Los Angeles has become a city where people are becoming angels (or not depending on matters of faith) as the homeless population dies young. Well below average age, and not just from addiction or violence.
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The average age of death for LA’s homeless is the early fifties. The rest of the population is living to 80 years of age.
It was Sunday morning, the middle of Labor Day weekend, three-quarters of the way into a year in which deaths of homeless people in Los Angeles County are on a record-setting pace to top 1,000, according to preliminary numbers from the county coroner.
And there is no geographic vector in the county either.
Bodies are being found in virtually every corner of the county, a grim consequence of the intensifying epidemic of homelessness. In 2012, 407 homeless people died in L.A. County. The number has gone up sharply every year, to last year’s record high of 921.
The LA Times also noted that across the country, in New York City, where the weather is much more hazardous half the year, they reported only one-third the number of homeless deaths as LA in 2018. The reporting suggests the availability of shelters, which Los Angeles seems to lack.
The first 666 deaths of the year included 42 homicides and 27 suicides. Males vastly outnumbered females, 83% to 17%, and the victims included 253 white people, 220 Latinos and 168 African Americans.
It is a sad state of affairs to see so many people in such a circumstance. I wonder if it will occur to anyone that Democrat Socialism might at the root of the problem?
Probably not. Instead, they raise taxes, divert resources to green energy, and whatever else Democrats do. And by all accounts, the homeless numbers will continue to rise and with them more deaths.
| Hot Air
