Alleva is spot on. Bean's Cafe is encouraging thug life. 

Unsettled by violent episodes and hostility toward employees and equipment, the Anchorage Fire Department decided last month to start automatically sending backup to non-emergency medical calls at two downtown homeless shelters, Bean's Cafe and Brother Francis Shelter.

A July 11 internal memo from Jodie Hettrick, deputy chief of operations at the fire department, described a rise in the "level of violence and chaos" near the soup kitchen and the shelter at Third Avenue and Karluk Street.
It comes amid escalating calls for service around the shelter and the soup kitchen.

Fire Station 1, which serves downtown, has responded to roughly 6,000 calls as of this week, compared to about 8,000 calls for all of 2016, Mike Riley, an Anchorage firefighter and paramedic, said at the Wednesday meeting. Call data show a "hot spot" at Third Avenue and Karluk Street, the area around Brother Francis Shelter and the soup kitchen Bean's Cafe,