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Sex offenders concentrated in [1 zipcode!] in Chicago
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Posted on 01/31/2005 12:09:20 PM PST by NativeNewYorker

CHICAGO, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- More than 10 percent of all Illinois sex offenders on parole live in one Chicago zip code, according to the Chicago Tribune.

A total of 158, or 10.5 percent, of all state sex offenders live in poor African-American neighborhoods on Chicago's south side where group homes have been located -- a practice that has angered residents and city leaders.

Paroled sex offenders in Illinois are required to spend time at a transitional facility before they can go to permanent homes. "They dump every damn thing here. It's a disrespect to our community,"

Alderwoman Carrie Austin said. "If they're ours, then we have to accept ours. But (state corrections officials) don't care -- just so they have them off their books at my community's expense."

State corrections officials have denied the racial makeup of a neighborhood has any role in where paroled sex offenders are sent, however, the state has begun sending paroled sex offenders to a broader range of communities, the Tribune said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: zipadeedoodah

1 posted on 01/31/2005 12:09:21 PM PST by NativeNewYorker
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To: NativeNewYorker
They need to keep them in one zip code.

Any prison will do.

2 posted on 01/31/2005 12:11:50 PM PST by 506trooper (No such thing as too much guns, ammo or fuel on board...unless you're on fire)
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To: NativeNewYorker
State corrections officials have denied the racial makeup of a neighborhood has any role in where paroled sex offenders are sent, however, the state has begun sending paroled sex offenders to a broader range of communities, the Tribune said.

Maybe not racial, but certainly because they don't think the people who live there will notice or make as much noise as other neighborhoods.

3 posted on 01/31/2005 12:12:22 PM PST by Protagoras (No one is fit to be a master and no one deserves to be a slave. GWB 1-20-05)
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To: NativeNewYorker
Alderwoman Carrie Austin said. "If they're ours, then we have to accept ours. But (state corrections officials) don't care -- just so they have them off their books at my community's expense."

Ms. Austin makes Dorothy Tillman seem sensible by comparison.

4 posted on 01/31/2005 12:14:27 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: NativeNewYorker

Isn't that Mel Reynolds district....lol


5 posted on 01/31/2005 12:16:17 PM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: Protagoras
We had that problem in our community....more than half the sex offenders statewide came from one county, but when they came out they were being assigned to us...took a lot of bitching, but more equitable now.

Sux when they do that.

6 posted on 01/31/2005 12:16:27 PM PST by 506trooper (No such thing as too much guns, ammo or fuel on board...unless you're on fire)
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To: NativeNewYorker

"They dump every damn thing here. It's a disrespect to our community,"

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And foul language is something that earns respect?


7 posted on 01/31/2005 12:17:32 PM PST by contemplator
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To: NativeNewYorker
on Chicago's south side

Knowing the South Side of Chicago, this really isn't the best place to put someone that just got out of jail...

8 posted on 01/31/2005 12:18:02 PM PST by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com/)
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To: NativeNewYorker

the best cure is to release them in the same block as the judge who sentenced him/her.


9 posted on 01/31/2005 12:36:23 PM PST by Rakkasan1 (john f'n kerry-the original 'million dollar baby'.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0501310218jan31,1,6578603.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true


10 posted on 01/31/2005 12:42:05 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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Rev. William McCoy, its presiding pastor. He estimated that about 40 percent of the residents come from Downstate.

"down state to the rev. is anywhere in Illinois but Chicago. I live in Illinois but not in Chicago. I don't live "down state" either.

11 posted on 01/31/2005 12:47:31 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: NativeNewYorker


"Escape from Chicago?" Where is Snake Blisken when you need him?


12 posted on 01/31/2005 1:00:29 PM PST by msnimje
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