Karen Bass: “We keep replacing copper streetlights and you can replace a…”

“I also mentioned street lights that we are going to be moving. And you know, what we do for street lights. It's a perfect example of the insanity of the bureaucracy because We keep replacing copper streetlights and you can replace a copper street light and it can last for a week and they come and they steal. Right. And so I'm working with the police department to say it's constant whack, a mole. If you just keep arresting the people who are stealing the copper.” (28:30–28:39)

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