You better think again. The Chicago Tribune is reporting that live bullets (not fired) were found on cars in Lincoln Park near DePaul. Be sure to note that finding bullets in Lincoln Park a top news story and that police are already contacting residents and working with DePaul security to view surveillance tapes. Pretty scary for folks down in Lincoln Park. Here in Uptown, we have find casings from fired bullets on a daily basis and see if bullets have done any damage to our property or anybody has been injured. We have reports of at least three shootings in the last 48 hours. And none of them have been reported by the mainstream media.
Alderman Shiller, is Lincoln Park really that safe?
That's the difference that says everything, isn't it? Find live bullets on a car in Lincoln Park and the police actually go about contacting residents, reporters cover the issues, etc. Much worse happens in Uptown and nothing.
ReplyDeleteGoes to show it pays to hang out where rich folk live. They get treated differently.
Goes to show it pays to hang out where rich folk live. They get treated differently.
ReplyDeleteYou wouldn't think this would be so in a neighborhood where the Alderman wants to be the savior to the poor doesn't it? You would think that she would hold up a mirror for all the world to see the inequities that exist between wealthy children there and homeless children here and private college students there and community college students here. Nope.
It's "news" because it goes against the stereotype of "Lincoln Park". Same thing when you get a serial rapist in the area. Even if he hits all over the north side the media often will refer to him as "Lincoln Park rapist". With the prominence of Wrigleyville something similar happens.
ReplyDeleteSome African immigrant college student gets killed on Broadway and that isn't much of a story. If he had been killed at Fullerton and Sheffield that would have been covered more widely.
The media likes something that goes against the reality or stereotypes of various neighborhoods.
Some African immigrant college student gets killed on Broadway and that isn't much of a story. If he had been killed at Fullerton and Sheffield that would have been covered more widely.
ReplyDeleteOr consequently if you had a suburban-born DePaul student killed in front of Truman college you'd not only get press coverage, but an entire background story complete with interviews of his family and probably even his college transcript.
The Gov't likes to dummie down things so as to distract us from the real issues. I believe if we really paid more attention to our Gov't as a community you'd see that the real issue isn't were we live its how slummy the Gov't makes certain areas, so other areas have more value.
ReplyDeleteNPR/Wbez, did a short piece today, about, shock of shocks, finding bullets near DePaul.
ReplyDeleteAnd how 'extra' patrols have been deployed.
Always a good thing.....but like everyone else in Uptown, I wondered why the sense of media urgency
isn't the same, when it comes to this part of town.
Sad to say, but the 'Shiller Gang' raises my blood pressure, as much as the 'P-Stones Gang'
but like everyone else in Uptown, I wondered why the sense of media urgency
ReplyDeleteisn't the same, when it comes to this part of town.
A lot of people in Englewood, etc. have been saying that for years... Sorry to say, but I think the media has come to expect it in Uptown, hence the ho-hum attitude of the press.
that is nothing, live bullets (not fired) were found on cars in Lincoln Park near DePaul. Please, I will still move to lincoln park.
ReplyDeletethats heaven
If lincoln park was giving out free apartments who would not take it. LOL