Urinating in the Streets...

Here is an Alliance Customer openly urinating in public. Notice the passer-by in the top part of the first photo. This customer (like so many of the other customers that swarm our neighborhood just doesn't give a d***). The neighbor who sent this email lives just a few houses down from Alliance. No security guards around. This is a common occurance that Alliance has not been able to anything about.

Alliance Customers Drop Trash in Front of Our Homes...

Many of us come home from a hard day of work to this kind of mess. An Alliance customer gets his cash and buys cigarettes, booze and junk food...and leaves the mess behind for us to clean up. Alliance cleans around their building daily (they have to because their customers drop trash all the time)...but they refuse to clean up the mess left by their customers in front of our homes.

Notice in the mess an Alliance receipt for recycling dated 12/09/11. If Alliance wanted to they could use the tracking or ticket number to discipline the customer or ban the customer from recycling. But Alliance's position is defensive...not pro-active.

The Park Across from Alliance is Often Times a Mess...

Alliance customers basically take over the parks across the street from Alliance (Peralta and 34th). Neighbors are afraid (or disgusted with the mess) to use it themselves. Again, Alliance claims to clean up after their customers. The truth is in the photos below...

Another Drug Purchase...

Just around the corner from Alliance Metals (in the background) a drug dealer waits for Alliance customers eager with cash to by drugs. This is how Alliance finances much of the drug dealing that goes on in our neighborhood. Notice the lack of any security guards.

Alliance Claims to Help the Down and Out...

The reality is that Alliance is enabling these individuals and thwarting their ability to get real help. The real reason Alliance "defends" these individuals is that they provide a healthy income stream for Alliance (i.e, Jay Anast...the owner).

Alliance Employee Urinating in Public!...

A neighbor caught this employee "cleaning up" around Alliance Metals. Then he takes a bathroom break and puts down his broom...and urinates behind a truck. Notice the abandoned carts to the right (this is 1/2 block from Alliance...under the 580 freeway on Peralta).

Alliance claims to clean up after their customers but a walk around our neighborhood shows that Alliance's efforts are too little...just a PR point they like to make (in their claim that they care).

Alliance Customers Set Up Camp in the Neighborhood...

All around Alliance Metals (all around our neighborhood) Alliance customers set up camp. Not a pretty sight. Even not prettier when you think about where they urinate and defecate. Notice Alliance Metals in the background.

Tuesday, 11/29 @ 2:39p...

This is on a Tuesday (a non-recycling day). This Alliance customer has wheeled "his" recycling bin to our neighborhood and has borrowed a stolen shopping cart from Alliance Metals. He then wheels the shopping cart to Alliance and leaves behind the stolen recycling bin. Alliance won't pick up the bin. The bin will stay on the street for days...sometimes weeks. This happens all the time. Thank you Alliance...for adding unwanted blight to our neighborhood.

More Trash Left Behind by an Alliance Customer...

This Alliance customer leaves her stolen Target shopping cart to trespass on a neighbor property and riffle through their trash. Note that not all the trash dumped on the ground is picked up (bottom photo, lower left). This trash will get blown around our streets by the wind. Magnify this by the many, many other riffled bins and you can understand why are streets are always litter with trash.

More Drug Use Financed by Alliance Metals...

Another neighbor sees more drug activity happening the same morning.

Two Alliance Customers Openly Doing Drugs...

Monday morning, 10:05a. Two Alliance customer cash in "their" recycling. Score some drugs. Then openly do their drugs around the corner from Alliance (a favorite place where they know Alliance's security guards won't bother them). Then they part their ways and go back to wherever it is they go...usually not far from Alliance where they have a "camp" (e.g., under the 580 freeway).

Abandon House becomes a Home for...

...stolen recycling and garbage bins left by Alliance customers. This is on Hollis...between 34th and 32nd streets. Just a couple of blocks from Alliance Metals.

Alliance Trucks Parked on Our Streets...

...because they don't have room inside their facility. They make great "hiding places" for their customers to buy/use drugs...or even to urinate because they don't want to use Alliance's restrooms (...are they that dirty?).

A Halloween Plea...

A neighbor makes a plea to Alliance customers to not steal their pumpkins.

Alliance customers regularly trespass and steal all sorts of things in our yards (e.g., holiday decorations like christmas trees and lights, potted plants) if they are not bolted down. You can even see them from time-to-time wheeling down our streets with stolen plants from Home Depot.

Notice the "Private Property" signs. The do little to dissuade Alliance customers. These new neighbors (they just moved in) will find out soon enough.

Road Hazard...Complements of Alliance Metals...

eWaste: TV Left by an Alliance Customer...

Every now and then a new Alliance customer won't know that Alliance no longer accepts electronics. So what do they do? They dump it on our streets...usually right across from Alliance. And Alliance won't do anything about it. They just leave it there.

Not Sure What to Say About this...

A neighbor took these photos. I guess this is what Alliance is all about. Stealing recycling. Using stolen shopping carts. Loitering. And just making our neighborhood a less pleasant place to live.

But at least Alliance makes a handsome profit...but gives nothing back to our community. Alliance gets all the benefits and we get all the down side. Bad corporate behavior at it's worst.

And Alliance customers don't even get the help they need. Unless you include the junk food, the booze and drugs they buy with what little money Alliance pays them.