LAX is one of the few airports that doesn't seem to be able to control aggressive panhandlers on airport property. Even JFK rarely has these any more.

Can't the police work on eliminating this?

For example, there's always a guy standing right outside the T1 terminal door with a phony ID badge around his neck asking people if they need any airport information. You'll only fall for this once. After you talk to him and he gives you the information, he'll hit you up for a donation to his phony-baloney charity. (I told him, on the one time I spoke to him not knowing he wasn't an airport employee, that I thought the deception he's doing is unethical.)

A person using this pitch is at this location every time I'm there. He's right in front of the door, you'd have to walk around him to get by.

Then there's usually a woman dressed as a nun with a collection jar standing by the security check line. She holds her jar over the rope, in the path of people on the security check line.

If LAX police can't figure out a way to get rid of these people, how will they stop a terrorist?

(Even if it is "public property", they can at least tell them to stand out of the way of doors, queues, and walkways, and not block them.)