In a message dated 6/23/02 9:00:18 AM Central Daylight Time,
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<< Yesterday at about 1:30 in the afternoon while trying to get to the
Hi-Lake
shopping center, I came down Bloomington and has the green light at Lake
Street. I got cornered by a drug dealer in front of my car, one on the two
sides. And believe me I know a drug hand-off when I see one. I saw 3. I had
the greenlight to go. But I was locked in.
The drug dealers have the control..
Being the city girl that I am I just drove around and in between the dealers
and left. I was not afraid but, what about people that can't handle it??
So my hats off to the people that are out there every morning to protect the
kids.
But I think it will take more then concerned parent. >>
Keith says, Your not alone-This is a phenomena which must be addressed now: I
reprint a partial post of mine known as , "Safe Hot-dogs":
"People," I said, " you live next to the MDC, the Most Dangerous Corner in
Mpls."
I continued, "West Broadway and Irving suffers under the 'funnel effect'
whereby a disproportionate number of drug buyers and sellers come to your
blocks, many from outside the neighborhood. There is a perception that you
can buy or sell a drug here and 'get away with it'. And that perception
compounds your safety problems and will continue to confound you until your
City leaders cause that perception to change."
"Your Ward Councilman, Joe Biernat, who is sitting right there [and did not
say word one at this little meeting] is not ready to commit to improving your
safety, here, by gathering up and delivering to this MDC, the crime
mitigating resources you must have here before you can have a safe street. We
need plain clothes Narcs, we need probation and parole enforcers, we need
traffic cops. We need every resource the City and County have to allow a
modicum of public safety, and in generously measured quantities. And we must
have our Council Member commit, right here/right now to making your street
safe and livable starting tomorrow morning."
I further offered an analogy, since Safe was talking neighborhood Barbecue as
our strategy. I said, "People, would you have a barbecue if it were raining?
If it were just a deluge, would you gather outside to visit? Of course not,
yet we all are being deluged in crime on this street. Affliction like that
called down on the Egyptians by Moses in the Bible (yea, I really said that).
And your City's strategy is free hot-dogs at your event!
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Keith says: CCP/Safe offers hot-dogs at your crime fighting barbecue be it
West Broadway and Irving or Bloomington and Lake. We all see the ' wide-open
' street selling while are City Leaders haven't made sufficient appearances
at these trouble spots to show solidarity with us. RT, bring your desk and
chair to my corner, now. Wake up and smell the hot-dogs!
Keith Reitman NearNorth
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