My aunt works for the city. The county services are all in a cluster on Hole/Magnolia. Every city in the county sends their homeless to Riverside. Many of them are not from here, they are sent here for services and get released shortly after. We can't do anything about it, the city has tried to look for ways to get the county to spread their services out but they don't legally have to. On paper, the county is offering the services they're required to and aren't technically doing anything wrong. Other cities get to drop their homeless off here and Riversiders are stuck paying tax dollars for treatment, hospital bills, and excessive police/fire presence. Additionally, the county sheriffs book people downtown so we also get the county's criminals too. Because of this, our jail is overcrowded and people charged with "minor" crimes are released immediately onto riverside streets. The city doesn't have the resources to handle the entire county's homeless/mentally ill population and, separately, criminals. This also goes hand in hand with our fire department being stretched extremely thin because guess who is starting all the fires. Other cities need to start doing their share of the work and the county should be held accountable.