Sunday the Fun Day July 7, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Black Crime, St. Louis Local.comments closed
P-D :
St. Louis considers cruising crackdown
Visit Fairground Park any Sunday when the weather is warm and brace for the parade.
An impromptu procession of cars, people and noise trolls slowly through the park, blocking traffic from Grand Boulevard to Goodfellow Boulevard.
It’s called “cruising,” and it’s been around virtually as long as the automobile itself. A chance to see and be seen, to show off a new ride or a fresh paint job, to mingle with friends or meet new people.
But City Hall — saying the gatherings have grown disruptive and increasingly violent — wants to crack down on the weekend party. Following the lead of other cities, St. Louis aldermen are considering an ordinance that aims to curb cruisers.
The push for a citywide ordinance comes as gunplay continues to grip some parts of St. Louis, making large, unorganized outings potential magnets for crime. Last month, a teenage girl was fatally shot while standing at a gas station in the heart of the Sunday cruising district near Fairground Park.
Residents say that the influx of visitors, many from outside city limits, snarls traffic so much that they are bound to their homes on Sunday evenings.
Two points:
(1) Perhaps some of this crime that happens around the area doesn’t have anything to do with the cruising. It might well be your normal everyday crime in that part of the city.
(2) “From outside city limits?” As if that part of the city doesn’t have enough troublemakers of its own? Similarly, in the aftermath of Katrina, the same media which tried to say that there was no massive crime wave among the black citizens that stayed behind then turned right around and blamed the crime wave on black gangs from other cities that swooped in. As Kyle Rogers pointed out in the Citizens Informer at the time, black gangs don’t have paratrooper units or amphibious special forces, and that the media saying this was to ignore the fact that New Orleans has enough troublemakers on its own.
Also, I remember when St. Louis County cracked down on cruising, that the cruising was blamed on city cruisers.
King George Hardens His Heart July 7, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Education, Missouri.comments closed
Even though the voters voted, the Kansas City School District is dragging its heels in the formal process of transferring the schools required by the vote. The matter will probably end up in court. Similarly, King George III was not so impressed by the document that some of his subjects signed about 232 years ago.
