Unlike images pieced together by some media outlets, the vast majority of communities throughout Los Angeles County are not experiencing any sort of unrest. As for those communities experiencing anti-ICE protests, these are mostly peaceful and the county's more than 22,000 local police officers are fully capable of handling unlawful actions. No unrest within Los Angeles County rises anywhere close to what happened during the 1992 riots and certainly not the level of mob violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
There is absolutely no need for National Guard or federal military intervention in Los Angeles County.
There are currently about 4 million people in Los Angeles County eligible for Medi-CAL - the government's health insurance program for persons meeting a low-income threshold (known as Medicaid in other states). The number of eligible persons constitutes more than a third of the county's entire population. About a third of eligible persons are under the age of 19 and another third are between age 18 and 45. A bit more than 400,000 eligible persons are older than 64.
Currently, the U.S. Senate is considering the "Big Beautiful Bill," recently passed exclusively by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives by only one vote, that contains deep cuts to health care coverage for low-income persons. Should Republican Senators accept the bill in its present form (no Democrat Senator has voiced any support), an estimated 500,000 Angelenos face losing Medi-CAL coverage and another 150,000-plus face losing coverage under the Affordable Health Care Act. Except for one, every member of the House of Representatives who represented any portion of Los Angeles County voted against this bill. Republican Congressman Jay Obernolte, representing the 23rd Congressional District (including the northeast corner of Los Angeles County) voted in support of the "Big Beautiful Bill." Within Obernolte's district alone, an estimated 45,000 low-income residents face losing their health care coverage.
Photo from the California Historical Collection at USC Library.
1897. First motor vehicle driven on Los Angeles streets, driven by inventor J. Philip Erie with passenger William H. Workman. It was first driven in public very early in the morning so that it might not spook horses along the way.
How has Los Angeles gotten warmer over the last century? How warm might we expect to be by 2050?
