Now West Bank is getting the Philips treatment. It is one step short of a slum. Sorry, I spend enough time there to know its not true. Obviously there are some incidents. Seward has incidents, too. Shots are fired. Teenage gangs accost people. Cars are robbed. Do I think it is beyond hope? Not when I compare the crime maps between Seward and other neighborhoods. My suggestion for anyone who actually LIVES West Bank (anyone fitting that description in this dicussion?) is start a dialogue with the office of your CM. He's one of the better ones on the current City Council. Till you've tried to work with him on your concerns (and, of course, if he doesn't represent you, it'll be hard for you), you are being Chicken Little. Leave that for the Philips residents. The people who KNOW there is a drug bazarre on Franklin (those groups standing at the corner). Cooper is changing, too. I talk to Gary Schiff about it. Now that my schedule is different, I'll go to the Longfellow safety committee meetings. But I'm not ready to panic yet just because it isn't the neighborhood I moved into. Anybody have information on the problems that panicking has solved in the past? I don't. I suspect panicking simply makes cooperative efforts impossible.
________________________________________ Jim Mork Cooper Neighborhood Longfellow Community Minneapolis, MN We think. You'll like it here. And we're more fun than a barrel of Norwegians
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