Posted on 07/25/2010 3:44:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Crime is on the rise in California's state parks, up nearly threefold in the past decade, according to Department of Parks and Recreation data analyzed by The Sacramento Bee
Marijuana cultivation in the parks also is increasing. In 2009, 35 incidents were reported, up from 30 the previous year and only four in 1999.
Visitors to state parks seem to have noticed the growth in crime. A 2007 survey by the state Parks Department found people citing gang activity, alcohol and drug use, and concerns about personal safety as reasons to stay away.
At Millerton Lake State Recreation Area near Fresno, rangers have found themselves interacting with more gang members and parolees this year, especially after inmate early releases from Fresno County jail began. The rangers often spot identifying tattoos as they patrol the park, they say.
"Inner-city problems manifest out here," said supervising ranger Mark De Leon.
Last year, Huntington State Beach experienced one of the largest overall crime increases: about 40 percent. Neighboring Bolsa Chica State Beach also saw a large rise
Action on the beaches varies dramatically -- from rescues at sea, to fistfights over fire pits, to break-ins and brawls in the vast parking lots
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How much of that crime is from the Mexican invasion force?
If I were an illegal alien, I would squat at a state park. I’m all for giving California back to Mexico except that would make hundreds of miles in new border with them.
California State Parks are probably gun free zones, right?
“Last year, Huntington State Beach experienced one of the largest overall crime increases: about 40 percent. Neighboring Bolsa Chica State Beach also saw a large rise “
Sad. Really sad. My old stomping grounds when I was a yute. Those two beaches were the places one went with friends just to have a good time. Fire pits to gather round, and the ocean to swim, and just have a run on the beach with friends. I used to fish the area a lot as well. Never felt unsafe. Never had any problems, but that was almost fifty years ago.
Does this remind you of something on a thread from yesterday?
For your average citizen, yep.
Gun free zones?
All of California is “Gun Free”
Kids under the influence. Nothing to do with Mexican invasion.
Well... I checked it out on calguns.net, and although not totally gun free, the rules and regulations are so convoluted, confusing and senseless that it might as well be.
Sorry, but I have to disagree with you. Yes, there are kids “under the influence” but there are also MANY Mexican drug cartels growing pot on a large scale in our parks.
We just need to declare open season on terrorists (bums and aliens)
“All of California is “Gun Free”
How’s that working out? (Actually, there are no “Gun Free” zones, only “No Legal Guns in the Hands of Responsible Adults” zones.)
Appeasement never works. If you retreat the enemy advances, and you have to retreat again and again. If they get CA then they start working on neighboring states (Oregon, Nevada, Arizona) through borders that are just signs on freeways. This is a major security issue, much larger than OBL's band of poorly trained lunatics (not that any attention is paid to OBL either.)
Thats why I live in Arizona, however I still own a home in CA, too hot in the summer in AZ.
National parks are huge and can offer concealed areas for growing cannabis. These are state parks and are not conducive to illicit pot farming on the scale you allude to.
Just a few days ago: [snip]The largest garden was near Hayfork, in which 46,000 plants were found in a single garden, Vollmer said.
Forest service law enforcement officers also arrested one man, Gauldry Almonte-Hernandez, of Mexico who ran during a raid on July 9 near Hayfork, Vollmer said.
Solus said that his agents have arrested around 20 suspects in connection with the grows. Most the suspects were Mexican growers arrested on suspicion of federal drug trafficking charges, he said.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2010/07/displaced-foreign-traveler-get-your-pc.html
[snip]Last summer, rural residents of Siskiyou County, California.....800 miles from the border, heard groups of ‘spanish speaking’ people walking up and down the roads in the middle of the night, patrolling. The various cartels are here fighting each other over LAND...our national forests, to grow their weed. We are told not to go into the forests for our own safety.
One fire in California last summer, LaBrea, was set by these cartels, consumed 88,000 acres.
Fire Investigators Determine Cause of La Brea Fire
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=invasion+800+miles
[snip] The Mexican border has moved 800 miles north- On Lou Dobbs Tonight!
Lou Dobbs Tonight/ Broken Borders CNN Airs9/13/06
And up next, we’ll take you on a massive manhunt and raid as authorities try to crush Mexican drug rings operating inside the United States. Stay with us.
DOBBS: Mexican drug cartels are operating not only with impunity across the border with Mexico, but with impunity deep within the United States; 800 miles from Mexico, drug traffickers are now operating on the California/Oregon border in our nation’s national forests.
[snip]September 06, 2006
Pot farms ravaging park land - Mexican Drug Cartels in the US of A!
Federal officials believe as much as 80 percent of the marijuana on public land is grown by Mexican drug cartels that have turned to places like Point Reyes National Seashore, Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area in this era of tightened border security; growing the drug here is far easier than smuggling it in. The plants found in Point Reyes last week were valued at around $50 million, Dell’Osso said.
The federal Office of National Drug Control policy estimates that growing 1 acre of marijuana damages 10 acres of land.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=invasion+800+miles
August 23, 2006
Mexican Drug Cartel Pot farm bust near popular recreation area - Oregon
Rafael Santoya-Pineda and Noel Tadia-Arreguin are in Jackson County Jail on immigration holds today.
MUST SEE video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZhNsIEmHfk
Illegal alien encampments
Not appeasement, just disgust at what California has become. Sometimes with cancer or a bad infection, you must cut the body part off to save the whole. That's how I think of California; it's beyond repair due to the infection of dependent illegals.
The part you elected to leave out.....LOL!
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Car surfing” at Folsom Lake near Sacramento, where daredevil teens jump off a bridge from the roof of a moving vehicle into the lake below.
—Grave-robbing at Tolowa Dunes State Park on the far North Coast, which left American Indian remains unearthed.
—Illicit sex in parks —
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