Speak for yourself. Plenty of Alamedans appreciate the protection and service of the APD. Your hyperbole only serves to detract from an actual potential issue (and it makes you sound like a lunatic). Perhaps try addressing people respectfully, and you might get some respect in return.

Webbster84 you should take your own advice. You're probably one of maybe 10 Alamedans on the entire island that actually has any respect for our pathetic joke of a police department. You can go take a look at their yelp page and see an almost solid uninterrupted wall of 1 star reviews from angry locals. More than half the population of Alameda is sick of these worthless cops, who consistently do not do their jobs and let criminals prey on our community every single day with absolute, complete and total impunity.

I will never show any respect to the worthless thugs that APD are ever again. I respected them initially when I first moved to this city since I respect law enforcement in general. In return they divulged my confidential personal details to my criminal neighbors who now use it to stalk and harass me. They let my neighbors steal from our property every day. They let criminals trespass on our property and steal from it each week. They let people get away with literal attempted m.u_r.d.e.r as was the case when someone attempted to run me over intentionally with a truck at Atlantic and Challenger. These "cops" (if you can even call them that) are the biggest disgrace to law enforcement the United States has ever seen, and it isn't just me saying it. Look at their Yelp page. Half the city agrees with me. Go be a bootlicker somewhere else. These APD thugs are parasites and a drain on the taxpayers. They're worthless thugs who don't give a rat's behind about doing their jobs or protecting our community. They don't even follow the law themselves. If i had a penny for every time I saw a worthless APD officer break the law, make a turn without signalling, run a stop sign and almost hit a pedestrian etc while on regular patrol and not even responding to an emergency, I'd be richer than Bill Gates! Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Webbster

APD does NOTHING to protect the residents of this island. They DO NOT serve our community. They serve THEMSELVES. Go visit the police station and try filing a police report. There will be no one sitting at the front desk to receive you, and you'll be able to enjoy the sound of giggling APD employees sitting in the backroom watching youtube and munching on donuts while you wait 2 or 3 hours for an officer to come take your report. That's your tax dollars at work, Alameda! Fire them all. DRAIN THE SWAMP

Oh and PS if you ever do happen to be unfortunate enough to go through the process of filing a police report with Alameda police, be sure not to leave them your contact information, because THEY WILL disclose it to any 3rd party who asks for it. So for example if you're a domestic violence victim fleeing from an abusive spouse, you can rest assured that whatever information you provide APD will be divulged to your abuser so they can use it to abuse you even more. Do not trust them with your information. They are not here to protect and serve you. They're here to ignore and endanger you while enriching themselves with your tax money.

Oh and hey Webbster guess what, my neighbor was arrested for a DUI back in January and had her license suspended, but decided she would continue operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license anyway. She's been doing that every day ever since her arrest in January. I reported it to APD. You wanna know what they did?

ABSOLUTELY F---ING NOTHING, That's what! She's still driving around on a suspended license to this day. What a great police department we have here right Webbster? I mean don't you just feel so wonderful and safe knowing that they are KNOWINGLY letting criminals with a DUI and a suspended license drive around your neighborhood every day? Next time you see some kids crossing the street remember that

homeless encampment still there. same location, same homeless people there. Thanks to the useless APD for allowing this to continue for years

...and the homeless encampment is (big surprise everyone!) STILL there. The trash pile, urine and feces are getting smellier and nastier by the day. Today there was one homeless guy who looked like he was high on something stumbling about in front of the trash pile/homeless nest at 1511 park street. Pedestrians had to weave their way around him as he stumbled around. He almost walked into some poor lady and knocked her over. I'm sure she was pretty disturbed by the encounter. I can only imagine how all the young children who pass through this area must feel. I know I wouldn't feel safe if I was in their shoes.

Anyway, thanks to APD for continuing to ignore this issue and demonstrating their utter uselessness to the world. Thanks for continuing to prove that you are a massive waste of tax dollars, parasites and a blight to our community.

The east end was a total zoo the other day. I saw so many transients walking around high on controlled substances, waltzing in and out of traffic, harassing citizens as they passed by, stealing shopping carts from various shopping centers and grocery stores in the area and using them to haul unknown items to their stolen item repository on Buena Vista between Park and Oak street. I called APD but as usual they didn't seem to care, and they didn't do anything. The area is still covered in trash and urine, still have a bunch of addicts roaming around stealing stuff and harassing people. What a disgrace.

Big surprise folks: the encampment is still there!

