The lawless wasteland of Seminary Square Park
Where are the police? Everyone knows that SSP is a den of illegal drugs and crime. The police know it, the mayor knows it, and the city councilors know it.
Seminary Square Park, which sits between Walnut and College with Second Street as its northern boundary, is the original home of Indiana University. For several years now, it has been a hotbed of illegal drugs and crime, with homeless people menacing surrounding businesses. The Monroe County Democratic Party is using Seminary Square Park (SSP) as the opening gambit in turning Bloomington into San Francisco. Now we just need human feces all over the sidewalk.
Here are the statistics for needles collected in the park the last four years:
♣ 2021 - 2,095
♣ 2022 - 1,220
♣ 2023 - 1,481
♣ 2024 - 2,641
The question is obvious: Where are the police? Everyone knows that SSP is a den of illegal drugs and crime. The police know it, the mayor knows it, the city councilors know it, and the general public knows it. Everyone has known this for years now. Why are the police not at SSP busting people every single day? Why has the city stolen this park from the taxpayers, so that no one dares go there? Have the police been forbidden from doing their jobs by a soft-on-crime liberal mayor?
Let's rewind five years. Mayor John Hamilton, while he was letting SSP degenerate into the shithole it is now, imposed a strict limit on home gatherings due to the COVID-19 pandemic and effectively criminalized the small-group ministries of churches in Bloomington. While the rest of the state was slowly opening up, the mayor was cracking down - but not on a den of crime and illegal drugs openly operating in the heart of the city. It was a truly shameful display of hypocrisy and dereliction of the city's basic duty to provide law and order.
Folks, this is ridiculous. It is long past time for the city to stop allowing this to fester and restore order. The taxpayers of this city deserve better than a city council and mayor more concerned with broadening their phylacteries and signaling virtue than with providing the most basic of city services. If city government continues its open rebellion against law and order, state government should step in and force the city to do its job.
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