Neighbors near the large encampment at 3rd and Ingra Street are concerned after the increasing number of gunshots heard in the area at night. This week, it’s been two nights in a row.
Rob Cupples, owner of Cupples Cottages, wrote to the Anchorage Assembly to report multiple shots fired on Aug. 2-3.
On Aug. 2, approximately six shots were fired at about 11 am. APD responded.
On Aug. 3, at about 9:30 pm, witnesses reported hearing approximately six shots fired, and a large police presence in the camp, with roughly eight Anchorage Police cruisers.
No mention of this incident has been made on the Anchorage Police Department’s website or social media.
That’s two consecutive days of shots. Media reported someone struck by a bullet in the vicinity of the correctional facility. But no police report has been made public.
“This must stop,” Cupples said. “I have been telling the mayor for WEEKS that 24 hours police presence is required at 3rd and Ingra. It’s the only way. Someone must be held accountable for the horrific conditions taking place across the street and immediate action must be taken to ensure the safety of the people on East 3rd Avenue AND in the camp.”
Cupples, who owns a small bed and breakfast, pointed out that there are young children and even infants in the camp, and they are surrounded by “drug dealers, junkies, criminals, thugs, prostitutes, people trafficking women out of a van, etc, etc??? It is completely OUT OF CONTROL.”
Cupples is part of a neighborhood group named “3rd Avenue Radicals” who have been trying to improve the area for years. The recent encampments have been a serious setback to those efforts. The group has a Facebook page where it gives regular updates:
“Last year many of you expressed outrage at the conditions at Centennial Campground calling it a “humanitarian crisis,” Cupples said, directing his comments to the Anchorage Assembly. “Every person I talk to who was involved with that camp last summer has told me 3rd and Ingra is FAR WORSE than Centennial was. Where’s the outrage this year over the conditions on East 3rd Avenue? You all have been crickets. How many of you have actually taken the time to drive to the site and walk the disaster the Assembly and Administration collectively created?” (I really want to know, this is not rhetorical). If you haven’t, shame on you.”
What did we think was going to happen, collecting the absolute scourge of our society into a small condensed space together?
With all those people with hands open for charity, one would think they could pick up a tool to each to build a better community for themselves.
No, the truth is these people don’t have any personal responsibility and will continue to be a parasitic draw to the rest of us until the day they expire.
“Please, don’t feel the bears, they will become dependent on you for their food.”
Just imagine we all watch the madness the evil oath breakers created for us all, there will come a day we all watch the ones who did not make it. The shoe will be on the other foot oath breakers, remember oath breakers you had no mercy, only hate & no love of GOD…. SO HELP YOU GOD OATH BREAKERS YOU SWORE. Keep doing you Suzanne the ladies union ma’am.
I drove through the encampment twice in the last month but absolutely will not get out of the safety of my car.
Both times I was horrified to see the way some of the humans were acting in a very scary demeanor.
I hadnt witnessed that type of rash screaming and yelling across the field before. Too many were under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.
Very disturbing to see the piles of trash and garbage(food waste) that had to be gathered from outside the tents by crews of municipal workers.
No surprise to hear the police have shot all the black bears near the area as those living conditions will definitely cause serious issues.
I definitely feel sorrow for the agony the surrounding property owners must be enduring 24/7 knowing how much the muni is taxing their properties in the area. I would be livid.
Their anguish is all in vain with the assembly who refused the navigational center as a path to the all important treatment they need but their refusal only shows their true desire to perpetuate this situation.
Meg Zaletel is as incompetent as the “Homeless Tzar as Kamela Harris is to the Border crisis.
It truly is a disaster if any of you are brave enough to pay a visit and spend 20 minutes or so to witness it upfront.
Let the bears fix it like cholera fixes those who defecate too close to their water supply.
NO Remorse whatsoever! Parasites and Leeches upon society! Let the disgusting Dems take of the problem. It’s their problem and their voter base, let them throw their own money at the pre-electoral issue.
