* That's why I walk to the Loyola stop. Morse is GHETTO!
* It's seriously ghetto. I remember walking up Morse to the red line about 2 summers ago and there was this hood rat girl chasing some dude down the street with a carving knife. Nice!
* The Morse St. El stop is one of the biggest open air drug markets in the city. You see cabs pull up and the occupants make a quick purchase and then go on their way. I once saw a ypung professional girl who daily would carry a golf putter with her for protection as she had to make her way thru the loiterers who hang out in front of that El station. That neighborhood seems to have become the magnet for section 8 voucher holders who formerly lived in the shuttered CHA hi-rises. The plethora of suburban slum lords willing to take Sec. 8 and allow their properties to further deteriorate is a fact of life in East Rogers Park. Their Sec. 8 votes regularly provide Ald. Joe Moore (D-49th) his slim margin of victory.
* Morse is ghetto. It's bizarre. When I was doing social work everything was fine on Pratt, the side streets, but Morse was just always a problem. What is with these people who just do NOTHING with their lives? IN the summer you see them just lined up, sitting outside ALL DAY doing NOTHING. What a waste.
* After living near Morse and Sheridan for nearly thirty years, I gave up and moved to Evanston in 2003. It's much better: we have gangs and crime up there as well, but the Evanston cops patrol much more aggressively and there's much less Section 8 housing. What cheap housing is left is mostly taken up by Northwestern students -- who are frequently obnoxious, Heaven knows, but not nearly as dangerous or criminal-minded as the slime mold spreading along Morse Avenue.
* Ah, but while he may have nearly bled to death, the victim was protected from the perilous foi gras due to the diligent legislation of alderman moore! I live less than a block from the Morse El platform. The area surrounding it is infested with indigants, prostitutes, crackheads, neer du wells, gangbangers, panhandlers and other scum that chronically plague the area. Rather charging the police to agressively enforce the public ways ordinance and provide safe haven to the tax paying constituents of the 49th ward, joe moore seeks to spoon feed this SCUM with programs such as set aside housing further enabling them to infest our communities.We are already providing a social safety net with sufficient programs to assist these individuals who plague this area. Unfortunately, the passive law enforcement practiced in the 1200-1600 blocks of Morse Avenue, at the BLESSING of Alderman Moore, incubate enablement and rampant crime. Source.
Friday, April 25, 2008
* What Chicago Tribune Readers Are Saying About Morse Avenue & Joe Moore
Even though Rogers Park residents have given up on commenting about the sorry state of our neighborhood on most of the 30 plus Rogers Park blogs - the Chicago Tribune blog Topix got flooded with comments regarding the stabbing at the Morse Avenue EL. Here's a sampling of the nearly 70 hot comments.
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Under what circumstances would someone say something positive about the Morse El stop?
The place is run down, full of drug dealers and just plain dangerous most of the time.
I've got news for that one Tribune poster who complained about Moore allowing the former CHA residents (some of whom aren't as evil as paint them to be) being farmed into the neighborhood by way of Section 8. Rogers Park isn't the only area in the city where that happens.
Pushing undesirables out of one area into another is a common thing. Unfortunately, it doesn't solve anything. It just continues into a cycle of pushing problems off on next set of people.
This might be much less of an issue if it hadn't been a problem for SO MANY YEARS! Why in the hell haven't local law enforcement and our lazy ass alderman managed to successfully address this very dangerous situation in more than 15 years?
Once again, this kind of performance in the private sector would result in people being fired for incompetence.
Perhaps what we really need is more control over the hiring and firing of our local politicians and city employees.
As I'm told by sources of my own, all the good, placeable tenants of CHA projects now being demolished, were placed in various buildings around town, while the tenants who could not be placed because of their criminal records, drug problems, or overly large families got shoved up here.
In other words, we are getting the people nobody wants near them, dumped on us, with results that we can see.
Personally, I don't care where they go as long as it's nowhere here, or Edgewater, or West Ridge,or Lakeview, or or Woodlawn-Hyde Park, or anywhere in the city, for that matter. Just get them out of here. They blight any area you put them in, and frankly, I feel we have the right to be selfish about this. We have a right to tend to our own safety and well-being. We have been burdened with way more than our fair share of intractable problems and the social service agencies that deal with them.
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