Cops sit under the shape of the trees in the Ice Skating Rink. Mostly under cover cars hanging out pulling over more suspicious vehicles. I drive a Montero Sport and my wife a Subaru Outback. I always do the 25mph speed limit there – you have to with all the appartments and kids – its good to see the cops enforcing it there. However, eventhough I have never been pulled over in my wifes car, I was pulled over in my Montero. The only difference betweem the two vehicles aside from the body style is the fact that my windows are tinted – all the way around. Which in this neighborhood seems to be a bit of a sign of some wrong doing. I was pulled over. The officer approached the vehicle all carefullly (understandable since I have tinted windows). He gets to the car and I roll down my window, wife 6 month old baby and a back seat full of groceries. His posture immediately relaxes as he simply says "thank you for doing the speed limit, have a nice day".

I gotta say, to this day, I still am very uncomfortable with that situation – what would have it been like is I had no groceries, no son, no wife, and dark skin – but was the same person I am today? Carol Stream is small suburb of Chicago with its own suburban-ghetto – watch yourself if you’re passing through.