EXPLOSION OF CRIME THIS WEEK in TUCSON; LAURA CONOVER, MAYOR and POLICE CHIEF SAY CRIME IS DOWN: THIS WEEK 6 MURDERS, ONE AT FREE CRIME BUS STOP
TCFC Newsletter 6/23/2024
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In this issue:
1. Laura Conover, County Attorney, spent early this week spreading the word that "CRIME IS DOWN" along with our Mayor and Police Chief. As the week progressed we have 5 Murders and 6 shootings this week alone. So far, 79 Violent Crimes in Tucson Area since January 1, 2024. Murder of Erin Jones UofA, 20 year-old female student: 80 rounds and 9 guns involved.
2. Tim Steller confirms/documents Chaos, Turnover and hasty plea bargains under Laura Conover.
3. City Leaves Unhoused in Dangerous Washes. First rain brings a death in Rillito.
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(5) Murders and (6) Shootings This Week, LAURA CONOVER Continues To Say, "CRIME IS DOWN"
Below are links to high profile crimes this week as well as one June 1st at a FREE CRIME BUS STOP. We have not been providing the summary of death and crime provided by TPD because they stopped providing it.
- CLICK HERE: Three separate Shootings Friday June 21st
- On June 17, a man was found shot to death near South 6th Avenue and East Benson Highway.
- On June 19, a man was found shot to death near East 5th Street and Craycroft Road. The suspect was later shot by officers in Cochise County later in the day.
- On June 20, a man was fatally shot during a road rage incident near Kinney and Ajo.
- On June 1st, with one at a FREE CRIME BUS stop sponsored by Mayor and Council "Man accused of murder in random bus stop attack in Tucson".
79 Violent Crimes since January 1st.
CLICK ON CRIME MAP BELOW FOR DETAILS:
TIM STELLER CONFIRMS/DOCUMENTS CHAOS, TURNOVER and HASTY PLEA DEALS UNDER LAURA CONOVER
In today's AZ DAILY STAR, Tim Steller details what TCFC has been sharing with our members along with our City of Tucson Elected Officials and Bureaucrats since our founding two years ago. Laura Conover needs to be replaced as Crime is getting worse under her failing leadership. Excerpts from Tim Steller:
"It was news in 2021 when the Pima County Attorney’s Office lost dozens of employees, hobbling the agency during Laura Conover’s first year in charge.
There was hope then that time’s passage, new hires, and a pay increase would change the trend. It hasn’t turned out that way.
Turnover and vacancies remain an intractable problem in 2024 as Conover runs for re-election. The Pima County Attorney’s Office has 77 vacancies, according to a June 16 Pima County report, 32 of them open more than a year. The vacancy rate is 19.9 %, one of the higher rates among the departments of the broadly understaffed county government.
Critics and observers of the office point to a variety of impacts. They say plea deals are sometimes made in haste due to the volume of cases, victims sometimes treated inadequately, and more felony domestic violence cases are being sent to city prosecutors’ offices as misdemeanors."
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Surprising departures
"Among the departures of 2021-22, a few were surprising because they were Conover’s top advisers. One was Tamara Mulembo, who had left the Federal Public Defender’s Office to become Conover’s chief of staff.
She only lasted about 10 months and left with a relatively scathing internal email about Conover, her old friend. She accused Conover of tokenizing her as a black woman and subjecting her to microaggressions." [...]
“You don’t know how somebody uses power until you give it to him, right?” Mulembo said. “And so I had the opportunity to see him in action, using power responsibly and fairly and with integrity for nearly two decades.” [...]
"But the departures also reflect some dissatisfaction with leadership — either with Conover herself or with the sometimes inexperienced supervisors whom employees report to as the turnover churns. [...]
He has supervised attorneys for the Santa Cruz County Attorney's Office and the Arizona Attorney General's office, and most interestingly when he worked abroad for the U.S. Justice Department, in Pakistan and other countries, training attorneys and working in the embassy." [...]
City Leaves Unhoused in Dangerous Washes. First rain brings a death in Rillito
A woman found dead in the Rillito at Swan yesterday immediately following the first Monsoon storm of 2024. Last Friday a day before, TCFC contacted Ward 3, Council Member Kevin Dahl's office as well as other city officials informing them of Unhoused in danger in the Flowing Wells Wash. TCFC was informed that it was on their list of todo's sweeping the wash but they haven't gotten there yet and won't until Monday. Monsoon Season starts on June 15th every year and rain was forecast for Friday and Saturday. We have to notify them every year for this preventable situation.
Why after all these years does the City continue to have Unhoused in danger in washes? Two deaths last year, so far, one death this year.
