LA blasts classical music to drive homeless people from subway stationBy Yaron Steinbuch
April 5, 2023
Los Angeles has adopted a new weapon to drive homeless people out of a subway station and reduce crime – deafening classical music piped in through the public-address system.
Loud music by the likes of Beethoven, Mozart and Vivaldi has been blaring inside the Westlake/MacArthur Park Metro station, along with the blinding effects of floodlights, the LA Times reported.
The push is part of a pilot program launched in January using a royalty-free playlist to drive out the homeless and cut down on crime – but some critics have described the sonorous strategy as tone-deaf torture that fails to address the underlying problems.
The tactic of using loud music with ulterior motives is nothing new.
In 1989, the US used “music torture” against Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega while he was holed up in the Vatican’s embassy in Panama City after President George H.W. Bush invaded the country.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/04/05/la-blasts-classical-music-to-drive-homeless-from-subway-station/
