This girl keeps injecting herself and turns into a very frightful zombíe as she stumbles around. She had no pants on this morning. Often offering lewd acts. This is am extremely dangerous area to walk thru lately. Multiple crimes being committed here and the police just leep driving by

Just drove by these folks- could see the woman shooting up from my car. Thanks for posting the daily request to have this small group of troubled people assisted so they can stop defecating and doing injectable drugs all day everyday. School starts tomorrow and the middle school is two blocks away.

Selective Enforcement from APD

Every single day... We've begged for help for months. Until it's not optional for people committing crimes to be accountable, we are going to keep being subjected to this as are children. Shame on the 6th ward council person, the Mayor and Chief of Police. Doesn't this area also have an Assembly person?

@ Cheif Hawkins DO SOMETHING
@ MAYOR SHEEHAN DO SOMETHING
@ CORY ELLIS DO SOMETHING

MY NEXT STEP IS TO INSIST YOU LOWER OUR TAXES AROUND HERE MAYOR, SINCE YOUVEPERSONAL DECIDED THAT IS SHOULD BECOME THE NEXT SLUM OF ALBANY . DO YOU REALLY WANT TO LOSE YOUR JOB OVER THIS ? BECAUSE WE GETTING FED UP WITH THIS - WE WILL RALLY , WE WILL GET YOU VOTED OUT!

Evidently they have been kicked out of dana and Washington parks. This is why they have now taken over the street. The police wont take action on public property, such as a sidewalk.

After you report an issue here, we all must start calling the mayor’s office and the police chief to complain as well.

Multiple emails to the mayor’s office. Non stop calls to the nonemergency police line.no activity. No one cares. Just told that we need to have empathy and live with it because these people are “victims” of the drugs

Don’t crimes on public property still count as crimes?

They have been doing this on a daily basis. Also observed male steal a package from nearby porch. They both are constantly harassing people for money and use needles / Crack/ drugs in public, right on the corner of Lark and Madison. Called police non emergency numbers and was told there was nothing they could do. Seriously??!! They are hurting local businesses and scaring people from walking down the sidewalk. Something must be done!!

Welcome the anarchy that’s called the D-party.

CHOP/CHAZ just like Portland OR…

Cart violation.

Criminal injection of a narcotic drug.

MARKET 32 MUST REPORT THE CART AS THEFT

The problem is that they dont “possess” the raw drug long enough to get caught and charged. She sits on the sidewalk and injects it within minutes of buying it, then tosses the needle. Then throws up. Then shīts herself. Then they process for her next dose starts over within an hour or two (harassment,panhandling, prostitutiòn, stealing/selling packages,etc.). Once it is in her, there is no possession. She could be charged with public intoxication

A public urination / defecation violation is grounds for 15 days in jail.

Yes we have laws but our lïberal leadership believes it is racistt to enforce them so the police cant enforce. Yall wanted the police defunded, deal With the consequences.

An aggressive panhandling violation is grounds for 15 days in jail.

We wont get anywhere with current leadership. They mayor has been very clear on her panhandling stance- they have a constitutional right to beg. The mayor and common council all need to be replaced

Typical bootlicker comments

Cops arrested an open container in Albany city. They are choosing to NOT do their jobs here.

Anything else is your pro-cop propaganda talking

Where are the cops on horseback riding in to arrest occupy Albany protesters? Certainly avoiding this area.

What the common Council, the mayor, and the governor fail to recognize is that people are completely Fed Up. Zeldon got much closer than people ever imagined he would and people will vote against party lines to restore safety and Sanity to their community. Unfortunately, this may well come with a decrease in the rights of women, reproductive freedom and lgbtq rights. Incredible carelessness, if not stupidity, on the part of many in the Democratic party right now.

I own a business in Albany and pay alot in taxes. sorry to say I am leaving also

Bear spray…

I’m afraid someone is going to end up being hurt.

I haven’t seen an officer on horseback since before the pandemic.

Albany Is the new SLUM, Homeless, Drug users. Panhandlers and we don't even have the Migrants yet!
That's why they want to destroy the city.

Oh stop. you wont lose any rights voting republican. Thats ignorant

😂😂😂 this is the problem people cant see past. the mayor of little old albany cant change reproductive rights, lgbtq rights, etc. these are national issues that a mayor would have absolutely no say in. We need leadership who can put national issues aside and can focus on doing whats right for albany to get it back on track. This is why we need nonpartisann local electionss. People can’t separate national issues from local issues. Local reps should not be associated with a particular party. This allows people to vòte for whats right, not ride or dīe vòte by party because they cant betray their party!

It's a start hopefully! https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/albany-common-council-take-panhandling-resolution-18365127.php?IPID=Times-Union-HP-spotlight

Thanks for that post H.
Hopefully something is done b4 all of us responsible urban dwellers leave this city in droves. I really do think this administration needs to take a firm hand .

We certainly understand the concern regarding this matter Albany Police Department is aware of the issues regarding this matter.

Clicking Closed on an incident without doing anything about it is not showing integrity.