For all of you with your head in the sand, this is a daily situation and never ending. When you think that we are a little less than 6 square miles, crime is out of control. If you don't think that slum and blight breeds crime, you are mistaken. The highest delinquency and crime rates are in the slum areas, as these sections of our city have the poorest housing conditions, the largest families with small incomes or housing too many people per our codes, and people who have migrated here illegally. They come from a different culture and they are victims of that and as a consequence, so are we all.
Every day I get at least 10 new crimes within 2 miles of where I live. Today there were 12. Keeping up with the crime in our entire city would be a full-time job. Some people actually don't want to know about it and believe it is negative reporting. Perhaps if we don't know about it, it will all go away?
ASSAULT--13121889--200 BLOCK N DIXIE HWY--9/18/2013 8:28:00 PM
BURGLARY - RESIDENCE--13121885--1600 BLOCK S FEDERAL HWY--9/18/2013 8:07:00 PM
ASSAULT--13121835--300 BLOCK LAKE OSBORNE DR--9/18/2013 6:45:00 PM--
THEFT/LARCENY--13121828--4400 BLOCK S CONGRESS AVE--9/18/2013 6:19:00 PM--
VANDALISM--13121817--800 BLOCK N M ST--9/18/2013 5:56:00 PM
ROBBERY - PERSON--13121799--3900 BLOCK LAKE WORTH RD--9/18/2013 4:46:00 PM
STOLEN TAG--13121633--1100 BLOCK 6TH AVE S--9/18/2013 10:40:00 AM
VANDALISM--13121586--300 BLOCK N C ST--9/18/2013 8:12:00 AM
VANDALISM--13121584--700 BLOCK N J ST--9/18/2013 7:50:00 AM
VANDALISM--13121577--500 BLOCK N B ST--9/18/2013 7:00:00 AM
VANDALISM--13121563--400 BLOCK N C ST--9/18/2013 6:29:00 AM
This PRESENT COMMISSION and PRESENT CRA have brought more low income housing into this city than ever before in it's history! The low income housing off Boutwell and the low income housing by the railroad tracks off of 6th.( At least Retha did ONE thing right and opposed this mess by the tracks) Who wants to live right by the railroad tracks, anyway?.Never mind that the counter argument is "rents start at",,, what B.S. Rents can be quoted at 900.00 a month- The residents pay 300.00 and you and I subsidize the rest! The present Commission ran on the platform of HOME OWNERSHIP in our neighborhoods- not ghetto housing.
ReplyDeleteA slew of hotels are not going to change the mess we all have to look at day after day. I regret buying a house here.
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