Shutting Down a Beach?
Memorial Day’s unseasonably hot weather turned dangerous early Monday evening, forcing the closure of North Avenue Beach and sending four beach-goers to hospitals, one a young man in critical condition.
[...] In Chicago, police closed North Avenue Beach about 6 p.m., shortly after ambulances were summoned there to treat eight people who fell sick on the crowded lakefront spot, many complaining of illness related to the heat, said Larry Langford, director of the Chicago Fire Department Media Affairs.
“They started falling down and were light headed,” he said.
Firefighters responded and treated four beach-goers at the scene before taking four others to area hospitals. One, an 18-year-old man, was “found unresponsive” and he was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition, Langford said.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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gang fights everywhere. thugs everywhere. oh yea we closed it cause it was hot. at the beach.
Think about this. There were probably 100,000 people in the 018th district on monday and there were probably 50 or 60 cops on the street. The potential for disaster is staggering.
RETIRED FROM SUMMER MOBILE. WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?? CAN I GUESS?
It's those damn roving bands of pillaging and plundering Amish youth again.
...and we're suppose to buy this media b.s. like it's all due to the heat -- the first 90 degree day -- like we never had it this hot before!! uh-ah. not buying it.
What's the rest of the story?
bloody ridiculous , CHICAGO is no place to raisea family no more... Must hang wit da hillbillies, its got to be better than south central.
The beach was jammed packed. It's 95 degrees. People at the beach smoking weed, drinking , throwing up in the sand, passing out, fighting and stealing. About 10 cops assigned and thousands of people. Reports of 3,000 more teens headed to North Ave Beach.
The beach was closed and a good thing it was. It could have gotten really bad....
Up north of 018, a certain capt. ordered his gang teams OFF the lake front! Nice work.
Hey all u liberal yuppies who think that the police harass poor gangbangers for no reason guess what ? they re in ur hood now. sit back and enjoy the show .
So when are they gonna open up the Lakefront special enjoyment?
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
People can't take the heat???
That sounded lame on TV (WGN). It wasn't THAT hot.
I watched and thought - Hmmmmm,, did the "wildings" move from Michigan Ave. to North Street beach for the day?
And the "yute" who was unresponsive, was that due to the heat or to too much alcohol consumption (plus the heat)?
I watched and thought - Well, this is the general "wake-up call to everyone (both police and non-police). Watch your back.
Oh boy, I bet the comments on Detective Shaved Longcock's site are gonna off da hook!
Whether you likes TRU and MSF or not, at least they were warm bodies to send when things started turning crazy. This was just a bunch of gangbangers who took over the beaches, groping bikini clad suburban girls, smoking blunts and acting like savages. They ended up calling the Area 3 task force to help them close the beach. Who is the Area 3 task force you ask? Well let me tell you. It's the Lt, sgts and PO's that were just dumped from MSF and TRU.
Great planning Gerry. Oh yea, the southside was shooting it up big time tonight too. Many many many calls of "give me more cars squad, there are 100, 200, 300 people out here throwing bottles. In one district the sgt had to get on the radio and say "squad, if there are no cars to respond pull all of my cars back and we are going to wait until you have more police to respond" I applaud that sgt.
The trash on the beach looked like the National Mall after Obama's inauguration, go figure !!!
018 blew up in a big way again, large mobs coming from the lake started doing what they do best- mayhem! various robberies and roving packs of savages rampaging throughout the area, r&r mcdonalds, portillos, all felt the wrath.. it's gonna be a long summer in 018... 001 was having problems as well...
Sounds like the Superintendent may need to create a unit that he can call and deploy in a moments notice.
It wasn't the heat that got the beach closed. Come on, it was only in the 80's, not exactly unusual weather in Chicago. Not to mention the fact that people go to the beach to cool down. The reason the beaches were closed was because of the out of control honor students/flash mobs. There were over 2,000 teenagers (being PC) who flocked to the beaches and proceeded to fight, attack others, rob, and destroy anything they could get their hands on. After the beaches were closed, these same "youths" went on to terrorize Michigan Ave., Millennium Park, and Navy Pier. All night long it was battery in progress, robbery in progress, assault in progress, etc. But of course we won't hear about any of that. I encourage all civilians to video record all instances that they see and post it on the internet. The stores and politicians aren't going to allow it to get out in the media. After all, we have to keep those tourists coming. They have no idea what they are walking into. Manpower of course was an issue. One 99 unit sent to stop hundreds of vehicles and foot traffic from entering the beach area. 99 units being sent alone to disperse mobs of 80-100 people on Michigan. Meanwhile, unrelated calls just kept stacking up putting 018 into a backlog. So there you go taxpayers, 500 officers "freed up" and not one of them was sent to your neighborhood.
