Demographics
What are adults without children?
In the tens of thousands, this is the homeless population in the city of Los Angeles.
What is 40,000?
If person A is stealing an item in a store, and caught in the business, but once they leave with the stolen item, the would be charged with this crime.
What is larceny?
A policy that allows for people arrested for non-violent crimes to be immediately released without having to pay until their court date. Crimes like shoplifting and robbery without the use of a deadly weapon can fall into this category
What is Zero Cash Bail?
In total number of people shot and killed by the police, this ethnic group represents the highest number of people shot and killed.
Who are White People?
What are unaccompanied youth?
In the hundreds of thousands (rounded down), this is the number of homeless people in the United States.
What is 500,000? (550,000)
Due to increasing homelessness and a disproportionate number of African Americans in jail/prison, this District Attorney for the County of Los Angeles won his election in 2020 with the ideas of making a difference for people of color and their interactions with the law.
Who is George Gascon?
Any type of housing that costs less than 30% of a person’s pay pre-tax
What is Affordable Housing?
The Attorney General of the United States wants to remove this type of sentencing policy that requires judges to place heavy punishments on particular crimes, regardless of nuance in the case.
What are Mandatory Minimums?
Men are this percentage of the homeless population.
What is 70%?
The city of Los Angeles has a higher percentage of its population that are homeless than in the country of Los Angeles and that of the entire nation. This is that percentage.
What is 1%?
Because you have a home, this is a crime if you do this but not for a homeless person according the Supreme Court in Jones v. Los Angeles 2006.
What is sleep in public?
The policy of quickly getting homeless people into housing before attempting to deal with any other problem they have. After housing, other policies/services are expected to follow
What is Housing First?
This Attorney General of the United States has made his focus the prosecuting of cartels, drug trafficking, and the increase in fentanyl.
Who is Merrick Garland?
Fourteen percent of all homeless fall under this category.
What are adults with children or familiies?
What is Hispanic?
This policy states that if you have committed a felony, subsequent felonies will receive increasing penalties, with a third being a life sentence.
What is the Three Strikes Policy?
A constitutionally elected position in a county that is responsible for criminal violations within the state and county they reside in
What is a District Attorney?
This type of crime is up by 52% since 2019 in the state of California.
What is gun related homicides?
This ethnic group represents the smallest percentage of all homeless.
What are Asians?
Twenty eight percent of the homeless population is this ethnic group.
What is caucasion?
According to the lecture, since 2019 and measuring up to the current year (2023), this type of crime is lower in California.
What are robberies and/or rape?
A department in the federal government that deals with securing housing for low income individuals in the United States
What is HUD or Housing and Urban Development?
This type of crime is up by 64% in the state of California.
What is aggravated assault?