After demonizing them, is it okay to ask the cops for some more help?
The neighborhoods in which I grew up on the South and Southeast side of Chicago — east of the Dan Ryan Expressway and south of 71st street — neighborhoods with mixed single-family and low-scale apartment complexes; with green lawns in front of bungalows, broad avenues of busy storefronts, parks and trees and aspiring black families trying to raise their kids — these neighborhoods are becoming unlivable. Gang warfare reeks havoc on innocents. Drug trafficking is rampant. Prostitutes ply their trade by night just where kids play their games by day. And those with the means consider getting out.
When I posted some accounts to this effect which had appeared in a local newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, asking if the activists would kindly get around to addressing this…
