Great, here's another person saying to just let kids live there exposed to crime and drugs. Some people may think it's better that they stay there than move to other neighborhoods where they might not be wanted.
You remember the shootings incidents a couple of years ago, 2 teenagers from the neighborhood died on that block. As I recall, the incident started with a dispute while "hanging out" in a boarding house, on that very block, a boarding house that is infested with crime and drugs. There are several boarding houses on the block, and they effectively serve as half-way houses, that is where prisoners go when they are released from jail and they can't get an apartment. The second shooting incident was called "suicide by cop", but what actually happened is that he first opened fire on the police. A police officer could have been killed that day, and I think eventually one will die on that block. And there have been many other murders, shootings, and drug arrests, going all the way back at least to 1971. There is more trouble on that one block than in the rest of Carver Park community combined.
So if the city needs to tear something down to build a new police station, why not solve two problems at the same time. The city gets a new police station, centrally-located in the city (which makes sense), and we can clean up all the trouble on that block. Trouble that unfairly stigmatized the rest of the Carver Park community.
When Government gets tired of crime and drugs, kids dying, and kids lives ruined, government makes decisions to end the hemmoraging. That's the way it should be, as far as I'm concerned.
But I think we are still living in a reactionary era, one in which government is afraid of being criticized. Afraid to implement "tough love", afraid to make the decisions that need to be made for the well-being of everyone. Yes, I do advocate stronger government. You should be happy I'm not running for office.