On June 6, 2024, the Burbank Police Department brought a severely distressed unhoused individual into the City of Los Angeles and abandoned him in front of the Second Council District office in North Hollywood, a commercial building on Lankershim Blvd. Video recorded from the building itself clearly shows the uniformed officers removing the individual from their car and driving away as the man collapses on the pavement.
While this incident was captured on video, City officials and service providers have provided anecdotal evidence over the years of other jurisdictions transporting unhoused individuals into the City of Los Angeles and abandoning them. In the current fiscal year, the City of Los Angeles dedicated well over a billion dollars to homeless services and housing. The City will never be able to address this problem as long as other jurisdictions shirk their responsibility to provide housing and services for unhoused people and merely drive them across their boundaries into the City of Los Angeles. This practice is inhumane and unacceptable. Homelessness is a regional crisis and the City cannot address it alone. Other jurisdictions must be held accountable for their actions and for their contribution to this crisis.
I THEREFORE MOVE that the City Council request the City Attorney, the District Attorney, and the Attorney General of California to investigate this incident and to take the maximum appropriate legal action against the City of Burbank and the Burbank Police Department.
I FURTHER MOVE that the City Council request the City of Burbank and its Mayor and City Council to respond to this incident and provide the City of Los Angeles with their policies on homelessness, relocation of unhoused individuals, and policy changes that will be made as a result of this incident.