Tacoma Business Council announcement.
Homicides are up 100% year to date over last year at this time. Citywide last year we suffered 11, this year that number is 22. In Sector 4 alone, we have had 12 homicides. That is a 200% increase over last year. The data on kidnappings / abductions are also shocking. Citywide those crimes are up 94.4% (18 last year: 35 this year).
The data on property crime is also alarming. Year-to-date, all property crimes are up 45% over last year currently with robberies up a shocking 124.6%. See below for citywide data on crimes year to date.
We have attached the full crime report here: Weekly Crime Report Week Ending May 29. The first page shows all crimes citywide; the following pages break them out by sector.
TPD Staffing and Tacoma’s Budget
This week TPD reported that it currently has 48 vacancies for commissioned officers. That is movement in the right direction since at the beginning of the year there were 54 vacancies. Nonetheless, we need a fully staffed TPD for them to be effective in doing their job. Tacoma is in the process of gearing up for its next budget process. It is imperative that, when the time comes, we all weigh in to support full funding for TPD. TBC will let you know when it is time to participate in that process.
$250,000 Fund for Enhanced Security
As we mentioned last week, the City has set up a program for Neighborhood Business District to apply for funding to implement enhanced security. Business districts must apply to CDA for the funding. If you are a neighborhood business district association and have questions, the contact for that is Timothy Marlowe, President of the CDA at bdlocalpodcast@gmail.com or 843-614-7629.
I work in the city, but reside elsewhere. I can tell you that besides the statistics, we no longer report most property crimes and minor assaults anymore as there is no real point. Our out of pocket losses for these crimes is almost 100X what it was three years ago.
Think Kakistocracy
You can learn something new every day. A nation’s state too when people vote with their emotions instead if intellect. Unfortunately you often get the government you deserve.
noun
noun: kakistocracy
government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.
“the danger is that this will reduce us to kakistocracy”
a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens.
plural noun: kakistocracies
“the modern regime is at once a plutocracy and a ka
That “kakistocracy” is weaving the criminally-insane into the fabric of our neighborhoods.
Their “reasoning” is mostly-fabricated race, fairness, and equity platforms.
Look at any urban housing scheme being proposed or implemented.
What we are getting is open-air prisons where we are all inmates.
How many Batman and/or Joker movies do we need to see before our future comes into focus.
These same “kakistocrats” are hell-bent on disarming law-abiding citizens – leaving us at the mercy (good luck with that) of the criminally-insane who don’t give a damn about another law being heaped on the pile of 100,000 or so laws already on the books.
Nobody in their right mind wants to sit in endless meetings where such madness is considered normal.
We could solve so many problems simultaneously by putting the mentally unstable back into institutional care.
That would also prevent them from running for public office.
Great points!
I could not agree more with Mr. Borgelt’s points. This is what defund the police looks like in real time, after all the rhetoric has died down by the insane left and reality comes rearing its ugly head.
The left wont bother to fix anything however until the mob is at their doorstep. Then they will call for action, quick, fast and in a hurry and blame the right for all the problems or maybe Putin. Regardless, they will never and i mean never, accept responsibility for their failings.