in a group of 5 or 6 of us at 5am. I’ve worked in Compton, watts, blah blah blah. This McArthur park area was the worst. Its like international waters out there while it’s dark.
Govermnet fucking sucks. That shit ain't even worth a dollar. It puts the PS5 and 1000 dollar phones to shame. Hey! This hellhole is 200 dollars more than an actual decent living phone. "Oh this other place? It's the most peaceful place around. That's why I made it 100k dollars so it's harder for you to live in nice places!" We just want you to be homeless that's fine!"
Unfortunately you're striking at the heart of the problem. The rent is too damn high across the country! We are living in an era where billionaires pay little to no taxes while the rest of us live off crumbs. America is becoming a third world country due to long term system corruption. It's shameful that any person in the richest country in the history of the world is homeless, yet we allow thousands of fellow Americans to die in the streets from poverty and lack of healthcare.
@@emmacarlsen2651 rent is high everywhere, but open air drug markets, prostitution and rampant crime aren't.
@emmacarlsen2651 that's not true. People making over 100 million a year are taxed 24-26%.
Worse than any dystopian vision of the future in the films we watched as kids.
Looks like NYC is the 70s, so not that far fetched
This shit look worse then Kensington wtf
Yeah the thing about LA its not just one street, its all of downtown that looks like that.
@@leonardogranic-flores1860 that’s what I noticed it was a lot of blocks like that
It’s like Kensington but without the snow ❄️
No it doesnt😅😅😅😅
@@leonardogranic-flores1860 Factz
DAMN!! The very first turn into the alley and I'm backing outta there!
U make guys look weak. Wuss
@@ka0s-v7i A tough guy, huh
why, they are all high asf. none of them care what you are doing
I heard that
Love it. looks like where the terminator would arrive.
I swear every major city turned into the opening of Robocop 2 in the past 4 years
yup… Robocop and Escape From New York were documentaries, not movies
chicago still the best
Thanks to the democrats
But wait there is more than meets the eyes
Cities are the graveyards of nature--urban dwellers are the executioners.
That's some dark energy.
This shit reminds me of how the zombies get more active in Dying Light during the night time.
Nice quip 😅
Lol
Is it worth playing? I bought the game some time ago for PS5 and have yet to even open it up.
Here the junky Zombies are the common threat
@sakn104 Dying Light is fire gang
So glad we sent millions over seas, god forbid we use it here
So true
Pfft millions? Try fucking billions every year.
1/4 of the money sent to Ukraine could have made a difference... Why do Democrats push so hard to send your money over seas, to fund a war? But hey, marijuana is legal guys, and drugs are decriminalized.. stay contempt, stay hi, zoned out, zombified, and broke. The weather is nice, till it ain't, then the government can fix that too!
It wouldn't do any good. Since the war on pverty in the 60s. The US spent 14 trillion to end poverty and the rate has barely bunched
Billions.
Lock those doors Bro
No civic life.
Westlake, Skid Row, and Hollywood are easily the three most disgusting and grimey parts of LA. I call them the "unholy trinity"
Let's be honest Satan himself wouldn't go there
Don’t forget Koreatown lol
@@crystalj.8131 Eh.. Yeah, Koreatown is definitely rough in some spots, but overall I wouldn't say it's a full blown destitute drug den overrun with tent cities and all that lol at least not AS bad as the other places I mentioned
@@crystalj.8131 you get it!
Skid mean parentsless children on one foreign language.
I can't believe you drove down that alley. You have courage.
And iron balls😊
I went in that alley walking there what I got
what should happen?
As a Dane living in Copenhagen, I would be scared as shit living there. Once i thought GTA San andreas was wildly exaggerated, Now i see it isn't that far off. LOL
A Dane living in a society that is 99% one cultural group. Count yourself very lucky.
