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Residents busted for shackling and torturing a teenager, a doctor arrested for allegedly sexually abusing patients, and a substitute teacher fingered for molesting "upward of 15 students" -- these are just a few of the bizarre crimes Tracy played host to before the rape and murder of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu. Why has this one-time safest city in California taken a turn for the macabre? Well, according to Joseph McNamara, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and San Jose's police chief from 1976 to 1991, says Tracy's rapid growth might be to blame. Tracy, it seems, doubled in size since the mid-1990s. "As the city grows, inevitably, the crime gets more complex, there will be more conflict ... and the police will get caught in the middle of that," said McNamara. Interesting. Central Valley readers, if you can put down the cattle prod and stick the gag back in her mouth for a second, is this true? Is Tracy really this horrific?
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You have "Central Valley readers"? Uh, if you say so, but as this former Tracy resident can attest, living in the 209, in a word, sucks. There's nothing to do but sit in traffic for two hours on the way to work in the Bay Area while you watch the value of your home plummet. The locals hate the transplants, the transplants hate the locals, meanwhile everyone gets sick from breathing the pure Valley air, which thanks to the unique blend of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers breeds a unique blend of super-virus. I do not fear swine flu thanks to Tracy, but I wish it ill nonetheless.
Being from Pleasanton, Tracy is just a stones throw away. I wouldn't describe Tracy as ever having been the "one-time safest city in California." It is, and always has been, one of the trashiest places I've been to. It seems more likely that they are just now uncovering crimes that certain Tracy miscreants had been committing for quite some time. Growth probably contributed more to local tax revenue which allowed them to pay for more police officers so that they could actually uncover crime that had long been persisting there. Also... why is this so surprising to everyone that Tracy is a terrifying place? Tracy is home to Pombo, the biggest corrupt douche politician (and land-owner) to ever grace us with his presence. I'm so glad we voted him out.
"Fingered for molesting"? Ew.
And by "ew", I mean "well-played".
Tracy is the same lovely place it has always been!
Say..are you about a size 14?
PUT THE FUGGIN LOTION IN THE BASKIT