So what's new about that?  Downtown has been infested with dirt bags from the time the "Mall" was built and no one had the stones to adequately confront the problem.  Eugreens's  "betters" have turned a blind eye to the drug dealers, addicts, transients and delinquents since 1971 and I don't see them making the hard decisions to clean it up anytime in the near future.  Eugreen tends to follow Portland's model which is accomodate and forget.