There was a rather long feature on HR (our regional Hessen news) from last night, on Frankfurt and the Bahnhof (railway) 'quarter'.
To sum it up....if you were in the Army or Air Force around the 1970s or 1980s....you have some image in your mind of the neighborhood, and if you ventured there today....you'd find it mostly drug-infested and about as maxed-out on seedy character as you can imagine.
A lot of the residents of the neighborhood (probably a mile by a mile region)...are fed up.
You can blame the police, the city council, and just the behavior of the city for thirty-odd years.....allowing the drug issue to fester.
How many homeless? I walked through it in 2018, and would put the real number at 2,000 to 2,500 (at least in that point of time). They do their 'hit' in the morning, and sleep through most of the day.
A threat to the public? Generally, about every two to three months.....you have some weird assault either in the train station, or around the structure itself. It'll be some drugged-up guy, or some paranoid schizophrenic with demons on his mind. My general advice...if you have to transit through the station....get from point 'A' to point 'B', and don't linger (don't have coffee or stop at McDonalds).
The city council in a bind? I'd say that the commercial side of operations in the affected area....have had enough (they want action). Cops just shake their head because the folks really need some enclosure situation....with some judge preventing access to the general public.
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