Downtown Tulsa residents concerned about encounters with the homeless

[trekrok]

I've been riding some bike trails in OKC and there are sections that feel a little dicey with the homeless activity. I've never had an issue but there are sections that I really wouldn't care to fix a flat. Definitely wouldn't recommend it for a lone female.

Kind of sucks to have trails that are affected by this issue.

 

[TerryMiller]

You ain't seen anything of what it can look like . Travel to the west coast and you'll understand why I said it has to be nipped in the bud. The state of Oregon throws billions at the homeless problem and it only gets worse


Just like at Jelly Stone Park... Don't feed the animals. .

Truth be told^^^^^!!! We worked and lived up there for 17 months back in 2016/17, and the "traffic, perhaps migration is a better word" was rampant up and down Interstate 5, which runs from southern CA up to Washington state.

There were even people up there giving away sleeping bags to the homeless, thinking that they were doing a good thing. However, there in Grants Pass, OR, the local officials banned that practice because the homeless would just abandon the sleeping bags and the city ended up having to pick them up and dispose of them.

 

[mouthpiece]

They've been running them out of the thieves forest along Riverside trails for almost 2 years but the shear amount of homeless seems to be increasing. I am now seeing them all the way out to Broken Arrow along the tpk trail.
I don't think you can make someone conform to societies "norms", BUT,
I just don't see how living rough can be any easier than working and paying bills.
I drove by the shelters downtown yesterday at around 9am and there had to be 200 homeless wandering around there.
In my experience with a few of them, most choose to be homeless, a small percentage have mental issues and likely could not be around people or hold down a job.
We use to offer them work(construction) and never did have 1 accept.
They've been assaulting people in downtown for 20+ years that I know of.
my wife had to he escorted out of the TCC campus by security it got so bad 20 years ago.

 

[mr ed]

After reading the OP I have this comment.
Dear Woke Cop, Does your inability to enforce laws along state hiways mean you will no longer give out tickets on state roads? Your "Wokeness" is Amazing.

 

[Judi]

...just mace them an keep walking...I recommend bear spray...

 

[RidgeRunner45-70]

These photos look just like Denver…

 

[Raido Free America]

Just look at what is happening on the west coast, and obviously moving this way. If Youtube videos are to be believed, this has literaly taken over ALL big liberal cities on the west coast? I'm sure drugs, and booze, account for much of this, and suspect mental illness, and SPOILED BRATISUM, account for the rest of this problem. What if anythimg can be done about it? At this rate, many areas of these cities will eventilly become like parts of Detroit, and many other once HUGE PROSPEROUS CITIES, in the rust belt, DEAD, except for a few zombies wandering the streets, won't they? Is this the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE I keep hearing about? Is this same thing happening in London, Sidney, Paris, Tokyo, etc? If so I don't hear about it?

 

[SlugSlinger]

TULSA, Okla. -
A juvenile is in the hospital on Thursday after an early-morning shooting in Downtown Tulsa, according to police.
Tulsa Police say officers first responded to the scene, near East 1st Street and South Boston Avenue, at around 12:50 a.m. on Thursday after receiving a call about shots fired in the area. Police say, officers, who were already in the area, heard the shots before they received the call.
Police say they believe it all started after some kind of altercation unfolded at the Center of the Universe landmark downtown. While searching the area, officers say they found shell casings in a nearby parking garage, but no victims were located.
While investigating the scene, police received a call that a shooting victim had turned up at a local hospital. Police say they went to the hospital to try and piece together what led to the shooting and talk to the people who were with the shooting victim.