By Kevin “Kip” Pardue

Here is the general feel of my morning walk.

To reiterate, in the 16 years I have lived in my house and the 20 I have lived in Venice overall, I have never seen anything close to this. Those who tell you Venice “has always been this way,” are being dishonest.

I also know, Councilman Bonin, that you are aware of the hot prowl my family endured just 20 months ago from a transient with no connection to Venice (or Los Angeles).

Also included is an email I received from another concerned parent in our immediate neighborhood.

Please help Venice.

Note: Lee who makes comments gave this link to the story. http://abc7.com/news/naked-man-arrested-after-couple-discovers-him-inside-venice-home/1515050/

I did not see it on Channel 4 but I did see the 7 am news on Channel 11 this morning highlighting to all of Los Angeles an incident in Venice last night showing a transient man naked on TV on the ground doing push ups and high as a kite with police officers pointing guns at him at 2 am on Flower street. He broke into a home naked while people were sleeping and they escaped and the police were called. It was the second home he had broken into this morning. About 3 years ago I saw a similar incident on Riviera near the school and I happened to be biking by. It was on national news and a guy same thing arrested earlier that morning and released broke into a home while a girl was asleep and she ran upstairs and climbed out the roof window and he was on the roof above her chasing her. I still remember the image of her and him above her on the roof it was so crazy. Again, he was all drugged up and could barely walk and I saw the police take him from the roof and arrest him.

Then at 8 am this morning, I was on the boardwalk at the paddle tennis courts and a transient was screaming for about an hour all over the boardwalk high as a kite out of his mind. About 9 am an hour later in the same spot right in front of me another transient starts chasing the crazy guy from an hour earlier and catches him and is wielding a huge iron bar and starts beating him until we all scream and he stops and runs off and I call 911. Apparently the high one stole from the one with the iron rod and he was taking revenge on him on the boardwalk with a huge weapon. It took about 10-15 min and 3 LAPD Cars show up but of course the guys had run away. One reason I called 911 was to get the call booked on record.

With all that we see here and know happens in Venice these people from the city offices never come here or see it. The female moderator last night told us it has been a long time since they have been to Venice from the city relations office and that they need to come here. She was shocked by the issues and told a few of us this after.

Based on this, I think another plan of action is to get the records the Prosecutor was discussing last night from the LAX office and discuss the crime rate related to transient activity and drugs in said proximity to the park. Last night she stated that 90 percent of her Venice calls come from that Westminster area? Did anyone hear that?

Also last night Javier from Parks and Rec said he never sees any problems at these parks or at the Bin and doesn’t seem to see why the school being next to the center is a problem even though in another sentence he mentioned that the homeless rate tends to rank high in drug abuse and mental illness? What do we have to worry about he says? Well, in less than 12 hours since his statement I alone witnessed two insane events both involving drugs and transients in Venice.

Just a thought that this further develops the safety angle.