I like moutain biking and road biking, hiking, living a active life. I was glad to hear the City of Phoenix, MCSO, and the State of Arizona take some steps to get illegal immigration under control. Many do not understand that having a uncontrolled border with Mexico is a seriously bad thing (and no not because this is a race issue). Illegal immigrants fleeing and using healthcare, crowding 40 people to one house, driving down the wages of legal immigrant and US citizens. Coyotes that use drop houses and beat their illegal immigrants in un-human conditions right next to the average family house in Phoenix. And now the mexican drug cartels that are helping by holding people for money. Anyone remember a while ago when the N. Phoenix house had over 100 rounds of gun fire put in it by those trained mexico? That was a wakeup call!
So now Phoenix is number 2 not in the nation in kidnappings but in the WORLD! I have been there several times and love Phoenix its shameful that this is happening. Myself and many otheres look to move to Phoenix for a more peaceful life because thats what we hear. We hear of a city that is growing and young people such as myself can become part of it with a quality of life unmatched. But is it? This is shocking and not just "little crime".
Kidnapping Capital of the U.S.A.
Washington Too Concerned With al Qaeda Terrorists to Care, Officials Say
By BRIAN ROSS, RICHARD ESPOSITO and ASA ESLOCKER
February 11, 2009
In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone. But local authorities say Washington, DC is too obsessed with al Qaeda terrorists to care about what is happening in their own backyard right now.
"We're in the eye of the storm," Phoenix Police Chief Andy Anderson told ABC News of the violent crimes and ruthless tactics spurred by
Mexico's drug cartels that have expanded business across the border. "If it doesn't stop here, if we're not able to fix it here and get it turned around, it will go across the nation," he said.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown warned that as the U.S. government focuses so intently on Islamic extremist groups, other types of terrorists – those involved with the same kidnappings, extortion and
drug cartels that are sweeping Phoenix – are overlooked.
Those [criminals], for the average Californian or the average America, may be a more immediate threat to their well being," Brown said.
In fact, kidnappings and other crimes connected to the
Mexican drug cartels are quickly spreading across the border, from Texas to California. The majority of the victims are either illegal aliens or connected to the drug trade.
An ABC News' investigation uncovered horrific cases of chopped-off hands, legs and heads when a victim's family doesn't pay up fast enough.
"They're ruthless, so now they're ripping each other off, but doing it in our city," Anderson said.
To try and combat the crime wave, the Phoenix police have created a special unit to handle the kidnappings called the Home Invasion Task Force, which has pulled more than a dozen officers off other assignments. The crimes are occurring across the valley and in all types of neighborhoods, authorities warn.
In some cases, dozens of people at a time have been kidnapped. They are often illegal aliens whose captors then demand ransom from the victims' relatives in
Mexico.
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The City with the second most kidnappings in the world Phoenix?
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