Rats at the police station, filth on L.A. streets — scenes from the collapse of a city that’s lost control

The good news is that two trash-strewn downtown Los Angeles streets I wrote about last week were cleaned up by city work crews and have been kept that way, as of this writing.

The bad news is that I didn’t have to travel far to find more streets just as badly fouled by filthy mounds of junk and…

Source: Los Angeles Times