Case Date:

10/4/2026

Homeless trash is still there after several citizens have complained. Pretty sure is is in the city right of way. What does it takes to get trash litter picked up on city property?

Case Date:

7/23/2026

Loads of trash left over from a drug addict encampment. Been there over two weeks. Don't know if it is on New Hope's property or City property. It's an unsightly and smelly mess. Please either have New Hope clean it up or send a city crew to do it.

Case Date:

6/20/2026

Homeless in a tent with camp setup

Case Date:

11/1/2024

Unhoused white woman 5'6" sleeps, loiters around front of the business located at 127 S. Gentry St. in the alley by the Hyatt parking garage. She is threatening staff of the store. She leaves cardboard and trash in the alley and they have witnessed her coming/going throughout the day for quite some time. Please clean up trash and relocate this woman. Olympus Properties has submitted Trespassing Affidavit with BPD.

Case Date:

6/3/2024

People who are unhoused are leaving their belongings / lots of trash in the alley of our office building. Customers/clients/pedestrians use this alley often.

Case Date:

3/22/2024

Homeless camp trash in a large area. Will the City have the owner clean it up

Case Date:

2/16/2024

There are homeless encampments steadily increasing in number behind my house and those of my neighbors. There are now several in view of my windows. The amount of trash is staggering, including countless hypodermic needles. Trash is regularly set on fire by the residents of the encampments, producing noxious smoke that smells terrible and is surely not safe to breathe. The city needs to do something about these encampments. Open air drug use within feet of neighborhoods with young children should not be tolerated. I've been a resident of Bloomington for a decade and I'm strongly considering moving out of town due to the city's inability to address this issue. Please do something.

Case Date:

2/2/2024

illegal campsites on private property

Case Date:

8/21/2026

Subject: Urgent Safety, CPTED Failures, and Operational Chaos at Downtown Bloomington Transit Station As someone who has relied on Bloomington Transit for decades, I am watching the new station rapidly deteriorate and fall into a severe state of decline. I am submitting this ongoing safety report regarding the downtown station during early morning, late evening, and weekend transfer times, where paying riders face persistent threats, intimidation, and sexual harassment from non-riding groups who have become territorial over seating and facilities. Key Issues Requiring Immediate Action: Environmental & Operational Failures (CPTED Violations): The station completely fails basic Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles. Even while active bus operating hours are underway, the main building is locked and supervision is nonexistent. Furthermore, because the station doubles as an unmanaged heating and cooling shelter, it creates severe crowding and confusion; during extreme weather, paying bus riders are left with nowhere to sit or shelter. This is all compounded by surrounding darkness, physical decay, hidden alcoves, and dark alleys. The Circular "Pass-the-Buck" Bureaucracy: Bloomington Transit instructs riders to call 911, while 911 dispatch tells us to "just keep calling." When police are involved, they dismiss ongoing daily harassment as a "civil matter." When I took this up the chain, the deputy mayor gave me a cowardly shrug and passed the buck right back to Transit, ignoring the fact that I had already tried the police route with zero results. The Irony of the "Unskilled" Workforce & Taxpayer Betrayal: Groups of non-riding men are growing larger, visibly outnumbering women in the mornings, evenings, and weekends. Because low-income hospitality workers and working women have predictable schedules, they are easily targeted. There is profound irony in expecting workers in low-wage, "unskilled" jobs to act as the city's default, crisis-trained 911 buffer. The city has abandoned both transit riders and individuals desperately needing mental health services onto the exact same unmonitored platform—forcing two competing, incompatible services onto city-owned property that I am both taxed for and paying bus fare to use. Transit users are here to ride the bus safely, not to manage the fallout of unaddressed social service deficits or a "we can't arrest" policy. Bloomington Transit was not designed to double as an unsupported social services hub without oversight. I expect a concrete safety plan for this station, not another bureaucratic deflection. The police were there again this morning for non bus commuters, and I will not stop reporting this.

Case Date:

9/11/2026

Homeless camp trash in the curve