A letter in response to “The Crackdown: A massive drug bust didn’t stop the violence in Superior-St. Clair,” June 13: I feel that the neighborhood has calmed down a lot. I stay on East 74th in St.Clair and I went to school with most of the 7-All boys. I’m just happy to say that the neighborhood is safer in some areas. I have two kids by gang member Gary Keaton. My kids’ father was killed in 2004 by a man named Douglas Lowe. He was only sentenced to 7 years. I was 5 months pregnant with my second child.
My daughter has never met her father. Every day my kids tell me they miss their father. The man that killed him will be free in 3 years. At least I can say all of the 7-All boys loved my children. They probably never meant for things to go the way they did. But they probably feel like they were losing too many of their loved ones.
To tell you the truth, I wish they all were out because the hood is not the same without them. Not talking about drugs or gang banging, but they were all good people to be around.
Traniece Jackson
Cleveland
This article appears in Dec 26, 2007 – Jan 1, 2008.
Just one read of the above comment should clear up much of the mystery as to why the inner-city is in the condition it presently is in Cleveland. You miss these punks? If these good people to be around I can’t imagine what it would take to be a bad person.