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**Parks and streets are for public use, not private living.**

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**Dallas City Council members continue to ignore the vagrancy problem.**

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**Safe streets are a civil right.**

**Councilman Omar Narvaez Becomes Slum Lord**

Vagrancy has plagued Dallas for years and as council members have continually ignored the problem, the situation has become more dire

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**Councilman Narvaez's District 6**

**is host to**

**some of the worst examples of illegal vagrancy in Dallas.**

This (pictured) encampment at Joe's Creek has become particularly troublesome as the vagrants here have overtaken a large area alongside the creek and regularly harass people at the nearby cemetery and apartment complexes.

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**Keep Dallas Safe (KDS) tested the water in Joe's Creek and the results returned positive for extreme levels of E. coli and fecal coliforms.**

The results confirm vagrants camping here are using this residential creek as a TOILET, contaminating the water with feces and other wastes, causing biohazardous conditions for nearby homeowners.

KDS alerted Councilman Omar Narvaez to this encampment and its potentially

**worsening**

**havoc-wreaking effects**, yet he refuses to take any action on behalf of his constituents.

**Joe's Creek is NOT for private waste disposal!**

This is just one story in the City of Dallas, where illegal vagrancy has ruined the area. If you are as fed up with the lack of enforcement against this criminal destruction of Dallas communities, click the button below to contact your council member.

**Dallas will no longer tolerate their gross negligence on public safety.**

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15-year-old Natalee Cramer went to the bathroom during a Maverick's game and never returned to her seat. She was kidnapped, raped, and ultimately sex-trafficked by Dallas men. Two weeks following her abduction, she was finally rescued... but not by the Dallas Police Department. Now 18, the victim is speaking out about the failures of DPD in her traumatic case. Fully funding DPD must be a top priority to prevent human trafficking from becoming an epidemic in our city!

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**Dallas Apartment Shooting Leads to ZERO Arrests** [link removed]

A man was shot and killed in his own apartment. There have been zero arrests made since the incident. Is the perpetrator going to get off scot-free? Did the DPD staffing shortage contribute to his ability to flee the scene? Almost certainly. Dallas can't handle many more of these tragic events.??

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**Dallas Promises To Keep Vagrant Camps 'Closed** [link removed]' [link removed]

A renewed effort to end homelessness in Dallas is underway. A $30 million push to keep vagrants off the streets downtown has shown marginal improvements thus far. The best solution is increasing enforcement against vagrancy and centralizing homeless services like San Antonio's 'Haven For Hope' model, but we don't see any of that in this "plan." Updates to follow.

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**Tracking Illegal Camps:**

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This week, Executive Director Joseph Porter went live from the Joe's Creek encampment. He displayed just how dangerous the street has become due to the vagrant camp. The tents there are multiplying, and the area is becoming more and more sketchy as time passes.

**What is Councilman Omar Narvaez going to do about this camp?**

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**District 7 Councilman Adam Bazaldua**

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**Panhandler's Paradise**

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This camp in Adam Bazaldua's District 7 has been dubbed "Panhandler's Paradise Camp." Dallas has become a paradise for vagrants and panhandlers who enjoy taking advantage of your compassion. Panhandling in Bazaldua's District is particularly bad. DPD isn't enforcing the panhandling ban due to their staffing shortage.

**??Bazaldua would prefer for Dallas residents to be accosted every day instead of funding our Police Department!**

**District 6 Councilman Omar Narvaez**

**"Monument Trash Camp"**

We named this camp in Omar Narvaez's District 6 "Monument Trash Camp." This vagrant enjoys making sculptures out of garbage he finds in the intersection. We have a hard time imagining that any of the local businesses appreciate the monuments of trash that he has left everywhere. This vagrant has lived in this spot for more than a year at this point!

**District 2 Councilman Jesse Moreno**

**"Skyline Knoll**

**Camp"**

This camp in Jesse Moreno's District 2 has earned the title "Skyline Knoll Camp." This encampment overlooks downtown Dallas, and the vagrant enjoys easy access to I-30. As we have covered previously, vagrants like to take advantage of slow traffic and use it as a panhandling opportunity on the highway. This cannot be tolerated any longer.

**DPD must receive more funding and increase enforcement ASAP!**

To Report an Encampment: Dial 3-1-1 or Call (214) 670-3111 tel:(214)%20670-3111 and Click on your

**District Councilman to Email them with the Date and Camp Location.**

Chad West, Council District 1 mailto:[email protected]

Jesse Moreno, Council District 2 mailto:[email protected]

Zarin D. Gracey, Council District 3 mailto:[email protected]

Carolyn King Arnold, Council 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 mailto:[email protected]

**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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