FW WASH (Above) Unhoused living on Friday before storm
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Well, there you have it. The chief of police is also lying to the public about how much crime there is going down? I think not. He’s concerned about keeping his job not really public safety. Is it shame on him for kissing the ass of turnover Conover and the mayor princess Regina Romero, horrific people they all need to lose their jobs
Sooo, you might remember these names,……. but probably not.
Akil White-the multiple felon who was burglarizing various businesses, even a residence belonging to someone affiliated with TCFC and caused some kind of disturbance on Grant rd which necessitated SWAT call out- well, guess what, he is still “incompetent bu restorable”.
You know else is “incompetent but restorable”???????? Kareem Gardner. Remember isn’t he the guy who stole the car from the lady who was dropping off her husband at the ER, then he drove to El Paso, etc.
You probably forgot all about these people. Could the delay in trial have anything to do with it?
And don’t forget our people who the city invited to Tucson for an anti-police demonstration who then went about vandalizing businesses, firebombing a bank, was it? You see, we forget the facts. Well, would you believe they have a trial date? And yes, it IS this year. December 10. And they think it will take 8 days to try this case? Hassan, Parks, and Villalobos. December 10. I checked, and yes, at least it is a week day.
That’s swift justice. They’re going to learn their lesson. We really mean business here in Pima County.
Alex, I applaud you for your hard work. I know it takes a toll. What our elected officials are doing with their policies is “insanity” (doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result).
People in the drug state are not capable of making rational decisions. Yet people who have no investment in solutions say, “they will only get help when they are ready,” so we leave them out there to DIE. Is that humane? Drug addicts need to be put in a safe environment where they will get services. If it take more than one try to get them clean, then FINE! We should pay for it because we are HUMAN. Leaving them to walk in front of cars so they can DIE WITH THEIR RIGHTS INTACT is not humane.
Mostly, when crime goes down in Tucson, it’s because victims stop reporting it. And/or a particular crime is reported one way, and it gets reclassified to a lesser crime later.people get frustrated because the police don’t respond for hours or days, or not at all. Who wants to bother going on line to report a car burglary, knowing it won’t be investigated at all? And this was based on my last years at TPD before I retired 17 years ago. It can’t possibly be better now.
What I say, I say of my own accord. I do not speak for anyone else or any particular group or agency.
Your folks who report and publish this so-called news, don’t a have a clue about what steps are taken to remove the homeless folks in the area. We have outreach people who go out there to engage with these folks to find ways to navigate thru their difficult and disturbing times in hopes to bring them into shelters. Options and choices are given to them, we try to motivate and influence them to take the better, yet hard, road to recovery and a better life. However, if they are in their funk as I like to say, there’s nothing that’s going to deter them. It’s the horse to water analogy. It is no more unfortunate that your group have to see the addicts going through their thing among the true homeless, experience or be the victim to their actions of thievery, behaviors, attitude and/or begging than it is for them to go thru their pain, suffering for those with traumatic livelihoods or the target of circumstances or just bad judgement that landed them to a life of crime or survival mode.
What I say, I say of my own accord. I do not speak for anyone else or any particular group or agency.
Those people in the wash have been forewarned about the monsoon season now upon us, county and city have worked collaboratively and independently to have immediate removals done as fast as 24 to 48 hours, sometimes less than 24hrs. The encampments are given enough time to remove that which they want to keep. Once the immediate removal process begins and nothing has been moved, if person of authority is there, They have less than 10 mins to grab a bug out bag and go. The same options and choices are given; more than 85% of the time they dismiss those same options/choice. Let me be clear that the only titled “person of authority” is TPD. Homeless Outreach Specialist do not have that authority however, influential talk can be empowering among some folks of the homeless community.
As situation dictates, TPD have a presence per request. TPD are inundated with other tasks and calls, that we cannot expect them to come to any and all encampments we clean up. So when persons of authority are not available, clean up is not as we all expect. Although TPD have tools and measures at their fingertips and disposal lethal and non, other departments such as Environmental Services and Outreach take a bigger risk dealing with the homeless community where these departments are handling dangerous situation such being threatened at dangerous close range with knives and guns to being in danger close proximity from a shootings.
I believe alot of the outreach folks and “concerned people” like yourselves don’t realize the job that we do has every bit of risk and hazard that has potential for putting our lives on the line and at risk.
Nothing of what I say will change your hearts and minds but before you start bashing what the Mayor and the city (which I am a part of and proud) are not doing, know that much like the military, we serve the best we can so folks like you can live another day to gripe and complain about what we are not doing.
What I say, I say of my own accord. I do not speak for anyone else or any particular group or agency.
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