How stupid do you have to be to succumb to the heat when you're 10ft away from the lake?
Are they gonna bring back the Lakefront special employment?
No TRU. No MSF. No Summer Mobile. No North Avenue Special Employment OT. And this is the first warm day? Great planning disbanding the units with no replacement plan.
Thank you to 001 guys and a HUGE THANK YOU to the mounted guys. The horses saved the day.
No one took a 'baff' before they came . .
the smell is what made 'em sick.
Looks like rahmbo is getting a small taste 9Wait until that shit fest starts) of his voting block! Make do with less gmac this is chicago and this is the start of the season "when animals attack!" We had visitors from all over, the "bike the drive people," the suburbs and out of state what a way to show the tourists who spend money what an out of control shithole this city is! Hey potato head quinn how about reducing the link card? How about no freebies for the illegal jags that are flooding in? Naw! It is the dummycrat way take from the working people and give to the scumbags!
I remember when going to the "lake"
was safe and fun and you could hang out there at almost any hour of the day with no problems.
Who fucked that up?
So a handful of assholes get heat exhaustion and everyone else that's responsible and drinks enough water has to go home? Sounds like smoke and mirrors to me.
i was at the lake front today and here is what I saw; A completely out of controll group of "teens" at the Oak St. Beach and at the Olive Park Beach. They were knocking people from their bikes at the Oak St. beach and then laughing and high-fiving each other. The nice northsiders were completly taken aback when the "teens" would push them from their bikes.
There were two CPD officers in the crowd, a tall african-american officer and a shorter white woman. She was yelling at the "teens" and telling them to leave the bike path. I think that she was as scared as I was. I saw the other officer trying to get a man from the crowd who was being beaten. He was trying to help the guy.
I think that the CPD was afraid that they were losing controll of the situation and so they closed the beaches.
I am not a policeman, but I very much support the police. I think that the new mayor and new CPD Chief should take off the gloves, and adopt a Guialini style policing model. A model where all offences are treated seriously, and everyone respects the law and the police. I do not know if you have the manpower, or more importantly the backing to adopt this model.
I was sickened by what I saw this afternoon, and unfortunatly some event like this will soon be on YouTube. If some nice family from Omaha is filmed getting the crap beaten out of them at the beach it will have national repurcussions. I think that this sort of behavior has already affected parts of the city.
Summer isnt even here yet LOL!!!!
Compsat, answer get rid of commander of 018. See we fixed it.
The downtown beaches were total f-ing mayhem. Roving bands of "teens" (figure out from where!) were urinating and starting fights everywhere. Who knows how many Iphone thefts/robberies there were, as these were pushed down the dispatch queue.
"Ok, you just got robbed? And the offender ran? Ok, call 311 for a report." The teen thugs have discovered new hunting grounds and anyone that lets their kid go down there is an idiot. After the "teens" were done savagizing the beach, they headed to hunting ground number two.... Michigan Avenue!
Yeah baby! 1,000 new cops on the street? Rahm, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!!
I was on a friend's boat yesterday and had a great view of both North ave and Oak st beaches from the lake. Both beaches were packed beyond all belief. While boating not to far from the shore I had never seen so many shitbirds, shitheads, thugs, and hoodlums in my life in 001st and 018th dist sides of the lakefront. When going back to the harbor we were not to far from where North Ave beach extends to its farthest point on the lake. Like most times several people were waving at the boats. This time four punks threw the Latin King sign at the boat. I have never seen that happen before.
I said to my wife and friends on the boat that I'm glad I work in the hood. The supposed nice parts of the city had more shitheads walking around than lawndale ever does.
Supt McCarthy is going to have to redeploy resources to 001, 018, and 023. The lakefront is going to be up for grabs.
Everyone is saying the REAL story is that the mob of gang thugs were attacking the white people so the police shut down the beaches.
ABC7 Team Coverage
May 30, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A steamy day at a packed North Avenue Beach ended with several people needing emergency treatment after becoming sick from the extreme heat.
Chicago police then stepped in and ordered everyone to leave, and North Avenue Beach was closed about an hour early.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/05/31/fights_break_out_at_carson_beach/
Same thing in Boston.
