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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is horrifying. That block of 11th is half residential and half commercial, with a popular restaurant/bar (Paraiso) and a dance studio that services like 3-8 year olds. I'm sure the dance studio didn't have classes at the time, but 9pm on a Sunday night means there may still have been people in the bar and of course people in their homes. That's terrifying.

I swear if Charles Allen doesn't actually say/do something indicating he cares AT ALL about this kind of activity and how it impacts his constituents, I'm going to lose it. How does he get away with so much complacency? Why didn't anyone run against him? Sometimes this neighborhood feels like a bunch of well-meaning white people saying "This is fine" while there are literally black people just being murdered around them. Can we not do something about this or are we supposed to just accept it as normal?

So fed up.[/quote]

I can’t agree more. Charles loves to ignore news that doesn’t make him look good. His super soft on crime approach has cost him his career.

I didn’t vote for Charles- I wrote something in.  Can’t in good conscience elect someone (even if they ran unopposed!) who makes choices because he thinks they’ll further his career. He doesn’t care about his constituents. I’ve tried working with him before and he can’t solve any problem.

Given how many people hate him, I wonder if he might resign. [/quote]

I'm the PP and the maddening thing to me is that most people I know are totally satisfied with him, and will shrug their shoulders at this as an unfortunate situation that didn't impact them personally. Like until you have a stray bullet coming through our living room or someone you know his hit by this violence (this was a gun fight on a relatively busy corner at 9pm that resulted in two people dying -- if you don't think it's possible for something like this to result in a bystander getting shot, then you don't know much about what it's like to live in a neighborhood with this kind of violence all the time), peopel are content to just tow the activist line on this stuff.

Most of my neighbors think he's great. He tells them what they want to hear.[/quote]

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