Drop in crime coincides with exodus of illegal immigrants

A marked drop in Phoenix-area crime coincides with the recession and a drop in the number of illegal immigrants in Arizona. Phoenix has seen a 25 percent decline in the number of crimes during the first five months of 2009 compared to the same time period in 2007 when the economy began to slow. Violent crime in Phoenix is down 12 percent, according crime statistics from the Phoenix Police Department.

[BobbySomers]

Interesting. Is the article spouting racism or just stating facts?

[Mr_Bill]

BobbySomers wrote:

Interesting. Is the article spouting racism or just stating facts?

I don't believe that there is a racial componant to "illegal aliens."

This seems straightforward to me. Street crime often flows from the poorest strata.

If that strata are already law-breakers, by definition; and also are rootless and often without any social ties at all; this makes sense.

Are you a racist?

[LMAO]

So the 97 illegals from Mexico and Honduras just located in a refer trailer with fruit, was just a mirage? They're not leaving and the flow hasn't slowed down. Most are just using 'better' illegal ways to sneak in!

[kill them all]

Illegals have nothing to lose, we can't keep them in jail because we have no paperwork. Deport every last one of them, I am sick of pressing 1 for english!

[community idiot]

An Alabama judge set a $20,000 cash bond for a native of Mexico who reportedly has been deported from the United States 28 times.

Houston County Sheriff's Sgt. Jackie Smith said he charged Luis Hernandez-Arellano, 38, with felony obstruction of justice last week for giving deputies false identification.

Smith said deputies stopped a vehicle on Alabama Highway 109 Thursday for running a stop sign. The driver told deputies his name was Caesar Garza.

After Garza failed to provide a driver's license or other identification, deputies were able to positively identify him as Carlos Cortez. Investigators later learned through Immigration and Customs Enforcement that Cortez is actually Luis Hernandez-Arellano

[community idiot]

wait till everyone in the united states is required to carry a passport with an rf id in it

maybe that will start to wake you clowns up

they are also talking about newer biometrics to
provide reliable id information

i read that implants like you dog

[an american]

97 beaner pops, 35 in a drop house, 67 arrests in two traffic stops, 68 beaners in Compton, what slow down?

[community idiot]

whenever i see someone calling me a racist now i will think union nazi
the large corporations are now adopting and training their union employees and americorp to turn in
anyone with bumper stickers , american flags ,
and firearms

[community idiot]

these people are being trained by law enforcement to turn you and all their customers in
this program is very unpopular with the public
these people are not professionals

Bright House Networks’ Tampa Bay division will work with local sheriffs’ offices to roll out a neighborhood-watch effort the division has dubbed “Operation Bright Eyes.”

In the first phase of the program, about 500 of the cable company’s technicians will receive crime-watch training.

Ultimately, 2,500 field employees will receive training from law-enforcement officials in seven local counties.

The goal is to train field employees to recognize suspicious behavior and to quickly report possible criminal activities to the appropriate authorities.

The initiative was announced just before the July 4 holiday by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Child Protection Investigation Division in Largo, Fla.

The effort might be in response to a report that local citizens continue to be concerned about crime in their neighborhoods, even though statistics show crime is dropping in the Tampa Bay area.

“Operation Bright Eyes really gives us the chance to take a proactive role in public safety and address a true community concern,” division president Kevin Hyman said in a statement.“We’re not asking our people to be vigilantes or put themselves in harm’s way. We’re merely deploying 500 extra sets of eyes and ears to help keep our neighborhoods and residents safe.”

The workers will be provided with a comprehensive list of emergency numbers to call. The division anticipates that all appropriate workers will receive training and join the program by year-end.

There is a growing trend in public-affairs initiatives by cable operators.

[Fed Up Vet]

Imagine that!

Enforcement can actually make a difference. What a remarkable conclusion.

All this country needs is the political will and the illegal alien problem can be solved.

However, after the congressional critters nationalize health care a new wave of foreign nationals will be sneaking across the border for their free kidney transplants.

Just my opinion.

