96 Keep Dallas Safe
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Responsible cities
have a central location to deliver services to the homeless.
Blacks &
Hispanics deserve safety too. Changes to Dallas Homeless Partnership
Will Not Improve City's Response
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ure/ In a meeting last Thursday, the Dallas Area Partnership to End and
Prevent Homelessness (DAPEH) discussed plans to rework its structure
and leadership appointment process. DAPEH is a government partnership
between Dallas County and the City of Dallas, and therefore, any
changes must be accepted by both the City Council and County
Commissioners Court. However, Councilwoman Cara Mendelsohn, who
currently serves as chair of DAPEH, told The Dallas Express that the
revisions to DAPEH’s articles and bylaws are unlikely to have larger
effects on efforts to solve homelessness in Dallas!

Dallas’s local
government spends innumerable hours and millions upon millions of
dollars on its “homelessness response,” but the crisis continues. In
reality, the vagrancy crisis in Dallas will never be fixed as long as
our city council remains dedicated to
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failed Housing First policies, which prescribe housing vouchers for
vagrants yet do not require employment or sobriety.
The problem is not
specific to Dallas. Since Housing First was adopted at the federal
level 20 years ago, homelessness has increased nationally by nearly
25%!
Dallas must reject these policies that have failed for so long
and institute something that works. The solution is not throwing money
at the problem, but to address it strategically and responsibly.
Responsible cities, like San Antonio, have a central location to
deliver services to the homeless for two reasons: first, so that those
in need can access services and resources more easily; and second, so
that the authorities can identify those who don’t need help but have
chosen a life of vagrancy.
San Antonio’s Haven for Hope has already
been proven effective! Factoring in the population increase,
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January-2020.pdf San Antonio’s downtown homeless count has decreased by
80% since the program was initiated!
Dallas’s government officials
have a choice: allow our city to suffocate under rising violent crime
and vagrancy or adopt the solutions that are proven to work so Dallas
thrive again.
Contact your city council member and tell them to adopt
a non-ideological, solutions-based program like Haven for Hope!
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Press Highlights:
Minority Victims Bear Brunt of City’s Sex
Trafficking Surge
As is the case in most crime categories, minorities
comprise the majority of sex trafficking victims in Dallas. Despite
years of bloviation about “racial justice” and “equity,” our City
Council and District Attorney have failed to improve the quality of
life for those who live in so-called “under-served” communities because
they are blinded by an ideological hatred of police. More police =
lower crime! Blacks and Hispanics deserve safety too!
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  City No Closer to Solution on
Police, Fire Pension
A city report advised that DPD needed to hire
roughly 1,000 more police officers to keep Dallas safe, but they still
have not done so. Dallas’s police department struggles every year to
recruit new officers and retain the ones they have for a few reasons.
DPD salaries are lower than nearby (safer) jurisdictions, and on top of
that, the pension system is broken! Why did City Manager Broadnax shoot
down the solutions proposed by local first responder unions?
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  Jury Will Not Indict Man Accused of
Assaulting Teen Trafficking Victim
Despite claims from Dallas police
that Emanuel Cartagena lured a teen girl away from a Dallas Mavericks
game, sexually assaulted her, and played some role in her entry into
the sex trade in Oklahoma, a jury has chosen not to indict. Either
Cartegena is guilty and will walk free, or the true perpetrator is
still out there. Dallas is a hub for human trafficking, but our leaders
have done nothing to stop it.
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Tracking
Illegal Camps:
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id=zDhOQc Each 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 discovered a HUGE tent colony at LBJ and SH-75!
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id=zDhOQc Watch here!
 District 2 Councilman Jesse Moreno's
"Blanket Camp"
We named this camp in Jesse Moreno’s District 2
“Blanket Camp.” Vagrants often construct elaborate, sprawling tent
villages that cover vacant lots or underpasses, but not all vagrants
are so ostentatious. Some live their lives with nothing but a blanket
or a tarp and often suffer from the worst drug addictions and mental
illnesses. It is inhumane to enable vagrancy with cash handouts!
 District 13 Councilwoman Gay Donnell Willis's
"Bank Camp"
This
camp in Gay Donnell Willis’s District 13 has been dubbed “Bank Camp,”
for obvious reasons. City council passed an ordinance to ban
individuals from standing in medians less than 6ft wide, but the city
does not enforce it. Businesses all across Dallas are suffering because
of our city council’s refusal to end the vagrancy and panhandling
crisis.
 District 6 Councilman Omar Narvaez's
"Rafter Camp"
This camp in Omar Narvaez’s District 6 has earned the title “Rafter
Camp.” Vagrants live on the streets, in the “rafters” under an
overpass, and KDS has even found vagrants living inside an abandoned
gas station. Not only is this dangerous but it is illegal on every
level. Our city council needs to take responsibility and enforce
Texas’s urban camping ban now!
  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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