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This encampment was cleared out roughly 2 weeks ago and has since returned to the area, larger and more messy than before. Individuals residing here do drugs out in the open and are constantly wandering into the street into the pathway of cars. They dump trash in front of the residential building across the street and harass residents as they come and go. I have called the nonemergency line and I have called MACRO, both of which tell me nothing can be done unless there is an emergency. The emergency is that this neighborhood is mixed industrial and residential (homes on 45th, 46th, and 47th) and is being overrun by illegal dumping, and by lack of enforcement of encampments that produce trash extending out over the sidewalk and into the street. The emergency is that there are people doing drugs in neighborhoods where children reside. Many of my neighbors are undocumented and thus are afraid of reporting this to the city. I am trying to speak up for everyone who lives in this area. Just because we are not the rich people in the hills does not mean we deserve to live with these filth producing individuals. The drugs and the human waste is out of control. Please clear these encampments and do something so that they do not return. We need cameras, concrete blocks, regular patrol of the area, something. App will not let me upload photo, but please trust that there is an out of control situation here. Just come by and look at it yourself.