City Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez needs to take action and fix MacArthur Park \u2014 now. She needs to accept responsibility, and be accountable to the people who elected her in Los Angeles\u2019 Council District 1.<\/p>\n
As The Post has reported<\/a>, MacArthur Park \u201chas erupted into LA\u2019s fentanyl Ground Zero \u2014 a collapsing, chaos-soaked war zone.\u201d There are homeless people everywhere, and crime that spills onto the surrounding streets.<\/p>\n The people of the working-class neighborhood \u2014 residents and business alike \u2014 are suffering the most.<\/p>\n Curiously, Hernandez failed to show up for a local community meeting earlier this month to address the problems in the park.<\/p>\n Residents say that her evasive behavior has become a pattern.<\/p>\n Hernandez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America<\/a>, was first elected in 2022. <\/p>\n Since then, she has done little for the working people of her district \u2014 and her voting record is shocking.<\/p>\n Hernandez voted against two city budgets that would have increased police resources \u2014 even as Council District 1 was swamped by a crime wave.<\/p>\n She also voted against a city ordinance to fight rampant catalytic converter theft \u2014 a crime that cripples cars in driveways, leaving working people stranded in their homes.<\/p>\n Hernandez also voted against a task force that targeted copper wire theft \u2014 and which later turned up more than $10 million of the stolen metal.<\/p>\n She fought against anti-camping laws, the only was that desperate residents have left to keep squatters from occupying the sidewalks or living on the streets in RVs.<\/p>\n And she backed a program to hand out free needles and pipes to drug addicts in the parks, which attracted more junkies and more crime.<\/p>\n The list goes on.<\/p>\n Hernandez even opposed fences around the park \u2014 until she flip-flopped and finally backed a $2.3 million fence.<\/p>\n Hernandez also opposed efforts by her predecessor to clean up MacArthur Park. She led protests inside the park and reportedly urged homeless people to resist efforts to move them.<\/p>\n And the result of her\u00a0inaction is that MacArthur Park is a no-go zone \u2014 a public space that has been taken over by drug users.<\/p>\n The law-abiding, tax-paying residents of Los Angeles have lost their park because politicians like Hernandez have failed them \u2014 and that is not right.<\/p>\n It is our park \u2014 not the pols\u2019, and not the junkies\u2019.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tNeed West Coast news? The California Post is coming soon.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet in early. Sign up for our weekly newsletter before our 2026 launch.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n We have reported repeatedly on this park and its appaling\u00a0state because it matters \u2014 and because it needs to be fixed.<\/p>\n We want to put pressure on politicians like Hernandez to act. That appears to have upset her.<\/p>\n Perhaps\u00a0she is not used to it \u2014 and that is why, in desperation,\u00a0she decided to launch into an expletive-filled rant<\/a> against The Post.<\/p>\n She would not respond to more than a dozen requests for comment but did decide to go on social media to claim our stories about the poor state of the park and her inaction were:\u00a0\u201cfat phobic\u201d.<\/p>\n Her accusation is a pathetic attempt to evade accountability for her own voting record.<\/p>\n Nothing in The Post\u2019s reporting referred to Hernandez\u2019s size or gender, and we note\u00a0Hernandez didn\u2019t point to any mistakes in our reporting. Instead, she just claimed that we are guilty of some kind of obscure prejudice.<\/p>\n Would she say the same to the members of her own district, who are demanding action?<\/p>\n Evidently, the answer is yes.\u00a0<\/p>\n