Channel 7 interviewed a person who claimed things went up like a riot, but dismissed the interview and began talking about the heat.
My take on news reporting was several people under 21overcome by heat as the cameras panned the now empty beach showing beer bottles and plastic cups. One black girl said she didn't know what happened but heard a large noise like a fight...blah blah blah. Probably drunk teens, fighting, maybe even those bad wilding kids in the area.
http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/14746715/myrtle-beach-police-see-busy-weekend-for-crime
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2011/05/gay-activist-herb-sosa-south-beach-a-war-zone-demands-end-to-urban-weekend-with-video.html
Looks like the savages were busy in Boston, Miami, Chicago and Myrtle Beach.
The HEAT???
A likely excuse. They shut down North Avenue Beach before dusk because of the invasion of thousands of terrorizing CANADIANS wreaking havoc.
Time for a reality check, "politically correct" local media.
I miss sumer mobile but never work under new bosses on the lake.
I was working last night in Central Control Group 1/18 and can say that we have a crisis brewing. "Wilding" crews estimated at about 2000 people per CTA whiteshirts. Not sunbathers and beach volleyballers but rather hundreds of groups of south and west side youth. Hats cocked, shirts off, and very few PoPo. Mr McCarthy someday better bring back gang loitering arrests or we finna have the worst summer ever downtown. "Houston we have a problem."
Here... just read todays Drudge report and see that there were many incidents of honor roll students and their parents on wildings this weekend across the US.... Boston, Charlotte, Miami ( two officers hurt there) So Chicago is not alone in this.
http://www.drudgereport.com/
SIX MURDERS - TWENTY-ONE SHOT
This is simply NOT ACCEPTABLE! Guns HAVE TO OUTLAWED... what? ... Ohhh ... never mind ...
Holiday, Heat Bring Out Violence
A man who was killed trying to protect his girlfriend and a 16-year-old girl were among six people killed and 21 others wounded in separate shootings over the Memorial Day holiday and into the night, officials said...
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The first slaying happened about 7:49 p.m. on the 7600 block of South Eberhart Avenue in the city's Chatham neighborhood , police said.
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The second slaying happened on the 6500 block of South Lowe Avenue. Preliminary reports said a 27-year-old man suffered a wound to his abdomen and was taken to Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center where he died, police said.
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Less than 10 minutes later, another person was killed and two others shot on the ... 7900 block of South Artesian Avenue.
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The next slaying happened about 1:34 a.m. on the 300 block of East 60th Street in the Washington Park neighborhood. Preliminary reports said a man, described as in his 20s, was shot multiple times in a drive-by.
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A 16-year-old girl was shot dead early this morning on the South Side on the 1300 block of 52nd Street ... a 26-year-old man and the girl were driving when someone pulled along side of them and fired shots into the car.
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The latest slaying happened about 4:21 a.m. on the 1300 block of West 87th Street outside of the Golden Girl's Lounge ... a 44-year-old man was standing outside when someone approached a shot him in the chest.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/news/
local/chibrknews-man-slain-protecting-girlfriend-among-chicago-shootings-20110530,0,5130033.story
It was BAD!!!! I was of duty and on Lake Shore Drive and I could not believe what I saw. Those flash mobs that have been covered here, where all over Oak St, North Ave, and climbing over the wall to cross in the middle of LSD. Completely brazen and looking for someone to challenge them so they can let there animal instincts explode. I was with my children and thank God I always carry my weapon because I honestly thought I was gong to need it. From what I here Michigan Avenue was even worse.
GARY COP TICKET QUOTA: 1-Plus An Hour
Traffic cops in Gary are under orders to issue tickets more than once an hour.
... Commander Timothy Tatum says he issued the order requiring at least 10 citations a day from each officer assigned to the traffic division to increase productivity. He says the order will stand as long as he's commander.
Defense attorney Robert Harper says quotas help lawyers challenge tickets, because officers may write tickets just to keep their job.
30+ people shot over the weekend. Ahhhh, summer.
We would have been there(TRU) but they sent us back to the districts. Good luck with North Ave beach without us. 88 more days to go.
Heat, my ass. Every reporter had gang members flashing signs behind them!
