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**Dallas: where criminals thrive and businesses leave.**

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**Dallas city council members ignore the vagrancy problem.**

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

**City Creates Street Response Team—After We Forced Their Hand**

After months of letting cleared-out camps return, City Hall is finally doing what we’ve been demanding: launching a Dallas Street Response [link removed] team to keep encampments from repopulating.

This new unit, made up of 23 reassigned city staff,

**will focus on proactive encampment cleanups and maintaining high-priority zones downtown.** They’ll now report to the Office of Emergency Management—something that should’ve happened a long time ago.

Let’s be clear: this didn’t happen because City Hall suddenly got serious about public safety. It happened because

**voters passed the public safety propositions**, and groups like Keep Dallas Safe—and everyday citizens—have kept the pressure on ever since. We’ve posted the videos, exposed the failures, and followed up relentlessly. That constant pressure is what forced City Hall to act.

The Street Response team is part of the broader “Street to Home” effort, which has already placed 170 people into permanent housing. It’s a good step, but without consistent enforcement, those same areas will be filled with tents again by summer.

We’ve seen it before. Housing Forward says the new team “clears the runway” for their work

**,**but that runway is only there because voters forced the city to build one. This is what pressure looks like: Real results. Now we need to keep it up.

**Call City Hall. Show up. Stay loud.**

Contact Your Council Member [link removed]

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**he Greatest Sideshow on Earth—Live from District 14**

After

**Neiman Marcus** warned City Hall about homelessness and public safety, a man was caught on video

**defecating outside their store**. Councilman Paul Ridley’s response? Crickets.

Now downtown businesses are threatening to leave, and District 14 is turning into a sideshow. This cartoon says what City Hall won’t.

**Press Highlights:**

Dallas Loses $8.6M Over Permitting Blunder [link removed]

Dallas just lost

**$8.6 million** after the

**permitting department accidentally lowered fees** instead of raising them—costing the city

**$1.1 million a month.** No outrage from council, no accountability, just another

**“oops”** from a department already

**infamous for incompetence.**

Shooting Suspect Walks Out of DPD HQ—And Vanishes [link removed]

A shooting suspect casually

**walked out of Dallas Police Headquarters** in the middle of questioning and was missing for over two hours. This is not a joke.

**How does something like this even happen in a major city?**

4-Year-Old Girl Shot in Dallas Apartment [link removed]

A 4-year-old girl was

**shot at a Dallas apartment complex**, possibly by

**another child** who got access to a gun. This is what happens when kids are raised in chaos with zero adult supervision.

**Dallas’ culture of lawlessness is breaking families**—one tragedy at a time.

**Tracking Illegal Camps:**

**District 7, Councilman Adam Bazaldua**

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**Tarp-Covered Takeover**

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At the corner of Al Lipscomb Way, a growing encampment wrapped in tarps has taken over this lot, turning a once-passable space into a cluttered camp. Trash is piling up, and the area is quickly deteriorating.

**Councilman Adam Bazaldua, how long will residents be expected to ignore this growing hazard in their own neighborhood?**

**District 2, Councilman Jesse Moreno**

**"Gould Street Encampment"**

Nestled along Gould Street in The Cedars, a lone tent stands as a stark reminder of the area's escalating challenges. Recently, this vicinity was marred by a tragic shooting that claimed a life, intensifying residents' concerns about safety and the growing presence of encampments.

**Councilman Jesse Moreno, in light of these alarming developments, what immediate steps are you taking to ensure the safety and well-being of your constituents in The Cedars?**

**District 6, Councilman Omar Narvaez**

**"Boarded-Up Sonic Camp"**

What used to be a fast food stop is now a makeshift shelter, with tents, trash bags, and tarps cluttering the entrance of this abandoned Sonic on Empire Central. The scene reflects growing neglect across commercial spaces in District 6.

**Councilman Omar Narvaez, how long are you willing to let our business corridors spiral like this?**

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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