An aging Rolling Meadows apartment complex became a closed community of sorts this week when police blocked off every entrance but one, placing two officers there for eight hours a day and stopping all vehicle traffic coming in.
Police in the northwest suburb put barriers at 12 of the complex's 13 access points amid a sharp rise in major crime, and some of the 2,000 residents at 12 Oaks at Woodfield say they are happy to see the police presence. But the owner and other tenants say the barricades are an inconvenience and the checkpoint is borderline harassment.
"They're trying to enclose us," said resident Dorenzo Clay, 20. "We're like prisoners in our homes."
SOURCE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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