City to host neighborhood leadership training classes

bid1221. Sorry I insulted your neighborhood, one which I am well aware is beautiful....dammmm I am mourning what Little Rock has come to...and it isn't good. I DIDN'T BRING UP THAT BROADMOOR HAS A VANDALISM PROBLEM AT THE LAKE. Did you read the article? Do you think revitalizing it will chase the vandals off? Your post sounds like things are like they were back in the day. That is wonderful, if that is how it is for you. You are probably not aware of the fact that there are MULTIPLE police calls a day where thugs are firing guns in public and a host of other unacceptable behaviors like breaking and entering, etc.

In response to pat72209: I don't know where the heck you live but I've been a resident of the Broadmoor neighborhood for eleven years. What I find here is a solid, working-class neighborhood with people who look out for each other. A mixture of races, ethnicities and ages - professionals, tradespeople, retirees. Young families with kids. It's a neighborhood in the best sense of the word, not a gated compound with a pretentious zip code. I walk our street regularly and have NEVER had a problem. Thugs?? Hardly. I am literally 50 yards from our park complete with a lake (!), a pool, playground and a clubhouse I can make use of for $20. I am 12 minutes from my work downtown, 3 minutes from the University and don't have to spend 1 1/2 hours of every working day looking at someone's brake lights in front of me. And all of this for less than six-figures for a comfortable home. And I have much more respect for people like Liz McKezie, who are working to make things better, than I do for someone who rants about a percieved "problem" but offers no solution - other than maybe packing a pistol. That's just great. Finally, we would welcome your daughter to our neighborhod. We invite her to come have a look around. You, maybe not so much. -Brian-

ALRIGHT. My daughter just returned from Honduras as a missionary for 8 years. She kept choosing a neighborhood to settle in, and I kept telling her "NO...NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS 8 YEARS AGO." Then she would choose another one. I finally told her "THERE ISN'T A DECENT NEIGHBORHOOD LEFT IN LITTLE ROCK. Her response was "Someone else told me that." For the same reason Broadmore lake is vandalized, WE CAN'T EVEN WALK THE STREETS ANYWHERE FOR EXERCISE BECAUSE OF THE THUGS PROWLING THE TOWN. Cloverdale, Meadowclif, Merivale, Broadmore, Ellis Acres, Hillcrest, to name some of the old safe and enjoyable neighborhoods have gone to hellll. Even out Chenal, high dollar places are targets daily of thugs. What our town needs to do in these meetings is concealed carry classes and get a bunch of qualified citizens out there to protect their neighborhoods. The police can't be everywhere. IMO