![]() Stop making excuses and start taking some action. I just pay $9K a year in taxes for the police department to do that. Yes I'm on the neighborhood email, I attend the meetings, I met my alderman, I vote, I am engaged – but guess what – I don't get paid to police the streets. Shoot away youth of evanston! The Craig Smith case was self defense according to police but I talked to an eyewitness who would disagree. If these are the SAME kids as the downtown shooting – LOCK THEM UP!!! By not punishing everyone involved the police send the message you can be involved with this at no cost. I guess I should have done more research before picking evanston – it is significantly more violent then anywhere I lived in Chicago. I live across the street from where Craig Smith was killed, so now we have the pleasure of being within blocks of another shooting! Great investment on our part. I moved to evanston just over a year ago from Chicago and am disgusted by the level of violence in this city. Crime and prison is career option we allow him. A young black boy whose parents, grandparents, and literally ENSLAVED great grandparents were not raised in traditions of education and privilege and equal access, but rather locked into in lives of modern day slavery with subservient, thankless, dead-end, low-wage jobs is simply recreating the violence and shitty deal American history dealt him. We've heard this before, yet nothing changes. American society has been historically violent towards black men and black men, in turn, as members of this society, unconsciously recreate this violence unto themselves. Since the beginning of our still to be deeply acknowledged history of slavery, the black American male has been given very few avenues to pursue. The levels of hate and violence of Evanston and our country's African-American youth are to be expected from American society.
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