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Police recover painting
resembling a Picasso
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turk-
ish police and media say police have
recovered an oil painting that looks
like a Picasso in a sting operation in
Istanbul.
The state-run Anadolu Agency
said Saturday that police posed as
buyers for the painting, detaining
two suspects who tried to sell it for
$8 million.
Anadolu said the painting, which
shows an abstract nude female fig-
ure brushing her hair, is an authen-
tic work by Pablo Picasso stolen
from a woman in New York. But a
statement from Istanbul police said
the painting hasn’t been authenti-
cated yet. The painting must still
be sent to Istanbul’s Mimar Sinan
University to be examined, Anadolu
reported.
TALKING POINTS
Sheriff ’s funeral
LIMA — Hundreds of family
members, friends and law enforce-
ment workes from all across Ohio
joined to say goodbye to Putnam
County Sheriff Michael Chandler
during services Saturday at First
Assembly of God Church.
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NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase
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Fugitive found in
trailer park tunnel
SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Authori-
ties arrested a fugitive convicted
on drug and theft charges after
finding him hiding this week in
what they called an “elaborate
tunnel system” dug underneath a
trailer home in Alaska.
The tunnels narrowed as officers
walked further in, forcing them to
trudge through on their knees and
then on their stomachs. Police in
the city of Sitka say they eventu-
ally spotted Jeremy Beebe’s foot
sticking out of another hidden
entrance, catching him after an
officer pulled back the skirting
around the trailer.
Police Lt. Lance Ewers said
Beebe, 42, had failed to report to
the police department on Jan. 12
after he was sentenced to nearly
two years in prison, the Sitka
Sentinel reported (http://bit.
ly/1TqXO0W).

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LIMA in black and white

Segregation: How Lima, Allen County rate

By Amy Eddings
aeddings@civitasmedia.com
LIMA —John Logan takes
a pragmatist’s view in study-
ing the black/white divide in
America’s communities.
“Every place is a little bit
terrible from an African-Amer-
ican’s point of view,” he said.
“Lima’s not special.”
The Brown University soci-
ologist directs the US2010
Project, a research initiative
that uses U.S. Census data to
track recent social and eco-
nomic trends in our cities and
suburbs. At The Lima News’
request, he used the project’s
online database to see whether
Lima is, as 24/7 Wall St. found,
one of the 10 worst cities for
black Americans.
Allen County, it turns out
— especially the city of Lima
— was more racially integrated
than many of the other com-
munities on the 24/7 Wall St.
list.
The study by Brown Uni-
versity, located in Providence,
Rhode Island, uses an Index of
Dissimilarity to measure segre-
gation. It captures the degree
to which two groups live in dif-
ferent census tracts. A number
of 60 or higher is considered
very high.
Milwaukee, which tops the
24/7 Wall St. list of Worst Cit-
