Security Alert: Amberg Park Area
by admin ~ November 11th, 2009
Subject forcefully removed money from victim as she exited the market at Keokuk and Gustine. This subject frequents the area around Amberg Park. Anyone seeing this individual contact 911 or if you know this individual please help us in identifying this person.
Police Officer Thomas J Bottini, DSN 1839
Community Outreach Officer, District One
314-444-0176
November 11th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
When did this happen?
November 11th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Have you visited that store lately? It’s a JOKE, not a store. There are so many riff-raff hanging IN the store. For what?…Idon’t know. I’m sure the employees know are can identify this individual. It seems they know most of the people who frequent there on first-name basis. Makes me wonder if the police are doing their job or even care that that place is becoming a problem in the community.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
The store and the park has become a beacon for all sort of riff raff to linger around. my family stopped shopping at the store a little after it was sold to its new owner which slowed my activity at visiting the park. i do not wish to blame the store for the crappie visitors but something must be done by our neighborhood and elected officials before any other incidents happen and it becomes more than just a robbery. It seems as if our neighborhood is getting worse. Alot of the bad people in our area do not live in our area and are living with family or friends. I have a lot of questions in how landlords are screening its occupants and how often they check to see who is residing within their property. We need more residents to voice their opinions and call in to our city elected officials to help stop this area from becoming like the northside of st louis. If you watch the news, it seems as if the crime is more south than anywhere else.
November 11th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
While I disagree that the crime is more South than anywhere, I do believe something needs to be done about this park. Anytime I drive by all I see is loitering and unfriendly looking dogs tied to the fences. I very rarely see the typical family playing on the playground site you would expect in a neighborhood park. I understand that the park is a public place, but anyone who has been to the park cleanup has seen how disgusting the park becomes. I sometimes wonder if we clean up the park to do good and provide a clean/safe place to play, or if it is to avoid the embarrassment from visitors to our neighborhood? It is sad people have to clean up after others.
Is there anyone us, as civilians, can do? Or must we just continue to call the police and hope for the best? Will the park improvement plan help the park, or will it just consistently be destroyed by those who do not care?
November 12th, 2009 at 7:42 am
Shots fired in the Amberg Park area the evening of 11/11/09. Police called. Had a feeling that something would happen yesterday…. As I drove by the park at 4:45 P.M. on my way back from WORK there were about 15-20 young men in their 20′s standing on opposite sides of the playground staring at one another. Yes, there were kids playing between them, and yes, the park is indeed trashed again.
November 12th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
well, i live almost across the street from the park, and yeah, we do see all this, and we do call it in, and longer i live here, the more i’m convinced that unless something is done, i’m willing to take a loss on our house and leave this neighborhood. Shane, our alderman, has been very good at getting things done for the ward, i think we, as a neighborhood, need to convince him, with a petition or something… to do more for our neighborhood and our area.
the least we can do, i think, is banning the sale of knives, bongs, and pipes in that store that’d be a great start!
November 12th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Thank you for calling the activity in. I give you props for staying in your house. I feel uncomfortable with the looks I get just as I drive by, I cannot imagine living right across the street and having to deal with that everytime I left my house and seeing it out the window.
I think closing the store would be a great start. It attracts a terrible crowd and is an eye sore on top of that.
Something needs to be done. What sort of petition could we file in order to help this? Could we petition to close the store? Do we have that power?
March 17th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Please close the trash store @ gustine and keokuk. Our neighborhood starts to look like north city.