"...but you need to not keep complaining about it and come up with those solutions," Doug Lamkin...

"'Shut up,' Lamkin explained." 

Why is it Constant's problem to "come up with solutions" to problems that were not created by him nor his constituents? The immediate "problem" Constant is "complaining about" was created by the city concentrating services for people with a host of health, behavioral, and mental problems in one part of town far away from residential neighborhoods with the money and political pull to keep them out of theirs. 

Of course, Lamkin seems to miss that Constant did propose a solution. Stop -adding- to the existing problems Downtown by continuing the status quo.

As for gathering better data, I'm all for it. How about beginning by requiring the service providers to quit their incessant intellectually-dishonest equivocation of chronic public inebriates, drug abusers, and incompetent mentally ill with cute little kids and families in temporary financial distress.