Your taxes vs other southside locations

We got an idea from a comment regarding your property taxes and those in areas that receive more city services than us. We decided to pick at random various addresses in various police districts and the total taxes billed for that address in 2009.

Info provided in the following order
Address; 2009 Taxes; Police District; House/Apartment

219 w. 109th st; $372.15; 5th District; house
12015 s. wallace; $1710.08; 5th District; house
7506 s. emerald; $2743.10; 6th District; apartment
8006 s. damen; $1595.88; 6th District; house
8219 s. muskegon; $1737.52; 4th District; house
10812 s. calhoun; $686.55; 4th District; house
7211 s. winchester; $840.44; 7th Distict; house
5543 s. shields; $2065.68; 7th District; house
11223 s. church; $1852.94; 22nd District; house


2211's beat
10414 s. troy; $3022.67; 22nd District; house
10819 s. hamlin; $2706.00; 22nd District; house
10734 s. maplewood; $3506.86; 22nd District; house
11245 s. drake; $3347.87; 22nd District; house

All of this information is readily available online if you know where to look. Our thoughts on some of these numbers. 11223 S. Church St is located on the east end of the 22nd District. That street gets excess police service from the 22nd District and they pay roughly half of the property tax that we do.

An APARTMENT building in the 6th district at 7506 S. Emerald pays less money than 3 of the 4 properties we looked at for Beat 2211. Apartment buildings should be paying a premium as they are investment properties, but because they are in areas that suck everything good away, they get to pay less than a single family house in our neighborhood.

A house in the 5th district at 219 w. 109th st. pays less than $500.00 A YEAR for taxes. The 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th districts have smaller beats and get extra help in the form of an outside unit called Tactical Response Unit regularly.

Let's throw more onto the tax fire. A progressive federal income tax. Earn more, pay more. A state income tax that some politicians want to raise. Penalties for working hard and being successful. Wheel tax (city sticker) for owning a car in the city. State Registration. Electric and natural gas consumption taxes. High sales tax. Entertainment tax. Phone taxes. Parking fees. What are we missing? These are all some of the ways the city, county and state rape us regularly for being successful/responsible members of our community. We also know of the roundabout ways of raising our 'taxes' that are not direct ways. Raise taxes on companies and force the companies to charge us more.

Now, say you earn nothing and are a dredge on society, get a Link card, get Section 8 housing vouchers, get free health care at any public health center or hospital, get taxes done for free by city, get job training for free, get a public defender when you are a fuck up, get to keep the cash earned from the drug trade and still get all of the free public welfare because you show no income, get SSI, get government subsidized cell phones, government subsidized daycare when you want other people to raise your children. Extra police protection. Extra fire protection. Where does it stop? Did we miss some? Please fill us in on some of the other stuff the dredge of society receive that we forgot or were unaware of.

After all of that money has burned a hole in our pocket, at the end of the day we are left out here to defend ourselves and have the assistance of 2211 when they can make it out this way and 2211a when they decide to man the car and not detail it to some other beat.

115th and Kedzie

From the comments:

• Black P Stone gangbangers have taken a foothold at 115/Kedzie at the Carwash. They are targeting whites! Threatening passerbys and customers. Things are getting ridiculous now. Gosh, we can't even wash our cars without being hassled by thugs.
  19th Ward has no comments. Big surprise.

There are a lot of problems with the 115th and Kedzie corner. We have a Cash America, a car wash, and 2 gas stations. Throw into the mix some low income housing and BOOM, a sight out of Englewood and various other similar parts of the city.

The biggest problem with this area are those apartment buildings located in Merrionette Park. The ilk start their day by roaming the gas stations constantly for numerous 25cent to dollar items and then make their way to the Cash America in an attempt to sell various stolen items that have received. Throw in the car wash as a potential gathering point and we have problems.

There was already a shooting last year at 117th and Kedzie in one of those Merrionette Park apartments. Those apartments offer nothing but trouble. MTGP is sure that the Merrionette Park police are tired of dealing with them as well. Maybe the owners of those apartment buildings, that potentially rent to Section 8, could get some visits from the Merrionette Park building inspectors unless they lower the number of assholes that put in those apartmets. CPD should be showing a strong presence in this area to send the message that their antics are not appreciated or wanted.

Section 8 locations and Parolees

MTGP has learned of Section 8 addresses in Mount Greenwood.

• 4050-4064 West 115th St.
• 10819 S. Whipple

We all know that those apartment buildings by Marist are just an eyesore for the community and a pain in the ass for the beat car. The element that is attracted there puts potential offenders too close to a thriving community. Too bad there was not someway that Marist could buy those buildings. Hell, MTGP believes St. Xavier has eminent domain, let them claim the buildings for dorms and shuttle bus students to the campus. Talk about solving a huge problem on the beat.

MTGP has also learned of parolees living in those buildings. 3 of them. For those that do not know, a parolee is still in prison, but because of overcrowding or Gov. Quinn kicking them out, the offenders are allowed to live life outside of the walls of a prison, under certain rules. Rules that are never followed or enforced, but they have rules!!!

MTGP has also learned of another offender paroled to the 11100 blk of Kedzie. Really? That is just wonderful, lets have parolees living right in the heart of Mt. Greenwood. Let's hope that new 'green' building being built on the 11100 blk of Kedzie does not end up housing any other parolees or Section 8 types. MTGP is very suspect of that building. If anyone has information about what is being built there and why, please infor MTGP so that the staff can sleep at night.

Section 8 trouble homes in Mt. Greenwood

MTGP has heard of a particular house going Section 8 on 111th and Spaulding. Does anyone have any details of this? From the rumor, a police fighting family is moving in. I know section 8 has come and gone in our neighborhood before, MTGP just wants to be aware, and the citizens need to be aware of the type of people that are moving in amongst us. Those who are the police and may read this need to know for their safety and for the safety of the citizens they work for. We as citizens have to have our police officer's backs when or if they need to engage any problem individuals living in our community. Please keep the citizens of Mount Greenwood updated on this house and family as well as any other houses or families they may be bringing violence, gang or drug crimes to the community.