A big part of the story is missing and deserves more than one sentence about a furor over tree's being removed .  Mayor Sullivan and park officials knew women were being assaulted  and drugs were being used under the cover of tree's . No public meeting was required to perform park maintenance.  When they thinned out the tree's so police driving by could easily see what was going on---liberals attacked them with a vengeance .  Flower gardeners vowed to boycott Anchorage . They put nine trees ahead of public safety .  When Sullivan tried to clean up downtown by keeping people from sleeping on our sidewalks 24 / 7 , liberals attacked him with a vengeance again. They were thrilled when one guy camped out to personally attack the mayor . They didn't care if people were clogging the sidewalks or using drugs and urinating everywhere. That's personal freedom they screamed.     For liberals to now question what we should do is a joke . Liberals got the downtown they fought so very hard for .