Which of course it was. Parents who used the playground during the 1990s
often told of picking up crack vials from the playground in the mornings.
One local artist even made sculptures out of recovered crack paraphernalia.
On Town Watch patrols 1996-99, we did ample surveillance on the occupied
vans that parked beside the park into the wee hours. There was coordinated
activity between Town Watch, the 18th Police Dist. and UCD patrols for a
long time to encourage them to move on.
I won't say there is no illegal drug activity in Clark Park now -- 0% rates
of anything are an impossible goal -- but it's much, much better in 2007
than it was 10 years ago. So Rodin, like it or not, was right.
-- Tony West
back in march 2004, just months before her departure in june 2004,
president judith rodin delivered an address, 'the university and the
city'. this was the address in which she famously said clark park was
drug-infested.
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