Belleville, IL is adjacent to St.Louis.
Posted on 04/07/2024 6:03:47 PM PDT by simpson96
The Fairview Heights Police Department is taking a “zero tolerance” approach to the unruly behavior of juveniles in public places, its chief said.
That includes steps officers were forced to take Saturday when about 500 juveniles assembled at Moody Park to play loud music with vulgar lyrics, drive recklessly, use illegal substances and start fights, police said.
Police disbanded the crowd and closed the park for the remainder of the day so they couldn’t come back.
Chief Steve Johnson said Saturday wasn’t the first time that unruly juveniles have disrupted others at the park, or the first time police have been forced to shut it down. Additional measures to head them off, Johnson said, will include towing vehicles, taking juveniles into custody and holding parents legally culpable for their children’s behavior.
Surveillance cameras are located in many places in the park and license plate readers are being installed, he said.
“You want to take your family out to the park and enjoy the day,” Johnson said. “That’s why we’re taking a hard stance. We’ll close the park down if we have to.”
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Speaking generally, Johnson said these types of unruly gatherings are arranged via social media and they are a common issue across the metro-east.
“I can tell you that Fairview Heights is not the only community dealing with this,” he said in an interview Tuesday. “This is an issue in many other jurisdictions in our area.”
Fairview Heights police have also dealt with crowds of juveniles at the SkyZone trampoline park, where fights have broken out both inside the building and in the parking lot.
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Belleville, IL is adjacent to St.Louis.
“Unruly juveniles.” and adjacent to St. Louis.
We know.
Son’s of Barack?
Is that you Yogi?
If the Dems are smart, they won’t get in the way of such crackdowns prior to November; they can even get the media to convince the public it was their idea in the first place. After the election, if they’re still in power, then they can go back to fostering juvenile and other violence.
East Saint Louis (across the river in Illinois) is a known-bad locale. This looks to be an eastern suburb of that.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
The dregs of society run amuck.
The Family Truckster is certainly one beautiful machine
What are those rascals up to now?
The bottom quintile.
You think you hate it now, wait until you drive it.
It would look better in Arctic Blue
I grew up in that area, but haven’t been back for a while. I remember Fairview Heights as being a nicer area. It had the usual sprawl of development around the mall, but it was never unsafe. East St.Louis has been pretty much destroyed, and the pathologies that did that have been infecting surrounding towns.
Actually, my Dad was transferred to Alabama. 🤣
You know, there’s a common thread running through these incidents, but I can’t quite out my finger on it. Perhaps Yogi can be of some assistance.
The fifties through the mid-seventies were a golden age in that entire area. There was post-war prosperity and there were good schools. Overall, it was a really decent place to live. Even East St. Louis, while it always has had a reputation for being rough, was liveable. It went into steep decline after that and, unfortunately, much of the rest of the area has started to follow it.
Fairview Heights has ~30% black population as of the last census. That’s up from 17% in the 2000 census.
Honky lips!
And, that's just the parents. Wait'll the cops go after the parent's kids.
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