Keep Dallas Safe

December 14, 2023

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• Cash handouts to panhandlers are one of the most hateful things you can do.

• Vagrants steal public spaces for private use.

Vagrancy Contributes to Filth and Pest Infestation

As the City Council continues to allow vagrants to illegally live on the streets without consequences, reports of trash, overgrown vegetation, and bug infestation are on the rise.

This year, Dallas also was ranked in the top 10 roach-infested cities in the nation. Both of these problems are exacerbated by the high levels of crime and vagrancy in the city.

The majority of those living on Dallas’s streets are willfully homeless and will only accept cash handouts from strangers. Because of mental illness, drug addiction, or any number of reasons, these individuals have no regard for their own health or the cleanliness of their surroundings.

Even Dallas’s Office of Homeless Solutions (OHS), which refuses to consider new solutions to the vagrancy crisis, acknowledges that giving food or cash to vagrants contributes to the buildup of trash and waste in public spaces. 

The constant presence of filth and trash throughout the city degrades residents' pride in their city. Property owners have fewer incentives to keep their property clean and well-maintained when the City refuses to maintain public spaces.

Of course, the problems caused by trash and poorly maintained property are not only cosmetic. As part of OHS’s “Give Responsibly” campaign, it is noted that litter contributes to the growth of pest populations. More trash means more roaches, but it also means more rodents.

According to OHS, the growing number of mice and rats threaten Dallas’s electrical system. Evidently, rats chew through wiring, leading to power outages and stoplight malfunctions.

We believe that safe, clean streets are a civil right, but the problems caused by vagrancy go far beyond cleanliness. Vagrancy is a threat to Dallas’s way of life, our prosperity, and even our infrastructure.

Contact your city council member using the button below. Ask them why they continue to allow vagrancy to thrive in Dallas when they know the consequences. Demand that they stand up for your rights as a Dallas resident and clean up our streets and end the vagrancy crisis!

Press Highlights:

16-Year-Old Boy Dies After Being Shot

High crime is anti-family and anti-child. Whether this boy was involved in crime or merely caught in the crossfire, responsibility rests on city officials, like District Attorney Creuzot, who refuse to fully prosecute crime. Children can’t get caught up in crime unless criminals have free rein! Read more...

Blacks, Hispanics Continue to Suffer From Dallas Murder Rate

Murder is on the rise in Dallas because of the anti-police sentiment from our city council. Woke activists and race-baiters claim that inherent racism in the police force is the true cause of high crime and poverty, but with less police, crime has gotten worse. If city officials really care about Blacks and Hispanics, they need to hire 1,000 more officers ASAP! Read more...

Councilwoman Calls for Council Term Limits, Fiscal Responsibility

Councilwoman Cara Mendelsohn has submitted several policy suggestions to the council that would require the City Manager and certain committees to be more transparent about budgetary items. She also proposed lifetime term limits for council members rather than the current rule, which requires council members to sit out for one term. Read more...

Tracking Illegal Camps:

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 stream, we exposed the dozens of vagrants hanging around City Hall. Watch here.

District 1 Councilman Chad West's

"Hazard Camp"

We named this camp in Chad West’s District 1 “Hazard Camp.” In colder months, vagrants often light campfires to cook their food and keep warm. However, campfires in urban areas are not harmless. Vagrant fires in Dallas have spread and nearly destroyed nearby businesses. Vagrancy is not a victimless crime!

District 6 Councilman Omar Narvaez's 

"Couch Camp"

This camp in Omar Narvaez’s District 6 has been dubbed “Couch Camp.” Why are vagrants allowed to furnish our public spaces with recliners and couches? Is this the behavior of a victim of poverty or a willfully homeless person who refuses to work? There are dozens of shelters and services available for those who want help. Only those who reject assistance live like this. Responsible cities centralize their homeless services to stop vagrancy from spreading throughout the city!

District 13 Councilwoman Gay Donnell Willis's

"Junk Camp"

This camp in Gay Donnell Willis’s District 13 has earned the title “Junk Camp.” There are several different kinds of homeless camps in Dallas, but camps like this one are practically just a pile of junk with a tarp stretched over it. Camps like this are top contributors to trash piling up on our streets and sidewalks. Clean streets are a civil right!

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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