So last night I had dinner with a friend, and after she’d left me at my door and I’d gotten one shoe off, she called me. “I’m standing here looking at a car on your corner, and it looks like the man inside is dead.” “Woah.” “I don’t want to be one of those people […]
Category Archives: Safety
Deterrence and Crime Prevention: Reconsidering the Prospect of Sanction, by David M. Kennedy. I’d like to post my review of this book (recommended by a commenter on my earlier post on Trump and Chicago) in the form of an open letter to Donald Trump. Dear President Trump, Since your election as President you have often […]
This is the second post in my ongoing series of safety tips for tourists in Chicago. Part one is here. You’re not especially likely to get your purse snatched in tourist areas of Chicago; pickpocketing is much more common, and even the two crimes combined amounted to on average just 6 incidents a day in […]
I’ve lived on the South Side of Chicago without a car for over 30 years now, so I feel like I know a thing or two about staying safe from street crime. Every once in a while I overhear suburbanites trading tips about how to stay safe in the big, bad city. As a rule […]
