Crime and homelessness were often in the news in 2018, and although City officials were careful to separate the two, residents increasingly drew a connection.

Nowhere was this clearer than in the City's parks, where frustrated residents captured images of homeless individuals engaged in criminal activity and posted them on social media.

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