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.
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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.
Solution: Personal civil and criminal liability for public servants who endanger public safety.
100-acre camp (Woods is where Winnie the Pooh lives)-if you’re not discouraging it, you’re encouraging it. That’s what the m&cc are doing.
Why is this a DPS case? That rarely happens? Must have been some criminal drug activity that was so blatant and apparent, they couldn’t ignore it. And so simple to pursue that they wouldn’t just notify TPD and hand them the case? (After all we have an entire police department right here locally in town with all the equipment they need. Most likely DPS had to transfer assets, equipment and personnel down here from Phoenix. More expenses.)
Maybe they did try to give it to TPD or the SO and they declined it? That would be great news for the Tucson taxpayers. Where is TPD? or even the SO? Darned right it should never had go this far-but as long as it’s not impacting the m&cc-what do they care. Business as usual for them. Until they have a dog in the fight, it’s going to be business as usual.
Prop 312 It’s good, but when you say the “city” is liable, you are saying I and every taxpayer are liable. We are part of the “city”. What we need is the ruling that says the public officials who are endangering our community are liable. Kevin dahl-isn’t this his area? Why isn’t he responsible? Nothing about the position the city has taken here has legal or moral merit.
Basically 312 is just taking my tax money and paying another poor citizen who has been victimized. We are paying for the actions of the m&cc who should be paying for this themselves.
And more reckless actions and spending? How much for the appeals and attorneys fees on a slam dunk losing case? m&cc do this all the time to lead people to believe they have a valid argument on appeal. We also need a City Council review board to oversee the actions of these people. This would be a good case to start with. None of their actions were rationale, educated or in the best interests of the population of Tucson.
That sound you hear is money being sucked out of your wallet to pay for these actions that endanger us physically, financially. Who is going to want to move their family and/or business here?
I challenge anyone to write and carry out a plan for the city that could possibly be more destructive than what these people are doing now?
A sign posted on a fence says “Notice of Decommissioning” with a mid-November date. What’s that about?
Can you drop another link for the 312 claim? That one doesn’t appear to be working. Thanks!
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