DPS Arrests Narcotics Trafficking at 100 Acres; ARIZONA SUPREME COURT FINDS CITY OF TUCSON LIABLE
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Tucson — When Is Enough Enough?
Mayor Romero & Council Sanctioned Drug Camp - 100 Acres Bike Park:
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What’s Really Happening -
The 100 Acres Bike Park was built to be a community asset — a safe place for families, cyclists, and neighbors to gather. Instead, it has been completely overtaken by homeless encampments. The City of Tucson manages this park, and both the Mayor and City Council have long been aware of these conditions.
Despite years of complaints about shootings, violent incidents, open drug use, and deteriorating safety, almost nothing has changed.
We have visited this park many times. What we see is not only dangerous — it is profoundly inhumane. And while the community continues to plead for action, the City continues to pour millions of dollars into maintaining the park without investing in meaningful, evidence-based solutions.
The Cycle Continues Because Nothing Truly Changes
Clearing encampments without:
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offering real rehabilitation,
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enforcing laws consistently, or
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providing accountability,
simply pushes the problem from one neighborhood to another. This is unfair to families, small businesses, and the individuals trapped in addiction and untreated mental illness.
The City even sets up a sunshade tent at the entrance of the park to hand out food, water, and clothing — a clear acknowledgment that they know exactly what is happening here. Today, multiple agencies were on-site, using resources that could have been responding to 911 calls across Tucson.
A Major Operation Took Place Today
https://www.facebook.com/Tucsoncrimefree/videos/1608941850487935
Warrants were served this morning for narcotics trafficking and distribution. Arizona DPS led the operation, with TPD assisting. It should never have reached this level. When encampments are allowed to spiral out of control for months or years, it drains city resources, burdens TPD, and pushes cleanup and enforcement costs onto taxpayers.
Policy Choices Have Consequences
At the same time, the Mayor and Council are considering making drugs like fentanyl — the very substance driving much of the crisis — a misdemeanor instead of a felony. Decisions like these don’t reduce harm. They attract more individuals who know they can continue using dangerous substances in public with few consequences.
We Need Real Solutions — Not More Band-Aids
Tucson deserves better.
Our neighborhoods deserve better.
And the individuals suffering in these encampments deserve better.
We urge everyone to watch the videos taken today. They show, unfiltered, the reality many residents live with daily.
You can follow us on Facebook or Instagram for more updates and on-the-ground documentation from today’s operation.
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CITY of TUCSON
HELD LIABLE
For
NEGLECTING BASIC RESPONSIBILITIES
The wait has finally paid off!
A few years ago, Adrian Wurr and several residents from the Hendrick Acres Neighborhood filed a lawsuit against the City of Tucson over the homeless encampments in a nearby wash and park. These camps had made life unbearable and unsafe for residents and local businesses — with incidents that included Adrian being punched in the face, fires being started, open drug use (including fentanyl), human waste scattered throughout the area, piles of garbage including a lot of needles and foil from fentanyl and abandoned furniture everywhere.
Despite the Mayor and Council passing an ordinance banning camping in washes and parks, the City continued to fight the lawsuit — all the way to the Arizona Supreme Court. The good news? The Supreme Court has now refused to review the case, letting the lower court’s ruling stand. THIS HOLDS THE CITY LIABLE!
Tucson — this is your chance to take action if the City has neglected your public nuisance You can now file a 312 claim. If you file and win your claim, you could be reimbursed for your property tax payments.
You may qualify for relief under Prop 312 if:
● You own property and pay a primary property tax to a city, town, or county in Arizona, and
● The city, town, or county where your property is located:
● Follows a policy, pattern, or practice of declining to enforce existing nuisance laws prohibiting illegal camping, obstructing public thoroughfares, loitering, panhandling, public urination or defecation, public consumption of alcoholic beverages, or possession or use of illegal substances, or
● Maintains a public nuisance, and
● You incurred documented expenses to mitigate the effects of the policy, pattern, or practice or the public nuisance on your property.
All of the information you need is in the following attachment from The
Goldwater Institute.
This isn’t only happening in parks. This is happening right off the freeway exit or entrance to the I-19 freeway. I observe daily these homeless and drug addicts standing on the median right by the freeway, shooting up drugs, defecating in public, and even building fires to stay warm. And where are the cops? They are down the street parked talking to each other as if they’re having a powwow.
We are our brothers keeper. We are suppose to being helping the poor not look and then drive by. It’s been there for 3 years. Ask yourself what have you done to help. I know I have helped with dog food and puppy pads when someone left a box of puppies near the road leading down into the camp. I know I brought a truck full of fire wood that winter when temperatures were at freezing point. I know I have taken socks, warm clothes when it was extremely cold. What has anyone else done in this town but complain!!!
I’ve SEEN this dog in the median strip with an older guy. Poor creature! Not only is this human degradation, also animal abuse!
People: the writing is on the wall. The goal of the m&cc is to turn Tucson and the entire area into a Blue Island. A permanent left wing voting block, forever and ever. “Aff Hous”, which we don’t need, is being built for illegal aliens of which we might have 50-75,000. If these people were deported we would have no housing issues, prices would go down on everything from homes to med care to insurance to groceries. The whole environment here is designed to move the productive contributing people out and create “favelas” here. You and I don’t count. We just need to pay taxes. So basically we’re paying and contributing to our own demise. Even though we voted down the Sanctuary city status, ex mayor rothschild has been quoted as saying Tucson is run just like a sanctuary city. The terrible, terrible, terrible thing is the m& cc are proud of welcoming everyone here. Unfortunately, they are welcoming druggies, child molesters, murderers, etc. It’s an unqualified welcome. They don’t vet anyone? This is not stupidity, it is living breathing hatred for the status quo. Their desire is to destroy the old Tucson and create a city of slaves and serfs. If you can think and see what is going on, you are not wanted here.
As far as the DPS operation-do you think they didn’t trust TPD with the case?
I remember when even considering possessing a drug like fentanyl or meth was a crime punishable by prison. Possession of any paraphernalia like foil or a pipe was also a felony. Many years sober later, and I still haven’t forgotten the “need to hide” my habit. This “need to hide” habit did help control the problem. Junkies were arrested. They went to prison. Prison does save lives because even if it may not offer a ton of rehabilitation services, it does give people the time to just simply not have drugs and actually dry out. That drying out might be what these people need to flip their switch back to knowing drugs are bad. Some people argue that there are drugs in prison too… but as someone who personally knows from the inside, I can attest that yes there are drugs in prison— but not nearly as much as what’s on the street. And for fentanyl addicts, your being in that hunched stupor won’t fly in prison. So yes, prison is a forced reset. And for some it does save lives. Affordable housing is not exactly the answer for these encampments. In all actuality, it probably makes the problem worse.
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