The inconvenient truth that white liberals refuse to acknowledge or even discuss. The crime and murder rates in black communities is not only a criminal justice issue, but public health issue as well. There is indeed a crisis in the black community, resulting in an entire generation being lost.
Kudos to President Trump for trying to stop the death and destruction. Admittedly, those living in SB are CLUELESS about violent crime and the terror which those unfortunate enough to live in urban cities must suffer with on a daily basis.
Thank you for the commentary. It is good to hear firsthand account of the going on in our nation‘s capital better yet. It’s great to hear that. The president‘s efforts are having such a positive effect. You certainly wouldn’t know it from listening to media reports other than Fox.
Absolutely true. And then we all stare young and can make poor choices for a variety of reasons. So lighter consequences can be useful. But then again….. over and over? That why the old “3 strikes” guidelines were brillant. Even though inclined to act rashly and step outside the lines, knew those and checked themselves. That’s what we want
I like the images of national guard tending the roses and cleaning up the trash. The crime is in black communities so put the NG in those communities and actually address the claimed issue that they were deployed for. It is not happeneing because this is a PR exercise, nothing more.
Military trained personel have minimal training on the law of the land and traditionally have been poor at policing. This was never about crime. It was about attacking the blue. Crime rates are worse in many red cities. It is adversarial and ultimately non productive , worse it will be counter productive and destructive for the country. Should we mention create noise in the media to deflect from the Epstien saga too.
Typical smug and stupid liberal response. How many more victims will need to die? In Chicago alone over the past Labor Day weekend, there were over 70 shot with multiple deaths. I thought Black Lives Matter to you folks? Oh, that’s right as long as it’s a police related shooting, otherwise you look the other way.
Make America Safe Again! Bring in the troops, get rid of the homeless encampments, remove criminals and allow our inner cities to thrive again and prosper! Yes, the white liberal left is more than happy pointing the finger and doing NOTHING! The deployment of the National Guard in DC has resulted in NO murders in weeks and car jacking is down over 80%, not bc the NG is making service calls but bc of their overwhelming presence.
Chicago, St. Louis , New Orleans, Memphis and Jackson are next to be liberated!
Let me guess, you’re offended by our military being used to go after terrorist drug cartels as well?
Thanks Peggy for the update. For comparison, in the 1990's when I spent time in a carriage house in D.C., walking around Georgetown or downtown D.C. was no problem day or night. Of course that was before Obama-Biden stacked the courts.
Interesting memory you have. Crime was at its peak in the early 1990s in DC. You know, crack and all? 482 homicides in 1991. Or maybe we feel more secure when we're younger? I did.
Thanks for your interest. when I first started taking the train to D.C. in the 1970's Union Station was a pit and the crime was so high that Gulf Oil had given up trying to manage two service stations on Martin Luther King Blvd. However, my comments were based on my travels in 1994-95 which was after Union Station had been renovated and the crime rate had dropped considerably since 1991. Of course in a city run by Democrats there are always places it is better to avoid.
Isn't an analysis of crime in Georgetown just a look at the most affluent part of DC, where the elite have their townhouses? As if taking the crime statistics of Montecito tells anything about the overall picture of our Eastside vs Westside, or the Goleta gangs. One break-in at a famous person's estate in the Upper Village makes the news, while stabbings overdoses and murders in the underbelly of the "encampments" and crowded neighborhoods is business as usual. Lots of poor people at risk for pressure from cartels and whose children are in the 50% who cannot read at grade level.... the pretty little town has an underbelly of seething resentment by those for whom the American Dream is failing.
Nothing like having the truth that had become so common place that it was to be ignored.
