I guess that’s one way to get rid of squatters. 
What the landlord did was very very very wrong and he should and presumably will go to jail for quite a long time.
That said, it’s also wrong how long people are allowed to steal from landlords. Not paying rent and refusing to move out is no different from stealing food from a grocery store. We can empathize with people who can’t make ends meet but we wouldn’t expect the neighborhood grocer to keep allowing people into the store who repeatedly stole from him. Yet we force landlords to do precisely that. It drives up rents for other poor tenants so the practice is well-intentioned but not particularly beneficial to poor people as a whole.
So it’s certainly not justification for arson and attempted murder, but I can understand the landlord’s frustration.
Some point to this:
But there’s also this to consider: this is LA County - which is the largest county in the U.S.
Doing a quick google:
Given the number of current deputies, and likely retired, it might just be a coincidence.
Please note that the LASD has jurisdiction in about half the cities of LA County – those cities contract with it-- as well as the unincorporated areas, but the larger cities have their own police departments. Like the City of Los Angeles. Long Beach, Burbank, …
However populous the County is, the LASD covers probably 1/3 of it. (Have not done the math.)
“I had to help a paraplegic carry his wheelchair down six flights of stairs while I watched him crawl on his hands and knees to get out of the building,” said Kyle Hayes, a tenant of more than a year, in early October. “I had to assist an arm amputee with his groceries for five flights of stairs. This is unacceptable.”
#datascience #predictiveanalytics
this will help explain the “captcha” tests i find in the next year “identify all of the squares with a BOX OF PRODUCE in them.”
Isn’t that a violation of the First Law?
Asimov’s Laws of Robotics were clearly sales materials written by the marketing department of the robotics company. Meanwhile the programmers were screaming themselves to sleep every night at what the robots might do. (The marketing folks slept just fine.)
After the fact, sure.
He could have been wearing a light brown shirt with the Amazon smile. Honest mistake if you ask me.
Maybe the workers will have to wear tags that identify them as human so the machines avoid them
Like “Hello My Name Is _________”
So it should say
Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya.
My father was not a box
I am not prepared to die.
“Think outside the box . . . like an industrial robot!”
The same happened in Australia -
Consultants (public sector) in commonwealth countries have been getting rather fat off the taxpayer for the last few years.
That seems to be coming to an end now due to a few scandals.
What is disturbing in Canada is that the size of the public service has increased dramatically along with a huge increase in external consultants’ costs. One example: despite large procurement departments, the Federal Government seems to need external consultants to select firms for many projects such as systems projects. The in-house expertise does not seem to exist despite the large numbers of people in the department.
And there are several scandals despite (because of?) all the people involved.