Have you met with the department heads and city manager? If you had, and I have, you would not consider my characterization of Jon Ruiz as incompetent and his department heads as morons to be inaccurate. 

Maybe my career in medical research caused me to have a skewed view of normal intelligence and competence, but this crowd couldn't think their way out of a paper bag even if they were given instructions complete with illustrations.

Also, as unprofessional and lazy as EPD is, what are they supposed to do with all the thugs along the river? Ruiz won't budget for the necessary jail beds and we don't have a city-run work crew to put them on. In the end, it's the high concentration of homeless people in one small section of the city that is destroying our best resource, the riverfront. If they were dispersed throughout the city in code-compliant buildings, many of them could get back up. As it is, we're creating a "Lord of the Flies" situation.