Friday, December 19, 2008
Welcome to hell where you are welcome to sell — the situation on South Lamar in Dallas
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When I speak about south Lamar, I am not referring to the Cedars. I am referring to the portion of Lamar that is in South Dallas.
In this area, we have a real bad situation in terms of crime. Most of it can be attributed to the type of behavior that is caused when you have a proliferation of nightclubs, liquor stores, and motels in a small radius.
Here is a graphic of the nightclubs on and around South Lamar.
Here is a graphic of the liquor stores on and around South Lamar.
Copyright 2009 Google - Map data copyright 2009 Tele Atlas
The green arrow represents a newly-proposed nightclub. In a one-block radius of the newly proposed club, there are five other existing clubs.
On South Lamar alone, in the 300 number patrol beats (SE division), there have been 236 crimes from January 1st - December 19th. They include:
13 aggravated assaults
15 assaults
33 burglaries
18 robberies
These are only the crimes committed on Lamar; this doesn't even include the side streets.
In terms of making policy, we as elected and appointed officials have to make sure that we take these types of things into account when we decide where to allow new clubs to exist. If we don't protect all citizens equally in all corners of the city, we are failing our constituents.
DPD is stretched to the hilt because the leeches of the community aren't being shut down and are allowed to flourish. People complain about DPD, but they're stuck at the clubs and bars that cause all of the problems. What Avi Adelman is writing about on Lower Greenville is happening in this area as well. The people in South Dallas just have less resources and less of a voice.
We are beyond doing sweeps on South Lamar; we need business shut down.
I don't pretend to have all of the answers. As someone who grew up in these types of environments, as someone that has had to deal with things like people getting robbed and killed in front of our family home, I know what I'm talking about. Too many of these types of places in the same area asks for trouble.
It obvious that there are people that don't care where they put their businesses; it's up to us to help communities revitalize and reap the benefits of a better tomorrow.
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Blake Ramick Verified
"If we don't protect all citizens equally in all corners of the city, we are failing our constituents."
I understand your frustration completely but we know the quote above is not how the world works. Ideally is should, but it doesn't. It definitely seems like their is an overdose of liquor stores.
"DPD is stretched to the hilt because the leeches of the community aren't being shut down and are allowed to flourish." I think code enforcement is sorely lacking in their followup. Especially in regards to the clubs. I think the city needs a stiffer policy or maybe they just need to enforce it.
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Blake Ramick Verified
And they need to stop issuing permits to location and establishments that continually reorg to circumvent the system.
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Tracy Yost Verified
Seems like they figured out how to fix this problem in deep ellum.
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chrisdanger Anonymous
Thats because the money and the people came together Tracy, they cleared out the thugs and scumbags, as well as got a overlay for the neighborhood to keep out the garbage..
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alexander troup Verified
As I had pointed out before in the past few peg reports this is a Historical dangerous area, where blood has been spent in an almost St Valentines day shooting style death in Chicago over 5 decades... only without the publicity,
I had been to Detroit one years some time back to see the Ford Museum and saw an area much larger that remeined me of the Cedars...so how do you fix a battlefeild.....restore it with somthing new and good and landmark the place with respect or turn it into a slaughter house...make you choice, this blood spilt ground is real.A/T..Observer of life and Death in the Inner City..
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