Karen Bass really said she feels safe at a 10 knowing crime and homicide has gone up 50%. Just wow.

Caruso….we need new people who are not responsible for the current issues. The people in charge led us to today….

Karen Bass aka "The Patron Saint of Homelessness" - Hard pass. I'm voting for Rick.

I've lived in Los Angeles for decades. Unfortunately, career politicians have done nothing for the city. The only person on the stage that offered to hold himself accountable and wasn't a career politician is Caruso. He also held off attacks the whole debate with a sense of humor while Karen, the presumed frontrunner and career politician, barely said a word the whole time. She also said I could easily get elected to the House but I am doing this for you. It was pretty narcissistic.

Caruso FTW... other candidates are pathetic

Here’s the cliff notes version of the debate. Blah, blah, blah. 4 out of the 5 have been in politics for YEARS!! That means 4 out of 5 have failed us!!!

Look, the people who created the problems telling us how they'll fix them

Correction to the moderator: Caruso actually donated and voted for Buttigieg in the primary, and voted for Biden in the general election

CARUSO is looking real promising

I do not want Bass or Del lion

Good debate Fund the Police help the homeless and mental health people .

Good debate. We need Caruso! And maybe he should hire Buscaino and Deleon to help him after he wins.

I like me some Caruso. Buscaino is good too. The candidates really went after Caruso lol. But that pretty much backfired because he handled it really well. Karen Bass too soft on encampments/homelessness. Isn't against Gascon. How is she in the lead in the polls?

We will be replacing absolute trash (Garcetti) with hot garbage. Politricks

More government isn't the answer folks.

Caruso! A man who actually accomplished great things in the private sector! Made LA a better place with his projects , put people to work and brought revenue to the city! Then he helped the city in other ways. Also appreciate Buscaino, a man who put his life on the line to protect those of us in the city and served in other ways!

Maybe we can’t all agree on who the best candidate is. But can we all agree that Karen Bass would be the most destructive by far?

Bass and DeLeon are jokes! Caruso for LA Mayor!

Caruso has my vote. Centrist, and wanting to strengthen law enforcement

I like Kevin De Leon. He was well spoken and sounds like he truly cares about the community.

Rick Caruso is the only one with balls enough to clean up the shithole city that LA has become💯👍🏽🇺🇸

Olive view use to be a sanatorium and Los Angeles county hospital in boyle heights was the only hospital in the county till 1963. Were not building enough to keep up with population and there is so many empty buildings in los angeles!

I actually enjoyed this debate, career L.A. politicians vs doers like Caruso and Buscaino. Far from perfect but stick to common sense policies, not utopian ideas 😏

Caruso and Buscaino are the best candidates for the City of Los Angeles...I believed they can clean up the problems.

Good Debate enjoyable.

Housing the homeless doesn’t fix addiction

I don’t think just building a bunch of cheap housing is the answer. Many are addicts and/or alcoholics, mentally ill, drug dealers, people flocking to LA for the weather and benefits. Will you build housing that turns into the old style “projects”? We need mental facilities. We need FEMA to step in, maybe build temporary camps with facilities, like they did after Katrina, that include social workers to transition these people. Clean up our streets, our public transit so that they are safe & CLEAN. This isn’t about clearing a path for more construction.

Audit the books for all government open them up lets see where our tax dollars are lets see who will agree to that

Karen Bass's proposal pretty much will result in nothing being changed in LA.. Crime will keep going up and so will homelessness

Since this thread is about Los Angeles can anyone tell me if Johnnys Shrimp Boat still exits downtown?

Billy Bush is not a magic bus, funny man.

Does anyone else think Joe Buscaino look like he's on SNL

No more career politicians, look what they have done to L.A.

What's the poll saying today? 🌵⚖️

"I housed more homeless than you have." "My parents were poorer than yours." ....therefore vote for me. What a joke.

You need more than 30,000!

As a resident of South LA, Watts area for some years and grew up in Lincoln heights east LA area. Crime has always been up and running. Not sure what these politicians have done to make it safe in the last years but I can say growing up I never walked alone home. Always looked behind my back. So I say more police. If you are not doing any crime why are you afraid to be stopped? Why are you afraid of the police ? Why are young kids out after 8p alone? My parents never let us out of our home because drive by in the day. Back early 2000s I got jumped by a bunch of Jordan down kids when I was 16. Reform the people, educate families on discipline and working hard, my family came as immigrants and worked hard to get two properties in city of LA that we call a home. We are proud Angelenos and Our city deserves better people in our community who actually want to build rather than destroy. LA is my home!

Homeless? Man, they can't stand the sight of us. GOT to sweep them under the door mat and line our friend's pockets.

Drain the Swamp Rats. Vote Caruso.

Caruso won by a million miles.

Who is the least liberal candidate running for mayor?

People can't get out if California fast enough. Fact..

LA doesn’t need a mayor it needs warden. The illusion of choice continues.