---not a cop
The police began losing control of the city when Jane Byrne was voted out of office. Harold appointed Fred Rice, who really was not bad as the Supt. However there was always a feeling that if you got a real bad beef, one that ended up in Federal Court for instance, you had nobody watching your back. I know from my experience. When Daley took charge he completely emasculated what was left. It took years but he succeeded in ruining the finest police department in the country. A plague on his house.
Retired McCarthy Ranger.
I was on the beach yesterday talking with some mounted guys who said there were four officers assigned to the beach besides mounted, four!!! No bikes, no specialized unit, nada. There were a million people out there and most of them were savages. Four!!!
The blame is not exactly with disbanding units that never used to be there in the past. It seems that people are forgetting that we have a city that created a hands-off department, where shitheads are not remotely concerned with police presence. We have a state that just abolished the death penalty, because it is compassionate to the worst criminals on earth. There are 4,000 less police in Chicago than when I was hired and we are forced to play with the hand we are dealt. Don't be too critical of things we as police can not control. Stand behind one another, and see it for what it is. Unfortunately, the city will realize you just can't turn the police "on and off" when you need it. Years of policy created by lawyers and (selective) oversight has weakened this department more in 15 years than the preceeding 100 years before it. Just do the best you can with what you have, and remember.. It's only a job
Sounds like the scene from "Jaws". Can't scare the public and tell them what's going on. Better a few more get eaten by the shark before we have to admit we cannot control things anymore.
Sounds like the Superintendent may need to create a unit that he can call and deploy in a moments notice.
5/31/2011 01:28:00 AM
ROTF LMAO
This morning 890 AM radio reported that about 100 gang types were causing trouble on the beaches. Then the city claimed they shut a beach down because it was too hot. Right. But 890 did have witnesses saying they saw the violence. First time I've heard the MSM report stuff like this. Daley must have really threatened the news people to keep them quiet.
Once again, those out of control Marist, Rice & Rita & Carmel kids f-ing up and acting like animals. Why don't those parents control the litlle bastard$?
before the problem can be properly handled, it must be recognized for what it is.
before it can be recognized for what it is, it must be allowed to become obvious beyond all ability to deny.
before it can become obvious beyond all ability to deny, blood must be shed, as blood is the only thing obviously beyond all ability to deny.
and not just a little bit of blood.
my advice: avoid being part of the obvious.
Yeah baby! 1,000 new cops on the street? Rahm, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!!
5/31/2011 06:55:00 AM
nix the rabbit.
an ice pick works wonders.
I remember when going to the "lake" was safe and fun and you could hang out there at almost any hour of the day with no problems.
Who fucked that up?
5/31/2011 05:46:00 AM
President Eisenhower and Henry Ford. Those damned expressways and horseless carriages gave the decent folks an opportunity to bolt from this shithole before it became one.
5/31/2011 06:11:00 AM said:
"I was sickened by what I saw this afternoon,"
your puking won't help solve this problem.
"...and unfortunatly some event like this will soon be on YouTube."
that would be a 'fortunate' occurrence, indeed.
unless you are one of the many that think that the three monkeys who 'see no evil', 'speak no evil' and 'hear no evil' have the perfect solution to living in an imperfect world.
just so you know, they get their blind, deaf and dumb asses kicked regularly.
"If some nice family from Omaha is filmed getting the crap beaten out of them at the beach it will have national repurcussions."
we can only hope, since the 'nice' families who aren't from 'Omaha' are getting the crap beaten out of them routinely, sans any repercussions.
"I think that this sort of behavior has already affected parts of the city."
duh, ya think?
How stupid do you have to be to succumb to the heat when you're 10ft away from the lake?
5/31/2011 01:40:00 AM
Uh, alcohol perhaps?
---not a cop
In Milwaukee, sheriffs "mistakenly" closed the beach due to "congestion".
http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-20110530-lakefront-memorial,0,7928811.story "They was jumping on cars and jumping around and throwing up gang signs."
Of course, it was just because there were too many pedestrians.
(OT) look at this the animals are running wild everywhere in this country!
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/05/31/fights_break_out_at_carson_beach/
http://drudgereport.com/
These gangbanging thugs are brining their ghetto mentality down to the lake front. They were walking around in packs of a 100 or more blocking the bike path intimidating all the good citizens trying to enjoy the nice day.
You may be asking yourself why didn't you do anything about it? Well there was probably a good 1000 gangbangers and there was a total of my partner and I for most of the night. It was ridiculously unsafe for us.
I can't understand how an area of the city that draws in to many tourists and surburbanites (aka money) would be so understaffed. You mean to tell me they could not have sent 50 from the tru/msf detail to 018?
