Might be a safer neighborhood in Chicago?

[mikea]

The night before Election Day, a Cook County judge was mugged just blocks from Barack Obama's home in the Kenwood neighborhood.

Judge Eileen Brewer, a highly rated Harvard Law grad like Obama, lives a few streets away from the president-elect. The robbery happened Monday night, hours before voters would elect Obama president and retain Brewer as a judge.
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"This happens in Hyde Park," she said.

Former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, who also lives in the neighborhood, was mugged on her block last year.


http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/1266202,CST-NWS-judge07.article

In the Carol Mosley-Braun case, a U Chicago student tackled the guy and he eventually got prison.

What'll happen when the US SS and a bunch of cops are a few blocks away?

 

[rottydaddy]

In the Carol Mosley-Braun case, a U Chicago student tackled the guy and he eventually got prison.

What'll happen when the US SS and a bunch of cops are a few blocks away?

Can't be as dangerous as the neighborhood near the White House... apparently the Secret Service won't do you much good unless you're a VIP.

I heard a fairly believable statistic during the first years of the Iraq war claiming that you were much more likely to take a round on the streets of DC than in Bagdhad...