Archive for December 15th, 2008

Hey Jon,
Here’s the deal – TPD will still run the January academy with 30-34 recruit; however, today we are still down 75 authorized positions – that’s an entire division of officers. What the city doesn’t want to talk about is actual deployable number of officers which is less than 600 patrol officers (same as in 1998) , nor did they mention the officer to population ratio. If you take that in to account will are down at least 300 officers.

Now the budget. M&C did not mention the $130 million in discretionary spending – I know that you have mentioned this many times, but they “forgot” to discuss that in study session. M&C kept referring to “keeping a balance” with public safety and other services. What they are trying to protect are they pet projects, i.e., kidco, GLBT, etc. rather than cutting there and not cutting police. Romero compared public safety to kidco calling them “equal”. Uhlich stated they should be “holding to the communities priorities”, whatever that meant. And Leal is talking about raising taxes. Romero and Trasoff want to “keep an eye” on public safety for the next six months? They are hoping the violence will slow down and people will forget about the problem of not having enough police officers…period. Trasoff as of yesterday is still trying to figure out what the city’s priorities should be and what they should be doing – shouldn’t they know what they are doing and what those priorities are? Clearly public safety is not their priority.

Please continue to urge your listeners to question and demand answers from M&C.

Thanks, Larry

One of the important variables that determine quality of life in our region is the amount of violent crime. Crime statistics translate to real life decisions on where families move and where or if industries come to our community.  Clothcutter ran a blog post HERE detailing just how big of a problem we have here in Pima County.

From FBI statistics:

The Phoenix violent crime rate (per 100,000) is significantly lower than it is in Tucson. Both are higher than NY City. These states ONLY include crimes reported to the FBI, for example illegals, drug addicts, homeless etc are often not reported as crimes.

I came across a listing of all the known local gangs and their georgraphic region kind of shocking:

-Western Hills Posse Bloods (S of 36th E of Kino PKWY to Country Club (by Utterback); also some activity around 29th ST/Swan)
- Barrio Vista Bloods ( S of 36th E of Kino PKWY to Country Club (by Utterback) )
- 36th Street (Tre Six Bloods) (36th and Kino Area)
- South Park Family Gangsters (bloods) ( 36th and Park Ave area)
- Southside Blood Gang (unsure exact location)
- South Side Posse Bloods (various areas around Valencia and 12th ave)
- South Palo Verde Bloods (southside off Palo Verde road/ Valencia/Irvington)
- Mission Manor Park Bloods (between Irvington/valencia off of 12th ave)
- Edith Street Posse Bloods ( North of Grant between Country Club and Alvernon)
- East Side Posse Bloods ( spread out, but I know some live between 22nd and 29th around Craycroft Swan, etc)
- 29th Street Bloods (29th street, approx Craycroft to alvernon)
- V12 Bloods (valencia/12th)
- Midvale Park Blood Gang (Mission to Midvale Park, North of Valencia south of Irvington)
- Eastside Crips (Golf Links and Kolb area spreading out as far as Santa Rita HS)
- 29th street Crips (29th street spreading from Kolb to Craycroft?)
- Northside Crips ( NW side of town Orange Grove La Cholla?)
- 4th Avenue Sugar Hill Crips (Speedway to Grant, 1st Ave to 6th ave)
- Westside Crips ( Spread out over westside of town, from Cholla high south)
- Jollyville Crips ( Small hood located north of speedway, south of grant, east of silverbell)
-12th Avenue Crips( southside 12th ave area)
- Southside Loco Crips ( both sides of irvington, west of campbell east of park)
- A Mountain Crips (area just east/ SE of Cholla High School)
- 10th Ave PJ’s Crips (North of 22nd of 10th avenue, just south of downtown by Drachman elementary)
- Menlo Park Crips ( South of St Marys road, west of 1-10 )
- Barrio Loco Crips (unsure)
- Littletown Crips (Littletown neighborhood)
- Southside Crips/ Bilby Street Crips (Irvington to valencia, Campbell to Old Nogales HWY)
- Manzanita Park Lynch Mob Crips ( Mission to Cardinal, South of irvington north of Drexel Rd.)
- Surenos (located in various parts but primarily southside)
- Sur 13 Easy Riders (unsure, Southside)
- Eastside Brown Pride (all over eastside)
- Southside Brown Pride (all over southside, possibly north of valencia and 12th/6th ave area)
- Northside Chicanos (north of grant, south of Ft Lowell, 1st ave to Stone)
- Barrio Chicano Southside (42nd street to irvington, 6th to 12th ave)
- Barrio Libre South Tucson (City of South Tucson)
- Barrio Nuevo Loco (primarily by the Pascua Yaqui reservation)
- Barrio Santa Rosa (north of 22nd south of downtown)
- Barrio Viejo (same as above)
- Westside Barrio Hollywood ( St Marys to speedway, 1-10 to silverbell)
- Westside Barrio Sovaco (speedway to grant, 1-10 to silverbell)
- Westside Barrio Anita (speedway to 6th street, 1-10 to oracle/main)
- Barrio Kroeger Lane (North of 22nd, just west of 1-10)
- Barrio Centro (south of 22nd street, country club to aviation)
- Barrio Vista Brown Pride ( South of 36th street, Kino to Country Club)
- OP1 (Old Pascua) (North of speedway, to grant, 1-10 to oracle (by the movie theatre)
- Barrio Blue Moon ( same as above, but more towards speedway)
- 22 St Tiny Dukes (NW side of town Orange Grove up to Cortaro farms 1-10 to La Cholla)
- Brown Mexican Pride (southside, unsure approx territories)