DFW Has Wall Street’s Attention; Can We Keep It? |
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Dallas has long been considered the financial hub of Texas, but the relative boom of DFW’s business environment has attracted attention from major firms on Wall Street. Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo have all invested in new corporate campuses around the metroplex. However, DFW’s success can largely be attributed to the colossal failure of cities like San Francisco and New York. If Dallas continues on its current path, the city will meet the same fate, and businesses will leave.
For a city’s business community to thrive, you need safe and clean streets. Dallas has neither.
Because the Dallas Police Department (DPD) is understaffed by nearly 1,000 officers, businesses cannot count on the police to protect them.
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Dallas’s lax enforcement of Texas’s urban camping ban and local anti-panhandling ordinances also creates trouble for businesses. Vagrants are free to set up camps or dump trash around businesses.
In some areas, especially downtown, vagrants enter businesses to sleep at tables or use restrooms without purchasing anything. Camps and panhandlers discourage residents from patronizing these businesses, and they place strain on employees.
Dallas has the potential to inherit the businesses that cities like LA and San Francisco are losing due to the crime and vagrancy crises in those cities, but this will not continue once business owners realize that Dallas has the same problems they are fleeing.
Criminals cannot be allowed to thrive, or else businesses will leave. Contact your council member. Demand that they end the pro-crime policies leading Dallas down the path of other major cities. Tell them we need 1,000 more cops to keep our residents and businesses safe!
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Two Teens Found Shot Dead Inside Car |
Because our city council will not hire more cops and our District Attorney refuses to prosecute criminals, children suffer from the effects of crime on their families, or they are enticed to commit crimes of their own. High crime is anti-family and anti-children! Read more...
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Dallas Downtown Crime Hovers Over 7% Increase for 2023 Year |
When city council members brag about Dallas’s “overall crime decrease,” they are not telling the whole story. Murders and violent crime were up in 2023 over the previous year, but some areas of the city even saw an overall increase in crime. With a 7% increase in crime in 2023, Dallas residents living downtown won’t feel any safer. Read more...
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‘One-Stop-Shop’ Model Gives Homeless Man A Fresh Start |
We know that the ‘Housing First’ program employed by Dallas does not solve the root causes of homelessness and vagrancy, but our city council refuses to consider real solutions that work. San Antonio has seen massive success with the Haven for Hope model, which centralizes all of the city’s homelessness resources. Responsible cities have a central location to deliver services to the homeless! Read more...
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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 expose a group of vagrants squatting on private property in North Dallas. Watch here. |
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District 13 Councilwoman Gay Willis's
"Junk Camp" |
We named this camp in Gay Donnell Willis’s District 13 “Junk Camp.” More than half of this vagrant camp is a pile of junk. The scene looks like a garage sale in reverse – the pile of trash just gets bigger! Dallas residents have a right to drive through their city without seeing trash and panhandlers on every corner. Stop making it easy for people to live on the streets! |
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District 6 Councilman Omar Narvaez's
"Mystery Camp" |
This camp in Omar Narvaez’s District 6 has been dubbed “Mystery Camp.” No one can see in or out of this makeshift camp structure, and that is most likely the point. Camps like this are made by those who want to remain on the streets permanently, not people who want help getting off the streets. Vagrants steal public property for their personal use. |
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District 6 Councilwoman Omar Narvaez's
"Pop-up Camp" |
This camp in Omar Narvaez’s District 6 has earned the title “Pop-up Camp.” Camps like this are ubiquitous throughout Dallas because they are so easy to set up and tear down. When city workers notify vagrants that they will be cleaning the area, this camper can move his tent to another nearby underpass in no time. To solve the vagrancy crisis, DPD needs to crack down on all urban camping to stop the spread of illegal camps!
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To Report an Encampment: Dial 3-1-1 or Call (214) 670-3111 and Click on your District Councilman to Email them with the Date and Camp Location.
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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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Keep Dallas Safe | 3626 North Hall St, Ste 610, Dallas, TX 75219 |
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