ies for Black Americans, along
with Detroit had an index
value of 79.6. Not much had
changed since 1980, when the
number was 83.9. Peoria, Illi-
nois, No. 6 on the 24.7 Wall St.
list, was at 69.
Lima, though, showed more
moderate segregation that
has eased over those same 25
years.
The US2010 Project’s
analysis found Allen County’s
dissimilarity index was 51.6,
down from 63.4 in 1980. For
the city of Lima itself, it was
at very low 28.5 in 2004-2006,
down from 54.1 in 1980, mean-
ing that the city’s residential
neighborhoods have become
pretty integrated.
“It’s probably a sign that
racial disparities of all kinds
are lessening in Lima,” he
wrote in an e-mail, “improving
opportunities for black families
and children. In the long run
that is healthy for the whole
community.”
It’s an advantage that Lima
has over other Midwest cities.
However, Logan said, the same
doesn’t hold true for the rest of
Allen County.
“This value of 51.6 (in Allen
County) is below the national
average of 58 or 59, but it’s still
high,” he said. “It means blacks
are living in neighborhoods
that are twice as black as the
region is.”
Those neighborhoods, he
said, are likely to be more dis-
advantaged than white neigh-
borhoods. In a 2014 study,
Logan found that even when
blacks move to the suburbs,
where schools, parks and other
public services are often better,
racial divisions and disadvan-
tages follow.
He pulled up Census data
from 2004-2009 show that the
average black family in Allen
County lived in a neighbor-
hood with a 66 percent higher
“Every place is a little bit
terrible from an African-
American’s point of view.
Lima’s not special.”
— John Logan
share of poor people as com-
pared to the average white
family’s neighborhood.
This persistent black/white
divide holds true even for afflu-
ent blacks.
In Allen County, black fami-
lies earning $75,000 or more
lived in communities where
20.4 percent of their neighbors
were poor. White families earn-
ing that same amount had a
“poverty exposure” of just 10.9
percent.
Even low-income whites
had it better. Those earning
$40,000 or less had a poverty
exposure of 16.2 percent.
This means the average low-
income white family was living
in a better community, with
less poverty and all the prob-
lems that poverty brings, than
affluent black families.
“Why do (affluent black fam-
ilies in Allen County) live in
neighborhoods with so many
poor people?” Logan mused.
“It’s the most surprising piece.
It’s not people’s income. Race
is having an effect in where
people live.”
He belives this is due to an
unseen, segregationist hand in
the housing market. It’s against
the law for real estate agents
to steer people to homes based
on race. It is also illegal for
banks to make race-based lend-
ing decisions, but Logan said
housing segregation is more
subtle now than in the 1960s
and 1970s. It’s an unwelcoming
stare during an open house or
a cold shoulder at a neighbor-
hood grocery store or it’s hav-
ing your child be the only black
child in an elementary school.
“It’s partly related to the his-
tory of how places (like Lima)
were settled,” said Logan, “and
it’s clearly still having an effect
today.”
Reach Amy Eddings at 567-242-0379 or
Twitter, @lima_eddings.

