While there MAY be homeless throughout the city, the simple fact is that most of them are in the Whiteaker. They are so abundant here that 20% of the "residents" of the Whiteaker are homeless people. To no one's surprise, this ready-made customer base with high rates of addiction has brought us drug dealers and their guns. We are now experiencing shootings on a regular basis.

That said, it's not the rest stops that cause that, although they do have some impacts. It's the intense concentration of  homeless people in one area that has caused the near-complete breakdown of civility in the Whiteaker.