Saturday, June 16, 2007

Clearing the Corners

  • Chicago Police officers will start "cleaning the corners" of kids violating curfew to curb the annual surge in summer violence, Mayor Daley warned Thursday, as curfew citations skyrocketed.

    Already this year, the Chicago Police Department has issued 11,027 curfew citations, approaching the 12,965 citation figure for all of 2006.

    That will only be the beginning of the citation-and-fine blitzkrieg if Daley has his way.

    Unless they're going to or from work or are accompanied by an adult, kids under 17 are not allowed on the streets after 10:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

    "I want parents all over to know where their kids are . . . at all times. It isn't up to the Chicago Police at 11 p.m. to walk around and look for your kids. . . . It's up to you to take responsibility," Daley told a news conference at Avalon Park, 1215 E. 83rd St., called to announce an array of safe summer programs for kids.

    "Police are gonna enforce the curfew. ... Police are gonna start cleaning the corners. Don't complain to them because, if there's a drive-by shooting, you'll complain afterwards."

Thank goodness the gloves are finally off. We were wondering when the political administration was going to finally see the error of their ways and reject the "warn and fuzzy" approach to police work. "Clearing the corners" sounds like a great slogan, and we're going to enforce it with a blizzard of paper. Call us crazy, but we just don't see this one working out real well. In fact, we see just one more pointless mission to be foisted off on the Tact, Gang and TRU teams in the DOC while everything else circles the drain. Anyone else?

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

great idea not! hmm? We try to clear the corners then the parents get mad and call daley err ops daley make a beef then daley gets a number on us then we are suspended because we were mean and then?

6/16/2007 12:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OFF TOPIC: I was at the scene on 82nd and Francisco where the guy killed his ex and shot her son. SWAT arrrived, did a good job, shot tear gas in the house but the guy was gone. But these Gang Intelligence guys are out of control, bosses and POs. Since when does a domestic related murder with a 57 year old known offender fall under the Gang Intelligence Unit's jurisdiction? They were running around like this was the Kennedy assasination. There must have been at least 12-15 of them there. Nice work guys. But next time could you go arrest the 17-25 year old armed gangbangers who are terrorizing this city. And one more thing, lose the attitudes. Us blue shirts do more police work on a daily basis that you paper jumpers.

6/16/2007 01:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great, we already have to down one or two cars for a curfew mission while in a backlog and now they want more??

6/16/2007 02:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

now if i clear the corner and get a CR will i be on the watch list and denied all the good stuff or is this like SOS where all CR's are handled-NOT!
i remember when someone at HQ got the smart idea to require ANOV of parents with the curfew slip. curfews went to zero and the order was resinded within two days.
THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THOSE IN CHARGE NOT THINKING THROUGH THEIR POLICIES!

6/16/2007 02:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

let me see now, kid on corner, cop sees him or her, puts in car, now does he drive to mammas house, auntie, cousin, scince they really dont have a real residence. unable to locate responsible adult to the station they go.. car down several hours backlog... i can see it work in 016 or 008.

6/16/2007 04:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Let me see now, kid on corner, cop sees him or her, puts in car, now does he drive to mammas house, auntie, cousin, scince they really dont have a real residence. unable to locate responsible adult to the station they go.. car down several hours backlog... i can see it work in 016 or 008.

6/16/2007 04:15:00 AM"

Stick him or her behind the Desk, Hand the Desk Sgt.the curfew slip, go back on the street.

6/16/2007 07:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's all BS. So what if the parents are fined. They won't pay it anyway. What are they gonna do, suspend mama's license? She don't have one anyway. And where is Daddy? (or better yet, who is daddy?) Won't work in the ghetto where the gun problems are. Best thing would be to legalize guns, and if the little f#*$(#rs come at you with one, you shoot them.

6/16/2007 08:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And these little darlings of the street are going to pay for the citations???Oh wait,I the tax payer will somehow,silly me.

6/16/2007 09:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

fuck a curfew...in our dist our sgt. wont let us take em home if they dont live in the dist. now what???

6/16/2007 09:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

....citation-and-fine blitzkrieg if Daley has his way.

Yeah ok, I still haven't written a parker since the squad cars were towed, now you want to send me on a citation "blitzkrieg?" Go fuck yourself.

