Los Angeles Poverty Department - Skid Row History Museum Site
Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) creates performances and multidisciplinary artworks that connect the experience of people living in poverty to the social forces that shape their lives and communities. LAPD’s works express the realities, hopes, dreams and rights of people who live and work in L.A.'s Skid Row.
Los Angeles Poverty Department Self Evaluation of Risks:
- As long as the students are reasonable and compassionate individuals will not be a risk to themselves or others.
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Students will be working with populations that are identified as “behaviorally challenged".
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Students will be working with individuals who have a known criminal background or history of violent behavior. Most people in Skid Row have been in county jail for jay-walking, sleeping on the street. Many mentally ill people have been arrested rather than being provided with health care. Thousands of drug users have been arrested as "dealers" rather than given treatment.
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The location is described as a high-crime area. I've been working in the area for 35 years without anything happening to me or my car etc. It might be described as a high crime area by people who would like to annex the real estate and displace the poor people.
Rehearsals are tuesday and thursday from 7 to 9 and Saturday from 2 to 5. The parade is April 21 from 11 to 5pm.