Safe Neighborhoods
...t times; another thing my brother and I love to play baseball and as kids we would always have backyard baseball games, but every time a ball went into their yard you could be sure, the father or mother of that house would be on their feet as the ball was soaring threw the air and if hit one blade of their grass they would not hesitate to scold us. I mean come on! What type of people don’t support baseball for kids when they growing up? It’s like not saying the pledge of allegiance or liking apple pie. And it’s not like we were hitting their house or something, we were only like eleven and nine at the time, we couldn’t even hit the ball that far. Another family has a son who sells drugs out of his parent’s house; and one morning around six a.m. I was woken up to the sounds of a pounding like no other. It was the Illinois State Police raiding the house across the street from mine searching for drugs and other narcotics, I guess. It was great! It was like watching a live episode of Cops except you actually know someone who’s on the show this time. There’s kids who come back from college and have their parents permission to throw some out of control parties; and most the time I...