With so-called leaders like LAs Ysabel Jurado, who needs enemies?

Guess who piped up to slam a sweeping law enforcement operation to cut illegal drug traffic in Skid Row?Ysabel Jurado, the far-left LA councilwoman in whose district the 50 square blocks of homeless tent squalor sit.As the California Post reported, Jurado all but condemned a joint federal-local law enforcement operation that arrested 28 alleged drug dealers plying Skid Row’s homeless with meth, PCP, fentanyl and more.The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

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Never miss a story “Law enforcement has described the operation in Skid Row as targeting drug trafficking,” the councilwoman wrote Friday on social media.“But that doesn’t remove the responsibility to protect residents’ rights and well-being.”She went on to lament that “Residents have reported being kept from returning to their tents, obtaining their belongings, accessing essential medication and reaching the services they depend on every day to survive.”As if law enforcement — and not the gang- and drug-fueled violence and squalor that consume Skid Row — were the problem.Jurado’s hot take drew backlash, and yesterday, she fired back on social media: “Apparently, asking whether people can get to their medication is now controversial.

That’s quite a reading of my statement.”The councilwoman did concede — if belatedly and under fire — that drug thugs who prey on the Skid Row homeless “should be held accountable through due process.”That, at least, is a small step toward sanity.Fact is, Jurado should be embarrassed that this enormous cesspool of crime and human misery festers under her purview.She should be pressing for sane, common-sense policies that would clean up the debacle — and actually move thousands of human beings out of deplorable conditions and into rehab, treatment and productive li...