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2010-08-05 Economy

Layoffs to gut East St. Louis police force

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Posted by Fred 2010-08-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 See also TOPIX/FREEREPUBLIC > THE TOP FIVE MOST CRIME-RIDDEN US [Federal] JUDICIAL DISTRICTS ARE ALONG THE MEXICAN BORDER.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-08-05 01:36|| 2010-08-05 01:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey libs! Let's make sure to extend unemployment to infinity! Who needs police anyway?

Posted by gorb 2010-08-05 04:44|| 2010-08-05 04:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like yet another success story of the saga liberal government and unions.

Posted by Keenster 2010-08-05 09:03|| 2010-08-05 09:03|| Front Page Top

#4 St. Louis heads towards Detroitistan.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-08-05 10:34|| 2010-08-05 10:34|| Front Page Top

#5 You would have to have a history book to find out how long East St. Louis has been a pest hole. Likely well before World War I. Even at its peak in the 1950s, it was a destitute, decaying stink pit.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-08-05 12:28|| 2010-08-05 12:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Looks like the city tried to make an acommodation, granted a hard one, and the unions said shove it.
Times are hard, folks. The public sector unions seem to think they have some kind of immunity to them.

Posted by tu3031 2010-08-05 12:32|| 2010-08-05 12:32|| Front Page Top

#7 They still have one? Who knew?

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-08-05 14:21|| 2010-08-05 14:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Actually, in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, East St. Louis was not a bad town; it had bad neighborhoods but it also had a branch of the major railroad stockyards and slaughterhouses in town. It had several very nice working class clean neighborhoods, with well-maintained houses, no garbage, and safe streets after dark. Then the stockyards and slaughterhouses shutdown, and the city decayed. Now, something along the lines of 90% of the population is on some major form of public assistance, and all the nice working class neighborhoods have vanished or transmuted into slums.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2010-08-05 18:21|| 2010-08-05 18:21|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't see how this is a bad thing. If we can end war by getting rid of our army, getting rid of the cops should drive the crime rate to near zero. I look forward to seeing the data from this fascinating experiment.

Posted by SteveS 2010-08-05 18:36|| 2010-08-05 18:36|| Front Page Top

#10 working class neighborhoods have vanished or transmuted into slums.
Posted by Shieldwolf

Great experiment in E. St. Louis in the late 50's and 60's with highrise public housing..... that's until the electricity was turned off for non-payment and the windows were all broken out. The projects have long been raised and hauled away. Been a dismal place for half a century or more.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-08-05 18:50|| 2010-08-05 18:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Betcha they still fund libraries and midnight basketball.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-08-05 20:57|| 2010-08-05 20:57|| Front Page Top

#12 I guarantee that were 50,000 visas granted immediately to anyone with a college degree to move to East St. Louis for the next few years and work towards citizenship, it would become a great town. Managed immigration is a tool we choose not to use to our sorrow.

Posted by rammer 2010-08-05 22:33|| 2010-08-05 22:33|| Front Page Top

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