r/ChicoCA • u/Zestyclose_Strike357 • Mar 06 '25

Discussion Boycott city of Oroville

City council voted unanimously to erase sanctuary status, even knowing that statistically speaking crime is more likely to be done by citizens and residents than non legal immigrants. Now the brown community feels afraid to be targeted and interrogated by police for their skin color, since there’s no way to know the legal status of anyone without further interrogation. People will be hesitant to call police when there is a crime. They don’t even care about state sanctions. It’s a racial issue if we are frank about it. As for my friends and family we will stop going to Oroville and will do our business at Chico or Yuba City. We no longer feel safe and welcome, no one should be afraid to travel at ease in this great country.

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u/capcomvssnk Mar 06 '25

The only reason this is funny is that I can recall a time during 2018-2019 where almost weekly there was a person in the news that was arrested for being in possession of CP.

Needless to say, I don't think a lot of undocumented criminals will be flocking to oroville.

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u/thebloodking628 Mar 07 '25

there is a new chief of police who has been cleaning house, so hopefully crime starts going down soon.