SPENCER PRATT: L.A. ‘Doesn’t Have A Homeless Problem, We Have A Drug Problem.’
Pratt’s plan calls for ending taxpayer-funded distribution of drug paraphernalia, enforcing drug laws without exception, and making use of California’s new expanded civil commitment/conservatorship framework (SB 43) to move homeless addicts into mandatory rehab facilities.
He’s also calling for an end to the pipeline of state and federal resources going to “manage” the homeless population, and ring them in from other states, which he calls “profiteering on the misery of these drug addicts.”
In addition to that, he calls for a crackdown on crime and drug cartels. “Bring in the DEA,” he said. “There’s a new sheriff in town.”
“Some of these folks do need to go to prison,” Pratt said. “The violent offenders, animal abusers, and sex offenders will do time, but many of them simply need to be given a chance to recover. But they only have a chance if we confront their addiction, not just dump them in an apartment and give them a box of needles.”
Yes.
UPDATE (From Ed):
The same people who support endless regulations and strict enforcement for legal businesses somehow have no problem with a tent restaurant opening on a public sidewalk regulation free.
Here’s a short list of why that’s a problem.
1. Health Inspections. When you have a business… pic.twitter.com/fTDvYfa2NX
— Lee Kuan Yimby 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇬 (@billiceberg) May 25, 2026
As Adam Carolla noted last year, “San Francisco’s done this and LA’s done this; once you essentially look the other way for homeless or junkies or illegals or criminals or whatever that is, and you shine a spotlight on taxpayers with over-regulation and over-permitting, trying to manage every grain of your life versus illegals go do whatever you want or homeless, go shoot up wherever you want, or sleep wherever you want then you’ve lost it. LA’s there, San Francisco’s there. Look if you’re not a taxpayer, and you don’t have a checking account, whatever city you’re in they’re not going to be nearly as interested in you, as they are in the people who have a checking account and pay can be compliant. The people who are compliant are paying them. So, it’s like, okay, who do you make money on?”