Rats at the police station, filth on L.A. streets - scenes from the collapse of a city that's lost control The good news is that two trash-strewn downtown Los Angeles streets I wrote about last week were cleaned up by city work crews and have been kept that way, as of this writing. The bad news is that I didn’t have to travel far to find more streets just as badly fouled by filthy mounds of junk and stinking, rotting food. https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-skid-row-rats-trash-20190601-story.html