According to the folks at the Take Back Boystown Facebook page, armed security officers, dressed in yellow shirts and bullet proof vests, are patrolling the area.
The private security team was allegedly hired by the Northhalsted Business Alliance.
The Facebook user who initiated the conversation about the extra security said, since the officers' arrival, the streets have been so peaceful, he finally felt comfortable enough to stop at Roscoe's for a drink.
So far, it's unclear how long the guards will be stationed in Boystown.
Chicago News Report contacted the Northhalsted Business Alliance for more details.
If we get a response, we'll follow up on this story.
The Center on Halsted is attracting criminal behavior to the neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteOK, I was trying to figure out what happened! Last night we could see police on bikes with lights shining on the front of the bikes. They were everywhere. They didn't just go down a street once. They go down Roscoe to Broadway, Elaine every 1-2 minutes. No fights or ghetto people because there are to many cops now. I wanted to go outside and hug them!
ReplyDeleteI saw the police crack down on a large group of LGBTQ loiterers outside the Center on Halsted on Wednesday afternoon. They made them sit down and provide their names, DOB, and other information. Most of them were let go, but there were a large number of police so somebody must have done something.
ReplyDeleteOn Tuesday night on Waveland and Wilton, I saw a young black shirtless male punch a white guy who was walking with a black female companion. Totally unprovoked attack. I followed the shirtless teen east on Waveland Ave where he tried to enter the Le Moyne (InterAmerican) school. Coincidentally he got into an argument with the LGBTQ teens who congregate there in the evenings, and one of those teens threw a water bottle at the shirtless male as he walked away.
Center on Halsted needs to be shut down. The staff there encourages the ghetto "youths" to have contempt for the decent tax-paying residents of the area.
ReplyDeleteTHANK GOD for the security patrols and for the police finally taking action! The national attention on this issue that has come about recently, and the fact that people had basically stopped going out to the bars, must be hitting someone's bottom line, and they decided they have to do something. Maybe the hotel and bar industries called Rahm and said FIX THIS NOW, and he obliged.
ReplyDeleteBe careful though people! We cant let our guard down yet! We have to keep the pressure up on the businesses and the mayor, to keep things safe!! Plus, they may be finally fixing halsted, but others areas might not be fixed yet! We need to stay alert and ask for more security in other areas of the city too.
Something should have been done 4 years ago and it would have never gotten that far. Anyway, hate to say it but may of us have moved on and found other favorite spots. Good luck with the hoodrats and heifers from the 'burbs.
ReplyDeleteSo obviously those bloody people I used to see running down the street weren't "aw that's just transient youth", huh?
And no, the Center On Halsted isn't all to blame here. I don't defend them in any way but you have this "element" coming from all angles. Most were too stupid to even recognize it which is why I quit patronizing those business. It could be your life.
Yes, PRESSURE those business. I was loyal to a couple of them only for them to lie right to my face. I could name names (people) but I won't.
Kinda begs the question too. After all this time, what finally prompted this extra attention and security? Was someone finally murdered? In this town you'd never know unless you saw it with your own two eyes.
ReplyDeleteHopefully these armed security officers will start shooting some of those Trayvons.
ReplyDeleteI'd advise all you rich homos to get bluetooth speakers and start blasting some Garth Brooks or some old Willie Nelson as you sashay down the street, that will also help chase off the nygnogs.
ReplyDeleteYou never know, you might learn to fuck to that instead of thumping techno.
@11:22 - At least they are fucking to techno. You are home alone and jerking off. Well, except when you're sexing the family dog. Is that when you listen to garth and willie?
ReplyDeleteYou see, there's this thing about real music,rock, country, etc.. called "lyrics", wherein they express something than "thump thump thump thump" to the sound of you squishing turds in the poop canal.
ReplyDeleteYou should look into it, music that isn't bass heavy engages other areas of the brain, you might even have a original thought.