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I was thinking yesterday, the city and county announced new homeless numbers, and supposedly the number of homeless is down

about three and a half percent in the city, four percent in the county, which is very little.

It's still well over 70,000 homeless people out there.

So it's, and that's way higher than it was six years ago, which was way higher than six years before that.

So there's no, there's no success there. If you see any media or public officials celebrating success,

they're full of crap, they're lying. But I did think that perhaps the 3% that matches almost exactly

the number of homeless people who die every year in L.A. County.

So I guess that's why there are fewer homeless people because Karen Bass and the county

board of supervisors let that 3 to 4% die. That's what happens. We're about 3,000 fewer homeless people in the county, and about 3,000 die every year.

Well, there you go.

It's a good way to get rid of the problem.

Just wait until they tip over from a fentanyl overdose and then hold the press conference and say,

look how we're reducing homelessness.

We're allowing them to inject themselves to death.

Yeah, all right, take a bow for that.

And there's so many homeless in Santa Monica, there's so many awful things going on.

John Alley is sometimes it seems like he's the only guy who's fighting it.

He's a businessman with the Santa Monica Coalition.

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