UIC - Howard Moore

[sportsnut2]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/early-career-change-enabled-illinois-chicago-coach-howard-181214844--ncaab.html

[tornado]

great story and I hope he continues being successful..........
Moore's UIC Flames have the best RPI in the Horizon - although sad to say the Horizon is really soft this season with
literally the worst SOS of all conferences and a Conference RPI that ranks behind 18 other conferences.

nice that they give some credit to Jim Molinari for giving him the Division I start that has turned out so well for him.

[tornado]

Howard Moore was once an assistant at Bradley - recently he was let go as head coach at UIC..

He was just inducted into his high school's Hall of Fame
and is currently working as analyst for Big Ten Network

https://twitter.com/howard_moore/status/641781335598714880

http://www.tafths.org/apps/news/show_news.jsp?REC_ID=361508&id=0

[Da Coach]

Sad irony

Former Bradley assistant Howard Moore is now back as an assistant coach at Wisconsin.

http://www.uwbadgers.com/coaches.aspx?rc=544&path=mbball

He grew up on Chicago's west side where he saw a lot of violence and gang activity while growing up. He now works to try to combat the violence and gangs in Chicago, and hosts a yearly 2-day “Legends Taking Back the Streets” event at Collins Academy High School, not far from where he grew up.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/sports/college/basketball/basketball-wisconsin-assistant-coach-howard-moore-works-to-counter-violence/article_990a2b2b-db2e-5854-8122-2674e979bab1.html

This year's event was this past weekend and included a basketball tournament, a women’s all-star game, a ceremony honoring members of the community who have made a difference and a free camp for youths.

He started the event "with hopes that a tight-knit basketball community in Chicago could come together and promote a positive experience in a city wracked by violence."

But unfortunately, barely 2 days after this year's anti-violence “Legends Taking Back the Streets” event, Moore's uncle was caught in a crossfire of rival gangs in Chicago and killed.

https://twitter.com/Howard_Moore/status/887663015897837568

[tornado]

Very, very sad....
just the predictable end result and consequence of a degenerate society that fails to teach morality, along with degenerate leadership, schools, and little desire to actually admit the problem and enforce the laws they have on the books. But worse, it is a glimpse of the future of most other large cities - even Peoria in the future if our leaders don't make public safety and enforcement of the laws a priority.

[Chico]

Put the blame on the ones committing the crimes, not the city leaders.

[egib52]

Put the blame on the ones committing the crimes, not the city leaders.

There is plenty of blame to go around. However, I don't think city leaders are absolved from all blame.

[Chico]

There is plenty of blame to go around. However, I don't think city leaders are absolved from all blame.

City leaders aren't the reason I can't walk the streets of my old neighborhood like I used to without being mugged.

[tornado]

but they are about the only ones who can do a thing about it

I will give credit where I believe credit is due....FWIW - there have been successes - but the leadership in Chicago doesn't seem interested

The old Peoria Warner Homes were not just rat infested but crime & drug infested with muggings, robberies, breakins, drug deals and murders almost on a daily basis..

Then about 15 years ago - the city got funding to tear all those old eyesores down and build truly nice homes and a well-lit neighborhood.
Since then the community is a completely different environment - with crime rates that are a small fraction of what they were ...

These columns from 2012 tells the story...

http://www.pjstar.com/x1368169607/RiverWest-marks-decade-of-avoiding-problems-that-plagued-Warner-Homes

http://www.pjstar.com/article/20120908/NEWS/309089947

15 years ago - half of all the crime & murders in the city happened there but now...
"In total, 37 crime reports were filed by Peoria police officers (at RiverWest - once known as Warner Homes). Five people were arrested, none of them PHA residents. Violent crime there is a rarity."
And ..."..crime has declined so much since the $46 million RiverWest development was completed in 2008 that police routinely pull a car patrolling the area if it’s needed in other parts of town.."

http://www.mortontimesnews.com/news/20170222/quiet-riverwest-is-gem-of-peoria-housing-authority

http://www.rrstar.com/article/20150328/NEWS/150329402

The transformation of Warner Homes has really been one of the true success stories as to how to get crime out of a bad neighborhood.
..but there's even more - including going back to the "old-school" discipline in schools and efforts to keep families intact.

[Chico]

Great news. Think I'll take a walk down there, like I did growing up. Somebody's got you fooled T.

[tornado]

You are free to believe as you wish ...but don't be so harsh on what appears to widely be agreed is a success
..so you think those articles are all lies? That one article is from the Rockford press that seems to envy the success Peoria has had with their public housing at Warner.
..I have been there and also been to Harrison Homes multiple times as we've had foster kids from down there for the past 8 years

Harrison Homes is a nightmare and I would not go there at nite, but River West is quite different - but you don't have to believe me - and I guess you can choose to believe all those crime statistics that come from the Peoria Police are false.

I was quite a skeptic when I heard & read that they were going to spend $40 mil but I think it has been a success at achieving their goal.

[Chico]

I don't have to read the PJS to know Peoria isn't a safe city in the area you are talking about. Growing up in the 50's we used to walk down Adams and back Jefferson to our homes in the near southside to watch the games at Woodruff Field. Never a problem. Could we do that now?

[egib52]

I don't have to read the PJS to know Peoria isn't a safe city in the area you are talking about. Growing up in the 50's we used to walk down Adams and back Jefferson to our homes in the near southside to watch the games at Woodruff Field. Never a problem. Could we do that now?

I don't think the crime in Peoria is near as bad as you are making it out to be. Now, I will concur it probably isn't as safe as it was in the 50s. However, society as a whole is much different than back then. So if that is your comparison point then you are correct. I agree with T that there have been strides made. However, this a much larger discussion that just who is at fault. Like I previously said, there is a lot of blame to go around. City Officials do have blame if they are ignoring obvious issues, and not trying to find solutions. Which may include for example funding for the police to allow for appropriate presence in the areas. In Peoria they have made strides like T discussed or the resident officer program.

[Chico]

There you go again. Blaming the city officials for not doing enough to stop crime. Put the blame where it belongs, on the ones committing the crimes.

[tornado]

we're getting OT ...but just being practical - if we only seek to blame the offenders, each and every one of them - and expect them all to just stop it because we say so..
then that's a pretty useless and ineffective plan...
They won't comply and it will go on and on and on for the next generation then the next...as we have seen..

I think there are other solutions that will work...there are large cities that have far less crime and violence.

Several of the most densely populated large cities in the world - cities of 5-8 million people crammed into an area HALF or 1/3 the size of Peoria County - also have some of the LOWEST crime rates. Hmmm..how can that be?
How can the most densely populated big city in the world with half their citizens under what we consider poverty level - also be the safest city in the world?

And there are several large cities in the US that have found ways to reduce violent crime. You may say it isn't the government's job to try to reduce the crime rates, it's the perpetrator's job to stop committing crimes... but most would disagree.