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While the challenge is no doubt more widespread, a few street corners seem to be particular magnets for the homeless and/or panhandlers … mainly on Illinois intersecting with Washington and again at Maryland.
As for the “gun-toting minors” this past weekend’s encounter seems like an aberration, not a recurring pattern.
While minors downtown carrying guns is not a “recurring pattern,” it has happened before, more than once, and if nothing is done, it will happen again. There’s no excuse for minors to be on downtown streets after 11 p.m. Curfew them–if they’re spotted downtown after 11, take them to the juvenile detention center and their parents/guardians can pick them up there. If they’re running from the police downtown after 11, they probably have something to hide. The homeless issue is complicated–these citizens need compassion, counseling, a ray of hope. But the kids downtown need to know they’re not welcome after 11. Sorry, but that’s life.
You are right I live downtown and walk early in the morning and at night with my dog and find they also having sex out in public thinking no one would see them. I think it is ironic I get yelled at when my dog goes to the bathroom and I bag it. Maybe we should give bags and toilet paper for them. I see them at the church on Deleware Saturdays fighting over clothing to discard it in the bushes. I have almost stepped in human poop on the sidewalks. I have even seen a homeless man pull out his privates and pee in front of clients at a restaurant laughing. Then a girl at Starbucks pulled her pants down peed through the chair and pulled her pants up and walked away.
It is a crying shame and I have met 3 business owners that are leaving downtown and one told me he is leaving Indiana.
It is a shame they want to be like other great states but takes taxpayers money instead of some of the businesses paying for the transit of there workers downtown.
IMPD officers tell us at neighborhood meetings that they are hamstrung by the “Homeless Bill of Rights”, which the City-County Council passed in 2015. Let’s start by repealing this measure, which has been a key component of the awful mess we see on our downtown sidewalks. Surely a handful of Democrats on the council care enough about our downtown’s success to join with their Republican counterparts (the original bill was passed largely along party lines) and make this fix.
Greed and lack of compassion by our current Mayor who would rather give our tax money to the well heeled. This clown is corrupt as is a portion of the City County Council.