Video taking off 31x its usual first day

FBI, DEA and LAPD agents sweep Fifth and Crocker in Skid Row

FOX 11's short report on the joint narcotics operation drew a comment section dozens of times busier than the station's usual first day.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 237,143 views a day, 31 times a normal first day on this channel (7,560).

Feds conduct drug enforcement operation in Skid Row

Federal agents and Los Angeles police spent part of Thursday working the blocks around Fifth and Crocker streets, in the heart of Skid Row. FOX 11 Los Angeles posted the footage under the plain title "Feds conduct drug enforcement operation in Skid Row," and within 11 hours it had passed 150,000 views. A regular FOX 11 report usually ends its whole first day with a few thousand.

The report describes LAPD officers assisting agents from the FBI and the DEA in what the department called "a joint narcotics-focused public safety operation" downtown and at several other locations across the city. The department's statement adds that "the operation is focused on drug-related criminal activity."

Skid Row, a few dozen blocks on the eastern edge of downtown, has long held one of the largest concentrations of unsheltered people in the United States. That history shapes the conversation under the video, which grew far faster than usual for the station. Many viewers ask whether a single operation can change anything there and call for one that stays for months. Others steer the talk toward City Hall and the coming election season.

It was a busy Thursday for the station. A report on a fire that burned through the roof of a commercial building in Inglewood also ran well ahead of a usual start, and FOX 11 followed it with coverage of the strip mall the five-alarm blaze destroyed.

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