Sounds like the Superintendent may need to create a unit that he can call and deploy in a moments notice.
5/31/2011 01:28:00 AM
time to bring back the grunt squad.
Oh I forgot the best part! When we finally convinced (notice I used convinced because we couldn't make them do anything with the manpower we have) them to leave the beach, inland 018 went up for grabs.
Just one call for example: 500 teens fighting infront of the water tower.
Another call: A group of teens walking down the street on top of cars.
I am not a policeman, but I very much support the police. I think that the new mayor and new CPD Chief should take off the gloves, and adopt a Guialini style policing model. A model where all offences are treated seriously, and everyone respects the law and the police. I do not know if you have the manpower, or more importantly the backing to adopt this model.
5/31/2011 06:11:00 AM
"Take off the gloves" you say? I think not. The people of the city of Chicago, the politicians, the lawyers (money grubbing scum) and the MB (code for make believe)Reverends, have OK'd the prosecution of police officers for that sort of behavior. Then they have allowed the animals to sue us to take everything from us and our families.
They batter us and shoot at us with impunity.
The politicians take tax payer money and give it to these same animals and say that it's cheaper to pay what they call a "nuisance suit" than to fight them. Now these mutts, that have never and will never work a day in their lives, that have never paid a dime in taxes, now know that all they have to do is call "Lovey and Lovey" and sue the city and the police officer and get $10,000 or so. That may not seem like a lot of money to you, but think about it, you don't pay for food, housing, medical, utilities and you sling dope on the corner and pull in $500.00 to $1,000.00 a day tax free and then screw the police officer and his family out of anything Lovey gets his hands on.
Sorry, I'm done playing.
You have the police dept. that the Liberal Democrats have demanded, enjoy it.
I can only say I was at the beach from Fullerton to North Ave from about 2PM to 430PM at the volleyball nets, Castaways, etc and ran into a few groups of po's one on bicycles. They were standing around doing their jobs and observing, but at no time saw any disturbances. Everything was calm and peaceful and people were enjoying themselves What happened after 430 I dont know, but 7p until that time there were NO problems, so I am surprised to har all the speculation that mobs and teens were fighting
new mayor , gov , cpd supt , cps pres and where is the change ?
private citizen daley has 2 cars , 5 body guards while other citizens have 1 man police cars for an entire neighborhood . Don't forget he makes $180,000 a year , 2 part time jobs , free health and lives in one of the safest areas in Chicago . Remember this next election , children are shot , wildings on Michigan ave , 1 man cars , city workers forced to take 24 unpaid days off and we have money for king daley .
Illegal food vendors everywhere and they pay no tax and no city license . Illegal immigrants will receive college scholarships , parents run unlicensed food push carts . 13 th and 21st districts still open , no lock ups and many do nothing officers working in the office , while other districts continue to send out 1 man cars .
what we need here is a good, precisely timed and targeted seiche.
any ideas, boat boys?
On a somewhat related topic. Great job TM and VR and the others I don't know on the bike team in 019 grabbing the bucket boys that snatched a couple of girls phones yesterday evening!
So the animals came out of the savannas of Englewood and Lawndale, to hunt at dusk in the prime grounds of prey awaiting at North Avenue beach? Sounds more realistic than they closed the beach because it was hot.
I feel sorry for the law abiding and righteous citizens who are living among these misfits.
This tid-bit just gleaned from H.Q Staff Meeting.
Public Transportation Section will become the Chicago Transit Police ala New York, a seperate entity.
Grant money from Uncle Obama.
Didn't someone write a while back about J-Fed interviewing with Claypool. HMMMM
Completely disband units rather than cut back, no
Teams to send at a moments notice. Didn't we learn the many other times we disbanded units?
Sos, etc, etc, etc
who cares,chicago is the new detroit! Lift residencey now. the pols are coming after our pensions, get something in return!
Check out Drudge Report's headlines: this happened across the country yesterday, but only Chicago media tried to cover it up.
Serious question that probably does not have an immediate answer: Are certain segments of society just becoming more emboldened and randomly doing the same thing in different cities, or is this just "social media" gone awry?
Interesting to see that in every case across the country, if race was described at all, the term "urban" was used.
Taste Of Chicago is going to be a bloodbath this year...
