100 Acres Fentanyl Camp, Pictures AZ Daily Star, Mayor and Council Will Not Show You; PEDESTRIAN Deaths Continue to Climb in City of Tucson
100 Acres Fentanyl Camp/The Pictures AZ Daily Star and Mayor and Council ARE NOT SHOWING YOU
This week The Arizona Daily Star featured the misery at the "100 Acre Wood" Fentanyl Camp.
The Tucson Crime Free Coalition on numerous occasions has visited this encampment. We have witnessed the human despair, crime and rampant drug use as well as drug dealing that is occurring inside this encampment. This encampment has also been the site of several violent crimes.
Part of what TCFC has observed in encampments like 100 Acres is the high rate of individuals that are living this way due to 60% having Serious Mental Illness (SMI) as well as 80% having Substance Use Disorder (SUD).
It is concerning to hear Resource Navigators (City of Tucson and Non-Profit employees) report that inhabitants in these encampments routinely turn down services and prefer to live in these dire conditions.
Our conclusion is that by the City of Tucson creating the “Tiered Encampment Protocol,” as well directing TPD to stay out of the encampments, they are actually not only enabling individuals to live this way, they are also promoting it.
The solution is offering support and treatment of existing services, however when services are turned down, the enforcement of laws must be utilized.
A solution TCFC has advocated to connect individuals to support and services is the Transition Center.
CLICK HERE to Learn more about the TRANSITION CENTER
TCFC wants to show you actual pictures that we have taken verses what the AZ Daily Star and the City of Tucson would like you to see and believe.
THESE ARE THE MILD PICTURES PICKED BY AZ DAILY STAR (BELOW)
PEDESTRIAN DEATHS CONTINUE TO CLIMB
Just a note of my observations.
This camp has grown and grown the last 2 years. These pictures don’t even show the extent. Please drive down Golf Links and continue to Aviation HWY to downtown if you want to see much more of this.
Maybe the housing of illegal immigrants provided by the city has squeezed out funding and places to live for these people. Maybe our free bus fares is a key.
This site has offered solutions but the root of the problem is our elected city and county leaders. They are spending more on housing for non citizens than for treatment and housing for US citizens. A real shame and the Star has enabled it all.
Thank you for your newsletter and the awareness it brings.
As usual, your rants lack any semblance of integrity, and are self-contradictory. You repeatedly harp on the same issues, offer no viable solutions, and only complaints. Pedestrian fatalities have likely increased because pedestrians fail to follow traffic regulations, crossing outside intersections including at night when they can’t be seen. This is NOT the failure of local government, but a failure of individual responsibility.
Check out 22nd Street and Alvernon behind the Walgreens. Open selling of drugs. Also the open lot behind Car Max best seen if you go to the Goodwill Donation center drive thru off of 22nd.
What a sight.
Leave a comment