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City of Bloomington, Indiana

closed: Resolved #180825

City Performance:

Other: Homeless people are again living in People’s Park. They’re using drugs, fighting, leaving trash everywhere, screaming and yelling, urinating and defecating and have taken over most of the benches and tables. It also appears that they are sleeping there overnight. We bought ice cream across the street and expected to have a nice Sunday afternoon in the park for thirty minutes or so… we tried sitting on the steps of a business on the opposite side of Dunn Street but the shrubbery nearby was probably soaked in urine based on the stench. We simply left at that point….. No other Indiana city of the same size and population has a homeless population of 1 % of that of Bloomington and that is directly attributable to the fact that Bloomington attracts these people by virtue of feeding them and enabling them unlike anywhere else in Indiana. I’ve lived in and near Bloomington since 1974 and this has simply gotten totally out of hand.

History

5/7/2025 15:48:34 Closed by Shatoyia Moss

Time has passed the matter. No longer relevant.

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https://bloomington.in.gov/crm/tickets/view?ticket_id=180825 Closed by Shatoyia Moss Time has passed the matter. No longer relevant.

8/12/2022 14:42:00 Rose Smith assigned this case to Anonymous

Sending to Community and Family Resource Department per request

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https://bloomington.in.gov/crm/tickets/view?ticket_id=180825 Rose Smith assigned this case to Beverly Calender-Anderson You can use the link to follow progress on this case. Sending to Community and Family Resource Department per request

7/31/2022 22:42:42 Anonymous assigned this case to Rose Smith

Sent notification to Rose Smith, Anonymous
https://bloomington.in.gov/crm/tickets/view?ticket_id=180825 Anonymous assigned this case to Rose Smith You can use the link to follow progress on this case.

7/31/2022 22:42:42 Opened by Anonymous