6/16/2007 10:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
OFF TOPIC: I was at the scene on 82nd and Francisco where the guy killed his ex and shot her son. SWAT arrrived, did a good job, shot tear gas in the house but the guy was gone. But these Gang Intelligence guys are out of control, bosses and POs. Since when does a domestic related murder with a 57 year old known offender fall under the Gang Intelligence Unit's jurisdiction? They were running around like this was the Kennedy assasination. There must have been at least 12-15 of them there. Nice work guys. But next time could you go arrest the 17-25 year old armed gangbangers who are terrorizing this city. And one more thing, lose the attitudes. Us blue shirts do more police work on a daily basis that you paper jumpers.

6/16/2007 01:09:00 AM

another wasted (CLOUT) unit! How about you get the gang banging punks off the street! What intelligence how many beers can you drink? Let me use my free city car to drive my friends around I have clout you know!

6/16/2007 10:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

yea thats what i wanna do fill out that new curfew form that will take 30 minutes to complete then itll take half the nite to find a 'responsible' adult to sign for them. here's an idea.......just have your tact/gang/sat teams/ tru do the curfews--they're all still dumb emough to bring in the bs event numbers and arrests for the dept. no thanx daley-im not going out of my way to get a cr # under your proposed policy

6/16/2007 10:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Screw clearing the corners! It would be way more effective to clear the rats out of city hall.

6/16/2007 10:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Gang Int. has been out of control for awhile. They think they are the detectives assigned to the case. They do more to fuck up a case then they do to actually assist with the case. When they do get information they don't tell the dic's assigned but they drop paper on it and then the area finds out afterwards. That whole unit should be disbanded. They think they are better than everyone else. Just another specialized unit that Phat Phil created for his Kid and his friends.

6/16/2007 11:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Saw the transfer order yesterday. Get ready to "clear the corners" Marty! Congratulations on SOS! You will be missed by the working police in 009.

6/16/2007 11:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

OFF TOPIC: I was at the scene on 82nd and Francisco where the guy killed his ex and shot her son. SWAT arrrived, did a good job, shot tear gas in the house but the guy was gone. But these Gang Intelligence guys are out of control, bosses and POs. Since when does a domestic related murder with a 57 year old known offender fall under the Gang Intelligence Unit's jurisdiction? They were running around like this was the Kennedy assasination. There must have been at least 12-15 of them there. Nice work guys. But next time could you go arrest the 17-25 year old armed gangbangers who are terrorizing this city. And one more thing, lose the attitudes. Us blue shirts do more police work on a daily basis that you paper jumpers.

6/16/2007 01:09:00 AM
I do not have an attitude and I am not a paper jumper. I am sorry if you are unhappy with some guys but do not lump us all in the same category. I have over sixteen years on the job and spent the first ten of them in Englewood, I work my fucking ass off everyday, and I may never get promoted but I think I have earned my spot. By the way the leaders of most of thee gangs are way past 25 and if I see a crime in progress or I am close to an in progress call I am riding on it, be the police and do not worry about anyone else.

6/16/2007 12:57:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

heres a plan...lower the curfew to 900 weekdays and 1000 weekends. Any kid out, parent gets anov. Three anovs, and you get kicked out of CHA, disqualified from LINK, booted from HUD etc.

6/16/2007 01:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off topic:

This weeks issue of Inside Lincoln Park neighborhood newspaper has a front page story on the officers awarded the Distinguished Service Awards by the FOP. These were the officers involved in the Chitown Tap incident in March, where the off-duty officer was severely injured.

Nice work to all those involved and it shows some needed good publicity for the Department and its members.

6/16/2007 01:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sweeping the corners of kids. With what manpower, our department has none. Hitting the parents with a fine up to $500 for a violation. Come one, do you honestly think the parents in the hood are going to pay. Nope!!!

Thanks to the latest sos scandel, new G.O.'s & S.O.'s keep flowing out from headquarters. First consent to search, then search warrants and now money seizures. It's obvious they don't put any trust in an officer and they are definately making it harder and harder to do polick work and also generating more paperwork and wasting more of an officers time for nothing.