If your going to close a beach because of "Heat" Then what happens to all the advertising for "It's always cooler by the lake" and at 6pm? seriously, I may not be Tom Skiling but I believe the warmest hours would be around noon and 1pm not 6 when the sun has past the high rise buildings? KEEP PAYING DEM HIGH TAXES FOLKS
Rahm, your not fooling anybody, you fool!
003 was out of control...beaches were closed at 10pm...people were everywhere. Even with the officers that were tranferred in from the units, it still wasn't enough. Shots fired all over the district and officers were calling for additional cars for help as a previous poster said but none of the cars were available.
Yeah baby! 1,000 new cops on the street? Rahm, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!!
5/31/2011 06:55:00 AM
LOLOLOL!!!! You are stupid!!
Anybody hear the rumor that Tiny Dancer 9.5 is going to use a parliamentary maneuver to circumvent the contracts and put the CPD back on 6 and 2s and 56 day rotating watches due to manpower and equipment shortages.
This is taking on a life of its own.
Yeah, as soon as I heard the news reports about the "heat" I said to myself--Ha! I know what it really was.
But the secret is starting to get out. People are posting comments about the thugs on Chicago Breaking News. (not me, I won't register) The new administration is going to be forced to acknowledge and deal with it.
--Civilian
Was coming back up LSD after a weekend away, my friend and I could not believe what we were seeing on the Lake Shore path, watching these gangs of animals drinking, screaming, and making the beach completely unaccessible. "Endemic rascality" is what my dad calls that behavior. Guess I won't go to any beach south of Foster this summer.
The city and the so called cpd bosses always dropped the ball every summer. The park has a limited amount of parking spaces. Once the park is filled, make public announcements on the radio/phone or post electronic signs, on the arterial street leading into the park, warning motorist of full lots. Then close the park to vehicle traffic, have them walk in, that way there is not deniel of entrance to a public space or park. On oak st and north ave beaches, there are 2or3 ways in, have a half day post, a day and afternoon teams of po's, to check coolers for alcohol, they need a permit, without a permit, beer, etc. are not allowed on park district property. Give them a choice, they can enter the park/beach, but not with the alcoholic beverages. PUBLIC SAFETY, is what is of the utmost concern. Enforce, the existing park and traffic ordinances early, not at 6pm. Citizens will alert friends etc. of the rules being enforced. This is a good way for the citizens to be part of the solution, no need to lament the 90day disbandment of msf or tru. Be safe. God bless the CPD and CFD.
THIS CITY IS FUCKED! Cannot wait to go, but so long to go before I sleep.
It all starts with the parents, seeing as how most of these "honor roll" students have parents that are to busy getting high or drunk to teach them common decency. Most of these ghetto parents do not care about these kids enough to ask where they are and who they are with. The state needs to change the parental liability laws and rules governing welfare services.
If your underage child is arrested for committing a crime, a parent should be questioned as to what the parent was doing when their child committed the crime. If the parents response in anyway indicates negligence, ignorance, or just plain not caring about the child’s actions, then all welfare, section 8,and all other government aid should be reviewed and revoked if these parents are unable to control their children. Since most of these children end up in the juvenile detention center anyway; the state should take away any other children that are in a household where the parents can not keep control. Nothing will scare these ghetto parents more then loosing their free money and free housing.
For those of you who are reading this and feel that what I wrote is too aggressive and/or unfair to the juvenile offenders family. Remember that YOUR hard earned tax dollars are used to house and feed the same animals that will attack you just for the fun of it.
I love it-----LET IT BURN
It really took three "staff reporters" along with one "contributing" to write that drivel?
Hey, Tribune 'staff reporters': Tribune Tower is located on North Michigan. Did you ever think to look out the window while you were writing that bilge and wonder what was going on with the roving bands out there?
You are eventually going to be all out of jobs when the newspapers fold (Eric Zorn: this means you), but your personal safety is at stake with these mobs. Get a little courage, would you?
could this have anything regarding the CHANGE we were promised nearly three years ago? a hometown president and mr. obama has done nothing to help put more police on the street. but he will soon be here closing down streets at rush hour asking for your vote!
Even in the Sun-Times story, it trickles out...
"Several beach-goers said they saw a few fights and lots of people were drinking more than water and Coke to cool off.
"A bartender at Castaways, a bar and grill on North Avenue Beach, said she’d never seen the beach or the restaurant as busy as they were on Monday. She had to restock the bar six times; on her busiest day last year, she had to do it twice.
