Strange Robbery Attempt, Lafayette, Ind.

[LP1]

Article states "bullet resistant glass". Dont think I am going to work for $10 hour in a job that requires me to stand behind "bullet resistant glass"......just saying

Would you rather get $10/hr without the glass?

 

[LP1]

Sad to read about what has happened in Lafayette. I lived there for a few years in early/mid 80s after finishing college. Very few places I wouldn't go back then.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Sad to read about what has happened in Lafayette. I lived there for a few years in early/mid 80s after finishing college. Very few places I wouldn't go back then.

It is the assignment of priorities. The Mayor is focusing Lafayette police on §8 housing for that sweet, sweet federal money. The thinking being that they can let the neighborhoods go to get federal money and then use the federal money for shiny new cars, uniforms, buildings, HQ crap, while the neighborhoods suffer.

Speaking as a property owner in a neighborhood, a neighborhood shaken by a Murder which was mishandled in a spectacular manner, the policy is a failure and this property owner is not happy.

So far, I have begged the Mayor to abandon his disastrous policy, but I see my neighbors getting angrier and angrier.

 

[rhino]

It is the assignment of priorities. The Mayor is focusing Lafayette police on §8 housing for that sweet, sweet federal money. The thinking being that they can let the neighborhoods go to get federal money and then use the federal money for shiny new cars, uniforms, buildings, HQ crap, while the neighborhoods suffer.

Speaking as a property owner in a neighborhood, a neighborhood shaken by a Murder which was mishandled in a spectacular manner, the policy is a failure and this property owner is not happy.

So far, I have begged the Mayor to abandon his disastrous policy, but I see my neighbors getting angrier and angrier.

Playing games like that with people's lives is reprehensible.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Playing games like that with people's lives is reprehensible.

Oh, I agree. But they have been getting away with it so far so why change?

I thought the murder in my neighborhood would be a real turning point for the city, but the Prosecuting Attorney who botched it up won 60% in the primary and other than my jumping up and down pointing, nothing has been done about City Hall's moronic priorities.

 

[rhino]

Oh, I agree. But they have been getting away with it so far so why change?

I thought the murder in my neighborhood would be a real turning point for the city, but the Prosecuting Attorney who botched it up won 60% in the primary and other than my jumping up and down pointing, nothing has been down about City Hall's moronic priorities.

I don't know what I don't know, but that debacle originally appeared to be the kind of case that a prosecutor would have to actively try to lose.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I don't know what I don't know, but that debacle originally appeared to be the kind of case that a prosecutor would have to actively try to lose.

I was certainly mad enough to consider that. The harm that the prosecutors inflicted on my neighborhood is immeasurable, BUT I remember what my dad says, "never blame malice when human stupidity will suffice."

The problem that it was bungled from the filing of the charges. The cops had all the cops could gather and Harrington ham-fistedly put it as Murder without other alternatives for the jury like Felony Murder or Conspiracy to Commit Robbery or the like.

 

[Mgderf]

Sad to read about what has happened in Lafayette. I lived there for a few years in early/mid 80s after finishing college. Very few places I wouldn't go back then.

You were here during the lull.
You would have a different view of Lafayette had you been here earlier.

In the mid to late 1970's Lafayette looked more like the wild, wild west.
We had, among other things, judges and police that were arrested and charged with receiving stolen property.
We had drive-by shootings, truck bombings, family feuds, and all manners of lesser crimes.

Lafayette is not the idyllic little town that some think it to be, and hasn't been for most of my life.

 

[schafe]

That Shell station is only a couple of blocks from the Police station, as I recall. That adds another count of irony to the mix.
My sister used to live in that area, and I always worried about her safety. Luckily, (sorta) she now calls a local nursing facility home.
I moved from Lafayette to the Bloomington area after college in the mid 70's, and believe me, not only are those areas here too, but surprise!, surprise! local government is just as oblivious, being more concerned with bicycle trails and off campus student housing.