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.
I retired from TPD nearly twenty years ago. Back in 2005, staffing was about 40% more than today and we still could not respond to calls with enough resources in time to do anything but take a report.Pro active policing was a fantasy.
TPD was de funded without saying so. Where did the money go that was paid to the 400 cops that aren’t there anymore?
This was a DPS operation, and I’m betting that TPD had only a token presence as a courtesy. During my 36 years there I’ve never seen DPS take the lead on an op like this.
Should inept people be allowed to vote? They are obviously the ones who allegedly elected the tyrants running the City of Tucson.
Tucson Crime Free Coalition 5 star newsletter. You are the only organization keeping people informed of what is really going on in Tucson and I am sure you are all volunteers. I will be donating to you for sure. Thank You to the people in Hedrick Acres that filed this lawsuit. and starting what it is going to take, it is sad that it has come to this but it has.
Hi – thank you for keeping the public aware of what is going on in our beautiful city. Do you know if the mayor sees these videos?
Finally!!!!! Thank you for having the courage to get involved! Tucson used to be so wonderful, but I moved out of the City 15 years ago and can’t even bear to drive into town because of all the homeless and drug activity. My grandson had never been able to play at the park across the street from his house bride of these issues and three Cit, Counsel sits back and does nothing. Enough is enough. Why are the needs of people who choose not to contribute to society put before the needs of those who do???
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