Bass and Caruso may be the LA mayoral frontrunners on Tuesday, but they aren’t the only ones on the ballot. Voters can choose from a lawyer, councilman, two businessmen, a Realtor or two acti…
As the June 7 primary draws near, Rick Caruso and Karen Bass have emerged as frontrunners in the Los Angeles mayoral race. But the headlines devoted to the Bass-Caruso battle — and the mega-millions they are pouring into the race — obscure the fact that seven other candidates are vying to become the 43rd mayor of L.A.
Bass has called for a “comprehensive” approach to address homelessness. She aims to house 15,000 people in the first year, appoint a homelessness chief, maximize funding sources and build more temporary housing. Her prescriptions to deal with crime emphasize prevention over “reactive” policies that she says focus too much on the individual wrongdoer.Rick Caruso
Caruso wants to create 30,000 shelter beds in a year, restrict sleeping in public areas and stop new encampments from forming. He would also hire 1,500 more police officers and restore the police budget. To tackle corruption, Caruso says he would appoint an ethics czar.During his campaign, Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin de Leon has pointed to his humble beginnings growing up in a family supported by a single mother, an immigrant who worked as a housekeeper.
He proposes creating a city department that would use federal funds to provide public and mental health services. The department would employ mental health professionals, which as mayor he would assign to each of LAPD’s 21 stations. Craig Greiwe, a business executive, says he wants to use his skills to fix the city’s problems, including his expertise in helping businesses solve their challenges. Before running for office, Greiwe was chief strategy officer at Rogers & Cowan/PMK, a company that merged with a business and marketing firm he founded.
Greiwe believes he could free up 3,000 police officers by solving the homelessness crisis, since officers are called to address issues related to the homeless, and he would create a “peace officer corps.” He said laws need to be enforced, but fairly and without bias, and he would apply a zero tolerance policy to “bad actors” in law enforcement.
In the interview, Jackson said that when he arrived in the U.S. he didn’t expect to find the type of poverty he grew up with in the Philippines. But he saw a family living out of their car in a vacant lot in New Mexico. And in his 20s in L.A., where he worked at a Fortune 500 company near Pershing Square, he saw people living in cars and boxes.
He said he believes every candidate should be required to approach an unhoused person and try to help them for at least a day, “because then, when you do that, you understand and you realize what problems they have … and the solution to this is not easy.” Jackson said that ultimately it’s an “attitude problem.” Few politicians care about the houseless because they don’t vote or pay taxes, he said, “and the only time they’re concerned about it is when they move into our neighborhoods, and we start complaining about it, and that’s why they’re interested in it.”
He says creating jobs will resolve the homelessness crisis, so he plans to create economic promotion zones that would offer small business loans, technical assistance, mentorship and training in entrepreneurship. He says he will work to attract high-tech, biotech and other cutting-edge industries to inner city areas of Los Angeles, and create employment opportunities for youth to steer them away from “anti-social behavior.
He says he would work to remove tent encampments and enforce quality-of-life laws, and would seek to impose enhanced penalties and punishment for crimes against the elderly. Smith said that to solve Los Angeles’s homelessness crisis, the root causes must be addressed. For him, that means creating drug rehab programs, and expanding mental health services and resources to help unhoused youth. He says zoning laws should be reformed, and tenants protected, and housing made more accessible and affordable.
Viola began attending police commission meetings weekly out of a desire to learn what she could do to reduce the number of police killings in Black and Latino communities. She said she saw decisions unfold at the meetings that led to a lack of accountability on the part of police who kill Black and Latino Angelenos, and saw a racist approach to law enforcement that caused some communities to fear the police.
She opposes law enforcement involvement in which police accompany sanitation workers at trash pick-ups at encampments, and in which police oversee laws requiring the homeless to dismantle and move their tents as sanitation workers spray down the ground. She also opposes using police to accompany outreach workers who visit encampments ahead of a planned sweep or major clearing operation, during which the outreach workers try to find places for the homeless to go.
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