I’m going to let in you in on a dirty little secret.There are people living in fear in Manteca today.They fear being attacked. They fear being aggressively confronted. They fear for their safety on their property.That’s the bad news.The good news is if you were reading this 12 years ago we’d be talking about gang violence and not the criminal element — or simply those doing acts without malice afterthought — among the homeless.Manteca managed to pull the community together to end the every other night shooting galleries that plagued Southside Park and because no one was in a hurry to do anything about it — had started to spread to other neighborhoods both old and new in Manteca.Let’s be perfectly clear.
All is not fine with Manteca’s homeless effort
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