“Police didn’t come for an hour and a half. Ghost Town shows up in five minutes.”
Venice homeowners stopped waiting on the city and hired a private outfit that clears encampments in days and makes them stay cleared. The pitch is a ninety minute police response against a five minute one. That gap is the whole story, because a city that cannot answer the call has already handed the job to whoever will take the money. Nobody being moved along gets a hearing, a shelter bed, or a name in a file.