Yeah same im in Rural Cornwall UK & i'm just gobsmacked at how bad some areas of the US are! Crazy its like the walking dead or something
I'm from Finland and I agree. This looks really sad. It must be a tough and dangerous life
If Danes and other Scandanavians keep letting immigrants in, your country will look like this.
Just think about these places when you hear Americans brag about being number 1 at something smh
Can you imagine the horror if you rent an apartment or own a business in that mess? Back in the 1950's and 1960's people didn't used to act like this. People actually cared about themselves and others. Really disturbing.
Nuke
I lived there and it was awesome. I shared a huge loft space for so cheap. You just have to get used to not having a pleasant peaceful walk around the neighborhood lol. Outside of my building I spent most my time in other parts of the city anyway.
S**t hole of a place
Drugs and deindustrialization.
what happens when the city expands, you fuck up one neighhood and everyone moves outs and lives else where. when i was in vancouver, i never seen so many homeless people in my life, and this is downtown vancouver with tourism. like freaking 20 blocks of homeless people. tents everywhere
i left los angeles almost 2 years ago and i didnt think it could get any worse than it was then. but i see it did in fact get worse.
Where did you go to? I need a new city to move too lol need ideas
@@TheVanillaaaSky west tennessee
@@TheVanillaaaSkylearn foreign languages and travel abroad! You will have a lot to compare.
Just imagine how many demonic entities are roaming out there 😳😬
Exactly
Yep
Well it is the city of the fallen angels after all.
Can’t wait to visit
That’s what I was thinking
I once passed out lunches during Thanksgiving in that area. It was horrific but the people were very grateful.
Across the street from MacArthur Park. I don't go anywhere near there once the sun sets. Heck nah. People get stabbed, robbed, even shot at almost every night i get notifications on the Citizen app about something going down.
They drained the pond in MacArthur Park for the subway project decades ago. Found over 700 handguns tossed into it over the years.
@@mike89128are you serious…sounds like some Organized Crime shi
Omgggg same. Everyday
This is the Westlake/MacArthur Park area in the beginning. It's been like this since the 80s. Just north of downtown and skidrow.
There are multiple gangs that war in this area, 18street, MS13, Crazy Riders 13, and Rockwood Street.
Everyone there living the American Dream
Here in Brazil some people want to live the American dream. They still believe that the American dream exists.
@@LUIZBSANTOSLb Am only trying to be sarcastic but in reality the country is nice and so are the people good and bad everywhere but it’s ashamed the country has government that are for themself and not the people then you see this 💩 USA government spends Gazillions abroad to spend in the name of freedom and democracy and when you see this it’s makes me chuckle 🤭
Brazil is an amazing country wish to visit and you have the Best football players and Team well I think the whole of South America is the best in football
🇬🇧✌🏽
The American dream is to be homeless and not pay taxes 🎉
I'm sure most, if not all, countries has places like this. We just need to take off the rose tinted lenses when it comes to non third world countries.
@@LayLoow yeah..in the name of freedom and democracy 😂😂😂😂
2:55 that street corner is straight out of GTA 5 lol
or GTA 5 came straight outta that street corner
It is, especially when all the NPCs babble some nonsense when you get near them
I mean, you won't believe where GTA 5 is based off of...
by the way things are, even Trevor would be scary of going there...
@2:51 I just looked up how much an Apartment costs at 600 So. Alvarado street. A 400 SQ FT Studio starts at $1,295. I can't imagine paying that much to live near this Hell Hole. The ad said that it's a great area for biking and walking. By walking they must mean "Street Walking".
That Yoshinoya restaurant is really keeping up the good fight...how could you operate there any longer though? Also tons of streetlights out in your video...place is wild!
The street scum steal the copper wire from the street lights during the day when they are off and scrap it for drug money.
Shit was wild seeing that, and I’m from LA 😂
Well it’s closed now
Asians are tough and don't squirm away from the hoods even. They know how to enterprise anywhere.
