Dear Neighbor,Now, on a downer note. Less than 12 hours notice. How some things never change.
Join us tonight for a unique crime and drug prevention event--NATIONAL NIGHT OUT. This fun neighborhood festival will take place TONIGHT, Tuesday, August 3rd, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Willye White Park, 1610 W. Howard (at Ashland).
Sponsored by the 24th District Chicago Police, Chicago's Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS) and scores of community organizations and residents, NATIONAL NIGHT OUT will host a variety of events and activities for people of all ages, including:
• Petting zoo, pony rides and games
• Voter registration
• Information tables from dozens of community and service organizations
• Learn about our latest safety initiatives
• Limbo and dance until dark
• Tips on how to keep you and your neighborhood safe
• Takeaways . . . And, much more!
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT is part of a nationwide effort designed to:
•Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness;
•Generate support for, and participation in, local anti-crime programs;
•Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships; and
•Send a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back.
It has proven to be an effective, inexpensive and enjoyable program to promote neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships in our fight for a safer neighborhood.
So bring your family and join us tonight at Willye White Park!
Sincerely,
Joe Moore
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Join Our Night Out Against Crime!
For a change Joe didn't litter his name all over this "dog and pony show" event. Instead this email poof included words like us, our and community.
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Arm yourselves if this runs later than sunset.
Does Joe know that today is August 4th?
We're having a similar thing down here in 25 as well. It's nothing like Joe Moore describes for your event, though. And ours is being held at the police station (too far for me, so I'm not attending). I take it that you're attending, Craig? Good luck if you do :-).
Who know's, I may stop by. I don't have any plans tonight.
I was wondering why the notice came out so late also. I saw something on the news about a helicopter landing on the south side for the kids. Maybe it was city wide. (with late notice) I'm for anything that might help the kids stop from growing up to be thugs.
I heartily second the comment about
being for anything that might help the kids stop from growing up to be thugs.
Perhaps all of this infectious tension and quick-draw gun violence will just stop Moore kids from growing up at all.
Still I caught myself wondering if an evening event,symbolic of the community's resistance to crime,could be enough to consistently deter these perpetual tragedies?
Instead,why not take a brief respite or,say,a temporary ...
Vacation?
A day off--if you will.
Yeah!
I propose the practicality of taking a
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
from misogynistic rape and fatal battery!
I thought that I would recommend some strategies to effectively incorporate this crime preventive idea however,too-badly,the originator who popularized the 'Day-Off' premise has passed away,thereby permanently shutting off the tap from which such wisdom flows.
Ironically enough from a heart attack during a walk on the streets of NYC(from what I read anyway).
Another irony is the postings by Timmy.Documenting the Blackboard Jungle-esque atmosphere of his school and how these situations and incidents that he attests to witnessing contrast with the teenager dilemma of angst that permeated the popular consciousness of a previous generation.
This is another topic that I reflect upon when I find myself,at times,
Home Alone.
If you guys knew how much effort went into this National Night Out nonsense you would probably cry. Me, I find the whole thing a waste of time, a real dog and pony show. But the brass downtown think it's so important that each year they demand each district send them a report indicating what they intend to do on National Night Out. I mean how many shows can the K-9 unit put on? Where I used to work they even had people come and put on demonstrations which had absolutely nothing to do with police work. Try to picture all these house mouses running around acting all important as they reach panic mode a few days before the actual event. As if anybody cared,lol.
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Newgarder, what's that supposed to mean? I've taken a few days off from reading this blog, so I'm just now catching up. If you'd like to explain what you said, email me or reply to my comment here. If it's a nice thing you're saying, thank you, but if it's an insult, I'm just going to say that I'm not like other teens and really don't care for teenage behavior anymore. Why bother? It only gets you in trouble anyway. I stopped acting like a teeny bopper over a year ago, as I realized it wasn't getting me nowhere due to all of the trouble it leads up to. Now, maybe if we teens didn't get in trouble for so many things (I'm finally admitting, after keeping this to myself for nearly a year, some things we get in trouble for are stupid), I'd might go back to acting like a teenager at least a little again.
Big Daddy, your post is an example as into why I don't attend these events. I'm starting to think it's nonsense, too. I have better things to do than waste my time on those kind of events.
I have attended too many of these events only to go home being more depressed than I was before i went. Does anyone here remember the short lived days of Howard Street Alive! Then there was a wee bit of hope. Now it is just gloom and doom. the thugs own the streets. 42% of all chicago Public School students drop out. ( see Steinberg Chicago Sun Times)
I do not have the answers to redirect our youth. I don't have the answers to solve the community problems. One thing I do have is a deep sadness that our community is so divided.
Avondale,
I was contrasting the types of urban Chicago adolescent situations that you document through your blog posts with the types of suburban Chicago adolescent situations that John Hughes limelighted through Hollywood a generation previously.
John Hughes died Thursday.
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