If members of the Los Angeles City Council were to make a list of the problems facing them, it would be long, and imposing.

An organization called City Watch made its own list of the top issues facing the 3.8 million people who live in L.A. and the 13.2 million who live in the metropolitan area.

Housing affordability is one problem plaguing the city. People, even those who have jobs, just can’t afford to buy or rent a home or apartment in or near the city.

Then there’s homelessness, which is a problem in many parts of the West. L.A., however, sets the standard. About 75,312 people have “experienced” homelessness so far this year, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. While about one-third of them received some form of help, that leaves more than 50,000 living on the streets.

Let’s see. What other problems are the good people of L.A. facing? Traffic congestion? Check. Crime? Check. Lousy schools? Check. An influx of illegal immigrants? Check. A lack of water? Check. A lack of electricity? Check and double-check.

We could continue.

For a city awash in problems, we can say with total confidence that rodeo is not one.

Yet the L.A. city council has taken up the cause of animal rights activists and is working on banning rodeos. Not Rodeo Drive, where movie stars and sheiks shop. Rodeos, as in cowboys and bucking broncos.

It is breathtaking that city council members would literally step over homeless people sleeping in the streets to take the word of noisy activists and try to ban an American tradition.

The truly galling aspect of the city council’s action is the members didn’t take the time to do any fact-checking on activists’ claims. Maybe they were too busy being barked at and called names. More on that later.

The city attorney has now sent the proposed anti-rodeo ordinance to the council’s Neighborhoods and Community Enrichment Committee, where members of the public sign up under names like “Lucifer,” bark like dogs and call other people in the room, including committee members, every four-letter word in the book — and some that aren’t.

We’re not making this up. In listening to the tape of a recent committee meeting, one of the few sane statements that we heard was that testimony before the committee shows “why we need additional community mental health services.”

There’s another problem for L.A.’s list.

Such is the state of affairs in Los Angeles: elected officials sitting still while members of the public verbally abuse them.

Council members can also add that to the list of problems.

Yet, instead, they are wasting their time trying to ban a sport that many Los Angeles residents have enjoyed for decades.

Something’s out of whack in the City of Angels, and it’s not rodeo.