Dear Pro-Tem Mayor Kathleen Hicks, Chief Mendoza, Captain Sudan, Officer Green & Officer Mitchell
I am again sending this information because what Eddie & I experienced today. Seriously this area needs patrolling. This street is unreal, the behavior that goes on must be stopped along with the code violations that are present and obvious which allow these behaviors to continue!
Eddie and I drove down past just to see how things have been and we really didn't even need to ask, it was very obvious. There is very suspicious behavior present at all times of the day. Please can we make a promise that you will have officers present in this area (on this section of Bomar & Hudson) and patrol it on a regular bases?
The area that I am talking about runs from 2200 Bomar to Hudson and beyond to the East; and probably further. It runs parallel with Lancaster, on the north side of Lancaster across the street from Marshall Grain. Every property in this section is an open structure and most of the property is owned by the City of Fort Worth. The worst being (I think) 2313 Bomar also owned by Fort Worth. The properties in the immediate area that are owned by the City of Fort Worth are 2200, 2305, 2309 & 2313 Bomar. So, when the problem is the City itself; where do we turn?
The date & time that we were there was Saturday, May 26th, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM. The one hour that we were monitoring the area there were eleven trespassing onto one property posted ''No Trespassing'' and damaging fencing to gain access; Other properties where several (we stopped counting) vagrants/transients/whores and druggies were entering onto; then entered open structures on the properties after accessing the grounds. One property is posted ''No Trespassing'' and it is not one owned by the city. I do not believe any of the city properties are posted or boarded up. Not that it would make a difference unless the area is truthfully being patrolled.
(Open structures are in violation under our own city's ordinances, along with tall grass both which are in an abundance on Bomar). Code Officer Dennis Mitchell I believe is going to get these properties up to city code. Also, while we were there we called the police because of so much activity going on. We also spoke to an officer sitting at the 7-11 and he said after he ran into the store he would drive down Bomar but Eddie and I stayed in the area for another 20 minutes and saw no patrol car (we might have missed it but were within sight the whole time). It is not a lack of officers in the area, there were four patrol cars in the 7-11 parking lot over the hour that we were circling the block. The problem is not making their presents known on this stretch of Bomar just down & across the street from the 7-11. (at Beach & Lancaster) This street needs monitored.
By Mike Phipps
I am again sending this information because what Eddie & I experienced today. Seriously this area needs patrolling. This street is unreal, the behavior that goes on must be stopped along with the code violations that are present and obvious which allow these behaviors to continue!
Eddie and I drove down past just to see how things have been and we really didn't even need to ask, it was very obvious. There is very suspicious behavior present at all times of the day. Please can we make a promise that you will have officers present in this area (on this section of Bomar & Hudson) and patrol it on a regular bases?
The area that I am talking about runs from 2200 Bomar to Hudson and beyond to the East; and probably further. It runs parallel with Lancaster, on the north side of Lancaster across the street from Marshall Grain. Every property in this section is an open structure and most of the property is owned by the City of Fort Worth. The worst being (I think) 2313 Bomar also owned by Fort Worth. The properties in the immediate area that are owned by the City of Fort Worth are 2200, 2305, 2309 & 2313 Bomar. So, when the problem is the City itself; where do we turn?
The date & time that we were there was Saturday, May 26th, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM. The one hour that we were monitoring the area there were eleven trespassing onto one property posted ''No Trespassing'' and damaging fencing to gain access; Other properties where several (we stopped counting) vagrants/transients/whores and druggies were entering onto; then entered open structures on the properties after accessing the grounds. One property is posted ''No Trespassing'' and it is not one owned by the city. I do not believe any of the city properties are posted or boarded up. Not that it would make a difference unless the area is truthfully being patrolled.
(Open structures are in violation under our own city's ordinances, along with tall grass both which are in an abundance on Bomar). Code Officer Dennis Mitchell I believe is going to get these properties up to city code. Also, while we were there we called the police because of so much activity going on. We also spoke to an officer sitting at the 7-11 and he said after he ran into the store he would drive down Bomar but Eddie and I stayed in the area for another 20 minutes and saw no patrol car (we might have missed it but were within sight the whole time). It is not a lack of officers in the area, there were four patrol cars in the 7-11 parking lot over the hour that we were circling the block. The problem is not making their presents known on this stretch of Bomar just down & across the street from the 7-11. (at Beach & Lancaster) This street needs monitored.
By Mike Phipps