People stealing the copper from street light wiring. Crazy
Dude said "yea.. im gonna drive down this sketchy ahhhhh alley"
Them addicts got smart phones in that alley of despair
Heaven and Hell are just a few blocks apart.
Always are.
There's no Heaven or Hell here, just Purgatory and the tormented souls lost within
It’s interesting. There’s been times where I make a wrong turn and end up in the thick of it.
This place makes Chicago and Detroit look better.
as a Michigander Detroit is on a HUGE come up in recent years. When I was a kid going to red wings and lions games I remember it was so dark and trashy all the time. Now the streets are clean people smile as they walk by you and the overall vibes are good! I am so happy for the people of Detroit!
It's interesting how y'all out of state dudes think California is soft and beautiful lmfao 🤣 but it's okay tho
chicago is an amazing city lol
@@Elliesbow keep up the good work !
I know, like they definitely don't do their research, just know what they see from Hollywood movies.@@IsaiahJones-fc7rd
Causing wars around the world but yet they can not look after there own people absolutely terrible.
Is it a hobby to hate on countries? I don't really get it 😅
@@Walrus101 If you can’t handle facts then I suggest you avoid platforms like CZcams.
A good long jog would do you no harm. 😆
You probably got a sketchy hard drive talking about other countries.
@JohnSmith-nr5tx You don't need to throw random insults in defense, I was just saying how I don't understand why people like to go online and randomly make posts against countries they don't live in. There's not much point to it, is there? Does it enhance your life?
I said nothing about you being wrong, nor did I defend the US. Lmao.
But sure, a jog would be good. That's a good recommendation for you to do instead of this too 😊
@@Walrus101 That was exactly what I was thinking about people like yourself who have lack of knowledge and speak absolute nonsense.Does it enhance your life?
Like I said to earlier if truth is too hard for you to handle maybe platforms like this is not suitable for your kind.
0:10 Charlie always catches them rats on camera. 🐀 Lol
Look at that rat go! lol
by the size of it this one could feed a whole tent
Disgusting
@@TheFartSniffer-s4h Felt sorry for the rat having to live in that squalor.
That was 1 of the smaller one's 😅😂
Now I understand why Aunt Viv got so mad at Will for hanging out at Mcarthur Park after dark in Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
Right 🤣🤣🤣
Plus she didn't want will to start slapping people
The stench must be terrible.
Dawg theres always a smell of piss on street level even in downtown
Yeah it stinks really bad there. Even in the nicer parts of downtown lol. I remember the last time I was walking to the last bookstore and it smelled pretty bad
Terrible is an understatement. The scent of "Eau de Tweaker" wafts all through MacArthur Park and Skid Row
I was waiting for Kyle Reese to flop out of a wormhole in that first alley...😂
all actors waiting to get famous 😎
Actors die over here
You mean pilots and academics.
All failed actors that moved here from out of state to pursue their dreams
@@MargaritaMagdalenaI promise all the aspiring actors are from out of state 😂 no LA native thinks about becoming an actor or working in that field. All the people I know that work in showbizz are ALL out of state 😂 go figure huh
doomngloom96Completely false lol I see so many famous actors who come out of la or Cali.
City of Angels.
City of hell angels.
City of demons 🌆
City of the Homeless 😂
Fallen angels
City of Assholes😢😢😢😢
You don’t see a single cop that’s how bad it is
You do at 2:38.
Cops are on edge when it comes to this because there’s so many homeless people. They all don’t give a damn either so they have nothing to lose lol
George Floyd murdered / defund the police / police lay flat / re-fund the police and more / police still lay flat
Cops dont do shit in these area's
They just get paid to drive around
Nothing but disillusionment and despair. So very sad....
LA is a very strange, creepy, place at night!
