Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Crime in Decatur, IL

 As we move closer to the end of 2011 I would like to talk about the crime that had taken place over the past year. Lot's of people say crime is out of control and the police need to do something to make this stop. Well here is a few things I would like to talk about and then share something with all of you..


Cops need to setup and stop the crime.  Cops don't put guns into the criminals hands. Stop and think, would you like to be a police officer in Decatur, IL?  You say crime is so bad do you stop and think about what the cops have to go through? Yes some cops are better then others but that's like any city you go to. 

Murders happen in-lots of bigger city's, Decatur is around 79,000 to 82,000 people so a-little smaller then Springfield but look at the murder rates in those other city's - Decatur has murders yes, Decatur also solves it's murders really fast. Only one murder is not solved from this summer, which in case a teen was shot after going home from the Decatur Cel. - More then 100,000 people come to the event each day so it maybe a-little harder to find out who may have done this, but Decatur will not back down they will keep going strong.


Decatur has had a bad name for more then 100 years, nothing has changed since this little dark city has started in the 1820's. Why say it's getting worse. Below is a little story from my good friend and author Troy Taylor. Here is a-little on the start of Decatur, IL.. 



-Haunted Decatur-  Troy Taylor*

In 1854, Colonel Dan Conklin started a whiskey distillery, racetrack and a whorehouse on the outskirts of Decatur and the city earned the first of its unflattering nicknames -- "Hell's Half Acre". It would go on to earn others, including the "Second Most Corrupt City in Illinois" in the 1920s, and would gain infamy as a place where murder, bootlegging, prostitution, kidnapping, gambling, corruption in city government and, of course, ghosts were commonplace. But Decatur's dark origins can be traced back to the earliest days of the city, when the original settlers built over the top of Native American burial grounds that were scattered throughout the downtown area of what would become Decatur. The destruction of these burial mounds cast a mysterious pall over the city -- a darkness that continues to linger today.


If you would like to read more about the darker sides of Decatur, IL then please look into buying the HD Book here.
- *This information is from Haunted Decatur Tours website- HauntedDecatur.com