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13 Comments:
Frightening stuff. Glad you weren't around for the gun shots.
5/05/2007 9:34 PM
From 1991-94 I lived on the near north side. One night, I had my very white brother as a guest, he had a layover while on a business trip.
My flat was on the second floor and while we were chatting in the front room we heard a shot on the street --- I had a couple of crack houses across the street. I simply said we should talk in the middle room rather than the front room.
I wasn't scared by my brother, who is very very white bred, was shocked. Funny, he hasn't been back in St. Louis since.
Glad you all are OK.
5/05/2007 9:47 PM
I wonder why more police are in my neighborhood of North Hampton, where we do not have shootings, than in yours which clearly is in need?
5/06/2007 3:01 AM
Thanks for the concern, fellas. Gun fire is nothing new for my neighborhood. In fact, most of the time we just sleep through it. But this was very close —and as it turns out, closer than I thought.
Doug, that is a very good question.
Recently I have noticed more police patrolling in my district, the 6th District, but it is noticeable because it is usually so rare. Unless officers were responding to something that already happened, we used to never see police cars cruising the neighborhood.
I think the recent activity is because of Chief Mokwa's "crackdown" in response to the "Most Dangerous City" label. Sometimes it takes a little national shame to get some local action.
5/06/2007 9:55 AM
Yes Antonio, but for me a "crackdown" is a reactionary response which is not a long term solution for the North Side, or any other neighborhood with crime problems. We need Police in these neighborhoods before some crisis occurs. For this to happen, there must be local control of the Police Department.
5/06/2007 11:31 AM
Reading this immediately made me think of the murder of Tim bacon. I have been baffled by the silence which has greeted me from every member of the media I have written to about it.
To my knowledge there has been no follow-up by authorities or the media to find out what happened. One media person did tell me (in person, he did not write it) that people were too physically intimidated to ask anything.
Perhaps the answer is even simpler than that---it was such an ordinary, mundane, everyday occurance that it merited no further questions.
5/06/2007 5:15 PM
After sending copies of a letter i sent to fair to 18 members of the St. Louis media, I received one response from a person at the Post Dispatch regarding the murder of Tim Bacon.
Detectives told him it had to do with a dice game, and had nothing to do with politics.
Has this information ever been published?
5/07/2007 10:30 AM
WHY IS EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS WITH YOU PEOPLE? YOU KNOW WHY REPORTERS AREN'T WRITING ANYTHING ABOUT THAT KID? BECAUSE KIDS LIKE THAT DIE EVERY NIGHT. IT IS ONLY NEWS TO ADULTS LIKE YOU.
5/07/2007 11:04 AM
Police cruisers don't prevent crime (look at the study done in Kansas City).
New strategies of policing and crime prevention is what works. We need to bring back the Most Violent Offenders program...
5/07/2007 12:38 PM
Anonymous said...
WHY IS EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS WITH YOU PEOPLE? YOU KNOW WHY REPORTERS AREN'T WRITING ANYTHING ABOUT THAT KID? BECAUSE KIDS LIKE THAT DIE EVERY NIGHT. IT IS ONLY NEWS TO ADULTS LIKE YOU.
please do not blame antonio or others who post here----I am the only one who has this obsession.
5/07/2007 12:47 PM
No, kjoe, you're not.
Anon. is right that kids die every night...many of them current or former SLPS students. Maybe many issues just naturally come back as education issues.
5/07/2007 8:50 PM
By the way, glad you are ok Antonio.
5/07/2007 8:52 PM
Regarding the matter of Tim Bacon, I received a second e-mail from the same person at the pd.
"I talked to somebody in homicide not too long ago. He said that the victim insulted some girl at a dice game, and left and then came back, and was clearly messing with the wrong people. More than one shooter"
A radio producer chided me---saying let it go. He said they read the police report on the air---the police had no suspects, and there was nothing further to report. He said the pd person's information had to be wrong. Because if there was a dice game, they would know who, and if a woman was insulted they would know who.
In both cases, it seems to indicate the murder had no connection to school or political issues.
ok, then.
5/08/2007 12:42 AM
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