Dope: "Nothing in your link mentions a homeless camp.

So? I live here. You don't. I know the area very well.

You don't.
That hillside and general area have been problematic for the last few years."

I don't doubt for a minute that a shirtless guy with a knife who flees into urban shrubbery resides in a homeless encampment. The knife is the weapon most frequently used by homeless criminals since they cannot afford guns & ammo.

My community has a homeless encampment along side a drainage stream bed whose current denizens have taken to running from the shrubbery surrounding their encampment onto the adjacent section of road where cars turn in and out of a shopping center. It's a 25mph zone so, done right, the homeless "victim" can limp away with a cash extortion.

Last month a guy misjudged the drivers intent; thought the car was turning left into the supermarket parking lot, but the driver went straight! Instead of the glancing blow off the right fender, the guy got flattened. He was hospitalized with quite a few broken bones, but insisted on self-discharging from the hospital in a wheelchair.

2 nights ago one of the homeless guys shot out of the bushes into the turn lane on a bicycle, but the lady stopped in time. Freaked her out! Several people on social media have reported similar experiences at that location.

These incidents don't make the papers, but social media buzzes with each one.

Did the earth just move.. me accepting Dope's local knowledge?

Here's another earth shaker: Gavin Newsome is having the AG challenge the 9th District court that ruled cities cannot ban camping sidewalks and public parks.
My DA relatives in Oakland predicted there would be a breaking point where liberal city/county/state officers can't ignore the filth and crime that accompany urban camping.