Don’t accept horror of MacArthur Park – Latest News
“That’s just the way it is.” So sang Bruce Hornsby, in his music about homelessness in 1986.
He added: “But don’t you believe them.”
Today, circumstances in LA’s MacArthur Park are a lot worse.
As The Post reported this week, MacArthur Park has turn into a “Zombie Apocalypse.” Homelessness, human filth, and drug abuse — with junkies stooped over within the “fenty fold.”
Local officers look the opposite approach — or, worse, subsidize the horror in a historic public space, spending tens of thousands and thousands of taxpayer {dollars} on teams that give out free crack pipes that keep addicts coming to the park.
We reached out to City Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez close to a dozen instances, each earlier than and after working our report; she by no means responded.
More From Post Editorial Board
The media — and the public — deserve higher accountability than that from our elected officers.
The solely time Mayor Karen Bass appears to care about MacArthur Park is when federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reveals up to arrest gangsters who’ve no business being within the nation.
Bass referred to as these ICE raids within the park “outrageous” and “un-American.”
Get opinions and commentary from our columnists
Subscribe to our every day Post Opinion e-newsletter!
Thanks for signing up!
What’s un-American is accepting circumstances within the park as simply half of life in LA.
Once, MacArthur Park was Westlake Park — a luxurious vacationer vacation spot, as a lot a half of LA’s model as Rodeo Drive.
It was renamed after Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the hero of the Pacific theater in World War II, and later the antihero of the Korean marketing campaign.
In the final many years of the twentieth century, it turned synonymous with crime. But that wasn’t the park’s origin — nor does that should be its destiny.
Americans can’t accept city dystopia because the destiny of our cities — not in LA, and never in New York. Not with the World Cup coming — and never after that.
We deserve higher.