The author states looking around and noticing everyone around her locked everything ... did not notice that. Hummmmmmm
How about Santa Barbara where years of council lack of caring has produced shooting, stabbings, increased gang activity, bodies in the streets, dangerous bicycle, e-motorcycle middle finger, a failed vision less vision zero, 10's of millions spent on failed street destruction, the idiotic walk in streets regardless of how safe it is, and then glare at the guy driving to get groceries. Isn't that a great run-on sentence? (Sorry Mr. Mount)
Think the tourists that used to drive up from LA don't notice? Think the working poor and middle class don't notice these growing social and criminal failures?
When the Mayor of DC states - gee looks like it is working. When the Governor of the late not so great state of Calif. deploys the Highway Patrol - ala Donald Trump - to quell out of control cities (Trump stated that and was damn'd for saying it) you know the majority party has failed not just in Santa Barbara.
The current elected majority in south county have become so numbed to social and political failure it is the forest for the trees. The manifesto is more important then outcomes.
Fyi, one can never be too vigilant! I lock my car doors the first thing I do once I shut the door wherever I am, I never leave my purse unattended in the grocery cart, my purse always has zipper closures. I’ve lived in Paris with roaming gypsies, NYC with pickpockets too. Since my return to SB I’ve not let my guard down and keep up the same habits.
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On a happy note the Chef, Roth from Stella Mare is now at The Harbor Restaurant serving up some delicious plates.
I bumped into a friend who moved from Montecito to Chicago number of years ago. Included in our chat was my question about how safe she felt living there based on the "news" regarding crime in that city. She responded that it "wasn't bad"...in part because she adapted to "not going out at night". A very nice person...and a classic liberal.
Too afraid to take the trash out.
It’s like they unlocked all the cages at the zoo.
The inconvenient truth that white liberals refuse to acknowledge or even discuss. The crime and murder rates in black communities is not only a criminal justice issue, but public health issue as well. There is indeed a crisis in the black community, resulting in an entire generation being lost.
Kudos to President Trump for trying to stop the death and destruction. Admittedly, those living in SB are CLUELESS about violent crime and the terror which those unfortunate enough to live in urban cities must suffer with on a daily basis.
https://giffords.org/lawcenter/report/gun-violence-in-black-communities/
Giffords.org has a lot of interesting info - thanks.
Thank you for the commentary. It is good to hear firsthand account of the going on in our nation‘s capital better yet. It’s great to hear that. The president‘s efforts are having such a positive effect. You certainly wouldn’t know it from listening to media reports other than Fox.
It is amazing what happens when there are consequences for negative behavior. It’s so fundamental: feedback shapes behavior.
Absolutely true. And then we all stare young and can make poor choices for a variety of reasons. So lighter consequences can be useful. But then again….. over and over? That why the old “3 strikes” guidelines were brillant. Even though inclined to act rashly and step outside the lines, knew those and checked themselves. That’s what we want
I like the images of national guard tending the roses and cleaning up the trash. The crime is in black communities so put the NG in those communities and actually address the claimed issue that they were deployed for. It is not happeneing because this is a PR exercise, nothing more.
Military trained personel have minimal training on the law of the land and traditionally have been poor at policing. This was never about crime. It was about attacking the blue. Crime rates are worse in many red cities. It is adversarial and ultimately non productive , worse it will be counter productive and destructive for the country. Should we mention create noise in the media to deflect from the Epstien saga too.
Typical smug and stupid liberal response. How many more victims will need to die? In Chicago alone over the past Labor Day weekend, there were over 70 shot with multiple deaths. I thought Black Lives Matter to you folks? Oh, that’s right as long as it’s a police related shooting, otherwise you look the other way.
Make America Safe Again! Bring in the troops, get rid of the homeless encampments, remove criminals and allow our inner cities to thrive again and prosper! Yes, the white liberal left is more than happy pointing the finger and doing NOTHING! The deployment of the National Guard in DC has resulted in NO murders in weeks and car jacking is down over 80%, not bc the NG is making service calls but bc of their overwhelming presence.
Chicago, St. Louis , New Orleans, Memphis and Jackson are next to be liberated!
