It's important to remember that wards in high crime neighborhoods are incredibly gerrymandered. Each alder here is representing fragments of numerous communities. Important to bear in mind before conflating wards with "communities."
It's important to remember that wards in high crime neighborhoods are incredibly gerrymandered. Each alder here is representing fragments of numerous communities. Important to bear in mind before conflating wards with "communities."
Also - there's a history of alders in the south and west sides going against the will of activists (including MLK). Read about it here: watermark.silverchair.com/spab076.pdf?to…
@robvargas21 Interesting as most of the organizing against shotspotter came from “communities” known as “suburbs.”
@robvargas21 Gerrymandered you say? Anything on this? 🦗🦗🦗
@robvargas21 Man, such a great point. Thank you for that.
@robvargas21 Wards in general are incredibly gerrymandered. Look at the northwest side. I'd be interested to see the non-activist groundswell against ShotSpotter.
@robvargas21 you may want to talk to sposato about that, or about building massive housing projects in wards that dont want them just so opponents can import voters. also, alders are trees, aldermen are the politicians whos number should be reduced from 50 to ten.