Tear the building down!

[Kricket]

Here in the lovely city of Davenport we have a building that is a known crack house. I know it’s not the only one but it has been in the news alot lately.
And I know that tearing it down would probably only move these people closer to my area, but good Gods what has happened in the building in the past month is beyond belief!
We had a woman who was going to get her children taken from her because she was an addict.
So, let’s drop the children out the window to a waiting friend (sister?) and grandparent so they can kidnap them and leave the state with them! Sounds good to me.
And the latest…
As we sat around the tv on Wednesday waiting to see our children on television because it was walk safe to school day and our school is on the busiest intersection in the state of Iowa, they cut in with a special report of a child falling out a window.
15 months old and fell out the window from the third floor!
Holy freakin’ cow!
I know that I am not super mom or anything close but when my heathens were toddling I made sure that the edges of the second floor windows were not a place they could get to. We have four scary window in our upstairs. Old house so the windows aren’t too far off the floor.

I drive by this building on my way to work and it is horrible down there. Children playing darn near in the street which is four lanes of one way traffic, and parents or what have you just sitting there on the worn-out couch and on lawn chairs on the side walk not paying a bit of attention.
The police are always there.
And now I get to drive by it and see the police tape and know that a child died.

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

So, just out of curiosity I put “davenport iowa child” into GoogleNews, and up pops the headline, “Baby-death scene familiar to police”. Geeeeez, Kricket.

http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1001900&t=Local+News

Baby-death scene familiar to police

By Marc Chase

When Davenport police arrived on the sidewalk outside of the Schricker Apartments where a 15-month-old boy fell three stories to his death Wednesday, it was their 688th visit to the building within 12 months.

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Of the 688 police calls to the Schricker between Oct. 3, 2001, and Oct. 2, 2002, 165 were for disturbances, 78 were for domestic-assault complaints, 33 were for assaults and 41 were for suspicious activity.

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Police responded to four suicides at the building in the same time period. And in an unrelated incident last week, police say 39-year-old Ruby Davis kidnapped her 17-month-old and 2-week-old grandchildren from a window in the building, police allege. Davis still is at large.

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In the case of Hunter, he said other tenants in the building had warned the boy’s mother on several occasions prior to Wednesday when they spotted the toddler playing near the window screen.

As of Thursday evening, Hunter’s mother, Ruth Ann Lawrence, faced no charges in the death of her son, police said. The boy lived in the apartment with his mother and brother. However, DHS officials removed Lawrence’s 31/2-year-old son Dakota from her custody Thursday, she said.

One neighbor, Kim Newton, said Ruth Ann Lawrence was talking with her in the hall when Hunter fell from the window in Apartment 17. But Ruth Ann Lawrence protests her guilt, saying Thursday night that in a “split-second,” Hunter went down the hall, got on the couch, and either pushed or leaned against the screen. “No one could have prevented that,” she said.

Golly.

[Kricket]

Thank you for finding that for me. BeagleDave usually helps me with my links since I am link impaired.
I suppose as and excuse to see the Walking One I could swing by his house and have him show me how to post links and other fun stuff.
BTW congrats on that Dave! Now all the fun starts!

Back to the OP that building just needs to go. But then again they just like roaches and other vermin they will find another neighborhood to inhabit and chances are it will be closer to me than I prefer.
Last weekend we had a guy rob the pizza place and tried to rob the KFC by our house and when he ran he hid out in the building where the little girl was shot and killed a few months ago.
What in the heck is happening to my neighborhood?
Has it always been this way and we are now just hearing more about it or is it actually getting worse?

Oh, and we did get to see our heathens on television! Full screen shot of our oldest son in a police car and distance shots of the youngest two at the Walk Safe parade.