Not only at night
I'm from san jose but have family in La that i always visit and ever since I was a kid I always had that Strange creepy vibe visiting la, just like you said. Still do to this day, it's like I break my bubble of life when I visit. There's so much going on that it's mentally stimulating
Some areas are definitely places the average person shouldn't be in lol
So are you
90% of this video is showing the sane 5 square blocks of Skid Row that countless other youtubers have shown adnauseam. It's a tiny fraction of Los Angeles. Lame.
Splicers from Bioshock be like:
Underrated comment.
Waiting for a big daddy to come around the corner like….
Newsome must be so proud!!!!
His vision for all of America
@@outlawgordee Sadly, you are 100% right
All that matters for him is the pile of money he goes home to every night
@@veilofmayo1538 You're so right!!
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Sad but true
I love how the first 5 seconds of the video is Charlie turning down a sketchy ass back alley.
I lived here around Wiltshire and Alvarado back in 2008-2010 and you could barely find trash or graffiti. At night the sidewalks and streets were empty. On the weekends downtown and Skid row were like a ghost town. I remember thinking wow I guess the old Los Angeles is gone forever. Good to see it’s back like I remember it in the 80s and 90s, nice and violent
We need to bring back asylums
Mental asylums*
yup. thanks Reagan.
You're headed in that direction with that callus attitude.
No need we already have psychiatric cities.
@@handymatt1970LMFAO. LOL. GREAT ONE…
Reminds me of my months in Somalia
There's a Yoshinoya in the middle of all that😂😂😂
You're a star, keep shining bright!
Homelessness in L.A. is an incredibly complex issue. The lack of accessible mental healthcare plays a significant role. Childhood trauma often leads to substance abuse. There is an influx of people from other states, drawn to L.A., further adding to the homeless population. Then add the high housing costs and inadequate social services... it goes on an on, so complex. At the end of day these are Americans, our brothers and sisters. More important to try to help them than to argue about who did what.
Well said, and true.
It's drugs, dude. It's a tolerant and permissive stance on drugs and crime. That's it.
@@likwidshoe I mentioned that, as well as the lack of social programs.
In comparison, Portugal's decision to decriminalize personal drug possession and use has benefitted both addicts and society. By shifting from a criminal to a public health approach, Portugal has reduced stigma, increased access to treatment, and lowered overdose rates.
Drug use among youth has declined and incarceration rates for drug-related offenses have dropped. The policy has proven cost-effective, redirecting resources from law enforcement to public health initiatives.
Then get out of LA once you realize it's inadequate. And don't tell me there aren't any migrants in there.
thank you for risking your life so we can see how things really are! respect!!
i was screaming "hell nawwwwww..." at that first turn in to the alley.
😅
Lmaoo, same man
That’s pretty much just skid row but bro I love L.A can’t wait to go back..Being from Detroit them damn palm trees and sunny skies make you feel like you on a island some damn where 😂
AGREED
THIS IS A VERY VERY SMALL PART OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
HE KEEPS DOING CIRCLES AROUND THE SAME BLOCK
TRY SIXTH STREET AND CROCKER OR SAN PEDRO IT ARGUABLY GETS WORSE... SKID RIW BEEN THERE FOR MANY DECADES NOTHING NEW HERE
Its getting bigger by the day.
@@bodbn smaller actually, smaller over the past year and a half. That's why he keeps doing circles around the same block. Exact video as his last.
Right this is just downtown and skid row .
@bodbn It did during Covid from 2020-2022, but it's shrinking back into its traditional zone.
Our governments can send money to look after other countries but can’t help it’s own 🤦♂️ 🤦♀️
The money is not the solution.
This is an addiction and culture problem.
Totally agree but money will make this easier to change.
They've got money for drugs
I have visited South America a few times, the streets there are cleaner than LA in this video it's crazy how 4th world LA has become. I tell the locals about how dirty LA is and they do not believe me, I will show them this video now.
Well they most likely went to live in LA.
I'm from Brazil and this video reminds me of a place we call "cracolândia" (crackland) in São Paulo...
lol. do you know how big "L.A." is.