"Last year, the problems at start of the beach season involved warring gangs..."
Finish that sentence for yourself. "...and this year, things were so bad that the entire beach actually had to be closed down."
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Sounds like the Superintendent may need to create a unit that he can call and deploy in a moments notice.
5/31/2011 01:28:00 AM
It's called the National Guard.
My take on news reporting was several people under 21overcome by heat as the cameras panned the now empty beach showing beer bottles and plastic cups. One black girl said she didn't know what happened but heard a large noise like a fight...blah blah blah. Probably drunk teens, fighting, maybe even those bad wilding kids in the area.
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Thanks for the insight, troll.
What would be the patrol officer's stance on people carrying mace or impact batons to defend themselves from being ambushed by these shitstaints?
Enough from all the ex-MSF and TRU guys and gals...there were six dead and 21 shot last night-not any worse when those units were around, might even be better numbers than last year. You people are PATROLMAN first, just like everybody else (that includes all the rest of the units too and you will see that uniform and beat car again before you retire, believe me.) Anyhow, we need to quit bitching about what McCarthy has done. He has to dismantle the mess he was given and rebuild from there. If he was to create another city-wide unit first, where would these bodies come from? Patrol, that is where. This is all bad timing being the beginning of summer and all. I for one and looking to the new super to do some good with this mess...he will start to show that he is serious when some of the exempts are back to LTs on midnights. Be careful out there everyone.
Remember Hill Street Blues? Lt. Hunter's renovated tank? We need that for the ghetto shit that attacked the beaches yesterday. Only leave the ammo in the tank.
Word is getting out in my neighborhood about the white people attacked at the beach yesterday. Get a tank, or buy a gun in the suburbs-- SOON!
I work in a northside District, and I was working all day. I saw tons of people of all ages, color, and genders going to the lake front. The only common denominator was alcohol. Everyone was stashing cases of beer and hard liquor into back packs and heading to the beach. This "out of control" situations mixed with alcohol, are a safety issue for citizens, the firemen, and the police officers. I can't wait for winter!!!
Heard it was some WGCI sponsored event. You know how respectful and well mannered those listeners are. Why isn't the media reporting this aspect of it?
Chicago isn't the only city having this problem with thugs using Facebook to organize mass gatherings at the beaches and downtown areas. Boston has the same problem, too.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/05/31/fights_break_out_at_carson_beach/
Things are really bad.
And now we have this goof Obama going after city police departments.
Here's why we can't do a thing about these kids taking over our beaches and the downtown area...
In a marked shift from the Bush administration, President Obama's Justice Department is aggressively investigating several big urban police departments for systematic civil rights abuses such as harassment of racial minorities, false arrests, and excessive use of force.
In interviews, activists and attorneys on the ground in several cities where the DOJ has dispatched civil rights investigators welcomed the shift. To progressives disappointed by Eric Holder's Justice Department on key issues like the failure to investigate Bush-era torture and the prosecution of whistle-blowers, recent actions by the DOJ's Civil Rights Division are a bright spot.
Full story here:
http://www.salon.com/news/department_of_justice/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/05/30/justice_department_civil_rights_police
Translation: Just watch and smile as they do as they please.
Unbelieveable.
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I’m new to the site.
Commenters need to use the wink-wink “teens” encased in quotes? Even if posting anonymously?
Talk about the media being cowed!
will the AIRSHOW be cancelled in August because of HEAT??
Umm,if the closing of the beach was due to the"HEAT",how come all the beaches north of Hollywood were open?Must be cooler up north.
Heat exaustions have been wreaking havoc on the South and West Sides for years, so it's no surprise these same heat exhaustions found their way to The Mag Mile and North Avenue Beach. It's getting so that decent people can't walk the streets without fear of attack from barbaric heat exhaustions. Police should arrest (and judges should jail!) these heat exhaustions whenever they strike. Damn you, unruly heat exhaustions!
Same in Boston. You may remember Carson Beach if you're old enough to remember the forced busing protests of the early 70's in Boston.
I'm a little disappointed that our much over hyped State Police only made one arrest for Disorderly. I guess there was no one speeding.
....http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/05/31/fights_break_out_at_carson_beach/
thank you daley's
It's those damn roving bands of pillaging and plundering Amish youth again.
5/31/2011 12:28:00 AM
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Nah, it's those shiftless Mennonites.
