TCFC Welcomes GEM SHOW Visitors to "Especially DARK Tucson"
The Tucson Crime Free Coalition Welcomes Gem Show Visitors to Especially Dark Tucson
Anyone driving through the City of Tucson will notice an acceleration of streetlight outages due to copper theft. It’s just the latest example of city disfunction. Last year, 227 pedestrians fatally struck within the City of Tucson, 32 fatally. The majority of these collisions did not occur in walkways. 79% of pedestrians killed in Pima County tested positive for narcotics. We strongly encourage visitors to exercise extreme caution while driving in Tucson at night. To Visitors Renting Cars: Take the Full Coverage!
Many of you have complained to us about vagrants setting warming fires. To put it frankly, we share your pain. This weekend vagrants set a fire in an alleyway adjacent to the Navajo Wish and set TEP electrical equipment on fire in the process. Our very own steering leader, Monica Carlson was directly impacted as her business lost power over the weekend. The economic damage? Numerous employees of her business lost income as they were unable to work without electric and the expense incurred by TEP is over $30,000. Who pays for that? Every TEP customer!
We hereby request that TEP start divulging the expense of vandalism!!! The burden should not fall on TEP customers but by the City of Tucson. What’s ironic is that the City of Tucson, a municipality that has proven woefully unable to manage its own roads, streetlighting, parks, or housing could manage or be even tangentially involved in running its own electric utility!
https://azluminaria.org/2025/01/24/tucson-explores-public-power-amid-rising-costs-and-climate-pressure/
Speaking of warming fires, we are hopeful that the warming fires do not lead to horrific damage seen in the LA fires. It’s not as if Tucson doesn’t have dry conditions, brush, and high winds. Nearly two years later after vandals set fire to a playground at Estevan Park is remains damaged and fenced off!
Most recent photo taken January 25, 2025
The City of Tucson continues to promote Proposition 414
Tucson finally admits it has a public safety problem and its response is too little too late! The city needs to recognize that the $2.3B budget it passed this summer is fundamentally flawed. It allocated less than 10% of its budget to the police department, $215M in total, and over half of the budget, $115M is allocated to paying down pension fund obligations. In other words, the reason why TPD doesn’t respond to your 911 calls is that half of its meager budget is spent on extremely poor financial planning and budgeting.
When the budget was adopted, Council Member Paul Cunningham wrote:
“Council Member Paul Cunningham said. “We’ve squirreled some away so that we can continue to sustain the service delivery we’ve adopted. And that’s why, for me … this is one of the best budgets you guys have ever put together.”
Are any of our members happy with “service delivery” Tucson has adopted? How could anyone reasonably think that a half percent increase in sales tax will solve anything?
TCFC demands an alternative! The City of Tucson should immediately revise its budget pursuant to A.R.S. §42-17103 and reallocate funding in a more responsible way!
I was walking up stone, and saw one the tep ground covers. It was ajar, with multple wires cut off. I documented this, by taking a picture. I intend to make a book, documenting the crisis. I have, a lot, of pictures. I refer to my city, as Tucson, Maryland. Leftist politics, and incompetance, a deadly mix.
Response to DENISE MEEKS:
Your statement comes from a woman who can’t even spell WEAK correctly! Are you Dr. Denise Meeks, UofA School of Journalism? It IS the Mayor’s fault for ALL OF THIS! Btw, perhaps YOU should hire a proof reader prior to posting your POORLY WRITTEN COMMENTS (or is it spelled POURLY to you?). SMH!
The city budget is ridiculous. The population is 547,000 in 2023- that means the city is spending a little over $4200 per citizen in its budget. That’s completely unsustainable.
Denise,
Mayor and Council have enabled an environment where wire theft is one of many symptoms of Tucson fundamental problem. There are not consequences for bad behavior. I am surprised you miss this critical point.
Well if the city would get off their buts and stop the free bus rides alone and instead have our moneyed go to instead to giveback 30 million a year alone to better streets, cops able to do their jobs, housing lowered w/ restrictions on how much to increase yearly, homeless off the streets now or back to the states or countries they belong too, healthier tucson moving forward I have 42 million to get started but need a rehabbed secured building 10 million from the city to get the 42 million the sponsorship w/ church charity and city or country working together for the whole of a human being not parts and pieces.
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