Monday, November 16, 2009
Street Safety Seminar Tonight in Rogers Park
Join State Representative Harry Osterman and State Senator Heather Steans for an important public safety seminar on Street Safety and Crime Victims Assistance that they are hosting tonight, November 16 at 6:00 p.m. in the Ballroom at Loyola Park, located at 1230 W. Greenleaf Ave. Many community members have expressed their concern about crime rates throughout Chicago's Northside.
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Summary: "Don't be an idiot. Pay attention to your surroundings."
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Concealed carry works well if RP was an unincorporated area.
Illinois is not a traditional open carry state. Open carry is generally prohibited except in unincorporated areas where the county has not made open carry illegal. Additionally, note that open carry is prohibited inside a vehicle even when in unincorporated areas. Please see http://opencarry.org/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-1107-books-review-bissnov07,0,4337062.story
liberal apologist writes book and includes her experiences in rogers park
excerpt from review of no mans land
book about junk and has something about rogers park in it
"In "No Man's Land," Biss tells the story of her and her husband's move a few years ago to Rogers Park, where, as white residents, they are assailed with warnings for their safety and praise for their bravery. Biss' mother, in upstate New York, worries about gangs, while a white shop owner tells her that Rogers Park needs more "people like you."
But "No Man's Land" isn't an exercise in more-progressive-than-thou. Biss instead plumbs the idea of pioneering itself, juxtaposing her story with that of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who realized, Biss writes, "with the benefit of 60 years of hindsight ... that the pioneers who had so feared Native Americans had been afraid of a people whom they were in the process of nearly exterminating." Why are Biss and her husband supposed to be afraid, when it's the black teens of the neighborhood who carry their IDs clipped on their belts to allow the police easy access, such is the frequency of pat-downs? "One evening, I watch the police interrogate two boys who have set a large bottle of Tide down on the sidewalk next to them," Biss writes, "and I cannot forget this detail, the bottle of Tide, and the mundane tasks of living it evokes."
The article about the book sounds like something I would have NO interest in reading - and where exactly does she live now, I wonder?
Do you really think they are going to say anything about street safety? I say - More police, less loitering allowed, throw the scum in the jailhouse, take your headphones out of your ears, quit talking on the phone and pay attention. Oh and walk with two very big dogs - that seems to make them move! LOL
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