I suppose with that energetic stance you’ll refuse government healthcare when you need it. NO Remorse whatsoever!
I cannot speak for Kdale, but I will oppose to my last breath any attempt to single payer, or NHS style the medical system in the USA. I will oppose it absolutely and completely.
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And, if I could avoid using medicare when I retire, I will do so as well.
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Government healthcare is an abomination. I would not want government bureaucrats making medical decisions for my family based on some spreadsheet, and neither should you.
You refer to the Bronson administration’s navigation center as some sort of salvation, while at the same time refer to it in the same vague terms as the administration themselves. Were you aware that a navigation center already exists right down the street? If you weren’t, it’s in the old Bean’s Cafe location and run by Catholic Social Services. From what I’ve read, it’s closed on weekends and this has created problems which directly impact the 3nd and Ingra camp. One should expect that it operates for the convenience of its employees rather than the convenience of its clients. Anyway, I digress. A more important issue is the concept of navigation itself and whether the Bronson proposal really represents an improvement. You may have missed the story outlining the failure of the Bean’s navigation center at the Sullivan. Alaska Public Media published it and subsequently quickly pulled it. As I’ve seen the data published elsewhere, I wonder who APM was protecting and why. I was told the navigators told shelter clients that they would get help if they were willing to apply for disability or apply at a day labor agency, and that anyone with another avenue to get back on their feet shouldn’t expect any help from them (for instance, they did zero to help clients obtain PFDs or stimulus checks). It’s a far cry from what was being proposed in late 2019 to reform the homeless response system, which was quickly forgotten about once the pandemic rolled around. Seeing as how the constant praise about Bronson’s proposal is always devoid of substance no matter who’s talking, do you or anyone else have any actual light to shine on the matter?
That’s a shame.
But some people are known for indiscriminately shooting at animals.
Like other Democrats? Communist on the Assembly should take notice of their agenda that’s being unfair to the Anchorage residents throwing away taxpayer money to please their base.
Then demand our elected leaders to start reducing who is eligible for public assistance; as well as we shouldn’t be making collecting unemployment and public assistance so easy. All recipients must do is make contact with an employer to continue collecting, they don’t even have to work. That’s not fair to us (employer and employees) needing extra help. Even though tourism only has 7 weeks left of the season. What’s that phrase idle hands do the devil’s work, your city’s homeless and couch surfers are cranky and bored, they need to work. If your elected leaders take away public assistance and unemployment money, majority will make themselves work. Quit complaining mr cupples. He’s complaining about the wrong issue.
Democrats are a scourge upon society while trying to drag down everyone to their idea of what socialism should be. Everyone to their abilities according to their needs. The Dems need that underclass voter base to survive at all cost.
K you don’t even catch the irony in your post.
I thought the homeless were all just peaceful, nourishing people who chose not to live in a conventional society.
Violence? Drugs? Crime? Impossible! Just ask the Politburo.
You get a Thumbs up!
So the homeless can afford guns and ammo now????our tax dollars at work!
Only the pimps and drug peddlers – if any of the other homeless have weapons, they’re stolen.
Maybe if we provide more ammo and alcohol the problem will solve itself.
New parking lot for police vehicles, 3rd & a Ingra. Take those CRUISERS PARKED off the Glenn Hiway in Eklutna and bring them to where they can do some good. The shuttle service to take “Our Best ” home isn’t helping “our citizens” at their homes…. Citizen protection with an increased police presence comes before off duty convenience. All of a sudden private cars parked at 3rd & Ingra will be protected…,
Is there any evidence that the shots came from the encampment? Or is it just easy to blame people you already hate?
Matt, I dislike criminals, drug pushers, human traffickers, and other abusers.
But you do you and go ahead and defend them.
Sure Celeste, we all do, but Matt’s right. Is there any evidence the shots came from the encampment?
Is there necessarily a problem if those shots did NOT come from the camp? Maybe it was an actual productive citizen defending themselves or their property. But you would still have a problem with that, wouldn’t you?
No Paul. Just think that evidence rather than speculation is more valuable
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