6/16/2007 01:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

re: 1:09am. absolutely right. Fatso Cline has produced so many non-uniform run around like kooks units, while stripping the patrol division, that we now have big time over-kill when this stuff happens. And it still happens over and over, despite all these whiz-kid units. Too many Chiefs and not enough indians. Hopefully the next Supt. will get the backbone of this dept. back into uniforms and back on patrol where they belong. Too many of these characters with too little time on the job running around without enough close supervision, in civilian clothes. A recipe for disaster. Chain of Command Structue at scene when this stuff occurs is abysmal.

6/16/2007 01:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

isn't keeping the street-corners clear of cerfews the job of the kids parents? Oh, I forget, they just sit around and let PO-PO worry about their kids, like the lazy Fucks they are.

6/16/2007 01:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I want parents all over to know where their kids are . . . at all times.
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I think it's more about knowing were the PARENTS are! If Stella is Out Getting Her Goove Back, then she really don't care will little Willy be at.

6/16/2007 02:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey meat head that was at 82nd and Francisco, its was a Gang Team that lead to the bad guys arrest! As far as jurisdiction last time I checked my star it said Chicago Police! Quite your whinning and do your job and let us do ours!

6/16/2007 02:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tried to clear the corners last night kids wanted to stay so i went for another slurpee who gives a shit? It is about our survival! If it is not a call I could careless!

6/16/2007 03:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To the person who thinks the cerfew blitz would work in 8, think again . the 8th District constantly leads the city in calls for service and is a constant Backlog. I am not assigned to 8, but I live in 8, the only thing that woiuld work in 8 is a seccond district within its boundries. East of Kostner you might as well be in Englewood.

6/16/2007 03:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm on midnights in 018. The last thing I'll ever do is write a curfew to make gourgass look good. F*** him. Nothing. Nothing. And more Nothing.

6/16/2007 04:00:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Im a little sick and tired of all the "to far removed " exempt members of this department making decisions that affect us front line troops. I would like to see one of theses pencil pushers " I mean blackberry button pushers" come on down and ride around in a beat car for a full tour of duty. Come take a look at how your fucked up plans of operation look from ground level. Or perhaps the thought of learning the truth is just to overwhelming. Face the reality of the situation, just let the police do thier jobs, without the shackles, and results will follow. Also GO FUCK YOURSELVES

6/16/2007 04:31:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not Me,,,SO THEY CAN Take you to court

6/16/2007 05:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't want the police officers in my neighborhood tied down babysitting curfews, that's their parents job. Just lock them up for loitering if that's the case, and let my neighborhood cops stay around my neighborhood protecting me and my family, not baby-sitting a buch of roofusses. Even if their parents get a citation or something that says they have to pay a fine, they never will, and the taxpayer [me] will end up paying, as usual, in true old , tired, Democrat ideas mentality.

6/16/2007 07:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We need the troops back in the Districts working beat cars, and on our front lines. The Dept; thru great technology, has all the resources to get gang, narcotics, etc; intel. out to the beat units in a heartbeat if it wants to, so how about lets start using it. Send updates to all beats effected and City-Wide, along with radio All-Calls. We now have unmarked Units from who knows where flying by beat cars, and beat cars have no idea of what's going on, or where. Time to end the paper car secretary with a gun beat cars, and quit giving all the rapid cars the dangerous shit. All our stars say Chicago Police, not Secretary, Chicago Police.

6/16/2007 07:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

this curfew idea might work in some parts of slow districts like 016, 019, 018, 001, 008, 022, but there is too much crime going on at that time of the night to be tying up cars with babysitting juvies. They should have Youth Officers round up these juvies, working on the street during curfew hours. This is Youth Divisions function isn't it? To deal with juvenile/youth related problems. I'd rather have my local beat cop drinking coffee a few blocks rom my house and monitoring the radio for emergencies, than to have them a mile away writing up lil pookie for curfew for the hundreth time.

6/16/2007 07:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"They should have Youth Officers round up these juvies, working on the street during curfew hours. This is Youth Divisions function isn't it? To deal with juvenile/youth related problems."

NO, but nice try nitwit.
But who will process your juvy criminal trespass arrest for the kid running across the neighbors lawn?

You 21st Century Centurions are the biggest crybay punks this Department has ever seen. Laughable@ best.

6/16/2007 09:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To: 6/16/2007 01:13:00 PM

WOW!! Great Idea!. you should run for mayor. i would vote for you.

