Cameras, ID Tags Part Of New East St. Louis Public Housing Safety Plan
Five months in the making, a new set of security measures for East St. Louis Housing Authority properties was unveiled Wednesday by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and St. Clair County State’s Attorney Brendan Kelly.
“We’re going to put in place starting in the next few months security cameras,” Durbin announced during a mid-morning press conference outside the Orr Weathers Senior High Rise at Missouri Ave. and 14th Street. “So we can monitor those coming and going and have the information necessary to keep these places safe.”
In addition, a system involving photo I.D. tags for residents will be instituted “so that those who shouldn’t be hanging around will be leaving, or if they don’t, charged with trespass,” Durbin explained.
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Durbin used that story to renew his call for East St. Louis mayor Alvin Parks to enforce the 1 am cutoff for liquor store sales, something the Senator called a “contributing factor” in the growing number of violent crimes.
Sure, because East St. Louisans who have signed leases to live in public housing projects and buy booze at 12:59 AM never cause any trouble. I mean, those Drug & Gun Free Zone signs really worked wonders.
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Oh yeah this will work ….. cough cough ……. cough.