One of my old Rally/Protest/Information posters I brought out of retirement today. This is a updated version of a handmade poster CAPS BEAT 2431 facilatator Kevin O'Neil criticized in a letter to the editor. I was photographed for a cover photo in the Lerner News Star a week before, on July 16th, 2003. Kevin O'Neil did not like it.
Kevin O'Neil, the master of the out-dated flier, got one thing right in this still posted flier, for a January CAPS meeting. New strategies are in effect. A flier the City of Chicago police camera installers found to be in an odd place to hang a flier of this nature in the first place. A place where gangs own the corner, thus having the camera to be installed.
They let out a chuckle or two as I told them Kevin and Joe stories while we were waiting for the camera to be installed.
First look photo of the Camera installation on Morse and Glenwood. Camera #19!
Well, as for my criticized moth ball poster, two out of three isn't bad? Maybe, one day, foot patrol officers will be back in fashion?
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Kevin O'Neil,
* member and former Chairman of DevCorp North's standing committee on real estate development, which also serves as Alderman Moore's "community" zoning board, the Zoning And Land Use Advisory Committee (ZALUAC)
* Secretary of the Board of Directors of DevCorp North
* Chairman of DevCorp North's Publicity and Public Relations Committee
* Past President of DevCorp North
* webmaster of the CTA Tattler
...one busy guy, wrote to the Lerner News on July 23, 2003 to explain to our neighborhood about a new type of "foot" patrol and to express how happy he is with the police response to crime on Morse Avenue:
"The fact is that 24th District Cmdr. David Boggs responded to our request this year for more foot patrols. He assigned a unit to specifically patrol Morse Avenue. That unit sometimes walks the street and sometimes drives. ... As beat facilitator in Beat 2431, I'm very personally happy with the extra patrols on Morse Avenue."Did you know that we have had foot patrols on Morse Avenue since the summer of 2003?
Did you know that an officer who occasionally steps out of their squad car is considered a foot patrol?
Is that how you get to be beat facilitator, by being personally very happy with the police?
Delusions? Are these delusions the ones the clique refer to as 'perceptions' of crime? The delusions real estate brokers sell to prospective buyers? Ahh, it's a great neighborhood, close to the lake and el,...it's changed....
These same delusions (or secret agendas) are the reason it takes sooooo long to get things done. I refer to real positive things, not TIFS for the RE buddies, SSA's to create jobs for the clique, or tearing down homes to build condo blocks, and NO parks.
Do I detect the slightest note of plain old green eyed jealousy?
The white collar gang bashed Craig, made fun of him, just like the regular band of verbal gooners which you may deny being. Yet, if you kids hadn't 'banned' Craig, he wouldn't have started his blog, wouldn't have kept being 'a pest', wouldn't have gotten himself noticed by readers higher up than YOU. So it kinda backfired.
Sure, kudos to those who sat in CAPS meeting for years and years and years. It shouldn't take years and years and years to have a safe, livable neighborhood. As of a year ago, CAPS meeting info was that RP wasn't as crime ridden as other neighborhoods and would have to wait its turn for cameras.
Is that Craig's fault or is it a simple methodology of bureaucrats? Rather than delusions of grandeur that you feel Craig suffers from, don't you fall into the category of denial? Isn't that a delusion too?
Craig, thanks for your efforts over the years to bring cameras to our neighborhood. I hope they help.
The residents of Rogers Park are not served when the organizers put in charge of promoting public safety are the same organizers put in charge of promoting real estate development. The Alderman and his real estate developer pals have very different priorities from the residents of Rogers Park when it comes to crime.
The residents want to fight crime in the neighborhood, the Alderman and his real estate developer pals want to fight the perception of crime in the outside world.
The residents want to protect their investment in our neighborhood. The Alderman is more interested in protecting the interests of outsiders who want to turn a profit in our neighborhood. The more residents give up on the neighborhood and move out, the better for the Alderman and his real estate developer pals.
The residents want more arrests, the Alderman and his real estate developer pals need to avoid arrests at all costs. A few drug corners here and there are currently acceptable to the Alderman and his real estate developer pals. The residents are worried about crime, the Alderman and his real state developer pals are worried about crime stats.
The residents are trying to protect lives, the Alderman and his real estate developer pals are trying to protect condo prices.
The Alderman and his real estate developer pals want property values to go up, but not too quickly, not faster than they can buy, build and sell. They want Morse Avenue to turn around, but on their timetable, on their investment schedule.
The residents want SAFE STREETS NOW.
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