Vagrancy and homelessness are ongoing issues in Dallas County, as nearly 4,000 people experience some form of homelessness on any given night, according to the 2022 Point-in-Time Homeless Count from the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance (MDHA).

“Dallas is at a tipping point: we either get back to being the business-friendly powerhouse that generations of Dallasites have worked so hard to become, or we degrade into the next Chicago or Portland where criminality is a commonality, and a good economy hasn't existed in years.”

“The Ferguson Effect is a real thing. Police officers started to back away from enforcement," Knezovich said. "You saw it across the nation. You wonder why you see less and less enforcement and more and more crime, it's woke politicians and activists and the media have made it so. They wanted us to disengage.”

“When Rachel walked into her restaurant's kitchen, she found a stranger there grilling spam. She said he appeared to be homeless. She offered him money but he wouldn't leave. Then some of her customers left out of fear. He eventually took some of her mail and left.”