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.