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Kevin Jackson the Enabler
It has long been the worst kept secret in Mt. Hope that Councilman Kevin Jackson is the greatest enabler of drug dealing in Mt. Hope.
Without K.J., drug dealing would have disapeared long ago. He may as well stand down at the Crossroads, the corner of Camp & Cypress, and pedal drugs himself for all he has done to enable the drug dealers in Mt. Hope.
He leans on the police to go easy, to not enforce the law in Mt. Hope. He never hesitates to play the race card and to accuse the police of racial profiling. The drug dealers know of his liberal, knee-jerk leanings and run to him with stories of racist police action whenever a minority drug dealer is arrested for selling drugs on the streets of Mt. Hope.
That is the main reason why the police seem to be hamstrung in Mt. Hope. They are loath to take on a City Councilman when he opposes them enforcing the law. Who wishes to commit political suicide?
How would you like to be the District 8 Commander and have the Ward Councilman tell you to "leave them alone"?
He crows about being one of the first, avid supporters of our new mayor. How complicit is Mayor Ciciline for going along to get along?
We, the law abiding, property tax paying citizens of Mt. Hope pay for these politicians pandering to the scum who deal drugs on Mt. Hope streets.
For what?
Because the drug dealers are minorities?
You guessed it.
If Kevin Jackson opposed drug dealing in Mt. Hope, and actively represented the property owners in Mt. Hope, as well as all the law abiding, market-priced renters, family's, and working people in Mt. Hope, drug dealers would not be controlling the streets in Mt. Hope. In fact drug dealing would have long ago ceased to exist in Mt. Hope.
It is a shame that Jackson usually runs unopposed and that people do not realize what destruction he has wreaked on Mt. hope through his pandering.
The Summit is also victim to his pandering for Mt. Hope exports crime to the Summit neighborhood. Yet he wins them over with money for landscaping and "bump outs".
What a joke!!!
No more fear!
Even if you are a policeman, hamstrung and frustrated by the situation, or just a citizen,
VOICE YOUR OPINION HERE,
YOU WILL BE KEPT ANONYMOUS!
Posted at December 17, 2006 07:18 AM
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Whoa. Those are serious allegations, and I would guess difficult to prove. I am relatively new here, I guess, but I met Mr. Jackson during the recent election campaign, and he seemed like a nice man, even well intentioned and an effective councilman from what I gather from his committee work.
Still, I pause and wonder, because it is clear that some drug dealers seem to operate in Mt. Hope with impunity. I traverse Camp Street on a regular basis and at different hours, and it is clear that the young men dealing drugs on various corners and porches are not too worried about the police.
So, is somone protecting them? Why? Who?
I don't get it. It seems implausible, yet there it is.
Good questions raised, though maybe far fetched answers.
Still, I know of no other East Side street where drug dealing is allowed.
Startling thoughts.
Posted by: James at December 17, 2006 06:06 PM
If Ciciline or Esserman lived in Mt. Hope, who among us does not believe that the drug dealing would be cleaned up in very short order, for good.
They would not allow themselves or their families to be exposed to the shit that Mt.Hope taxpayerspayers ar exposed to every day, on a daily basis, day in and day out, no feaking, way.
We got no clout, just as you put it, and I like it and agree, Kevin Jackson the great enabler. Nice.
We must suffer these scum bags when no other eastside N'hood has to becaue if the law is enforced it will be labeled racisim, is that the gist of it?
Posted by: Anonymous Dan at December 17, 2006 02:38 PM