Three Los Angeles Stories.

Love Thy Neighbor - Not.

A 90-year-old man who considers himself his brother’s keeper is facing a fine of $500 and up to 60 days in jail for feeding the homeless. That’s right! Feeding the homeless.

A new law bans people from meal-sharing with the needy in public. Police officers arrested Arnold Abbott, 90 years old, while he was handing out meals to homeless people in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida park on a Sunday afternoon. Mr Abbott said: “One of the police officers came over and said, ‘Drop that plate right now,’ as if I was carrying a weapon. These are the poorest of the poor, they have nothing, they don’t have a roof over their heads. How do you turn them away?” The new law goes into effect in Los Angeles, Seattle, Dallas, Phoenix and Philadelphia soon. You can probably still feed the pigeons though.

Criminal-Friendly Jails.

13,500 criminals a month in California only need to serve micro-sentences or minutes of their time due to our over-crowded jails.

Former state Sen. Roderick Wright was convicted of eight felony counts of election fraud and perjury because he didn’t actually live in the district he was elected to represent. He was sentenced to 90 days in L.A. County jail. He surrendered to do his time at 9:30 pm on a recent Friday night and was released at 10:41 pm, having served 71 minutes or .054 percent of his sentence. LA County jails are now considered criminal-friendly (talk about a great slogan). So, if you do the crime you might not necessarily do the time.

LAUSD – Computer Problems.

Los Angeles Unified’s disastrous new computer software, MiSiS, has forced the new superintendent to institute a hiring freeze. School campuses have been allocated an additional $10 million to help defray the cost of problems caused by MiSiS. Superintendent Ramon Cortines said the costs of paying overtime to educators in an effort to set straight transcripts, class schedules and other problems along with hiring temporary staff to help, caused him to institute the freeze. “I’m not sure what the bill is going to be for fixing MiSiS, for the information system,” Cortines said. The problems were apparently created during the tenure of John Deasy. The price tag for the district’s all-purpose general fund is still being calculated as a $300-million deficit. No comments have been made as to why the faulty and expensive software was not simply returned and corrected by its manufacturer. Consumers do that as a matter of routine. If you bought an Apple iPhone 6 and it didn’t work, wouldn’t you send it back to be repaired, replaced or have your money refunded?