Birmingham, AL to block some neighborhood streets so criminals cannot ‘shoot and drive out’

[1srelluc]

Birmingham to block some neighborhood streets so criminals cannot ‘shoot and drive out’

Several streets in the East Lake neighborhood will be blocked as the city launches its Project Safe Streets, a 90-day pilot crime prevention program.

www.al.com

The city of Birmingham next week will begin blocking off streets in an attempt to reduce neighborhood crime, Mayor Randall Woodfin said this afternoon.

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“Safer Streets is designed around an historic neighborhood that has all of these entrances and exits points, to decrease them to limit and decrease the opportunity for people to just drive in and commit illegal activities,” Woodfin told AL.com in an interview this afternoon.

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“We are not in a position to regulate guns, so this is also a creative, innovative way to regulate space,” he said. " We have to decrease people’s opportunity to just drive in a neighborhood to be able to freely shoot and drive out.”


The barriers are decorated with art from two artists who live in the neighborhood along with volunteers.

“Police aren’t taking the lead on this, the residents are taking the lead on this,” Woodin said.

I did Nazi that coming.

Yes, let the blacks create more traffic, delay emergency vehicles, etc.
Soon to come, checkpoints run by your local warlord.

 

[The Duke]

Birmingham to block some neighborhood streets so criminals cannot ‘shoot and drive out’

Several streets in the East Lake neighborhood will be blocked as the city launches its Project Safe Streets, a 90-day pilot crime prevention program.

www.al.com

The city of Birmingham next week will begin blocking off streets in an attempt to reduce neighborhood crime, Mayor Randall Woodfin said this afternoon.

..

“Safer Streets is designed around an historic neighborhood that has all of these entrances and exits points, to decrease them to limit and decrease the opportunity for people to just drive in and commit illegal activities,” Woodfin told AL.com in an interview this afternoon.

..

“We are not in a position to regulate guns, so this is also a creative, innovative way to regulate space,” he said. " We have to decrease people’s opportunity to just drive in a neighborhood to be able to freely shoot and drive out.”


The barriers are decorated with art from two artists who live in the neighborhood along with volunteers.

“Police aren’t taking the lead on this, the residents are taking the lead on this,” Woodin said.

I did Nazi that coming.


Yes, let the blacks create more traffic, delay emergency vehicles, etc.
Soon to come, checkpoints run by your local warlord.

They did that in Miami. Blocked more than 1/2 the streets off.

 

[AMart]

See this is why your property values are lower and when you move in we move out. Got it.

 

[leftwinger]

It can act as a trap for the unsuspecting. Not all streets are big enough to u-turn quickly. I am certain they did this in STL also.

Remember the olden days Cruising on weekend nights round and round looking for chicks and getting high or drunk. They shut that down too.

 

[Jarlaxle]

SO...how long before someone dies because an ambulance can't get through?