96 Keep Dallas Safe
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Responsible cities
have a central location to deliver homeless services.
DPD needs to move
from 3,000 to 4,000 police officers ASAP.JOIN US: January 18th @ 6pm!
Council Chambers, City Hall
1500 Marilla St., Dallas, TX 75201
City To
Receive Public Input on Homelessness
Last February,
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ess-report/ Mayor Johnson commissioned the Homeless, Organizations,
Policies, and Encampments (HOPE) task force to develop solutions to
homelessness. On January 18th, a special meeting will be held for
council members to discuss the HOPE task force report, and Dallasites
are encouraged to attend. The meeting is a crucial opportunity for
Dallas residents and business owners to voice their opinions on
Dallas’s response to homelessness.
Even when using the point-in-time
count of Dallas’s homeless population (which underestimates the
homeless population), Dallas has not seen a significant decrease in
homelessness.
Our city has been locked into an ideological program
that offers free housing to people living on the street without any
work or sobriety requirements. Furthermore, the city’s attempts to
decommission camps actually amount to little more than a cleaning
service for vagrants who have no desire to get off the streets!
The
only way Dallas can help the homeless and end the vagrancy crisis is by
enacting real solutions instead of failed government programs. Right
now, Dallas’s homeless services are spread throughout the city. The
responsible thing to do is centralize them, making it easier for
homeless individuals to access the resources they need.
San Antonio’s
Haven for Hope system centralized homeless shelters and services to one
location, and the city has seen a 77% decrease in homelessness. It is
time for Dallas to do the same.
Your voice matters. If you want Dallas
to become a safe, clean city, we want to see you at City Hall on
January 18th at 6:00 pm. It is our responsibility to make our voices
heard. In the meantime, contact your council member and tell them the
solutions they need to consider at the upcoming meeting!
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Press Highlights:
5 Homicides in 4 Days Put Spotlight on Murder Rate
The murder rate was up last year, and that trend appears to continue
into 2024. The first four days of the new year came with five murders,
quickly dispelling any illusion that the new year granted a new start.
The first step in decreasing the murder rate is increasing police
presence, but Dallas’s leaders refuse to hire more police officers. A
multi-year increase in the murder rate would be a signal of Dallas’s
dangerous decline.
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  Bail Reform Activists Fail To
Overturn Cash Bail System
A years-long legal challenge to Dallas
County’s use of a cash bail system ended after the U.S. Supreme Court
refused to hear the case on Monday. In 2018, a number of criminal
defendants challenged the system on constitutional grounds, claiming
that the system places an extra burden on the poor who can not pay
bail. In reality, this was an attempt to overthrow our criminal justice
system and give criminals a free pass out of jail. We should celebrate
its failure!
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  Are the Homeless in DFW Being Counted
Accurately?
Dallas’s City Council places a lot of stock in the
official homeless population count, but many doubt the reliability of
the number. Every year, volunteers walk around Dallas for a few hours,
counting every homeless person they see. Other counting methods show
that the actual homeless population is 2.5 to 10.2 times higher than
the Point In Time count, such as using information from homeless
services.
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Tracking Illegal
Camps:
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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 find piles
of trash and filth in a South Dallas neighborhood.
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 District 6 Councilman Omar Narvaez's
"Highway Camp"
We
named this camp in Omar Narvaez’s District 6 “Highway Camp.” You can
find camps like this on every large road or highway in Dallas.
Panhandling from medians is technically illegal in Dallas, but lax
enforcement gives vagrants an incentive to live in high-traffic areas.
Dallas is a panhandler's paradise!
 District 2 Councilman Jesse
Moreno's
"Oak Lawn Camp"
This camp in Jesse Moreno’s District 2 has
been dubbed “Oak Lawn Camp.” Even though this entire area goes through
routine cleaning from the city, there seems to be no effort to
permanently stop people from camping and panhandling here. The “no
trespassing” signs are evidently not a deterrent for Dallas’s vagrant
population. How long will businesses in the area tolerate the city
council’s negligence?
  District 6 Councilman Omar Narvaez's
"Tarp Camp"
This camp in Omar Narvaez’s District 6 has earned the
title “Tarp Camp.” Some people living on the streets live in tents, but
it is equally common to see tents strung up to create lean-to
structures. Some vagrants have told us they prefer this method because
it is easier to set up and tear down when the city cleans the area. Why
does Dallas tolerate flagrant violation of our laws?
  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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