TCFC Member Call To Action, State Level Legislation, Wash Deaths, Pedestrian Fatalities!
MEMBER CALL TO ACTION FROM TCFC:
If you are a citizen, property owner or business owner and are willing to share documented issues that you are having around your property or business, please contact us at help@tucsoncrimefree.com. Help us advocate for our Tucson. If you see the problems but are unwilling to work on solutions out of fear of the Mayor and Council or flat-out apathy, we get what we deserve.
Picture of the Week!
Below is a letter that was submitted to Mayor Romero and Councilmember Dahl as a respectful “ask for help” from a property owner that has had enough. TCFC applaud’s the effort coming from this property owner to bring more light to the issues in our community. We need many more voices like this, that is why we have included a "Call To Action" this week. To date this property owner has not received correspondence back from Mayor Romero or Council Member Dahl.
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LETTER FROM ONE OF OUR BUSINESS MEMBERS:
"Mayor & Councilmember Dahl’s office,
I surrender as a desperate property owner of industrial buildings located at XXXXXX address. To date we have had all our windows broken, the electrical service has been completed gutted, a hole has been cut in the side of the building and now the telephone service to the project that provides monitoring for our fire alarm has been completed gutted, so we have no current fire alarm protection. We file police reports on all know vandalism & property crimes, and we have NO TRESPASSING signs posted throughout. What are we doing as a community to mitigate the damage and destruction to our community and personal property? At this point our insurance carrier will not provide coverage due to the vacant nature of this building for our claims. We have suffered at least $50,000 worth of damages. I NEED YOUR HELP; OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS YOUR HELP. We have just lost one of our existing tenants who has elected to vacate our property due to property crime and vandalism. I have copied an adjoining property owner on this email as he is suffering as well.
We own and operate property throughout Tucson and unfortunately, we are experiencing this same problem on almost every property we own within the city limits. I need your help as I am not sure what I can do personally to curtail this onslaught of lawlessness. Please help.”
TCFC Supported AZ Senate Bill Released for Bipartisan Consideration
For months now, TCFC and Senator Justine Wadsack (LD17) and her team have been working on submitting bills for bipartisan changes to state law. Early potential support is coming from Representative Consuelo Hernandez (LD21). The purpose of these bills are to allow for more comprehensive treatment of those suffering from Substance Use Disorder (SUD) as well as Serious Mental Illness (SMI). These treatment options include the establishment of court systems and involuntary custodial drug treatment of criminals outside of jail. TCFC will be reporting more on this in the coming weeks. We are Grateful to be having these conversations with Senator Wadsack and Representative Hernandez.
Failed Policies of sanctioned camping in washes led to Death of Man and Woman in Rillito River
Pedestrian/Traffic fatalities, Far Outpacing Last Year For The Month Of January
Fentanyl and Methamphetamine have been drivers in pedestrian fatalities in 2022 and 2023. 10 Pedestrian Deaths so far in January! Last year: 2.
Well the legislation has created the foundation but the police aren’t the ones that enforce the consequences. They arrest. And crimminal is released immediately ?because it appears that the prosecuters are not prosecuting? Ive heard reports that they arw not even bonded out? They are released immediately. Uf you monitor police scanner sites, as the calls come in report after report perp is known, perp has outstanding charges, perp is not being pursued, etc. Then they report suspect is well known day after day ,you read reports on the same areas on same perps? They dont even get a slap on the wrist let alone jailed and charged?
The time is now to get active in local politics. We can all make a difference in how our Government operates. Hold your elected candidates accountable by attending and speaking at public meetings (city, county, and state), become a precinct committee member, run for office, and if running for office isn’t for you support your chosen candidate via volunteerism and/or financially.
2024 is going to be a BIG year and now is the time to start researching, understand the ballot measures (recommend you do this before signing the petition), review the candidates’ website, social media accounts, contact them, ask questions, attend candidate forums/debates and finally, but most importantly, answer the door when the candidates or their representatives knock. 2025 is also a big deal for city dwellers. City of Tucson Wards 3 (Dahl), 5 (Fimbres) and 6 (Kozachik) are up for re-election. Perhaps it is time for political opposition to consider challenging them via the ballot box. If you have any questions or an interest in running, feel free to contact me at janetforpima.com.
Make a plan, research the candidates and ballot measures, and VOTE and VOTE HARD!
Under Arizona law, simple possession of fentanyl, a class 4 felony, gets you 1-3.75 yrs in ADOC;
Possession with intent to sell, a class 2 felony, gets you 3-12.5 yrs in ADOC;
Possession of Fentanyl drug paraphernalia, a class 3 felony, gets you 3.5-8.75 yrs in ADOC;
Manufacturing fentanyl, a class 2 felony, gets you 3-12.5 yrs in ADOC;
Administering the drug to someone else is a class 2, getting you 3-12.5 yrs in ADOC.
If you have prior felonies, commit the offense while on release, on probation or parole, the punishment is enhanced. The Arizona Legislature has provided law enforcement with the tools to solve this issue. It’s wild to believe that any of these users are first time offenders. Surely, they’ve been, and are, popped repeatedly for this drug. Buddy, if you want to go down for 5 or 10 or more instead of cleaning up, that’s your call.
So where is the breakdown? Everyone, I mean everyone, right, sees it is a problem and no one, who actually can be doing something about it, is doing anything. What do you think Romero, etal, is going to say? She’ll first of all address the abortion issue, then say we’re a welcoming city so anyone can come here, criminal or not. And we’ll just take some money from streets,or parks, garbage pickup, or joe biden,or add some more taxes and set up another committee, oh, it has to be a BLUE RIBBON committee, right? That’ll solve it. More of our tax money, and less for our kids.
Is TPD doing its’ job and arresting these people? If they are, the city should probably be cleaned up by now. So where is the system breaking down. Is the county attorney doing her job to enforce the arrests by prosecution or is she blowing them off? Or are the judges letting all these people walk?
Rudy Guliani, broken windows theory, did a great job in New York, didn’t he? Compare New York then to now.
And Sheriff Joe was doing a pretty good job with tent city. That seemed to work as well.
And what policy is Tucson following: “ignore, don’t enforce, hope they die and/or move away. As long as we city council members and mayor have immunity, we can do what we want”
Treatment, court systems, enforced drug treatments, politicians roll these out at election time, set up committees, study the problem, recreate the same solution, years after years,…. and here we are.
Now with the illegals moving into everything and everywhere, consuming money and resources, haha, there is nothing left. It’s only going to get worse unless: the laws are aggressively enforced, sentences are maxed, tent cities are set up and these people are placed there until they are dried up and ready to rejoin society. Unless and until, they remain incarcerated. And city leaders need to held personally responsible for their actions which lead to harming citizens or their property. This is the type of legislation we need.
Just a simple, uncomplicated old fashioned approach. This problem is solvable. We just need to go back to basics.
And a little religion, not secular, psychological, psychiatric, social atheistic engineering.
Can property or business owners sue the City of Tucson or Pima County about this..in regards to the Call to Action?
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