LOS ANGELES — Echo Park resident Stan Gale was seriously thinking of moving out of L.A.
The 66-year-old chiropractor used to hear screaming and gunfire in the middle of the night on Glendale Boulevard, where a homeless encampment occupied both sides of the street. Thieves broke into his car, ripped out his mailbox and stole packages from his front steps, he said.
Those problems largely disappeared, Gale said, after Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell designated the area as a no-encampment zone.
