The City of Starbase, adjacent to once-pristine Boca Chica Beach, has entered into an agreement with the Cameron County Sheriff's Department for anyone arrested in the SpaceX company town to be housed in the county jail. Starbase will, in turn, pay the county $100 per day for every arrestee so housed.
Just last week, Cameron County Sheriff's deputies were authorized to make arrests in Starbase, so now they have a revenue incentive for making those arrests and, under the deal, if no one is arrested, Starbase pays zero.
Of course, the establishment of Starbase itself was Elon Musk’s vision to create a dedicated city for his SpaceX operations near the beach. Musk began buying up land in the area over a decade ago to support SpaceX’s launch site. By 2021, he floated the idea of incorporating the community into its own city. That idea became reality after a petition process and a special election in May 2025, in which residents, mostly SpaceX employees, voted overwhelmingly to incorporate the new city.
Starbase has a mayor and commissioners closely affiliated with SpaceX, controlling local services, utilities, and zoning laws.
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NO. Let Starbase arrest and house its criminals in their own town. Most of the people that are arrested there are: women in love with Musk that sneak into Space X, young kids that want to take pictures and tourists that want to look around. Musk can take care of those criminals.
ReplyDelete$100 seems very low, when you factor in jail building maintenance, salaries for employees and law enforcement, time spent processing and photographing and fingerprinting, space occupied in the jail etc. A one-way taxi from Brownsville to the SPI airport alone is $40. Make it $1000/day, Musk can afford it. Or does he not support our law enforcement?
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