[Uncle Ike]

Yeah — it makes one shudder to think of all of those seat belt citations that won’t be written..

Anarchy will reign supreme....

/sarc

[anniegetyourgun]

I wonder if the idiots in IL will keep electing Dems ...so they can keep up all the great hope & change.

[GladesGuru]

Let the Reverend tell his parishioners to “arm thy self”.

[csvset]

Thw place was a hellhole back in the late 90’s . I doubt if things have improved since then.

[casuist]

It will be like Road Warrior, all spiky shoulder-pads, mohawk hair, and eye-liner, which means some really great film-making, I must say.

[john drake]

I remember going to a convention in St. Louis in 1996, part of the urban redevelopment council I participated in visited East St. Louis as a case study. Incredibly awful even then, home values were dropping and the city’s main source of revenue was property taxes. The homes were being taxed at 14% of their value, every one was leaving and the place was a dilapidated mess. Worse yet, policemen were fired for selling the spare tires from the trunks of their squad cars because the city didn’t honor a pay hike they’d been promised for years.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Sounds like its gonna be a target rich environment zone for the armed, law-abiding citizens!

[SuziQ]

Hmmm. Is gun ownership allowed? If so, and I were a resident of East St. Louis, I’d be arming myself, and learning how to use said firearm, right about now.

[Richard Kimball]

So nothing will change.

[MarkL]

Thank goodness that there's no concealed carry permits allowed in IL! That way, it's easy to know who's got all the guns... The criminals, and now, even fewer police!

Mark

[jospehm20]

I wonder how much of the city welfare budget was cut before they cut the cops?

[The Comedian]

I'm not locked in here with you.

You're locked in here with *me*.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Abolish state and federal taxes within the city and see how fast entrepreneurs will rebuild it.

[Razmataz]

I was in St. Louis in 1962. East St. Louis was a ‘no go’ zone...
and I was told why -— EXACTLY for the same reasons it is a
hell hole today. ...so, this is not new. I would venture to say
that taking the police out of that pit will not change the murder
rate one bit.

Razmataz

[dbwz]

OH NO!!! We need to raise taxes immediately!

F*ckers. If they did away with private perks, they could keep more cops.

[hosepipe]

could be a new Mad MAX movie..
call it; "MAD SHABAZZ"..

[reefdiver]

so the tax payer who lives there got screwed by the dem politician, who sold out the voters in the early to mid 80’s to the teachers, police. high way department and so forth by ramping up salaries, pensions, health care until death, and so on. Debt is of no concern to the municipal - state worker. Raise your taxes, business can just pay more.

Its just a cycle

[PapaBear3625]

Since East St Louis is in Chicago-controlled Illinois, allowing CCW for law-abiding citizens is not an option.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I am guessing they haven't cut “social programs” one red cent.

[camerongood210]

I think a similar thing happened in Oakland, CA not too long ago. As soon as I heard about that story, I immediately thought of Van Jones, the book “The Coming Insurrection”, STORM, and Greece. Was it all planned?