6/16/2007 09:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

how about we clear the 7-11 so the coffee is fresh and the slurpees are cold and full! that is where I hang unless a 10-1 or back up otherwise I could give a fuck! the upper management don't care the mayor is a thief! just waiting 5 more years to max then bye to shitcago!

6/16/2007 11:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have always been proud to be the police but some of the things we say about each other absolutely disgusts me.
Jealousy, contempt, it is just horrible. Save your hate for the mother fuckers in the street, and your contempt for the politicians who refuse to let us do our jobs.

6/16/2007 11:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm a dick and I can tell you we've had the same thing happen in my Area with Gang Intelligence. They appear like a swarm of bees out of nowhere on these domestic murders. Man kills wife/girlfriend, Gangs is there. Son kills mom or dad, Gangs is there. Two drunken 40 something year old friends get in fight in front of 10 people and one stabs the other, Gangs is there. From what I've been told by Area One guys, the 82nd and Francisco murder was a no brainer. All the neighbors saw it and told the police who did it immediately. The step son told the police who did it. A leads message was sent out on the guys car. A state trooper in Indiana spotted the car and arrested the bad guy. I know some gang guys personally. They are good guys. But they are so concerned about activivty they inject themselves into cases we don't need help on. I'd be embarrassed to work in Gang Intelligence and jump on paper that has absolutely nothing to do with gangs. To any gang guys reading this, the dicks don't want you around on these murders. I'm not trying to be a jerk off, it's a fact. Help us with the dead Latin King that nobody knows nothing about.

6/17/2007 02:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Gang Intelligence equals merit clout baby training ground. Look at the goofs they have and the baggage. I hope the Peoples law Office subpeonas their paper on all these crimes so that the arrestees will have an out in court. Ask any violent crimes detective how much we hate these treacherous mutts, hopefullly the next sup will dumb Cronin and Roti.

6/17/2007 02:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"...They should have Youth Officers round up these juvies, working on the street during curfew hours. This is Youth Divisions function isn't it? To deal with juvenile/youth related problems.

6/16/2007 07:45:00 PM


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One, there is no more Youth Division. Two there are no more Youth Officers. Three, then you would be crying that no one is available to process the 5 year old for Domestic Battery that you brought in.

6/17/2007 06:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OFF TOPIC: I was at the scene on 82nd and Francisco where the guy killed his ex and shot her son. SWAT arrrived, did a good job, shot tear gas in the house but the guy was gone. But these Gang Intelligence guys are out of control, bosses and POs. Since when does a domestic related murder with a 57 year old known offender fall under the Gang Intelligence Unit's jurisdiction? They were running around like this was the Kennedy assasination. There must have been at least 12-15 of them there. Nice work guys. But next time could you go arrest the 17-25 year old armed gangbangers who are terrorizing this city. And one more thing, lose the attitudes. Us blue shirts do more police work on a daily basis that you paper jumpers.

6/16/2007 01:09:00 AM

THAT IS WHY WE HAVE THE GANGBANGERS ARE OUT OF CONTROL, THE ONLY THING THEY CAN SOLVE IS THE KNOWN OFFENDER, HE IS A REAL THREAT TO SOCIETY...

6/17/2007 08:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Let me see now, kid on corner, cop sees him or her, puts in car, now does he drive to mammas house, auntie, cousin, scince they really dont have a real residence. unable to locate responsible adult to the station they go.. car down several hours backlog... i can see it work in 016 or 008.

6/16/2007 04:15:00 AM"

Stick him or her behind the Desk, Hand the Desk Sgt.the curfew slip, go back on the street.

6/16/2007 07:33:00 AM

ARE YOU KIDDING ME, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SEEN THIS, DISRUPT THE DESK CREW..... NO FUCKING WAY..

6/17/2007 08:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Gang Intelligence equals merit clout baby training ground. Look at the goofs they have and the baggage. I hope the Peoples law Office subpeonas their paper on all these crimes so that the arrestees will have an out in court. Ask any violent crimes detective how much we hate these treacherous mutts, hopefullly the next sup will dumb Cronin and Roti.

6/17/2007 02:47:00 AM

great idea their clout will be "out baby" would be cool to see them all dumped total revamp from top down! NO! would never happen with jackson-father flakey calling the shots!

6/17/2007 12:11:00 PM  
Blogger CJN said...

