Homeless Encampment Cleanup: Weekly Operation Targets Ozone Avenue in Venice Beach

Venice Beach saw a multi-agency cleanup operation on Thursday, January 2, 2025, as part of the City of Los Angeles’ ongoing efforts to maintain public safety and sanitation.

A task force comprised of Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers, City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works sanitation crews, and Clean Harbors Environmental Inc. specialists carried out the initiative on Ozone Avenue. Workers, equipped with protective gear, carefully removed hazardous and non-hazardous waste to ensure a clean and accessible environment for residents and visitors.

LAPD officers were present to provide security and ensure compliance, creating a safe working environment for sanitation teams.

The weekly operation, scheduled every Thursday, underscores the city’s commitment to prioritizing public safety and cleanliness in Venice Beach, benefiting the local community and visitors alike.
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[Meofcourse]

Someone please help that beautiful dog! He needs good food and water and a nice warm bed to sleep on, and a roof over his head. He also needs a good vet to give him checkups with a wormer pill. And a nice family to take good care of him and most important ... Love!

[garyrowan]

WOW ! A new class below the shopping cart cadre, the Drag Cloth Commando.

[YourUncleMorty]

I would install a sprinkler system that automatically comes on twice a day. I think that might just do the trick.

[henrythomas]

I now know why the wheel was invented !

[DerekWill-pb]

That guy is moving his stuff where they are doing the clean-up tomorrow. Poor planning on his part. He gets to move it all again.

[garymay]

I sure wouldn’t want to live there with them camping out under my bedroom windows

[ashlingofAsh]

Idk...give out folding four wheel carts, small one person low tent, sleeping bag, pillow, rain poncho and a gal container for water. No course govt won't help and "enable" homeless. This is more mental illness right here, as per always. "Let me carry any and everything I see laying around. Like a pack rat." perfect agenda at play to lessen population

[jpcworley]

The problem is that here in America people are taught that you need lots of things to be a person. When I was homeless all I needed was a backpack and a sleeping bag.

[AriesArtist]

It's like a black hole never ending

[Bofadeezhere]

I moved away from there fifteen years ago but I could still smell them

[elliotmann]

You would think these people would get the message that they're just not wanted in this area. But .... apparently they don't get it.

[victorc]

It does not feel like a early January to me in so called so cal it feels like more like a mid June

[victorc]

You guys gotta do a better job at preventing this before the tent lands on the sidewalk you guys are slow

[Rudolph-fy]

As soon as they leavethey can go right back...😂😂😂😂😂😂..living with millionaires for free😂😂😂

[davechristian]

How sad n notice there all elderly man n i bet not one gets unemployment benefits n then they wonder why there homeless

[donnaosuch]

These people need shelter 😒 Every shopping cart should be taken away from them.