Here's a photo I took of it today. https://i.imgur.com/auak6Up.jpg

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You can see they've been busy drinking and urinating here as evidenced by the pools of fresh urine soaking the asphalt and their various beer cans and other junk they dump here. They even have some furniture set up in the doorway of a commercial building that doesn't belong to them. I guess littering, loitering, public intoxication and urination are all legal in Alameda now. Great job APD!

When they finish drinking and urinating all over the sidewalk, they'll usually drunkenly stumble around the neighborhood, often sitting down at the tables of nearby restaurants as they drift in and out of consciousness until they sober up again. Then they return to their encampment to repeat the process all over again.

Thanks APD! Encampment will be turning 3 years old soon (maybe even older!)

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reopening this issue because "assigned to hlos" does not mean "closed" stop abusing the "Close" button to sweep issues under the rug. we know you guys dont want to do your jobs but thats no excuse for closing issues without fixing them

And, just as I predicted, the homeless encampment is STILL there. Good thing I immediately re-opened this issue the other day when Lt. Hosh Durani attempted to fake-close it. THIS IS WHY I ALWAYS RE-OPEN THESE ISSUES. APD DOES NOT RESOLVE THEM. I REPEAT: APD DOES NOT RESOLVE THESE ISSUES. They just close the issue and make it look like they fixed it without actually doing jack diddly squat! Attached photo I took of the encampment today as I was passing by. This is why this must stay open!

APD apparently stopped by and I guess they escorted the drunk homeless guy away. I'm sure he'll be back again tomorrow though. He left all his disgusting garbage behind. This is the contribution that these d.r.u.g. addicted transients make to our community. this is their way of saying "thanks" for all the tax dollars we pour into social welfare programs to help them.

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APD apparently stopped by and I guess they e.s.c.o.r.t.e.d the d.r.u.n.k homeless guy away. I'm sure he will be back again tomorrow though. He left all his dis.g.us.ti.ng garbage behind. This is the contribution that these d.r.u.g. addicted transients make to our community. this is their way of saying "thanks" for all the tax dollars we pour into social welfare programs to help them.

Looks like the word that was triggering the automatic word censor was "e.s.c.o.r.t.e.d" (without periods)

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More random trash and stolen shopping cart left behind by various homeless transients that APD have allowed to take over this area for the past several years. Photo also taken today, just about a dozen feet from where that drunk guy was sleeping (by vietnamese food place)

I walked by the encampment the other day and it looks like it's still being trashed daily by transients. Attached some photos I took of it recently showing signs of recent transient activity (garbage and random furniture dumped here again)

Nothing has been done to address the long-term problem that has persisted at this same location for years with transients/junkies abusing this space for their own personal use, loitering, openly abusing d.r.u.gs and alcohol, urinating and defecating on the sidewalk, i.l.l.e.g.al. garbage dumping, etc.

Every time APD takes these transients away they just return to the same spot the next day and it starts all over again. They need to be cleared out of here for GOOD.

Photos of the homeless encampment/remnant trash I took the other day:

https://i.imgur.com/D2DLQHQ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/n75q5tx.jpg

Still looking as ugly and blighted as always.

encampment is still there. just walked by it the other day. apparently even other alamedans are reporting this in separate requests here on SCF. There was another request posted by another person just 4 days ago about this same exact problem. Anyway park street was a total zoo the other day. We had babbling transients stumbling about all down Park from Central all the way to Buena Vista. Thanks for letting this continue to fester and get worse APD! We can always count on you to not do your jobs and stand idly by while Alameda deteriorates rapidly into a second Oakland!

October 2nd, 2019. It has been approximately 4 months since I submitted this request, and approximately 2 years since I first started reporting to the city. If memory serves me correctly, it's been about 5 or 6 years now since residents first starting reporting this semi-nomadic encampment, that has plagued park street for literally half a decade now.

Who's ready for a BIG surprise you totally never saw coming?

The homeless encampment at the subpar mini golf is...

...wait for it...

....waaait for it ....

STILL THERE!

After half a decade of plaguing our community and several hundred complaints from several dozen if not more local residents to the city government, city mayor's office, city manager's office, city council, alameda police department (including the chief himself, who apparently no longer even bothers reading emails from citizens concerned over his growing and voluntary lack of control over crime in Alameda), the encampment is... Yup. Still there!

Nice going city government

Great job APD! You guys sure are the finest alright! Haha

literally half a decade of this c.r.a.p:

and they have the gall to try to close this and pretend it's resolved? I don't even know the words to describe how loathsome this government and police department is. Absolutely disgusting.