@@aSome1I was in São Paulo in 2022 , trust me cracolandia is cleaner than here. I was surprised how clean the streets of São Paulo are compared to Los Angeles
You say the same thing in every video
Grew up in front of Belmont High School crazy to see my old neighborhood and Alvarado st in just a mess. The 90s was something else but this is insane. Keep pushing young guns there’s a way out of that hole.
Went from violence to biohazard encampments
decaying society
Decayed Society
american society
multicultural society
@@lotharschramm5000 its USA, warmongering country and racist imperialists, no wonder by them
Diversity!
How many miles does that car have on it now??? 🤔🤔🤔
1 million 😂
All of em
Man this place wasn’t this bad ten years ago, not even close. Bad policies did this. And the lockdown during covid didn’t help. Though I guess that’s also a bad policy
This place has been this bad for decades, what?
It was still bad. Macarthur park always been bad.
The night Chicago died , they went to L.A.
lol 😂 damn
What the,,,, Escape from New York!
....escape from LA quavio will soon rule
"Pardon me. I wonder if you can tell me how to get back on the expressway?"
Great work Charlie! This is pathetic. This makes many of our rust belt cities look like Beverly Hills in comparison!
90% of this video is showing the sane 5 square blocks of Skid Row that countless other youtubers have shown adnauseam. It's a tiny fraction of Los Angeles. Lame.
You can see how much America cares for it's own people.
You brave for driving down them alleys. You should do a walk thru of the Cecil Hotel on skid row.
No person should have to live on the streets. This breaks my heart
You have a very unrealistic view of the world.
@@KevinP.-dz6wjlet her have ideals. Better than being soul-dead like you
Thanks Gavin Newsome 😢😢😢
Seriously, if he ever runs for president these scenes will loop in ads 24/7. It would be a landslide against him.
Lol as if
What?
Bro. Skid row has always been skid row. Learn about LA
@@usernamesrlamo if he runs for president we will see 1963 happen again, and it didnt end well for JFK did it? im surprised the people of California haven't done it already
Thats Macarthur Park in LA for anyone wondering
This is just tragic. Complete and utter disregard of the environment.... like bro this your home!
Be careful Charlie when you riding around scary places like that.
That's some pass time you got there. Do you slow down to video at car accidents too? I like how you made sure to follow the screaming woman with her pants pulled down. Was she violated, attacked off to the right of the lens when she first started screaming? Just a part of the show.
I left SoCal in 2011. I cannot believe how bad the streets have become! There is now portable outhouses on the street?? With protection poles around it?? WTF is going on?! Just wow...Looks like the ol' Governor is doing a stand up job!
1:10 fortunately there's still a vacuum cleaner available if needed
Newsome sent it to clean up the streets...🙃
you crazy for goin down that alley
0:12 The rat runs away into the hole
What is happening to America. Canada is the same. The amount of homeless people now is crazy. We need change.
Uggghhhh. 6th and Alvarado. I recognize that place. I used to work at the DPSS a block away.
Thanks a lot joe and gavin. Really good job you did.
You mean thanks Ronald Regan? Read a history book, hill-Billy
@@MorningView4 12 year old's shouldn't be on CZcams.
My brother lived on Alvarado for a few years by McFent park. He's got some crazy stories to say the least
It's Mc Arthur Park not Mc Fent
I grew up around this area.
McArthur park was never the best area but it had its charm.
It’s turned into skid row
Back in the early 2000s my mom and I used to love going shopping in downtown LA, the “callejones” as we call them, or the alleys. My mom grew up in east LA and had a really hard life, so back then my mom always taught us to carry cash in different parts of your clothes. Always carry your cross body bag and hold it close. That was back then. Now we donot even go there anymore. I have no interest In going there. Later on I worked for a concert promoter in DTLA in the early 2010s and it was become a shit hole then. My mom used to drive down skid row just to make us see the reality of what drugs and shit could do to you. Now you can’t drive 20 blocks in DTLA without seeing it.
