In class this week, we gave group presentations on books we had to read giving different accounts on what it meant to be homeless, and giving a variety of different accounts on people’s experiences regarding homelessness. For the book I had to research, Down and Out and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life on Skid Row, I researched and read about three different accounts on what being a resident on Skid Row was like. Through the accounts of a group of weight lifters, street vendors, and the LACAN film crew. It gave account to how they used their “cop wisdom” to learn to adapt to therapeutic policing. With the three ethnographic accounts the author provided, we can see how these groups proactively taught those around them how to adapt, and in the case of LACAN, fight back by giving the residents of Skid Row a voice to be heard in opposition to how the police treat them. In the beginning portion of the book, it tells how the relationship between therapeutic policing and the mega-missions in Los Angeles came to be. Over all, I found this book to be very informative, and am happy with what I walked away with in terms of knowledge on what happens in Skid Row. In terms of the other presentations, I learned that it is very hard to keep an exact idea of homelessness when reading only one books account on homelessness.