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Friday March 29th 2024

Three Days of Respite at Chicago and Lake

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Three Days of Respite at Chicago and Lake

By DWIGHT HOBBES

Minnesota’s third annual Black Entrepreneur State Fair thankfully accomplished what the Minneapolis Police Department increasingly fails to do, safeguard the public from rampant drug dealing along with related violence and prostitution. To be sure, there’s no telling whether this was the aim. It may have simply been that the South Minneapolis locale, Chicago Ave and Lake Street, is about the most heavily trafficked intersection in town. Easily accessible by both mass transit and a main drag that amounts to a super highway with connecting streets instead of off rampants. A perfect place for the upwards of 50 vendors to make a killing, especially in this dead economy nobody wants to come right out and call another depression. For the sake of argument let’s say it killed the proverbial two birds with one stone.

For three days, the Chicago-Lake hub was fenced off to buses, pedestrians and a dangerously abysmal affront to civilized life where lawlessness otherwise went unchecked. Call the MPD to complain and you’ll join the many citizens who’re told it’s a problem for the Metro Transit Police. Call Transit and you get the story in reverse.… Read the rest “Three Days of Respite at Chicago and Lake”

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