GOOD Magazine: Skid Row Part 3: Drugs

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Alongside Skid Row's hustlers, transients, and cops are a lesser known population of children, social servants and religious workers whose daily lives play out on LA's most dangerous city blocks. Watch "On Skid Row," debuting Feb. 18, to get behind the headlines and into the streets of Los Angeles' Skid Row.

Part 3: Two sides of the same coin: Super Dope cop, Commander Andrew Smith from Central Division lays down the law, plus former Skid Row crack dealers, gutter rappers Choc Nitty and Six Reasons from the infamous Snowman Cliq, come correct.

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[chadfitzy]

it seems as though they just want to sweep away the problem insted of actually helping those who have nowhere else to go

[DieDrummer4Life]

we should put you in there and see how long you last, we could make a reality show about it. Skin head in skin row is the name

[aarake6533]

This people grew up in LA Homes...

They Grew up with LA Values...

La Home is out of reach for them...

How can we help them...

Aram Arakelyan

Realty Need Network

House Value Check

[DjBall]

Six Reasons and Choc Nitty making hits now.respect.

[ToastJunkie420]

As long as humans are alive, they will do drugs, and there will ALWAYS be a skid row.

[Colloquium2011]

Don't look down on anybody, unless you're on top of a ladder.

[hardlove524]

this is an awesome story, it's amazing to see some people turn their lives around...

[cortec3000]

Its stupid..if they r near the financial district..the developers shuld just rip all that up and put up shops...they got tha money

[terryshilo]

I appreciate the message and the visuals, I DO NOT LIKE the narrators tone. The approx words from the first video says it all really: We are judged by the treatment we show the poor, ill, abused, children, elderly, etc., well, we certainly can be judged poorly by this video series. If everyone in the US donated the cost of ex: Starbucks, lunch out, pack of gum, etc., one day a week; there could be a change. The majority of people seriously want a hand up, not a hand out.

[misterword1]

6 reasons!

[m14slamfire]

5th and san Julian, I was there for over a year.

[foundintranslation3]

ooo boy lets talk about the 5th precinct.the 5th precinct is on downtown LA on skid row the first place i smoked weed when i got to LA was on the back of the 5th precinct on the wall someone gave me a joint.i have heard stories of people smoking crack in the garage at the fith precincts while the police are looking at them thru the vents joking.skid row is no joke if do decide to go visit make sure you have your Bible and a strong belief in Jesus he is the only one that will help you.