tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post4508205350448711993..comments2023-10-21T03:07:18.017-05:00Comments on Enclave: We Still Have Hookers to Go with Our Mud Slides: Words Come Back to HauntS-townMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05948307051485318061noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-64889054168755102662007-05-09T11:41:00.000-05:002007-05-09T11:41:00.000-05:00JM: I owe no acknowledgements to someone who hasn...JM: I owe no acknowledgements to someone who hasn't lived in my neighborhood. That goes for you and the absentee developers whom you support without question.<BR/><BR/>What has cleaned-up the streets in the last few years is the neighborhood watch started by the people who live here working with the police to investigate and to arrest. There is nothing in development that forces drug trade or prostitution out of a neighborhood. Rises in economic development can just as easily translate to high quality drugs and higher priced hookers. At one time I lived over on Blair Blvd. in the very well developed Hillsboro Rd. neighborhood. A nice house there was raided and the police broke up a prostitution ring working out the house. Hence, economics is not in itself a crime deterrent as developers would have us believe.<BR/><BR/>My experience as a resident here is that visible hooking has increased more in the past few weeks. That defies your theory about development, which is exploding. And these developers whom you defend have never taken crime seriously here to begin with. Even after I found an semi-assault rifle that gang members threw over my fence when they were being pursued by police, one of the Schoene Ansicht developers continued to insist that we didn't have a gang problem, saying that "these are just a bunch of kids." Well, this bunch of kids were carrying weapons that could easily mow down a crowd of innocent bystanders. He should have said that he didn't have a gang problem because he didn't live here.S-townMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05948307051485318061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-86366645599271826892007-05-09T11:25:00.000-05:002007-05-09T11:25:00.000-05:00Mike,Yes. There is the safety issue and I can unde...Mike,<BR/><BR/>Yes. There is the safety issue and I can understand that, but there are power in numbers (and maybe somebody on hand from the neighborhood with a carry permit). I'm not trying to lob any bombs here either. I think it's a great thing if a group of neighbors get together and organize and act to clean out the scum in their neighborhood.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-80987351625215534462007-05-09T11:14:00.000-05:002007-05-09T11:14:00.000-05:00S-TownMike,You have to be honest. The streets hav...S-TownMike,<BR/><BR/>You have to be honest. The streets have cleaned up tremendously over the last few years. The new development in turn has spurred the removal of abandoned houses and injected the area with a sense of renewal. So the spin you're trying to put on my comment is pretty clever. As a whole the neighborhood is a better place because of all of the development that has happened in Salemtown.<BR/><BR/>JMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-36119653825859803312007-05-08T19:18:00.000-05:002007-05-08T19:18:00.000-05:00My husband has a ninja suit.Did someone say "Neigh...My husband has a ninja suit.<BR/>Did someone say "Neighborhood Ninjas??"<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://youtube.com/watch?v=m9nVENReGBY" REL="nofollow">http://youtube.com/watch?v=m9nVENReGBY</A><BR/><BR/>I'm all talk and no muscles (or balls, for that matter). But, it'd sure be funny.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12866463999793352399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-40643174623689090092007-05-08T18:25:00.000-05:002007-05-08T18:25:00.000-05:00Having little regard for my own safety and a long ...Having little regard for my own safety and a long burning desire to deliver a fine ass kicking to violently aggressive riffraff I'll gladly attend/photograph a group stakeout.Sageishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048929526569644126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-37364815487514967892007-05-08T18:00:00.000-05:002007-05-08T18:00:00.000-05:00Welcome back, blake.Some of us have considered tho...Welcome back, blake.<BR/><BR/>Some of us have considered those possibilities. We also have to consider our safety.S-townMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05948307051485318061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-78735298326430240872007-05-08T17:55:00.000-05:002007-05-08T17:55:00.000-05:00Good luck on getting the police to do anything. Bu...Good luck on getting the police to do anything. But why sit around and wait for the police to take action?<BR/><BR/>It's time to turn words into action. Neighborhod activism in its greatest form. <BR/><BR/>If you want a clean neighborhood, get out and help clean it up. Organize and start watching the place. Openly film people coming and going from the place (from the street...I think it's legal). Make sure you have a group that does this and don't do it alone. <BR/><BR/>Once a neighborhood becomes "unfriendly" to crack houses and whore houses, they will leave. <BR/><BR/>But be safe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com