Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass conflates county, city deaths among people without homes

Hoping to address homelessness, newly elected Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass unveiled a plan to move swaths of unhoused people from encampments into hotels and motels during her first 100 days in office.

In a national TV interview, Bass said her "Inside Safe" housing plan will be voluntary and will not involve sweeps, where city officials forcibly clear out encampments.

"This is not coercing people. This is not ticketing people or incarcerating people," Bass said during a Dec. 18 interview on NBC’s "Meet the Press."  

Bass said during the interview that...