EDITORIAL INHUMANE AND TRAGIC CITY HALL'S CONTEMPT FOR THE HOMELESS CONTINUES.

THE recent dumping of a homeless patient on Skid Row that was caught on tape was roundly condemned by the city's police and politicians as inhumane and tragic.

Secretly, they were probably relieved. That incident allowed them to look like the good guys as the assault on the city's homeless continues.

Indeed, to hear the many activists who testified before the Police Commission tell it Tuesday, the worst perpetrators of indignities on the city's homeless Skid Row population are the police.

This testimony belies the myth that L.A. politicians are just trying to help the homeless. They want to help the homeless out of Skid Row, that's all, and thereby help their rich developer patrons profit from the yuppification of downtown.

The result, as many Angelenos have witnessed firsthand, is the dispersal of many homeless into other neighborhoods, where there are no services for them.

And that is truly inhumane and tragic.