Code 415: Homeless subject threatening to kill a business owner in the 1400 Block of State Street. SBPD are responding.
Threatening Subject on State Street
Roger
July 25, 2018, 1:14 am
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Police checking back parking lot guess he did not mean it police code 4…
Not sure if they caught up with the guy or what? They have cleared the call now.
What are all the newbie trustfund hipster millennial kids gonna do when all that’s left of Santa Barbara is them, homeless and gangbangers living off of section8? We’re getting there really quick.
Newbie trust fund hipster millennial kids, and,Homeless gang bangers living off section 8?
Republican family values
I have read been reading A lot of these posts about people seeing how much people defecating and urinating along the streets down on State Street. I found that hard to believe, but when I was walking out of the natural Café the other night and went into the back parking lot, sure enough someone at the bus stop had their pants down and we’re over and all I could see was there butt in the position.
You find it hard to believe? You must not frequent State very often. Just the stench alone is disgusting.
I actually don’t visit it so often, because it’s so hideous down there. We went to Yogurtland, and some guy sat in the chair outside and just stared at us the whole time we were sitting there. It was really uncomfortable, and he was beckoning to us for money. It is hard to believe in our community, especially with how hard the city is to deal with with anything you want to do for zoning and permitting, and the police will always mess with the citizens, that this is happening on State Street. It’s insane. This is off-topic, but I don’t understand how all these people are driving around with completely blacked out tinted windows. I thought that was illegal too, and I see absolutely no enforcement because there are so many cars that have them.
Not too many businesses in the 1400 block. The funeral home at Sola & State? The wig shop? (Is it still there?) I, too, wish our City would clear the “unsheltered” off State and surrounding areas. I have a pal who works downtown and he says the amount of crazies that harass shop workers and pedestrians, et al, is deplorable and getting worse every day.
Downtown SB is deplorable. It’s filthy, it STINKS to high heaven, the vagrants are aggressive and only getting worse by the day… Yet we still pay absurdly to live in this “beautiful” city. This will only continue to get worse until our “leaders” get off their arses and do something about it.
It’s a stressful experience being threatened by someone who looks like they have very little to lose. I pressed charges and had the guy found and arrested. But threats without actual violence are very small potatoes in today’s environment so I never heard from the cops again about testifying. I still see the guy wandering around the Westside. Not sure what else can legally be done about him though. I still think it is a national problem that needs a national solution.
Voters have to elect people who will promise to do something about thi,s and then have their backs in support when they actually do something. The current crop will not do anything. Don’t re-elect them. The city attorney is very good about these issues but he needs a new city council to get the real work done. Who will you vote for to replace Gregg Hart who states he is committed to doing nothing. Who will you vote for in 2019? Plan ahead and make sure you elect people who will be mutually supportive to this goal.
20 years of passive progressivism. Keep voting for them and this is what you get.
High mortgage, High property taxes, bums on every off ramp, urban campers, panhandlers, State St. a mess / mix of bums, tourists and overpriced food and junk… Paradise.
The globalist, elitist conservatives that own state street property charge rents that most businesses could not support – because they can.
Homeless have been here forever-never had a problem with them. It’s the nouveau rich, yuppie scum that have made the place almost intolerable.
But STRAWS!
It really is. Remember the guy that was stabbed while dining at Aloha in Ventura/ By a homeless person? Same thing at the campsite in Malibu. My parents, when they visit, worry about even walking down State by themselves out of concern that a mentally ill homeless person might attack them.
I have walked State St for many years on my lunch hour. The area between Cota and Gutierrez is like running a gauntlet of threatening and disgusting vagrants, even in broad daylight. Since the Ventura murder, if someone threatens you, believe them! Surely, if law enforcement just enforced existing laws on the books, this problem would be solved or at least lessened. It’s only about 50 people, many of them from out of town. Rents/property values on State St. are comparable to other Calif. coastal communities.
Coastwatch – you want to break out the Zyklon-B and get rid of the homeless that way. We know what you are. Go back to the kiddie table.
Coastwatch – what year did you become radicalized?
Anyone care to venture a guess as to whether or not the subject of this article will be given compulsory treatment to address his addiction/mental health problems? Who are we kidding, that simply isn’t going to happen. Anyone care to guess how long until they dump him back out on the street?
Words out, more and more are on the way… Enjoy and remember the Old Santa Barbara. Wokeness and accepting these outdoor camping criminals is now a way of life.
COAST – there have been homeless people all over downtown since I was born here in 1976, this is not some new “way of life” in SB. The gutter punks/urban travelers have been here since at least the 1990s. Why is it always doom and gloom with you guys? Downtown SB has ALWAYS been a hotbed of urine-soaked doorways and gamey homeless people. Nothing new here, calm down.
Coast must be a very young person or not have lived in SB or California very long.
BOSCO – yeah, I just sit in my house all day commenting on things with no real life experience….. what do you think I am? A typical Edhat commenter? Hahaha! Nope, I’m out every day and I see homeless people of all varieties. Sure, may be a little more in the last few years, but the problem has been visible, known and prolific for decades. It’s not as if this is a new phenomenon in our community.
ROGER – yeah, these rampant “camp fires” over the past few years are a new thing. Then again, might be just more reporting on them, so more exposure. Not sure why all of a sudden there are more fires. The overall homeless problem, even the violent ones, has been here since I was a kid. But, the trouble makers (urban travelers) are relatively new in the past 20 years and seem to be the worst of the problem.
@ GENERALATITIES- I am a native born and raised and worked (unfortunately) in a job that had contact with the vagrants almost daily for 30 yrs… There goes your BS theory.
Coast – you only know how SB was since the mid-nineties, given your reported YOB. SB has always had transients, but way back when they seldom created the problems experienced today. Way back when most transients didn’t travel too far above Haley Street. If anything was “urine soaked” it was generally their pants. I heard most were arrested for public intoxication and either hauled off to jail or redirected to “the jungle,” an area between the tracks and Cabrillo Blvd., east of SB Street where many camped. It’s rumored some that were chronic problems downtown or the beach area would find themselves in a railroad boxcar that would transport them to their next stop away from SB. Of course this is only a rumor but I can see how this could eliminate problems created by some. I can’t say it’s “always doom and gloom,” but I can say the negative issues have steadily increased.
DOULIE – sounds like you were directing that at me, not Coast. Do you honestly think I have no memory of my childhood (early to mid 80s)? Did you forget yours? I’m sorry to hear that. Once again, to be clear, I do think it has gotten worse, but in general, it’s nothing new to have homeless people and gutter punks all over downtown and the waterfront area. I grew up hanging out down there, I remember it vividly. Sorry you don’t.
@Sacjon Sounds like you were directing that at me not Bosco. I am handicapped now and cannot walk very far without extreme pain so “Yes I sit on my ass at home and comment like an Edhat commenter.” It’s too bad you have to put others down to make a point you lose credit that way. I think DOULIE has been here alot longer than the rest of us and though I do not agree with him much of the time he is pretty sharp.
There’s one of the future tenants of The Rose Garden Inn…