Local: Peoria Police to hold assemblies in schools (UPDATED)

October 22, 2007
By Billy Dennis

That’s announcement that was made at the end of tonight’s meeting of the Peoria School District 150 Board of Education. The subject of the assembly was not released, and will be revealed by the City of Peoria at a press conference scheduled for 1 p.m,. tomorrow at Peoria Police Headquarters at the corner of Walnut Street and South West Adams.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that it have something to do with jaywalking.

And there’s another press conference at 5:30 p.m. before the start of the regular Peoria City Council meeting about joint anti-littering effort by District 150 and the city. For that one, they issued a press release. They are having a song-writing contest. It’s called “Rappers Against Wrappers.”

No, that is not a joke.

UPDATED: The Journal Star is reporting that there’s been an unspecified arrangement following a meeting with the NAACP, the King Holiday Committee, city officials and the police. I’m guessing that these police-run assemblies in the middle schools and high schools is part of the arrangement. There’s no word on whether part of the arrangement includes dropping the tickets. I don’t see Don Jackson and Rita Ali dropping their protests unless the tickets are dismissed. I’m almost positive the city wouldn’t drop the tickets unless there was a weakness in the case. Remember that Rita Ali claimed to witness the incident and that she saw no jaywalking, nor the walking-down-the-middle-of-the-road behavior.

Sigh.

More tomorrow.

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One Response to “ Local: Peoria Police to hold assemblies in schools (UPDATED) ”

  1. Raoul Duke on October 23, 2007 at 9:13 am

    Does anyone remember the traveling dope show that the Peoria Police had in the seventies?? The glass cases with all the pipes and bongs and pills? The cop burning a chunk of hash in a spoon so that everyone knew what it smelled like so they could run away or call the cops? I’ll never forget the kid that tried to cop a nasal hit from that chunk o hash as the cop walked it around the crowd…. Maybe they have brought back the PPD traveling dope show for a reunion tour?