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ligui
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JD. I just wanted to say thank you for your adult input on this subject 
Thanks also to the rest of you . it's interesting to see the points of view on this subject.
I believe in coordinated cooperation between all countries.
This is a criminal issue lets work to solve it together with increased cooperation and increase in resources.
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JZ
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Quote: Originally posted by JDCanuck  | Can you truly say you personally feel safer and have more individual freedom today than you did 2 years ago?
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Hell yes. 2025 saw the largest one-year drop in murder ever recorded.
CA has even cracked down on homeless encampments and smash and grab robberies. Both of these things were happening within 2-3 miles of our house in
LA. One store in an outdoor mall where we regularly shop got hit 5 times.
We do a couple events in DC every year. If feel much better now with my wife walking around the city.
2025 Year in Review: A Remarkable Drop In Crime
https://jasher.substack.com/p/2025-year-in-review-a-remarkab...
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We will never win. There is great power, influence and MONEY in soothing the souls of Americans. It's a waste of time. It's a pointless fight
against ourselves. Ya think your're gonna actually win a war like that?
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Isn't "Homeless" still considered a derogatory term?
In Butte County (near Chico CA) last summer, for wildfire hazard concerns and sanitation issues at an "unhoused community", efforts were made to
relocate the camps.
The options apparently were not pleasing to the relocated population, so they snuck right back to their camp on the river and hid a little better.
The County reported that they were having problems with "Service Resistant Campers"! Now doesn't that sound a little kinder?
[Edited on 1-10-2026 by AKgringo]
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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| Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo |
In Butte County (near Chico CA) last summer, for wildfire hazard concerns and sanitation issues at an "unhoused community", efforts were made to
relocate the camps.
The options apparently were not pleasing to the relocated population, so they snuck right back to their camp on the river and hid a little better.
The County reported that they were having problems with "Service Resistant Campers"! Now doesn't that sound a little kinder?
[Edited on 1-10-2026 by AKgringo] |
If down on your luck, would you rather camp in open space or be confined in tenement slum?
USA has really big population of homeless. Since our fed, state and local govts cant or wont house all of our poor, Maybe US govt should ask UN to set
up some refugee camps to house our ‘refugees’
Homeless camps look like better life than the refugee camps i have seen.
Woke!
Hands off!
“Por el bien de todos, primero los pobres.”
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Pronoun: the royal we
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JZ
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| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | | Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo |
In Butte County (near Chico CA) last summer, for wildfire hazard concerns and sanitation issues at an "unhoused community", efforts were made to
relocate the camps.
The options apparently were not pleasing to the relocated population, so they snuck right back to their camp on the river and hid a little better.
The County reported that they were having problems with "Service Resistant Campers"! Now doesn't that sound a little kinder?
[Edited on 1-10-2026 by AKgringo] |
If down on your luck, would you rather camp in open space or be confined in tenement slum?
USA has really big population of homeless. Since our fed, state and local govts cant or wont house all of our poor, Maybe US govt should ask UN to set
up some refugee camps to house our ‘refugees’
Homeless camps look like better life than the refugee camps i have seen. |
Maybe Newsom should find some of the $24,000,000 billion to fix homelessness he lost (stole). 
[Edited on 1-11-2026 by JZ]
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ligui
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Guys this post is not about the homeless in California
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| Quote: Originally posted by JZ | It's funny to watch some people care more about their ability to take vacations in MX or live cheaply in MX.
Than they care about the incredible violence the cartels are inflicting on the Mexican population.
The same people tell us every day how we should help people in need. But it's always with someone else's money.
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JDCanuck
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I would like to know how Sheinbaum successfully dropped violent crime in Mexico City by 50% or how Columbia managed successfully to get their recent
improvements fighting Cartels. Then perhaps we can find a way to accomplish the same in Mexico, US and Canada with all the extra surveillance tools we
now control.
I can see the advantages of working more at the level of the disadvantaged youth to keep them from ever seeing Cartel membership as their best route
to wealth and respect. But that takes both societal wealth and the willingness to apply it to social spending programs.
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As I remember Columbia's "War Against Drugs" it just shifted from one Cartel to the next as successive Cartel heads were extradited and jailed with
the cooperation of the end users' countries (mainly the US). From the article I just read, the Sinaloa Cartel and FARC are now the majors in control
of Columbia exports of Cocaine. Meanwhile, the Cocaine market has declined and been replaced with increased Fentanyl, illegal arms and human
smuggling.
I don't think it is reasonable to expect to reduce Cartel prominence without dealing with the demand end of the cycle, or at least increased
cooperation between the supply and demand ends.
As for Mexico, they appear to be primarily working on the recruitment end by boosting the living wages and ultimately living standards and educational
options of upcoming generations. Perhaps that's ultimately their most effective weapon against the Cartels.
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