96 Keep Dallas Safe
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DPD needs to move
from 3,000 to 4,000 police officers ASAP.
Dallas: where criminals
thrive and businesses leave.
City Proposes $3M to Decommission Vagrant
Camps
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camps/ The budget proposed to the Dallas City Council would authorize
roughly $3 million to “decommission” homeless camps around Dallas with
another $16 million going to the Office of Homeless Solutions (OHS).
Our city needs to direct more resources toward solving the vagrancy
crisis once and for all, and this budget proposal certainly does not
guarantee victory.
One business owner told OHS, “You clean [the
encampments] out. They move back the next day, and nothing’s done for
the next week or [month].” Many other residents and business owners
across Dallas feel the same. This sort of approach is absolutely
futile. More camps need to be cleared, yes, but it’s a waste of time
and money to do so if Dallas doesn’t enforce the state’s “urban
camping” ban and get far more serious.

According to the city,
decommissioning a camp includes not only the clearing of a camp but
temporarily housing the vagrants who lived there as well. So much money
is spent only for these vagrants to return to the same place weeks
later after their free stay has ended. The reality is that the current
approach actually enables vagrancy by keeping camp locations clean.
They just go amass new “stuff”—mostly through stealing.
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rise of crime and vagrancy in Dallas share the same root problem: our
police are underfunded and aren’t allowed to do their job and our city
council isn’t putting the resources into real solutions. DPD needs to
move from 3,000 to 4,000 police officers ASAP. Contact your council
member and tell them to stop wasting your money, hire 1,000 more
officers, and allow them to enforce the urban camping ban across our
city!
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Kidnappings Increase, Most Victims Women & Girls of Color
Kidnapping
is on the rise in Dallas and most of the victims are women and young
girls of color. We know that crime rates increase when judges set bail
low and District Attorneys refuse to prosecute. So why do these
officials who obsess over “equity” continue to place everyone,
especially women and minorities, in danger? Maybe high crime is a
“feature” and not a “bug”!
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  Resident Fends Off Burglary
Attempt with Firearm
With declining response times, residents in
Dallas know that when they are under attack in their homes the police
won’t be there fast enough to help. It now takes officers over 11
minutes to respond to top-priority 911 calls. Until this problem is
solved, residents will have to take their safety into their own hands.
Dallas needs more cops, and we need them now.
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  Man Found Fatally Shot in Car in
Dallas
We don’t yet know the reason for this killing, but we know that
it is a dangerous sign for any city. Random shootings, carjackings gone
wrong, and gang violence spell disaster for a city like Dallas that was
built on safety, prosperity, and a healthy business environment. If
Dallas can’t guarantee the safety of its residents, they will leave and
take their businesses with them.
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Tracking Illegal Camps:
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week the KDS team drives its planned route through Dallas
photo-documenting and cataloguing illegal encampments to inform the
city of these locations. Our team livestreams these activities giving
the community a first-hand look at the vagrancy crisis in Dallas.

In
this episode, we found a half dozen vagrants camping in Deep Ellum!
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 District 2 Councilman
Jesse Moreno's
"Fire Starter Camp"
We named this camp in Jesse
Moreno’s District 2 “Fire Starter Camp.” Fires set by vagrants are
dangerously common in Dallas. There were 1,261 reports of trash fires
last year, and it costs about $1,616 for firemen to respond to each.
That’s a total of $2,038,129.08 taxpayer dollars to fight vagrant trash
fires alone!
 District 6 Councilman Omar Narvaez's
"Wheelchair
Camp"
This camp in Omar Narvaez’s District 6 has been dubbed
“Wheelchair Camp.” Some vagrants are truly disabled, but many use
wheelchairs and crutches to guilt-trip residents into giving them cash
handouts. We don’t know if this vagrant is a faker, but if they wanted
to get off the streets there are many programs and services to help
disabled people in need!
 District 6 Councilwoman Omar Narvaez's
"Comfort Camp"
This camp in Omar Narvaez’s District 6 has earned the
title “Comfort Camp.” If you suffered true poverty and had nowhere to
go but the streets, you probably wouldn’t be collecting creature
comforts like chairs and other furniture. Vagrants in Dallas are far
too comfortable on the streets!
  To Report an Encampment: Dial
3-1-1 or Call tel:(214)%20670-3111 (214) 670-3111 and Click on your
District Councilman to Email them with the Date and Camp Location.
mailto:[email protected] Chad West, District 1
mailto:[email protected] Jesse Moreno, District 2
mailto:[email protected]?subject= Zarin D. Gracey, District 3
mailto:[email protected] Carolyn King Arnold, District 4
mailto:[email protected] Jaime Resendez, District 5
mailto:[email protected] Omar Narvaez, District 6
mailto:[email protected] Adam Bazaldua, District 7
mailto:[email protected] Tennell Atkins, District 8
mailto:[email protected] Paula Blackmon, District 9
mailto:[email protected] Kathy Stewart, District 10
mailto:[email protected] Jaynie Schultz, District 11
mailto:[email protected] Cara Mendelsohn, District 12
mailto:[email protected] Gay Donnell Willis, District 13
mailto:[email protected] Paul E. Ridley, District 14
Mission Statement:
Keep Dallas Safe exists to address crime and
homelessness in Dallas with the goal of transforming Dallas into the
safest large city in Texas for residents and businesses. We aim to have
a City Council that prioritizes crime rate which directly determines
the quality of life in Dallas. We do this by fighting against the
"defund the police" movement, holding accountable our city leaders'
efforts towards lowering district crime rates, and highlighting our
city's homelessness problems by pushing for enforcement of the
prohibition of urban camping.
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