I live in Wichita and the 700 block of N. Waco is the North side of Downtown. Lots of alleys and a huge nearby park. The neighborhood just to the north is infested with drugs and gangs, especially of the Hispanic variety.
I would say these people were homeless or spent a lot of time on the streets.
When I was a child, we could play at those parks near there. It wasn’t too bad. I walked through there all the time... These days I wouldn’t take my children up there in broad daylight.
Much of the Inner City here has decayed terribly despite the Millions of Dollars in improvements to the nearby ‘Old Town’ district. I’ve thought this to be mostly a waste of our tax money, by the way.
Worse things have happened here, though. Tiller murdered thousands of unborn, The Carr Brothers, BTK... Wichita is Infamous.