The community is fed up with the campers who are moving in and they’re calling for the city to do something about it.
For families who’ve laid their loved ones to rest in a sacred, final resting place, the Bikur Cholim and Historic Sephardic Jewish cemeteries have turned into dumping grounds.
"That’s the only word you can use to it is ridiculous because this shouldn’t be happening in civilized society," said Bikur Cholim congregant Ari Hoffman. "This shouldn’t be happening to anybody and imagine it’s your loved ones there."
Headstones are marred with drug needles, trash and human waste.
Families with the synagogues associated with the cemeteries said they’ve spent $50,000 cleaning up the mess that continues.
"Prostitutes were working in the woods, drug addicts are working in the woods," said Hoffman. "Groundskeepers come in on Monday morning and they find everything from a weekend of fun ‐ which is needles on the ground, crystal meth on the tombstones."
They say people living in camps have overrun the private property and some RVs have been parked outside for years.