City, Gold Coast merchants should ‘expedite’ installing barriers to keep robbers’ cars off sidewalks, alderperson says – Chicago Sun-Times

Officials are leaning toward paying for the project with money from the taxing district created to fund security improvements in the area, Ald. Brian Hopkins said. That taxing district, known as a special service area or SSA, was approved in December 2021 by the City Council after a series of robberies of high-end stores in the area.
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Nostradamus.
4 months ago

The Gold coast businesses should be allowed to hire security stationed at the doors armed with shotguns and be allowed to shoot anyone who tries to hold the place up. Shoot a few and this will slow down.

Ataraxis
4 months ago

Notice that all Dem proposals are just insufficient attempts to fix problems previously created by an earlier Dem policy.
The Dems never stop to consider that if the thugs were in prison, they wouldn’t need to wall off the Gold Coast stores.

Nostradamus.
4 months ago
Reply to  Ataraxis

But Dat beez racis.

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