White Boy/White Dog Move To Skid Row

Certified Beach Dude Moves To Downtown Los Angeles

Officer, I was thinking, I have a lot of kind of “generic” questions about life as a LAPD Officer, especially one working Central Division/Skid Row. And I’ll bet some of the other downtown readers have questions too- maybe I’ll need to do a little “moderating” but I think everyone could ask decent questions w/o [...]

If you’ve read my blog for any amount of time, you know I get annoyed with the street closures and “take overs” of City Hall grassy areas by marches for (insert country name here) Independance Days, or Stop The War marches, etc. But I just heard of a march that’s coming in a couple [...]

I really don’t know what’s wrong with me the last few days- I have been in a very bad mood, as any of you who read my posts and comments can probably sense.
When I was walking Isis tonite, some kind of big, crazy looking Hispanic tattoed-up guy got in my face- I assume [...]

I don’t know what I ate that did not agree with me, but I had worst case of food poisoning I think I’ve ever had. I will not name names as I’m not sure, but lets just say there is one less sushi place I’m going to frequent.
I woke up Sunday a.m. at about [...]

This has happened a number of times in my building- dumb a** punks scribble crap with knives on the inside of the (stainless steel) doors of our elevators. Ok, I’m used to graffeti- and some is actually cool, as long as it is not defacing private property.
But what gets me pissed is the thought [...]

I saw this post a couple of days ago over at Joe’s blog- Big City POZ, and it was shocking, as I live about 2 blocks from where this assault happened.  But the more I thought about it, the more it made me remember all the violence, towards both men and women, in the peaceful [...]

I heard there was a homicide at the downtown club “Crash Mansion” on last Friday.  Didn’t really surprise me as shootings happen frequently at clubs in Hollywood.  Then I read the story in the Los Angeles Downtown News.  One thing that stood out was that the guy that was killed was only 19 (it turns [...]