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COMMENT 286382	2012-06-08 07:23 AM
There must be many who echo your thoughts, Roger. I for one. For a few years I have seen seen SB slowly crumble. However, each time I verbalised this I was shot down with heavy artillery, followed by a Sherman tank . No one wanted to admit the fact. Some still don't. It's depressing. There is no pleasure either in saying " I told you so " because I don't think it is going to get better anytime soon.       i
COMMENT 286400	2012-06-08 07:58 AM
Here here, Roger. It is indeed going down, and seems to be accelerating. Our beautiful city is taken over and all the politicos and enforcement officials can do is throw their hands up in the air, and swear they're doing everything they can from inside the safety of their citadel. Jail release program at Casa Esperanza is sure dumping a lot of scary folks on us all. It was a small, quaint, lovely town. Not hard to manage at all. Why did they let it rot? Why did we let them let it rot?
COMMENT 286405P	2012-06-08 08:00 AM
Roger, is JOJO coming home? did he get 'tutored'?
COMMENT 286421P	2012-06-08 08:28 AM
Take your trike and ride down to the beach, get off and walk down to the water. You'll feel a lot better.
COMMENT 286447	2012-06-08 09:13 AM
I agree Roger, this town is sinking and it is so sad to watch and be helpless over! I was born & raised here but I think that I am moving away this summer, tired of working hard to barely survive and don't like the environment for my kids. Bummer! Yesterday I saw the ambulance at Ralphs and had heard they took a baby away on a stretcher. I hope that they are okay! So scary and sad :(
SHAKEY	2012-06-08 10:56 AM
I new SB should have hired Paul Kersey for the Saint Francis job !!!
COMMENT 286532	2012-06-08 12:39 PM
We live in a downtown neighborhood which is a throughway for the scariest people. I am sometimes afraid to hang out in my own front yard. There are drug deals happening, homeless wandering through, we had ALL of our deliveries stolen, so we cancelled any more forever. We had a passed out and We find condom packs, used diapers, shopping carts strewn about. The cars go by going very fast-and all FOUR of our SLOW DOWN Santa Barbara Signs were stolen. Yep, time to move.
COMMENT 286553	2012-06-08 01:46 PM
LOL, As long as there are no transients in RV's Camping on Mountain Drive or Stanwood Reservoir Park or homeless hanging out above APS- NOTHING will change here. I would actually urge all homeless RV dwellers to park up on Mountain Drive as the views are fantastic and it's so quiet at night :)
COMMENT 286574	2012-06-08 03:07 PM
I'm actually moving next week. It's a lot of things, but it's gonna get worse before it gets better.
COMMENT 286447	2012-06-08 09:00 PM
Yeah I am moving this summer, SB stinks, literally, just walk around downtown and you can smell how the homeless use the bushes to poop, it's no bueno!
COMMENT 286665	2012-06-09 08:51 AM
I am so sad to hear these horrible opinions of SB. I have never lived there (only visited enough times to love it) but had always intended it to be my "retirement" city...alas, health/finances cancelled that out. I do imagine that most of what is going on doesn't affect the wealthy, hence not much will be done as it is usually them that control what money speaks for the citys best interest. You still have the ability to walk the beautiful beaches, trails & lakes all for free. Living in the midwest, believe me...a farm is what they call a site. :-( ughhhhhh
RED CREEK	2012-06-09 10:39 AM
SB has grown. A lot. Too many "cheap" packed out rentals in some dense neighborhoods. It's not that all the bad activity is so unusual, it's just unusual here. The town is being loved to death with too many people, too many cars and dare I say it (?) too many transitory visitors of all kinds. Old timers can pine for the good old days (only 50 years ago) of low density neighborhoods and mellow barbarenos, but unless a serious down sizing of the packed rental neighborhoods happens, forgot about having the same livable city we remember. Down sizing would cost the out of town landlords big time (for example a lot zoned for 6 units going to 3 or even 1) -- so this will probably not happen. Carp, Goleta, Noleta and the valley are still good livable options, but a middle class home costs around 1/2 million! Lompoc?
COMMENT 286705	2012-06-09 10:52 AM
One way to reduce the jail population would be for us to legalize/control/tax drugs as we do alcohol. By continuing this failing "war on drugs" we have allowed the rise of a huge criminal network much like during the Prohibition era decades ago. Legalization won't eliminate abuses of drugs completely but, like alcohol use, we would then only have to jail people that abuse it not everyone. It seems to work OK that way in Europe.
COMMENT 286709	2012-06-09 11:12 AM
There was a fight at the Neighborhood (on Montecito street) on Tuesday nite 7pmish and a kid got beat up and knocked out. Ambulance, fire vehicle and police arrived fast. Anybody know the status of the guy who was knocked out?
ROGER DODGER	2012-06-09 11:32 AM
No I don't know but I think that is the same one that was reported at 229 West Montecito, he went to the hospital all I know.

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