From: twillich@yahoo.com <twillich@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2023 12:58 PM
To: Jacki Marsh – Mayor <Jacki.Marsh@cityofloveland.org>
Subject: [External] The Homeless are getting out of hand!
It’s time Mayor Marsh to handle this.
I’ve lived in colorado for more than 30 years and this is the first time I’ve had a face to face with an agressive homeless person that it scared me .
Woke this morning to a mentally unstable man tearing up my flowers all of them , writing 666 on my screen door window , cursing at my husband who answered the door only to be told to he was a demon and to suck Satan’s dick.
He poured salt on my porch and knew what he was doing . Because he told my husband ” I know your going to call the police ” so he walked a few houses down and changed his clothes . We did call the police but they won’t do anything meaningful . I fear this is going to get worse. My neighbor caught a homeless woman pooping on her porch twice . My friend across town had homeless people lingering on her garage driveway leaving stuff next to her fence and she lives in front of the police department.
I live on west 1st street in loveland.
I no longer feel safe my family now no longer feels safe .
It’s time to address the mental health of loveland and its homelessness. The tiny house program here is not working .
Shipping them off to other places is not the answer .
They need a mental facility that takes them off the street for the safety of them and everyone else. Where they can recieve help . Loveland is so worried about appearances all the gentrification and development going on causing higher taxes is straining everyone .
What’s going to happen when all that work and development is done but no one will move here because we can’t even get the homeless off the street or help for them and they start vandalizing attacking and menacing the prospective buyers and community members to be?
Please investigate this . No double talk ,no brush off,time to get busy and really work on this. Sincerely a deeply and fearfuly concerned resident.
Mrs. Tiana Willich
Loveland
From: Jacki Marsh – Mayor
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2023 3:15 PM
To: twillich@yahoo.com; Tim Doran <Tim.Doran@cityofloveland.org>; Steve Adams <Steve.Adams@cityofloveland.org>
Cc: Temp CCMAIL <TEMPCC@cityofloveland.org>
Subject: Re: [External] The Homeless are getting out of hand!
Thank you Tiana for reaching out and for sharing your recent experience. I am including our Police Chief, Tim Doran in this reply.
Chief, can you please look into this matter? Thank you.
Jacki
I will send your information to my Community Impact Unit who specialize in addressing the illegal Transient behavior we face every day.
They will research this case and see if there is anything more we can do. I absolutely agree with you that the challenge of transients and the homeless is primarily a factor of mental health and addiction and the only viable solution for many is a full-time treatment plan. Like you, I have suggested several solutions and options to our city council. While I disagree the police “won’t do anything meaningful,” I will say my team is faced with a VERY frustrating cycle of arrest, release from custody, failure to appear in court, repeat. We are working closely with Municipal Judge Geri Joneson to bring the most disruptive Transients directly to her courtroom and she has been an amazing partner.
The good news is the city just passed two recent municipal ordinances to help us address defecation in public and to more swiftly deal with the “stuff next to your neighbor’s fence.” Both are positive steps supported by city council. They take affect on September 22nd, just a few short days away.
The creation of a mental facility you’re suggesting will take no small amount of money and I am concerned the likely loss in city revenue should the voters approve the sales tax initiative on the ballot will derail any possibility of its creation. Should the police budget be reduced, this will also eliminate the Police Community Impact Unit which was just created to help address the transient and homeless challenges … a dire situation indeed.
I am particularly disturbed, as I am certain you are as well, by the writing of 666 on your screen door and the references to Satan. These demonic actions and statements speak to the evil we are facing, and I assure you the police department will respond as swiftly as we can to any problems you face. It’s horrible to live in fear and I’m certain it’s not anything you would have imagined in the 30 years you’ve lived in Colorado. But my pledge to you is our police department will do everything in our power to ensure you “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” (Rom. 12:21)
Chief Tim Doran
Chief of Police
Loveland Police Department
Mayor Marsh,
Thank you for sharing this with me.
Tiana ,
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