Downtown's rat problem was exposed last week by NBC News' Los Angeles affiliate, KNBC, which documented piles of uncollected trash around … by Oren Peleg in News on January 22, 2017 12:00 AM. Los Angeles's Rat And Roach Problem Ranked Nationally . Rotting Trash Piles Sky-High in LA, Attracting Rats and Raising Concerns of a New Epidemic After reporting LA's most notorious trash pile to the city's 311 services hotline, the I … Tweet. When state officials inspected the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Division station last November, they uncovered rodent infestations and … Los Angeles’ rodent problem has gotten so far out of control that some experts are asking the governor to declare an emergency.
New York boasts better pizza and higher-brow culture than Los Angeles. And then there were the rat droppings spotted on at least two different floors of the downtown building. But when it comes to which city has the bigger rat population, L.A. can claim bragging rights. Rats becoming a problem in New Orleans as people empty restaurants, streets WWL-TV New Orleans 2:46 Why It’s Important to Be Mindful of What’s In Your Video Conference Background Homelessness and trash are a growing problem for residents in Los Angeles and as the garbage piles up, so do the rats, fueling concerns about flea … The good news is that two trash-strewn downtown Los Angeles streets I wrote about last week were cleaned up by city work crews and have been kept that way, as of this writing.