Bulletproof Subways A Sign Of Violent Times?

CBS Chicago ^ | April 24, 2014 | John Dodge

[TexasCajun]

CHICAGO (CBS) — While out on an unrelated assignment, CBS 2 investigative reporter Dave Savini decided to stop by a South Side Subway sandwich shop for a meal.

Savini was struck by the fact that the counter of the store at 116th Street and South Halsted was encased in bullet-proof glass.

Such a sight would be common at crime magnets like gas stations or currency exchanges, but a Subway?

[TexasCajun]

Life in Chicago!!

Great job ya doing there Rahm !

[Responsibility2nd]

Its OK. It's not a Chick Fil A.  

Rahm: “Chick-fil-A Values Are Not Chicago Values”

[FreeAtlanta]

I am surprised the left hasn’t tried banning these fore some crazy reason.

[Vigilanteman]

Here is a list of reasons:

1. It is intimidating and threatening.
   
2. By being threatening, they invite violence.
   
3. They are overly concentrated in minority neighborhoods.
   
4. How are speech impaired or hearing impaired people supposed to talk through that barrier?
   
5. It denies the locals the same rights to steal as those who live in neighborhoods which don't have bulletproof glass.

[YourAdHere]

Rahm Emanuel is a POS.

[DBrow]

KFC in Hawthorne CA is armored too.

[AlaskaErik]

This makes absolutely no sense. I thought guns were banned in Chicago. On the other hand, my local Subway in Wasilla, Alaska has no bulletproof glass and does have a bathroom for customers. Interestingly, almost everybody here owns firearms and we can carry openly or concealed without any permit.

[ExCTCitizen]

There is a Domino’s that is encased in bulletproof glass here near downtown Tampa.

[Dilbert San Diego]

surprising that the reporter decided to hang around that neighborhood and have lunch there. Maybe he is liberal, and didn’t perceive that it is a bad neighborhood.

[Milton Miteybad]

This simply can’t be; Obama has already organized this Chicago community to have the highest degree of social order. If someone is encasing their Chicago business establishment in bulletproof glass, it constitutes a slander of the highest order against the abilities and the competence of our President.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I expect that the liberals would want to ban these, based on the presence ofbullet proof glass causing people to think they are in a bad neighborhood. and we can’t hurt somebody’s feelings, if we are to be good liberals.

[TexasCajun]

surprising that the reporter decided to hang around that neighborhood and have lunch there

The story doesn't say if he had to take a cab back to the office?

[Yo-Yo]

Used to get food at a White Castle that looked just like that (including the bullet-proof lazy Susan to get your order) at 8 mile and Gratiot in Detroit.

[JeffChrz]

I saw this at a Taco Bell near The Forum in Inglewood.

[Yo-Yo]

This makes absolutely no sense. I thought guns were banned in Chicago.

Didn't you hear? The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals have liberated Chicagoans from the tyranny of a city-wide gun-free zone.

[Tenacious 1]

However, according to a Chicago Tribune analysis, crime in those areas recently has declined.

We heard about that analysis. We heard that the books were cooked on those statistics that were analyzed.

How does a subway sandwich store, in a gang ridden violent part of Chicago, with bullet resistant glass make news in Chicago? Really.

[Red in Blue PA]

Rahm Emanuel is a POS.

......and a ballerina.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

When I was a little boy (in the late 50’s/early 60’s), we would stop there on the way home from the relatives who all lived on Detroit's West Side.

[Dr. Sivana]

Such a sight would be common at crime magnets like gas stations or currency exchanges, but a Subway?

Of course. Cash business.

Why would Subway be any different than Harold's Chicken Shack or Hayatt's Submarines shop (sizes: sailor, captain, admiral). Those places had bulletproof glass on the southside THIRTY YEARS ago.

Author has to get around more. He should try taking the #3 Martin Luther King Blvd or the #4 Cottage Grove (numbers may have changed by now) at 2AM and you will see sights.

[Dr. Sivana]

How are speech impaired or hearing impaired people supposed to talk through that barrier?

There's a metal plate with slits in it that allows sound to pass through.