More photos of this thoroughly trashed, vandalized toxic waste dump and homeless nest that our worthless city has allowed to stay here for literally half a decade now

No homeless nest and toxic waste dump is complete without at least a couple stolen shopping carts. I'm sure the businesses that own these don't mind, right APD? Who cares about theft of private property anyway. It's not like the taxpayers rights matter to you at all, right? citizens who have to pass by this horrific mess every day don't matter. our voices dont count. only people who DONT pay taxes, abuse and milk the system dry and spend their entire day drinking and doing i.l.l.e.g.a.l d.r.u.g.s matter, right APD? their rights trum.p ours!

Remember folks, here in Alameda, it's totally A-OK to:

* drink in public
* urinate in public
* use hard, i.l.l.e.g.al controlled substances such as meth and heroin
* litter, including but not limited to dumping uncapped syringes infected with HIV and with remnants of heroin in them in children's playgrounds
* loiter
* encroach on private property
* steal property
* vandalize property
* expose your genitalia to others, including women and minors
* insert more crimes here

Here in Alameda all of these things are perfectly legal and acceptable, right APD? If not, it sure seems like it, given you guys have let everyone who does this get away with it for at least 5 years now.

and by the way folks i am not exaggerating at all when I say that literally you can do any of the things I listed above and get away with it in Alameda. They will literally let you do it. We had a thief trespassing and robbing our property for 2 years straight. Took 15,000 calls to police and about 100 emails to get them finally cited, and then the chief paid their fines off for them. Im not kidding. Literally, i wish i was making this up. This city government makes me want to vomit

Looks like someone went and cleaned up all the stolen shopping carts and trash they dumped there. the graffiti is still there and the homeless bum who is usually occupying the encampment was walking southbound on Park street today walking straight into people in a dr.u.g.-induced daze. he was half naked and smelled like c.r.a.p.

How long does our worthless, corrupt and downright disgusting city government plan on continuing to ignore this issue?

Only in Alameda does it take 5-10 years to remove one homeless encampment. In other cities its 24 hours. In Alameda, 10 or 5 years if you're lucky

Maybe 20 years later they'll finally get rid of it. Maybe that or maybe it'll be twice the size it is now with even more homeless. I wont be surprised if its the latter

I just walked by this area today. The homeless d.r.u.g. a.d.d.i.c.t who normally occupies the encampment at the abandoned, closed down Subpar Minigolf building has moved to the bench at 1419 Park Street. He is unsurprisingly still there since our absolute failure of a police department continue their refusal to enforce the law and remove this plague from our community.

He is currently passed out half-naked on the bench in front of 1419 park in a d.r.u.g.-induced slumber. I can only imagine how much d.r.u.g.s. he has done today, and how much trash he plans to dump in our neighborhood again.

the abandoned, closed down Subpar Minigolf building is also still covered in graffiti and dried urine pools from the homeless encampment. thanks worthless apd and city government for continuing to ignore this now something like 5 year old issue

its amazing that after years and years of repeat complaints from multiple residents, not only does the city do nothing to get rid of these encampments permanently, they even let the same transients who established them in the first place continue to roam around our streets, and continuing to spread their infestation of d.r.u.g.s, poor hygiene and disease all over our once-lovely town. It's a shame, people who lived in Alameda 50 years ago would be horrified to see how it looks today thanks to our corrupt and worthless city government and worthless pathetic excuse of a police department. I don't think anyone who lived here 50 years ago ever imagined it could even get this bad. This city government, specifically the city manager, mayor, police chief, lt. hosh durani and sgt. foster should be ashamed of themselves. You are an absolute disgrace to the good name of american law enforcement. It's cops and politicians like you who give everyone else a bad name.

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florence lopez as well. I dont know how you folks sleep at night knowing what a massive disservice you are doing to our community. then again most of you dont even live here and you get paid six digit figures at our expense, so its no wonder you dont seem so bothered. after all you guys get to come home to your cushy expensive mansions in danville while the rest of us have to deal with the heroin needles in our kids' preschools. you dont have to deal with it, we do. you sorry c.l.o.w.n.s

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It is not illegal to be homeless. Homeless people have the right to walk around Park St. like any resident. Outreach workers visit this area on a regular basis to offer services to the homeless. When the Day Center opens in July, this will hopefully help alleviate homeless individuals walking around Park Street when they have a place to go during the day to get services, use facilities, shower, etc.