With the number of homeless in Los Angeles surging 16% in a single year — the total number now surpassing 36,000 in the city and 59,000 in the county — the homeless crisis in Los Angeles is reaching a boiling point. Along with the health threat posed by the proliferation of disease and sickness in the homeless camps, the problem poses an immediate physical threat to citizens, as demonstrated Tuesday afternoon when a 63-year-old woman was violently attacked by a homeless man. The woman is in critical condition.
The attack, which police say appears to have been random, occurred just before 2 p.m. near the 1400 block of N. San Fernando Boulevard, CBS Los Angeles reports. A woman, who reportedly works in an office building nearby, was brutally attacked by a homeless man, who jumped out from behind bushes and began to hit and kick her repeatedly.
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