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I'm a freelance journalist in Los Angeles.
I'm a freelance journalist in Los Angeles.
Street vendors have faced a long history of persecution in LA and elsewhere. Consider these reporting steps to find out how your city handles street vending.
But as California moves to decriminalize street vending, many wonder if aggressive policing will stop.
As they battle the double threat of attack and criminalization, street vendors report chronic stress and trauma.
Street vendors face a perilous reality, eduring attacks and robberies on the one hand, and fines, arrest and confiscation of their goods by law enforcement on the other.