Not sure if anyone caught this - dude at 1:16 was packing some heat in his right hand.
Scary. Is he guarding something?
around blacks, never relax
He's holding a can.
Charlie is fearless. Curious as to how others many ride with you or are you always solo?
Tbh this place isn't actually that dangerous unless you're a single woman. I'm a white guy and I would walk around here all the time casually in the hours of midnight-4am when I lived around here and was DJing illegal after hours warehouse parties in the area.
They mostly either have mental health or drug problems or both. But they aren't usually particularly threatening. Never attempted to rob me or mess with me 3+ years of living there.
So what, this is very rare, and people will think that this is the case throughout America. We have beautiful, clean cities and shouldn’t be judged by a small area
Man I love these videos, what I chill out too 😎
Haven’t the streets of LA always been weird and scary at night??
Like in robocop movie
The smell keeps you away for areas like this. Now you know why they wear masks so often.
thought I accidently switched to Netflix and an episode of the walking dead...welcome to the city of angels...NO THANK YOU!!!
Where’s mayor Karen Bass?
She was right there in the alley silly.
probably sitting by in a guarded mansion somewhere nearby collecting a check from israel and china like all the other democrats
THIS IS JUST WEST OF DTLA WHICH SECTIONS ARE SIMILAR IF NOT WORSE
"SKID ROW" HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE FOR DECADES AND THIS IS PART OF IT
TRY SIXTH STREET NEAR CROCKER OR SAN PEDRO
This is not only sad, but embarrassing. To think that the land of the free and land of opportunity could turn into this. Could easily resolve it too if we didn't waste so much funds overseas, bring back mental facilities, let citizens arm themselves and give police the cash they need.
300 billion dollars going to Ukraine to destroy 2 nations while internally the US is in complete decline.
rofl. nothing you mention has ANYTHING to do with the problems shown in this video. america got a huge drug problem and a huge problem with mental illness and these problems dont exist since some years, this is the result of ignoring these problems for decades now
We're being attacked from within.
Problem is, your rich and mighty dont want it. Their investments are more profitable if the US carries on with wars etc
PROPAGANDA STATEMENT... DTLA HAS BEEN LIKE THIS SINCE AT LEAST THE 1980s. ALWAYS LOOKED LIKE THIS ITS A SMALL PART OF CALIFORNIA
That’s McArthur Park. I used to live pretty close to that neighborhood. There wasn’t that much trash. I mean damn.
Revisited a year and a half ago. Even Santa Monica had people living under bridges. It’s got a lot worse since I left.
Living in a conservative state now. Yep.
Still love you LA but not enough to be near you. Dayum!!!
I used to visit my cousins apartment who lived off Alvarado. Back then it was bad, I see now how worse it’s gotten. It used to be a dangerous place to be if you don’t know anyone in the neighborhood, but now goin down there at night you are taking a huge risk. Props to you
This makes Kensington look like a suburb 😂😂😂
Charlie 👍💪💪💪 you sure get around bro. Thanks for the vids
Sometimes I wonder what would be the most surprising thing to people that lived in these areas 100 year's ago if they could come back and see it today would it be the changes in technology or would it be how far gone people in our society has become 🤦🏻♂️
Damn this is sad. I grew up I this area and there were always sketchy people and crackheads back in the day but now it’s worse.
Are you driving in a tank?
I use to leave on s cerrano and mariposa in the 90s we walk the streets of downtown l.a never seen it like that i mean there was some homeless but this is sad😮!!!!!
This video is 100% more intimidating than the last one I saw about a bad place... This one you definitely don't want to be caught strolling down the wrong alley.
I drove through downtown yesterday, and thieves are stealing all the copper from the light poles it's a shame
Look at the rats, they're bigger than a cat. What are the cats going to do? Run!😂
the local street cats are in shambles 🤣
The cats are busy getting high.