The homeless encampment outside of the Wheeler Mission is ridiculous. They have multiple full shopping carts, and rocking chairs on the sidewalk. The city needs to clean it up. They are also camping in the woods back there.
Woodchips are all over skatepark. Unable to use skatepark as intended.
People living on the sidewalk and blocking it.
As quickly as you guys get that sidewalk cleaned up. They are right back there with more stuff, more trash and more people it is such a dangerous situation. Businesses are leaving our street which puts empty buildings for them to destroy they've already broke into one that had to be all boarded up. People can't use the sidewalks because of all the trash and the people and it's just not safe. I understand they need a place to go but that is not it
People living and sleeping on the sidewalk in front of Wheeler Mission.
Countless bags of trash and debris are left on parking lot at this location for an excess of a week now, we believe these are left here by the homeless crowd as they have been camping at this location previously. Obviously this church has no interest in dealing with this problem and sack of trash may contain hazardous material. Typically the hummus are leaving drugs and or needles, syringe, etc..
An out of town friend of ours was on Kirkwood last night. He had come to spend the weekend with his daughter, a graduating senior at IU. He saw that there was an incident brewing and approached officers, who he states were only on the periphery of Kirkwood. He asked them to enter into Kirkwood as the situation was getting out of control. He, a white man, was told if he felt uncomfortable around black people that he should leave. The police, rather than protecting the thousands of students, of all races and nationalities, chose to stand around until gun violence escalated. I hope that you are all deeply ashamed of your lack of concern for the city's residents. IU students, faculty and staff contribute untold monies to the coffers of the city and I hope that you will be able to come up with some sensible policies to protect IU students so they can celebrate the race and all that they bring to the city.
I I know from the last email that I sent you that you're working on a plan. In the meantime, the situation in front of wheeler mission is just getting worse. There are people camping down there they have their belongings thrown everywhere. They're on the sidewalks. They're in the street. The homeless themselves are in the middle of the road. It is unsafe to drive through there at times and unsafe 100% of the time for people to walk down that sidewalk. This needs to be addressed and cleaned up
6am. City trash collection vehicle driving wrong way on one-way street. Seen driving west on 11th between Indiana and Dunn Streets, then traveled north on Dunn. Two offenses back-to-back.
There is an old homeless women screaming cuss words at the top of her lungs on the b-line trail by the Bloomingfoods. Her behavior is seriously concerning. She is almost always there.