Brush Fire Shuts Down Highway in Goleta

Add up all the public and commerical space already abdicated to the vagrant population, particularly parks the public can not longer safely use while we continue to pay for their maintenance and security; the RR corridor which is our welcoming entry to our city; freeway access ramps; all creek sides and bike paths; Mission Creek concrete channel; new State Street mall dining and business entrances, church yards, TV Hill, beaches ...... just a partial list of spaces already turned over by city policies allowing unhindered vagrant occupation. Cheaper to buy up Trona and pay for one way bus tickets. Mission accomplished. There is nothing enlightened about our current vagrancy policies; nor our immediate aquiesence to ACLU demands - they cannot make unlimited unfunded mandate policy demands at our sole local expense. Violates due process. Get a new city attorney who knows how to fight back. Get a new broken-windows police chief with a back bone and home in the city where they can keep track of what needs to be done, 24/7. Not treat this position as a part time job. We are currently badly served in both positions.

Roger, KEYT last night was reporting 27 citations for SB City. Which was better than LA City, who issued 1 citation as of Sunday night.

A local police officer told me that in the times of Covid 19 the campers can't be moved. They are told to "shelter in place." We saw some move around yesterday out of Fairview to Ellwood camps. Not safe, especially in fire season.

There are multiple vacant military facilities in Santa Barbara County that can be used for housing these folks? Why, we'd have to be idiots not to open them up for these people! Unless, of course, said housing does not exist. And unless there are some in the high desert somewhere that no sane person would want to live in. And unless there was no funding to support these people once they got there. And unless.......well, you get the picture.

When I was a kid we had a guy in the area named "Hobo Jim" or "Jim the bum" . Both not aggressive enough for the type of behavior that he had. Some of my best friends were inaugurated to alcohol, weed and other drugs and then he would molest them .Big deal court case in the 70's.Screwed up those people bad.One had anger issues so bad he kicked a bum to death near Haskell's and went down a road of anti-social behavior ending with his murder and the other one just killed himself a couple of weeks ago. The shit these people get away with has long lasting/reaching effects.There is NO rehabilitating those types of people,but keep giving them money so they can continue their "lifestyle"
LOLOLOLOL.

Again with the bum word. Well, at least we got a short break.

But you can't SAY that. These are culturally deprived, oppressed victims of a Capitalist society. You may not demean them by calling them bums, vagrants, hobos, scammers, grifters, derelicts, drunks, winos, scumbags, or shiftless, lazy, irresponsible gypsies, tramps or thieves. They prefer to be called Carefree Ramblers.

And call it a hobo camp rather than a homeless camp.

It already happened in Paso Robles. Several houses burned. No mention of the bum camp being the cause. Only the overgrown brush. Like it spontaneously combusted. Just put your head in the sand and ignore the REAL problem!

DUI checkpoints are often funded with grant moneys from the State or Fed govts. Find a grant to pay for HECs and it'll get done... eventually. As we keep asking local govts to do more with less it's no wonder they keep falling short.

Seabird: I don't get it.

Seabird won the Internet today with that one :)

I didn't know the president was in town!

Mandatory evacs have been cancelled. Looks like they are getting a handle on it.