Billy clubs!- maybe so; tasers are too strong and guns seem wrong. I live off of Poplar Grove near Baker St and Friday afternoon as I was coming home from work I was somewhat pleased to see an officer on every other corner. The police were prepared, having an RV sized paddy wagon on the Poplar Grove/ Bloomingdale divide. But as I traveled home I had a fleeting feeling that there would be no officer on my "blue light special" corner. Of course I was right! My corner is like heaven for dealers and addicts, a garden variety of highs (and lows). Instead the cops were more or less crossing guards on the better corners of my community. Yes, they were prepared, prepared to waste my tax dollars on arresting petty crimes instead of going for the beefy offenders (like the ones on my corner running an open air drug market). I guess this tactic was more or less 'big brotherly'- just hands off. When the sun went down the crossing guards left with it and my unfriendly neighborhood scum came out. "Cleverly" (a term I use very loosely) they worked around those alleged cameras doing their community an unwanted service.