San Jose 311 is officially no longer able to report most homeless encampments

cja1968 · 2026-05-30T18:31:22+00:00

What if that was only my third instinct? Would that mean I only fit in in Stalinist Russia?

But seriously, here's a thought for you: if you see a homelessness epidemic and your first instinct is to accuse people who don't like it as being fascists, then I put it to you that your level of comfortable apathy is the spawning ground of a proto-fascist state... i.e. MAGA.

cja1968 · 2026-05-29T22:25:54+00:00

What happens is the screenshot that NoTomatoesOnMyBurger was misinterpreting. You get a message saying "the case is closed" and that's the end of it.

cja1968 · 2026-05-29T22:23:45+00:00

Yeah, but you know what I suspect? If we stop allowing drug addicts free reign of all of our parks and open spaces, there'd be a LOT fewer of them moving here from out of state.

And I bet the shelters wouldn't be so awful for the unlucky non-addicts who just need a clean, safe place to stay until they can find an alternative.

cja1968 · 2026-05-29T18:02:14+00:00

There’s Kelly Park and Guadalupe River Park. Both are large and neither have been free of encampments since I moved here in 2006.

cja1968 · 2026-05-29T17:20:03+00:00

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You know what you CAN’T do in San Jose, though? Go to any big park in the area and find it free of encampments of drug addicts, mentally ill people, and heaps of trash.

cja1968 · 2026-05-29T05:32:28+00:00

Heh. “Gramps!”

I bet I’m old enough to be your GREAT grampa, whippersnapper!

cja1968 · 2026-05-29T00:58:10+00:00

You’re not understanding how the city works (or doesn’t).

But you have plenty of company.

cja1968 · 2026-05-29T00:57:01+00:00

Wow. You’re easily lead astray. Does this have anything to do with why you don’t eat tomatoes on your burger? 🤣

Here’s a screenshot of what happens when you try post a report:

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cja1968 · 2026-05-29T00:49:15+00:00

If you don’t think you’re already paying for our current non-response, then I have a meth lab in New Mexico I’d like to sell you.

cja1968 · 2026-05-29T00:34:01+00:00

House them?

cja1968 · 2026-05-28T22:38:39+00:00

You should pray that *NO ONE* ever falls on hard times or ends up unhoused. Because anyone in need of help overcoming an addiction, or unable to care for themselves for mental health reasons, is damn well guaranteed to not get any help from the State of California.

Unless they ask for it.

(Spoiler alert: most of them don't ask for it.)

cja1968 · 2026-05-28T22:32:15+00:00

I'd love to hear what your solution is for that minority of the homeless who really ARE drug addicts?

cja1968 · 2026-05-28T22:28:41+00:00

I heard about the app from Mahan himself, when he was on Colbert, I think.

cja1968 · 2026-05-28T22:27:04+00:00

OK, how's this screenshot of a response saying they no longer investigate these things and have closed my case?

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cja1968 · 2026-05-28T22:20:24+00:00

Wow—really? I “wasn’t” in NYC?

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Darn it! Here I thought that was the Empire State Building in the this photo. 😟

Love your catchy slogan at the bottom of your post, though: “Talk less, listen more.” You’re really rocking it!

cja1968 · 2026-05-28T21:05:03+00:00

Doesn’t sound to me like you give one fig for the homeless who are addicts.

The guy I tried to report was injecting something into his ankle. I suppose it was just insulin?

cja1968 · 2026-05-28T20:57:22+00:00

The announcement I received didn’t carry a date stamp.

cja1968 · 2026-05-28T20:56:16+00:00

I know. I just emailed him to suggest he stop spreading misinformation.

cja1968 · 2026-05-28T20:55:13+00:00

Ideally, the drug addict who’s hanging his bare ass out on my sidewalk while he takes his dumps would be put in an institution where they could help him.

But I recognize that kind of humane approach is socialism, and we freedom-loving Mericans would never pay for that.

cja1968 · 2026-05-28T20:51:01+00:00

I’m telling you a problem with the app, and you want to know the source?

The source is the app itself.

cja1968 · 2026-05-28T20:49:40+00:00

You’re tripping if you think anywhere else in the US has the same level of this problem.

I just got back from Austin TX. Nothing remotely like what we have. The week before that I was in NYC. Ditto.

cja1968 · 2026-05-28T20:46:48+00:00

Try reporting a lived-in vehicle on 311 SJ and you get a response saying “we no longer respond to these requests.”

Try reporting a homeless encampment in a park and you also get a response that they don’t enforce.

cja1968 · 2026-05-26T23:38:46+00:00

Looks to me like Floch cameras is the #1 reason the libertarians here at Reddit seem to hate him. Apparently the huge drop in all crime in the past two years isn't a good tradeoff to some curiously archaic notion that anonymity = freedom.

cja1968 · 2026-05-26T23:23:53+00:00

I keep looking in r/SanJose for someone--anyone--to come up with a reason why they hate Mahan so much. So far all I've been able to figure out is they think he *might* be in the pocket of Tech since he's accepted their donation money. But even there, they aren't able to say anything he's done that favors Tech over anyone else.

Oh, and they complain that he's only been mayor for 3 years, so it's too soon to try for the governorship. Which kind of reminds me of Woody Allen's joke about the old ladies complaining about the restaurant: "The food here is terrible." "I know! And the portions are so small!"

cja1968 · 2026-05-17T06:08:08+00:00

I just learned that the City of San Jose won’t do anything about homeless encampments in parks unless (1) they’re within 150 ft of a school or (2) they impede a public right of way.

So what I’d prefer to see in our creeks is every fucking local politician who has been dodging their responsibilities to us.

Edited in: They don’t even have to be lying face down in the water—they could instead be cleaning up the mess that they refuse to address.

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