LA Metro spokesperson Dave Sotero told the paper that “the music is not loud” at MacArthur Park, saying in an email that the classical compositions were being played at 72 decibels. The US military used heavy metal band Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” at cacophonous levels against Iraqi detainees in Guantanamo Bay.

In 1989, the US used “music torture” against Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega while he was holed up in the Vatican’s embassy in Panama City after President George H.W. The tactic of using loud music with ulterior motives is nothing new. The push is part of a pilot program launched in January using a royalty-free playlist to drive out the homeless and cut down on crime - but some critics have described the sonorous strategy as tone-deaf torture that fails to address the underlying problems. Loud music by the likes of Beethoven, Mozart and Vivaldi has been blaring inside the Westlake/MacArthur Park Metro station, along with the blinding effects of floodlights, the LA Times reported. Los Angeles has adopted a new weapon to drive homeless people out of a subway station and reduce crime: deafening classical music piped in through the public address system.

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