APPALLING situation which has continued for decades....The people in this country are too selfish, greedy, uneducated, and ignorant to do what's necessary to eradicate the homelessness and poverty affecting its citizens, and allowing more indigent immigrants into the country is asinine and exacerbates the problem.

Buscaino or Caruso one of the two.

Does anyone else hear someone chewing gum, or eating on a hot mic?

Here we have a debate to - among other things - get to know these candidates. And yet, FOX 11 can't manage to put up the name of the candidates the ENTIRE time a candidate is speaking? C'mon you guys. You can do better....

I'm not voting for Caruso if he doesn't release his tax returns

Poor person here: ppl who worked for their wealth have all the right to do what they want with their own money. Just don't mismanage ours', the taxpayers.

I wish the people of LA lots of luck. They need a good mayor who will actually tackle all of these problems, while being fought tooth and nail. Whoever wins is going into a hot mess. Letting the homeless crisis get this bad is a top priority. They are all talking about "beds" when many of these people don't put a decent place to sleep above drugs. Many of the drug problems come from mental health problems, so maybe those beds should be in a mental health facility. I also love how I hear someone talking about segregation in the south while stating that LA is segregated also. It may not be the same but it's also not much different...You have Latino neighbors, black neighbors, etc and it can be like a war zone if they clash. That means a different kind of education needs to be taught there, and everywhere else, about how we are alike more than different. Most of them seem likable, most seem to really care, so hopefully whomever wins will make a difference.

What a disgusting display. If this is the best Los Angeles can do we are in a lot of trouble.

Finding a solution for homelessness and drug addiction requires more than one minute segment, But what do I know, I just listen to Joe Rogan.

Rodney's rubber baton late to the tea party.

Lots of homeless died in homeless encampments in Buscainos district and many people have died because of these vagrants.

CDC HAS NO CREDIBILITY LEFT

Caruso is the best democrat on stage

To Erika, overpaid (supposedly) well-educated newspaper columnist:"So the rules that all of the candidates agreed to *ARE* ...."

Hunger Games

These people waltz into an institution of higher learning with talk of war and how acceptable and honorable 'their' spin is.

First get rid of Gascon, prosecute him and convict/prosecute him fully death row for bonus. Second, no more blue or red party garbage. Third: Support the blue.

One reason why LA appears to have a homeless problem is that the weather's pretty nice year-round. Most other cities will see people 'need' to seek shelter. If they're going to claim "mentally ill" they should look at landlords demanding excessive fees. Politics is a joy/luck club too often.

It's funny when people richer than the politicians complain that the politicians make too much money.

I think that Los Angeles has become so large and so prominent to Earth that Los Angelinos can no longer claim that Los Angeles is private property.

Congresswoman Karen Bass is the obvious most qualified candidate to become L.A’s first woman Mayor. Yet Millionaire Businessman Rick Caruso is buying this election and playing the Trump card, by denigrating career politicians and trying to prove that he alone can fix L.A. yet I don’t believe the people of L.A will buy Caruso’s boasting. I am disappointed in the fact that I have yet to see one add for any other candidate like Bass as opposed to daily ads by Caruso. I will support Bass come hell or high water, yet if she wins, it will prove that you can’t buy an election in L.A, the people are too sophisticated if she looses to Caruso it will prove that Angelenos and Americans in general can easily be brought by slick ads.

help the homeless that wants the help like getting of drugs , mental health , and getting a job those that don't well built a reservation or something like a camp like they did for refugees and keep them there far away from us , or in cages like they do the immigrants , if people think that's inhumane well maybe but these people that are in refugee camps , reservations and in cages are not drug addicts, criminals , they're nothing like these homeless people n yet that's where they are 🙏🏼😜

All of these clowns are already in politics except Caruso and they have done NOTHING to better LA. That’s all you need to know.

Alright lets do the math here. The Keynesian Welfare State ends, Hard right neo liberalism is fervently embraced in western democracies. Result, end of Institutional care models, the beginning of Über punitive social policies, the growth of prisons, and poverty and homelessness off the radar. Wasn't difficult now was it?!

The people of LA need to stop electing democrats…things have gone to hell and voting another democrat in will not fix it…vote democrats out nationwide

Let me offer some input here. SOCIAL POLICY REFORM IS ESSENTIAL HERE. STOP CRIMINALISING MENTAL ILLNESS AND POVERTY. Bring back more social welfare funding. You cant afford not to!

You can tell who the politicians are by the way they’re trying to answer the questions the politically correct way vs with the truth. Homelessness is an issue, but it starts with properly funding the police

Caruso!

VOTE 1 Karen Bass!

De Leon sounds good.

Karen Bass is the best choice. I look forward to watching this debate, but I'm a decades long Angeleno. I already know the track record of everyone on the stage, and debating skills are not the same as government leadership skills. Karen Bass is hands down the best candidate on that stage. Her track record in the state assembly, and in Congress is outstanding. She shares all my values, she fights for all the issues I care about, and she'd be a fantastic LA Mayor.