Grand Crossing Park Neighborhood Network
"...What YOU can do for YOUR Neighborhood"
A friend of our community
needs our help. Circumstances, likely built up out of fallout from the Ferguson,
Missouri police shooting fiasco, have come to roost in a very predictable manner
here in Chicago. It's time for the politicians to serve up police officers as
the sacrificial lambs to appease the calls for the government to go after Cops
accused of mis-conduct. This age old process rears it's ugly head from time to
time and sometimes truly undeserving people, serving as peace officers, have to
pay the price with their careers. Commander Evans formerly of the 3rd district
and currently, until last week, Commander of the 11th district on the west side
is the latest victim of the powers that be casting out a policeman to be
devoured by the system in the name of "change", right?. WRONG! The system is
supposed to go after criminals, not Heroes! As a community warrior Commander
Evans does not deserve this. Or, if he does, he deserves our rock solid
empathy... and whole-hearted support!
You see, Commander Evans
does what most, if not all of us wish we could do - stop dangerous criminals in
their tracks and make ‘em run for cover!!! As 003rd dist. commander Evans had
the best crime reductions out of all commanders in Chicago, The 3rd
district is probably the most intractable district in this city, so that says
volumes about Evans’ effectiveness. If we had several duplicates of this man
working on the police force, crime would be way down where we want it!
Unfortunately, the supply of such individuals is very short and violent
criminals seem to be taking over. The street thugs, able to have their voices
heard due to a brutally equitable system often get to obstruct peace and
progress by using the wheels of justice against the will of the people as a
whole. “We the People”, must not let this happen here!
Commander Evans deserves support from all Chicago; As a black man we know he isn't going to
get it. Who he is is someone who has given much of his life to stopping those
who are dead
set to ruin our communities. He's
risked his life fighting the evil forces which have brought people to call
Chicago "Chiraq"! He himself has been shot while confronting
urban terrorists out to have it their way or no
way. A Policeman who is out
victimizing random innocent people deserves this treatment, not one who has
proven such solid worth and remarkable value to society as Commander Evans has.
There has to be a trade-off. Who deserves justice here?
I'm not crying out for
support for a known criminal, a known abuser of the innocent, a bully of the
good working and honest people. This is a man who’s base interest is making
the streets and alleyways of Chicago safe for every decent child, student,
parent, grand-parent and senior citizen. This is his record! Talk to people out
here and you'll find much of the story. Oh, yes, you're definitely going to find
his detractors, those who're going to tell you what a bad man he is. Some of his
biggest critics will be police officers themselves, most certainly those who
should be arrested for theft – receiving a good paycheck for doing nothing but
sit on their asses while the city goes to hell in a hand basket. Those type of
officers were being harassed by Evans to simply do the job they get paid to do!
For those with something negative to say against Evans, I ask you then to
consider the source, you’ll see what I mean.
Commander Evans has had
tough confrontations with many people, reverends, citizens, politicians, even
other policemen. He is not a push-over and has a keen nose for those who try to
use their status to walk over people. When you do that with him then you come
face to face with a Lion! As long as you're reasonable with him, he returns the
favor, as has been my personal experience of him.
Then there are all these
people who are lining up to say ‘mean old Evans’ molested them! What about the
victims they molested whom Evans was intervening on the behalf of? Do the
street terrorists deserve to upset the apple cart? Shooters, gunslingers, dope
dealers, sociopaths, thugs and lowlifes who cripple our community daily,
invoking paralyzing fear, recklessness and abandon, do they trump the hard
fought efforts to give our society a chance to survive, to thrive? Are we
supposed to feel empathy for this street punk who by his very actions (standing
on the street with a gun) was threatening all of us who might have caught one of
his errant bullets whenever he decided to start shooting? Enough is enough!
Firemen fight fire with fire to put out the wild blazes in the mountains and
elsewhere. Real parents do what they have to do to bring their households under
control, the thin line between anarchy and peace are the police (The one's doing
their job); let's not forget these realities.
Crime fighting many times becomes a battle of the human
will, the will to HOLD THE LINE vs. the will for one to do whatever they damn
well please no matter who they hurt maim or kill. I’m not saying what Evans did
or didn't do in this case he now finds himself in. He will defend himself with
his day in court. What I am saying is who deserves the benefit of the doubt - a
pillar of society or a knucklehead with a gun? This is our community
folks!
The incident in Ferguson
shows us we need people from our community in the heat of the fight to
bring peace and tranquility to our neighborhoods. Glen Evans is one such person,
with the toughness, the experience and the intelligence to get us through the
mire.
Support for such heroes,
even when unpopular, who have demonstrated their solid worth to a city, town or
community, is vital to the immediate future. I think it very important that we
not abandon a known friend and solid advocate of our community. I hope YOU will
do all you can to STAND BY GLEN EVANS until justice for all of
us is reached. He deserves it, we deserve it!
Please view;
There are dates for the
next events in this saga;
September 18, 2014
9:00am at 26th &
California,
7:30 in the evening a Police board meeting is
being held at Headquarters.
We need YOU and others like you to support this man
until it is proven that we do not need to do so. Until we can plainly see
he doesn't deserve for us to stand by him, let it remain incumbent, in our
hearts, to support one of our own in spirit and indeed until the
end.
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