[Cheyenne Z]

A few years back the city of Costa Mesa, CA got a new mayor who thought it would be a good idea to open up a "day-labor center" in town.
It didn't take long for thousands of illegal aliens to flock to the city.

At the day labor center, upwards of 500 illegals loitered on the streets every day, running into traffic, harassing drivers at the stop lights, urinating and deficating all along the fences for blocks in the surrounding area. Car break ins skyrocketed in the area. Burglaries sky rocketed. Reports of women and children being harassed and molested within the 15 square block area of the day-labor center. The crime of rape skyrocketed. Shoplifting crimes skyrocketed in the stores around the day-labor center.
Illegal aliens were living 25 to a small one-bedroom apartment (a violation of city zoning laws), and even sleeping in the laundry rooms of apartment buildings.

The local paper carried a news story on the front page, one day, with header reading "Immigrant number in Costa Mesa rises by 85%", with the story following telling about the day-labor center, and how in the past year it drew "immigrants" (illegal aliens) into the city of Costa Mesa.

On the following page, of the same issue, another story about Costa Mesa.
This one from the Costa Mesa Police, reported that crime in Costa Mesa had "risen by 85% in the past year".

Two stories, same numbers.
It was, in fact, two sides of the same story. Only the newspaper separated the story to try to hide the fact that the day labor center was directly responsible for the rise in crime in Costa Mesa.

But the citizens of Costa Mesa were not that dumb.
The "pro-illegal alien" mayor was canned and Costa Mesa got a new mayor, whose first order of business was shutting that day-labor center down. Next the Costa Mesa Police Dept implemented a program to work with Immigration Customs Enforcement to deport illegal immigrants who commit major crimes.

Within the first year the numbers of illegal aliens in the city dropped, do did crime. And it continued dropping as more illegal aliens moved out.

What happened in Costa Mesa, clearly shows that an inundation of massive numbers of illegal aliens to any city, any county, any state, and to the nation, as a whole, brings in crime. And when the numbers are reversed, and illegal aliens are deported, the crime rate drops.

[Captain Jack]

Take away the insentive to stay and they will go...

[Jason Lee]

Well if someone is present in country against the law why the heck would we expect them to respect our other laws?

[mayo420]

Now if we could just get rid of the rest of Americas' immigrant population, italians, germans, english, french, asian, legal or not, we could realize a tremendous drop in crime.

[I got shot in -71]

an american wrote:

97 beaner pops, 35 in a drop house, 67 arrests in two traffic stops, 68 beaners in Compton, what slow down?

It's true there is a slowdown of illegal's,Yesterday I saw a White Guy selling Home Made Tamale's!

[Mizz Bee Haven]

I got shot in -71 wrote:

<quoted text>It's true there is a slowdown of illegal's,Yesterday I saw a White Guy selling Home Made Tamale's!

The next thing you know, Mexico will be building a fence on their side of the border.

[b4its2late]

BobbySomers wrote:

Interesting. Is the article spouting racism or just stating facts?

It's facts of course. Do the math.

Less mexicans/latinos = less crime.

you dont have to be a rocket scientist lol.

[Gilbert of Woodhaven]

If the solution to the problem is shoot the illegals many of you from Europe won't be here today. You must have forgotten history. Barrow a history book and read about the aliens from Europe in the 1800 on. You will be a transformed man.

[Lambs in Sheeps clothing]

LMAO wrote:

So the 97 illegals from Mexico and Honduras just located in a refer trailer with fruit, was just a mirage? They're not leaving and the flow hasn't slowed down. Most are just using 'better' illegal ways to sneak in!

It's true, they aren't leaving, because to them dropping an anchor money bag is employment.

I wonder how many of those 97 invaders were pregos?

[WMDiscussion]

Gilbert of Woodhaven wrote:

If the solution to the problem is shoot the illegals many of you from Europe won't be here today. You must have forgotten history. Barrow a history book and read about the aliens from Europe in the 1800 on. You will be a transformed man.

I don't need to "barrow" a history book, but I could "borrow" one. It wouldn't be your false propoganda history book, though.

Get over it...we took this land and it is ours and will always be ours. We either won it fair and square or it was sold to us fair and square. You snooze, you lose.