Tucson restaurant owner says business owners being punished for skyrocketing homeless crisis [Video]

A Tucson, Arizona, restaurant owner said the region’s spiraling homeless crisis has scared away his customers and turned a once family-friendly area into a hotbed for crime thanks to local governments failing to enforce the law.

“Quite frankly, it terrifies me for my own children to see this level of open drug use and distribution happen in broad daylight on our city streets, and what you might consider to be the nice areas of town too,” Grant Krueger, owner of Union Hospitality Group, told Fox News Digital.

Krueger has operated several restaurants in Tucson and Pima County for over 15 years. He said homelessness in Arizona has become progressively worse in recent years and that he’s had to spend tens of thousands of dollars on security to protect his businesses. 

“We’ve had more crime in my restaurant establishments over the last four years than we had in the previous 15 combined,” he said. “It’s …