The city of Los Angeles no longer has to deploy police officers to guard the abandoned Oceanwide Plaza buildings from graffiti taggers and other trespassers thanks to a new law that allows the city to hire private security guards to watch over the defaced skyscrapers. The Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Tuesday that allows it to "provide private security to secure properties" that are abandoned, a law intended to address the plight of the abandoned complex in the heart... Read this story
