Redding Homeless Blog

Although picture was taken during middle of the day, Camp Carr's population doubles at night Whether City of Redding or its Police like it or not, due to a timely recent Federal judge court ruling on the treatment of homeless virtually has stopped the "cruel and unusual punishment" of those without shelter, prohibiting RPD from writing tickets criminalizing sleeping or keeping warm by a survival fire. A tent city is forming in Redding at the Parkview park and trail on the banks of the Sacramento river. Timely indeed due to so many recently displaced victims of the Shasta County Carr and the Paradise Camp fire of Butte County, near Chico California.  Out of complete and total necessity Redding's "CampCarr" has formed. Unfortunately drinking fountains and park benches were removed some time ago in an effort by City of Redding officials to prevent everyday living and life sustaining activities of others less fortunate in the past. Redding...

A humanitarian crisis is occurring in Redding and when KRCR News Channel 7 reporter was told about it and was asked if they were aware of the situation and cou ld they do a December human interest story on this situation the reporter responded, "Oh we are aware of the situation" and "we don't do those kind of stories" Comforting im sure to the Parkview neighborhood facing the smile place park by the river next to Cypress street bridge. You see a HUGE homeless tent city has filled that park with tents and make shift structures spilling right down into the river, One of them looks like a shanty house. The numbers have grown to beyond the closure of South City park, as im sure more Carr fire and Camp fire victims find themselves mixing with a population that has been homeless here for quite sometime, Why would Jennifer Scarborough and a reporter want to keep that in the dark? The City of Chico and Butte County got 4.9 million each for de...

Dear City of Redding Attorney... Civil rights attorneys from Washington DC instrumental in the no child left behind legislation are VERY INTERESTED in your online flyer you must have given the OK to produce. To equate that maintaining homeless civil and constitutional rights (especially homeless veterans) will result in loss of police and fire services is in my opinion an embarrassment to the Redding community in which you serve, and an unwarranted diabolic triangulation of fear created by you and the City of Redding from within.  The compassionate Idaho court decision on homeless sleeping is rather timely considering we have had 20 or more thousand people displaced by our own Carr Fire here in Shasta County and 50 thousand people displaced by Camp fire an hour and half away from us south  wiping out the entire town of Paradise and surrounding communities in Butte county near Chico California. Even more so as fire officials declare never before seen intens...

Well 4 am drove by Eureka Way 7- 11 and saw a bundled disabled woman in the middle of the road in a wheel chair with semi's and other trucks zooming right by her. When she did try to propel herself she simply went down the middle of the highway, I went in and told the Indian  gal that works there to please call 911 which she did. While we were waiting for RPD to respond a Shasta County Sheriff drove by completely  ignoring the obvious safety hazards to herself and other drivers. I waved at him furiously to no avail.... I would like to know what priority calls dispatchers at ShasCom received at 4 am that superseded a disabled woman in a wheel chair in IMMEDIATE DANGER ? Blow right by her because she appeared homeless ? She was seconds away from being a 100 foot splat of wheel chair and body parts down Eureka Way. I dont get paid 30 to 50 dollars an hour as a law enforcement agent Sheriff Tom Bosenko nor do I carry around the proper safety equipment to ...

These are not movie props, according to a viral facebook post this homeless man in Los Angeles was found with the festering hole in the side of his head in a back alley STILL ALIVE! He was told by this man that the hospital dumped him. Tried by callous inhumane economic weights and sentenced to a very ugly public indifference... VIRAL Please RT FAR AND WIDE ! - This is #America :  “Kent,” a 68 year old #Homeless #Veteran dying under bush outside million dollar properties in #LosAngeles - STILL ALIVE ! #Anonymous #Occupy #OpSafeWinter #FoodNotBombs #Redding #Chico #Sacramento   - https://t.co/84ytZg8C2e … pic.twitter.com/XOHkYARG1A — Redding Homeless (@ReddingHomeless) September 24, 2018 Of course he called hospital and an ambulance came and picked him back up. Due to patient rights no update could ever be found about his condition... or if he survived. Don't think for a minute this has not happened on the streets of Redding or one...

On my usual morning coffee run, I take the time to do a welfare check around the downtown post office. I am particularly concerned with those homeless souls with medical and mental issues, such as one homeless senior citizen who sleeps in front who has has had multiple strokes. Another poor handicapped homeless soul I would love for folks to rally behind and help is a handicapped senior citizen in a wheelchair I will call "Jay" You may have seen "Jay" as he pushes himself around town backwards. This morning I found "Jay" in a most uncomfortable position sleeping at the post office. Concerned for his welfare I found him sleeping with his pants down. To give you a little history of what I have been told by "Jay" is at one time he had a motorized wheel chair that was stolen while he was staying at the Good News Rescue Mission, which he vowed never to set foot in again. As I have been monitoring him over the last several y...

In todays 10/21/18 Record Searchlight Sunday paper there is an article by in my opinion by Redding business and City bootlicker David Benda. "City stops camping crackdown after ruling" While Benda paints a picture of city leaders and police patting their asses over the success of "Quality of Life Crimes " NEVER ONCE IN THE ARTICLE DOES Benda quote what the Federal Judges have said Redding Police and Shasta County Courts have been doing to homeless for years. "Cruel and Unusual punishment"... Why does it take a Federal judge to tell the City of Redding, Jakey Mangas of the Redding Chamber of Commerce, Good News Rescue Mission, Bethel Church, and all the silent non profits that serve the homeless what has been happening in the city for years? Criminalizing the homeless, violating their civil and constitutional rights? Including homeless veterans ? Atta boy Redding Police Chief Moore... Its a spiritual battle Chr...

No secret here, seems diabolically obvious ... Redding California city government I believe will use new pot dispensary regulations and tax revenue to hire new "Marijuana" code enforcement officers to ride the already broken backs of our continually criminalized homeless population. You know, the kind of Redding code enforcement officer that haunts the continually police raided homeless camps and homeless street population already, dressed impeccably in leather gloves to protect the fists, and a rather oversized "Flak jacket."   Modern day spiritual Roman Centurion ? A macabre representation of Redding City hall compassion to say the least. For years the homeless who have tried to take refuge at the Good News Rescue Mission have confided to me they refuse to stay there because the program members run the facility like a " prison yard," And I can personally attest I have seen more drugs at the mission then on the street. Se...

Year after year, a farce of political action takes place at the Redding Martin Luther King Center. A hypocritical fallacy of local political, religious, and non profit leaders trumpeting social action, under the guise of the hopes and aspirations of Martin Luther King Jr's "beloved community" Unfortunately year after year, a beloved community that never includes Redding and Shasta Counties increasingly oppressed and criminalized homeless population.  Of course I suppose one cannot be as vocal about such a marginalized community, when one sits in a MLK Center building bought and paid for by the City of Redding some years back. The same city of Redding that fights homelessness by closing public restrooms and shutting off public drinking fountains during scorching summer days I suppose one cannot still be vocal when the very instruments of Redding homeless oppression are in attendance patting the flesh, shaking hands with those who show themselves subscribing to the id...