Let me guess, you’re offended by our military being used to go after terrorist drug cartels as well?
https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton-murder-rate-among-nations-highest-as-trump-sends-troops-to-high-crime-cities/PQKTEB57P5DJXO7SG7EVLJOAEE/
Thanks Peggy for the update. For comparison, in the 1990's when I spent time in a carriage house in D.C., walking around Georgetown or downtown D.C. was no problem day or night. Of course that was before Obama-Biden stacked the courts.
Interesting memory you have. Crime was at its peak in the early 1990s in DC. You know, crack and all? 482 homicides in 1991. Or maybe we feel more secure when we're younger? I did.
Thanks for your interest. when I first started taking the train to D.C. in the 1970's Union Station was a pit and the crime was so high that Gulf Oil had given up trying to manage two service stations on Martin Luther King Blvd. However, my comments were based on my travels in 1994-95 which was after Union Station had been renovated and the crime rate had dropped considerably since 1991. Of course in a city run by Democrats there are always places it is better to avoid.
Isn't an analysis of crime in Georgetown just a look at the most affluent part of DC, where the elite have their townhouses? As if taking the crime statistics of Montecito tells anything about the overall picture of our Eastside vs Westside, or the Goleta gangs. One break-in at a famous person's estate in the Upper Village makes the news, while stabbings overdoses and murders in the underbelly of the "encampments" and crowded neighborhoods is business as usual. Lots of poor people at risk for pressure from cartels and whose children are in the 50% who cannot read at grade level.... the pretty little town has an underbelly of seething resentment by those for whom the American Dream is failing.
Nothing like having the truth that had become so common place that it was to be ignored.
The author states looking around and noticing everyone around her locked everything ... did not notice that. Hummmmmmm
How about Santa Barbara where years of council lack of caring has produced shooting, stabbings, increased gang activity, bodies in the streets, dangerous bicycle, e-motorcycle middle finger, a failed vision less vision zero, 10's of millions spent on failed street destruction, the idiotic walk in streets regardless of how safe it is, and then glare at the guy driving to get groceries. Isn't that a great run-on sentence? (Sorry Mr. Mount)
Think the tourists that used to drive up from LA don't notice? Think the working poor and middle class don't notice these growing social and criminal failures?
When the Mayor of DC states - gee looks like it is working. When the Governor of the late not so great state of Calif. deploys the Highway Patrol - ala Donald Trump - to quell out of control cities (Trump stated that and was damn'd for saying it) you know the majority party has failed not just in Santa Barbara.
The current elected majority in south county have become so numbed to social and political failure it is the forest for the trees. The manifesto is more important then outcomes.
Thanks for the awakening article.
Thank you so much for sharing this first hand account with us on the west coast. It’s good to have a reality check.
Fyi, one can never be too vigilant! I lock my car doors the first thing I do once I shut the door wherever I am, I never leave my purse unattended in the grocery cart, my purse always has zipper closures. I’ve lived in Paris with roaming gypsies, NYC with pickpockets too. Since my return to SB I’ve not let my guard down and keep up the same habits.
🍒🍒🍒
On a happy note the Chef, Roth from Stella Mare is now at The Harbor Restaurant serving up some delicious plates.
They were covid mask jerks. Will never patronize Jill’s.
I just recall Jill's place to be the most severe. It was the only place I felt were taking it too far.
Maybe they are just jerks
Who killed Seth Rich in DC? Botched robbery where they forgot to steal? Or assassination of the person who leaked the DNC emails?
I bumped into a friend who moved from Montecito to Chicago number of years ago. Included in our chat was my question about how safe she felt living there based on the "news" regarding crime in that city. She responded that it "wasn't bad"...in part because she adapted to "not going out at night". A very nice person...and a classic liberal.
Same great name, completely different person. https://www.independent.com/2025/09/03/jim-covers-all-the-bases-for-planned-parenthood/