expanding encampment's. this summer he took matters into his own hands and cleared the beach. >> the homeless took over and we started getting inundated with calls, emails, then the video's start popping up on youtube, just the sheer horror, anarchy. i talked to lieutenant, say let's go down there, june 7, how bad could it be and it was as bad as it was promised. >> venice residents like mark are pleased with the progress. >> i credit him for having embarrassed the mayor and having embarrassed the councilmember to the point that they moved up whatever they were going to do here by a year or two. they moved a lot of people, they got them into shelter, assaults dropped down to almost nothing. >> has this scatter the homeless population into the neighborhoods? >> we had two thefts last week on my block. because of this defund the police effort and the loss of these at least 300 officers, the result is we don't have