Gap
From page 1A
publication 24/7 Wall
St. released a list of the
10 worst cities for black
Americans. It ranked
Lima as the seventh-
worst city in the entire
nation, based on eight
measures, with most of
the top 10 being other
Midwestern cities.
The Lima News begins
an eight-day series today,
looking at the condi-
tions in Lima and seeing
where statistics and resi-
dents’ stories overlapped.

Reviewing the stats

The numbers in the
24/7 Wall St. report can
be misleading from the
beginning, based on its
very definition of what
is “Lima.” The study
used the Lima metro-
politan statistical area,
as defined by the U.S.
Census. That means its
numbers, based heavily
on the 2014 American
Community Survey from Richard Parrish | The Lima News
the Census, included all “Even if the whole study could be unfounded, the reality is that the perception is there that blacks don’t have the opportunities,” the Rev. Lamont Monford, pastor at
of Allen County, not just Philippian Missionary Baptist Church, said about a study that listed Lima among the 10 worst cities for black Americans. Above, Monford addresses concerns in December
the city limits of Lima. 2014 on tensions between minorities and law enforcement in the Lima community.
That distinction
includes a number of underreported the unem- 616 contracted staff they don’t feel they could
villages and townships ployment rate difference “If you have a group of people members, an estimated do their job efficiently,”
where fewer minorities between the demo- that feel like they don’t have 50, or 8 percent, are Parks said. “They would
live. The report labeled graphics, saying 22.9 opportunities, they will live like minorities. Only 26 are feel like they have to fol-
Lima as having 12.2 percent of blacks were black teachers, admin- low in the old boy’s net-
percent black popula- unemployed. In 2014 in they have no opportunities.” istrators or part of the work and they don’t want
tion, when that’s Allen Lima, about 16 percent — Sharetta Smith CTAG program. to do that.”
County’s percentage. In of whites were without Perry and Ohio Northern graduate and “It may be discourag- It’s not for lack of try-
the city of Lima itself, jobs, compared to 28 magistrate in Chattanooga, Tennessee ing to people who look ing.
26.4 percent of residents percent of blacks, accord- at someone and can’t see The LPD created sev-
were black, according to ing to 2014 U.S. Census themselves doing what eral study sessions for
2014 U.S. Census. figures. Risner, now 39. “If you’re a concern, said Bryan they do because they the Civil Service tests
The most jarring sta- “Even if the whole not the right color … you Miller, director of the can’t relate as much,” to become an officer
tistic from 24/7 Wall St. study could be unfound- were frozen where you schools’ Closing the said Kaleb Russell, a but had little turnout.
was on the black median ed, the reality is that the were at.” Achievement Gap pro- senior at Lima Senior Now, it’s working with
household income as perception is there that Joe Patton, the gram. who had fewer than five the Lima schools to put
a percentage of white blacks don’t have the administrator at the While Miller admits black teachers in his 12 resource officers into
income. The report said opportunities,” said the OhioMeansJobs center dropout rates continue years in the district. “It’s schools to build a bet-
the typical black house- Rev. Lamont Monford, in Allen County, said to be a problem at Lima very important we have ter relationship. That
hold in Lima made just pastor at Philippian Mis- communication is a big- schools, he said the a diverse group of role includes the “Red to
36.5 percent of what a sionary Baptist Church. ger barrier than actual CTAG program has models to follow and peo- Blue” program, trying
typical white household “I think Lima is very racism. He said it’s an helped dozens of black, ple we can look up to.” to interest students in
earned annually, the unique, and we have to issue of people not hav- at-risk students obtain trading in their Spartans’
biggest difference any- think outside of the box.” ing the right skills for the their diplomas. He said Minorities in uniform red for a policeman’s blue
where in the country. Lima Mayor David right jobs. He said many that when the program There’s a similar dis- uniform.
It placed the median Berger declined to be employers are actively started, only 47 to 48 parity on Lima’s police For people like Smith,
annual income for whites interviewed for this reaching out to the black percent of black males and fire departments. real opportunities could
at $49,125, more than series. community. were graduating. Since The Lima Police Depart- revive the American
$31,000 greater than the “We have availability implementing CTAG, ment has one black offi- dream for the Lima’s
black median income of Economic opportunity to place people in all Miller said that number cer out of 84 officers on black residents.
$17,908. There are concerns different types of jobs,” has averaged out to 78 staff. “We have young people
Those numbers don’t that black employees he said. “A lot of times percent in the eight years That leads to distrust who are vibrant, and they
jive with the 2014 Ameri- don’t get the same people don’t understand since the program took of the police and courts have fresh, innovative
can Community Survey opportunities as their what’s available.” effect. system, said Kim Parks, a ideas,” she said. “When
for Lima, though. That white counterparts. Beyond the district’s black woman and owner they start contributing
showed the median Bryan Risner, who previ- Educational concerns graduation rates, stu- of a local day-care center. to a community, it’s awe-
household income for a ously worked at a Lima Lima’s black students dents don’t see them- The city’s pinpoint polic- some.”
white family in Lima was location of a cell phone do have trouble earning selves reflected in the ing, which tries to target
$19,586, while the black company, said he hit a the proper education to educational workforce. high-crime areas, only Lima News reporters John
Bush, Craig Kelly, Danae King,
average was 21.3 percent glass ceiling after a few advance their lives. But Lima schools officials say adds to African-American Lance Mihm and Greg Sowinski
of that at $15,409. promotions. so do other students in they have trouble recruit- residents’ worries. contributed to this report. Reach
On the other hand, “I was never going the Lima schools’ dis- ing qualified minority “Nobody around here David Trinko at 567-242-0467 or on
trict, where poverty is teachers. Of the district’s Twitter @Lima_Trinko.
the 24/7 Wall St. report to go somewhere,” said wants to apply because