Don't worry about Gang Intel. They were at PR Fest last night doing a great job of jumping out of covert vehicles to chase drinkers.

6/17/2007 12:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey meat head that was at 82nd and Francisco, its was a Gang Team that lead to the bad guys arrest! As far as jurisdiction last time I checked my star it said Chicago Police! Quite your whinning and do your job and let us do ours!

6/16/2007 02:24:00 PM

Oh right! coming from a little sissy boy cry baby, go suck on Fat Phil's ass along with Baby Phil.

6/17/2007 04:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

CJN said...
Don't worry about Gang Intel. They were at PR Fest last night doing a great job of jumping out of covert vehicles to chase drinkers.

6/17/2007 12:12:00 PM

And on overtime D-2A pay (Delicious Batman)!!

6/17/2007 10:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fuck gang intelligence and swat. Bunch of blowhards that couldnt find their asses with both hands.

6/17/2007 10:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

CJN said...
Don't worry about Gang Intel. They were at PR Fest last night doing a great job of jumping out of covert vehicles to chase drinkers.

6/17/2007 12:12:00 PM

And on overtime D-2A pay (Delicious Batman)!!

I'll agree they do jump out of those coverts, burning them quite alot, but the only ones getting d2a are the detectives assigned there, the pos get d1.....

6/17/2007 11:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh right! coming from a little sissy boy cry baby, go suck on Fat Phil's ass along with Baby Phil.

6/17/2007 04:27:00 PM

dam you need anger management! I want to suck ass he is leaving please tell me you big tough guy whos ass did you suck and give me pointers so I can be a rough tough guy like you! can you also use a 115 pound woman and throw her around so I can see how tough you are?

6/18/2007 07:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

while we are at it how about getting rid of all the health hazard illegal mexicans with the scummy dirty food carts?

6/18/2007 02:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How about this? We pick these lil' bastards up bring em to the station for curfew, they get one phone call, if noone comes within say 2 hours to pick them up, ship em off to audy and let momma, granmomma, auntie, cousin whoever to pick them up there. Get rid of the curfew slip, just add a curfew box to the contact cards. when you not only inconvenience the adults, but the kids too, then you might see some clear streets.

6/19/2007 02:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Tried to clear the corners last night kids wanted to stay so i went for another slurpee who gives a shit? It is about our survival! If it is not a call I could careless!
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TOO DAMN FUNNY!!! Well in my non-expert opinion you did the right thing! You secured the 7-11, replenished your fluids, thus saving taxpayers money by reducing the chances of you'falling out" and being on the medical for a period of time,and by maintaining 1 more intelligent officer on the streets! You also possibly saved the city MILLIONS in lawsuits for the misunderstood kids on the corner. Because if you had made them leave or GOD FORBID got out of the car Jesse, Flogger, Al Sharpton,Meeks and O.J. would have repelled from a helicopter that was supplied by Michael{mmmm boys} Jackson to help "save the young boys" from the bad poleeses.You saved the city money, by not waisting time and money on phone calls, gas driving them back to the station,O.T. The maint. crew thanks you because they didnt have to clean up after 6 honor role students who throw and spit now and later wrappers and sunflower husks on the floor. The most important thing is you went home safe and you get to go to work still because DON RITCHIE isnt trying to make an example of you by asking for your head on T.V.! SIR, i nominate you for an award, i dont know what kind. How about the D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. award!For doing the right thing and keeping a calm head in a crisis! The cerimony will be at the 7-11 of your choice! SLURPEES FOR EVERYONE!!!!!
I have another idea, why dont we make kids illegal? If you dont have a license to have one or he/she isnt registered, serial # defaced, they are sent to ERPS and then destroyed. Can anyone tell me why the liberals hate me so much when we have a discussion.

6/19/2007 01:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

6/19/2007 01:37:00 PM

License to have kids? Great idea no more breeding until license and if your illegal you go home with the kids and you go to stroger hospital you know the one built for strogers daddy that the toddler did not go to for his prostate surgey no he went to northwestern he told his wife "HONEY STROGER HOSPITAL IS ALL FUCKED UP THANKS TO ME SO LETS GO TO NORTHWESTEN I HAVE LOTS OF PEOPLE MONEY TO DEAL WITH SO IT IS ALL FREE" YIPPEE!

6/19/2007 10:15:00 PM  

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