Don't know if I'll do this daily (and please feel free to add stories that interest you!) - especially during my upcoming vaycay - but ...
The Zone: One of the largest homeless camps in the nation will be cleared after a lawsuithttps://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/05/08/auto-draft-124-n549418The Zone is the name given to a homeless camp in Phoenix which holds somewhere between 900 and 1,100 people. It had completely taken over the area near Joe Faillace’s sandwich shop, Old Station Sub Shop. The place has been in the same location for 37 years but the growing homeless camp has created endless daily problems.
…there were hundreds of people sleeping within a few blocks of Old Station, most of them suffering from mental illness or substance abuse as they lived out their private lives within public view of the restaurant. They slept on Joe and Debbie’s outdoor tables, defecated behind their back porch, smoked methamphetamine in their parking lot, washed clothes in their bathroom sink, pilfered bread and gallon jars of pickles from their delivery trucks, had sex on their patio, masturbated within view of their employees and lit fires for warmth that burned down palm trees and scared away customers. Finally, Joe and Debbie could think of nothing else to do but to start calling their city councilman, the city manager, the mayor, the governor and the police.
Last August Joe and Debbie signed on to a lawsuit brought by other businesses in the area. In March a judge sided with them and ruled the city had a matter of weeks to clean up the Zone.
This is in central Phoenix, near government buildings and several parks. It's pathetic that it took a lawsuit by multiple businesses to get PPD to do
(or, probably more accurately, be allowed to do) their jobs of protecting law-abiding citizens.