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Anchorage Police Chief Designee Bianca Cross held a news conference Wednesday afternoon defending police after three officer involved shootings in 21 days.
They're interested in a far less expensive redesign of Gambell and Ingra streets to be neighborhood friendly, with lower speed limits and fewer lanes.
Homelessness experts say per person, it’s cheaper than shelter. The new plan emulates what Houston, Texas, did.
Homeless residents, nearby business owners and service providers say that gun violence, assaults, extortion, theft and drug dealing have proliferated, largely unfettered, in the Third Avenue encampment and surrounding streets.
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But the data illustrates a circumstance both unseen and commonplace in Alaska’s biggest city: In April, unhoused people were found dead on a sidewalk, in a ditch, in a sleeping bag tucked in the corner of a parking lot, along the state’s busiest highway.