Amid Skyrocketing Crime and Homelessness, Los Angeles Creates New Office…Chief Heat Officer – Opinion

Los Angeles is no longer the City of Angels. It has become the City of Anarchy.

By now we’re all familiar with the myriad of issues facing LaLa Land. An overwhelming homeless problem, open-air drug markets, smash-and-grab crime sprees, gas heading towards $8/gallon, skyrocketing housing costs, traffic…the list is long and lousy.

California’s chaos has resulted in so many people moving out of the state that it lost one congressional seat. If the census was taken earlier, California might have lost even two. Many residents are leaving.

With so many pressing and present problems presenting in Los Angeles, local bureaucrats have created yet another new bureaucratic office to help come up with solutions – a Chief Heat Officer…naturally.

Friday’s announcement by city officials was the first of a new office. Marta Segura has been appointed to that position.

Segura will be in charge of “coordinating the city’s response to extreme heat events,” including organizing with various state agencies to form a “heat action plan.”

“Experts” claim the position is necessary to combat maybe, possibly, supposedly rising temperatures to come in the next 30 years.

Experts say it’s needed, predicting that by the middle of the century, L.A. will experience five times more heat waves in a year than now.

FEMA has also identified L.A. County as the nation’s most vulnerable county to heat waves and a number of other natural hazards.

Apparently the position is much different than the one Segura previously occupied – director of the Office of Climate Emergency Mobilization.

Angelenos will feel more secure already. They now have two climate czars. The climate doesn’t stand a chance now!

We could roll our eyes and say, “Only in California!”, but Miami and Phoenix have similar offices.