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Don't make it easy for people to live on the streets.
- Crimes increase when District Attorney Creuzot won't prosecute.
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City Pursues 'Sanctioned Camps' Against Task Force Recommendation |
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Last week, the City Council held a special meeting to hear the results of the Homelessness, Organizations, Policies, and Encampments (HOPE) task force. The task force noted a significant rise in homelessness and recommended that the city increase focus on camp closures that offer free housing to camp inhabitants. The task force did not recommend city-sanctioned “low barrier” camps, but the city council went ahead with the plan anyway.
Council members expressed support for camps that are facilitated by the city because it would give vagrants who refuse to utilize homelessness services a place to live away from streets and public areas. However, the reason most vagrants refuse to use shelters is that the shelters require sobriety. The proposed city-sanctioned camps will allow vagrants to continue to use drugs. |
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Dallas residents should ask why the city council wants to allow vagrants to continue to use drugs at all. Why should that be part of the bargain? Most people living on the street are mentally ill or hopelessly addicted to drugs. How can we allow those people to live in squalor and misery?
The task force said they could not recommend city-sanctioned camps because past experiments in other cities resulted in “humanitarian nightmares.”
We cannot formalize the filthy conditions of a camp full of mentally ill drug users. Laws are in place to combat this. The city has all the resources it needs.
Centralizing our homelessness services is the only way to responsibly remove camps from public spaces, punish the criminal vagrants that take advantage of our system, and offer real, life-saving help to the homeless individuals who need it.
Contact your city council member. Tell them not to follow the path of cities that enable vagrancy. Tell them responsible cities have a central location to deliver services to the homeless! |
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DA Creuzot Failed To Prosecute Human Trafficking Suspect |
District Attorney John “Let-Em-Go” Creuzot refused to prosecute the man who kidnapped a teenage girl from a Dallas stadium last year, sparking outrage from the community and frustration from the girl’s parents. When the family attempted to give Creuzot additional evidence, he refused. Dallas residents cannot feel safe with our do-nothing DA. Crimes increase when DA Creuzot refuses to prosecute! Read more...
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Shoplifting Ticks Up in Northern Dallas Amid Lack of 4K Cops |
Shoplifting is still a problem due to our police department’s staffing shortage. Thieves are confident they will not be caught because there are not enough cops on the street! Creuzot may have rolled back his theft-amnesty policy that prevented prosecution for thefts under $750, but Dallas business owners still suffer at the hands of emboldened thieves. DPD needs to hire 1,000 more cops ASAP. Read more...
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If We Want Safer Streets, We Need Stronger Families |
Children suffer the most from high crime. In neighborhoods with high crime, some children get sucked into the criminal lifestyle. Even worse, some innocent children are caught in the crossfire. Strong policing and strong families are the obvious solution to the problem. The city needs to do its part!
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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, a City worker told KDS to "get away" from her!
Watch here. (15:25) |
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District 7 Councilman Adam Bazaldua's
"Skyline Camp" |
This camp in Adam Bazaldua’s District 7 has been dubbed “Skyline Camp.” Do we want the rest of the world to associate Dallas’s skyline with rampant homelessness and vagrancy? All across Dallas, our beautiful city is marred by the filth created by these camps enabled by our city council. Dallas’s city leadership has ignored this crisis for too long. It is time for solutions, not more government programs! |
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District 10 Councilwoman Kathy Stewart's
"Camouflage Camp" |
This camp in Kathy Stewart’s District 10 has earned the title “Camouflage Camp.” Dallas’s enforcement of the urban camping ban is inconsistent, but the only camps that get cleared are the largest camps in highly trafficked areas. However, camps that are hidden or located far away from roads receive no attention from the city at all. It is impossible to know how much drug crime and prostitution happen around these camps. Vagrancy makes crime worse!
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District 7 Councilman Adam Bazaldua's
"Slum Camp" |
We named this camp in Adam Bazaldua’s District 7 “Slum Camp.” Homeless camping in Dallas is out of control. Locations like this are better described as government-sponsored slums. The city council can’t solve this problem by moving the camps to a location designated by the city while allowing drug use to continue. Dallas needs to centralize homeless services and stop enabling the willfully homeless. |
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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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