This is a series of L A Weekly cover stories I did on Skid Row in Los Angeles. I moved to a loft downtown so I was in the thick of it. I still go down all the time.

DYING TO GET OFF SKID ROW

Downtown can be a last chance… or the last stop

By SAM SLOVICK

INSIDE THE BOX WITH THE SUPER DOPE COPS

Hustlers, gangsters, addicts and narcos are all trying to get their chippy on where it’s always Mardi Gras on crack

By SAM SLOVICK

COMING OF AGE IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS

The kids of Skid Row

By SAM SLOVICK

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL:

CRIME STATS SAY L.A.’S STREETS ARE SAFER THAN EVER, SO WHY ARE GANG HOODS STILL SO BLOODY?

By SAM SLOVICK