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Criminals To "Run Wild" After East St. Louis Slashes Its Police Force
Business Insider ^ | 08/01/2010 | Business Insider

Posted on 08/01/2010 5:28:57 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour

The town of East St. Louis -- over the border from St. Louis in Illinois -- has always had a reputation for being horrible, and having a police force that's been unable to cope with the criminal element. And now budget problems look set to make things worse, as the city has been forced to reduce its police force.

Saint Louis Today: Rev. Joseph Tracy said he’s tired of going to funerals. And now, he suspects he’ll be going to more of them.

"It’s open field day now," said Tracy, the pastor of Straightway Baptist Church here. "The criminals are going to run wild."

Gang activity. Drug dealing. Cold-blooded killing. Tracy worries that a decision to shrink the police force by almost 30 percent will bring more of everything.

Of course, being in Illinois, there's not much state support on its way, as the state is one of the worst in the nation, fiscally.

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1 posted on 08/01/2010 5:29:00 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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Yeah — it makes one shudder to think of all of those seat belt citations that won’t be written..

Anarchy will reign supreme....

/sarc


2 posted on 08/01/2010 5:31:47 PM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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I wonder if the idiots in IL will keep electing Dems ...so they can keep up all the great hope & change.


3 posted on 08/01/2010 5:32:50 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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Let the Reverend tell his parishioners to “arm thy self”.


4 posted on 08/01/2010 5:32:50 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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Thw place was a hellhole back in the late 90’s . I doubt if things have improved since then.


5 posted on 08/01/2010 5:33:34 PM PDT by csvset
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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.


6 posted on 08/01/2010 5:33:36 PM PDT by casuist (Audi alteram partem)
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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.


7 posted on 08/01/2010 5:34:53 PM PDT by john drake (Roman military maxim; "oderint dum metuant," i.e., "let them hate, as long as they fear.")
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Sounds like its gonna be a target rich environment zone for the armed, law-abiding citizens!


8 posted on 08/01/2010 5:35:03 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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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.


9 posted on 08/01/2010 5:35:24 PM PDT by SuziQ
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So nothing will change.


10 posted on 08/01/2010 5:35:57 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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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

11 posted on 08/01/2010 5:36:42 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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The answer is for all citizens to open carry a 12 gauge.


12 posted on 08/01/2010 5:38:45 PM PDT by hal ogen (CCE)
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To: csvset

...here’s some photos
http://www.pbase.com/cincyimages/east_st_louis_illinois


13 posted on 08/01/2010 5:39:36 PM PDT by STONEWALLS
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IIRC escape from new york was filmed in east st loius. I guess it’s been a hell hole for quite a while


14 posted on 08/01/2010 5:42:13 PM PDT by henry_reardon
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I wonder how much of the city welfare budget was cut before they cut the cops?


15 posted on 08/01/2010 5:45:52 PM PDT by jospehm20
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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.

16 posted on 08/01/2010 5:47:42 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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Abolish state and federal taxes within the city and see how fast entrepreneurs will rebuild it.


17 posted on 08/01/2010 5:47:46 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Mexico is the U.S. version of Hamas)
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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


18 posted on 08/01/2010 5:48:08 PM PDT by Razmataz
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There was a truck stop near the race track. Nasty neighborhood. Driving through the city, there was block after block of boarded up buildings.


19 posted on 08/01/2010 5:48:58 PM PDT by csvset
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OH NO!!! We need to raise taxes immediately!

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


20 posted on 08/01/2010 5:50:07 PM PDT by dbwz (DISSENT IS PATRIOTIC)
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