Archive for November 8th, 2008

Every night when you turn on the news it’s gangs and murder. Draw a line1/2 mile east and west of Oracle from Wetmore to Main or pretty much anywhere south of 22nd and you’ve identified the high crime corridors of Tucson. The high crime rate is starting to affect business, it’s causing neighborhoods to become off limits to families and it’s scaring our community. Our neighborhood in the Catalina Foothills is starting a neighborhood watch program, my cars have been broken into twice and we set the alarm every night.

From the Tucson Citizen - HERE. This can’t be good trend:

Through Oct. 28, the Tucson Police Department had recorded 61 homicides this year.

That’s the highest number of homicides within the city limits since 1995, and we still have two months to go in 2008.

The city is on a pace for more than 70 homicides. That would be the most since 1980, when TPD began keeping statistics as part of its Official Uniform Crime Report database.