I agree but the Inland Empire has a hate crime epidemic in recent years and the majority of meth drug labs are in the High Desert Yucca Valley Twentynine Palms The region may develop a bad image as a magnet for hate groups and the rising crime rate gives us a negative name I wish we can talk about something else but it s an issue we must address in the Inland Empire and stop gangs drugs or crime before it gets worse The problem hits hard in Palm Springs where a large gay lesbian community lives and Palm Desert with a large population of European Jews who are holocaust survivors Last year nazi gangs targeted a few black families homes in Murrieta by hate mail and property vandalism There s a FBI statistic on the number of members in hate groups and white supremacists live in the Menifee Valley between Perris and Lake Elsinore Most residents like myself don t like this and oppose their racist ideology so it s time for all of us to combat this sort of thing