"Roll them bones"
time to issue the tact teams tan bdus, the black uniforms will fade in the hot sun, or just deploy the Guard along the lakefront
Anybody hear about the three day concert planned this July at the venue "Lakeside". It headlines The Dave Matthews Band and is supposed to be reminicent of Woodstock.
Unfortunately, all the suburban and out-of-town white kids, have no idea what they are getting into when planning to travel to 85th and the Lake, for a concert. Middle of July, weekend, and in the center of the southside ghetto! Great planning! Who granted this permit? How much was the kick back in this permit issue? Was it worth the number of white kids who will be hurt, robbed, and/or killed during that weekend.
Traveling to and from after partying all day and night, right through the center of the worst area in the country.
Anything within ten blocks, north or south of 79th street, is life threatening.
90 degrees is plenty hot when your diet for the day is A gallon of Hennesy and a bag of red hot cheetos!!!
HEY MAY BE THE NEW SUPE WILL OPEN UP BIDS TO NICE AREAS TOO!
WAIT TILL HE FIGURES OUT THE MUTTS WILL STILL STAB, SHOOT, AND RAPE EACH OTHER ON THE SOUTH SIDE EVEN WITH AN OFFICER ON EVERY CORNER.
WHEN DID THEY START LETTING PEOPLE DRINK AT THE BEACHES?
damn i was in the ghetto and it was awfully quiet?
SO KEEP THOSE FLASH MOBS UP IM TIRED OF THE DICK-WEEDS ACTING UP BY ME.
1 AND 18 HAVE ALL THE CLOUT OFFICERS WITH GAS MASK TRAINING THEY CAN HANDLE TEENS DRINKING BUT DO THE HAVE AN ASP HANDY AND DOES THE SARGE KNOW HOW TO FILL OUT A TRR!
Think about this. There were probably 100,000 people in the 018th district on monday and there were probably 50 or 60 cops on the street. The potential for disaster is staggering.
WAKR UP THIS CITY IS RUINED by CAPS
UPDATE: MIAMI 'WAR ZONE' DURING URBAN WEEKEND...
'I was scared for my life'...
Poet 'Da Real One' Gunned Down In Front Of Miami Poetry Cafe...
Violent crime explodes in Myrtle during Black Bike Week; 8-hour hell...
Rib Fest At Rochester beach turns rowdy...
Riot On Long Island...
Urban Melee In Charlotte...
Chaos causes DNC concern for convention...
Unruly urban crowd shuts down Nashville water park...
Emanuel shuts down packed Chicago beach; 'heat-related illnesses'...
REPORT: 'Dozens of gang bangers'...
and the DOJ is going to investigate Major City Police Departments.... Summer is just starting..... What a joke......
Bike The Drive first thing in the morning while the animals are sleeping, and then get the hell out of there.
"500 fighting in front of the Water Tower..."
They are trying to run two different Chicagos, and are increasingly unable to keep them separated.
You have the police dept. that the Liberal Democrats have demanded, enjoy it.
5/31/2011 10:14:00 AM
amen brother!
Has anyone read Sneed today? Jesus, how transparent can you be? Obviously she is doing her best to continue to be a mouthpiece for the [fill in the blank] administration.
She must have callouses on her knees.
---not a cop
The same media that kept a smiley-face on the Bud Billiken Parade for so many years is capable of any sort of obfuscation.
Wait until a "flash mob" goes after ABC-TV's studio. Some nut already crashed a car through the window one time. I was watching the news...Ravi Baichwal jumped about a foot in the air.
The "unresponsive heat-related" male had consumed a fifth of vodka.
Both the police and the media are covering up the actual reason for closing the beach: roving bands of Scandanavian youth bent on mayhem.
When will this PC BS stop? Simply tell the truth instead of misleading innocent citizens into harm's way.
We need the 82nd Airborne in 018 to make a difference with these predatory savages.
I was enjoying myself along the Lakefront on my bike early Monday Morning. Things were nice, around 2:30 I stopped at the new concrete pilings along the Lake just North of Diversey Harbor. I sat there for a bit and read my book and listened to the radio for a few hours.
Around 4:00 I decided that it was time to find some dinner and continued south on the lake front path, because I thought that the eye candy at North Ave Beach would definitely be worth a look. What I did not anticipate was that the park district would have forgotten to brush the sand and mud out of the bike lane leaving the most busy area of the lake front path with only a few feet of viable biking space. This coupled with all the people made this decision to go have a look at the beach goers an unfortunate one.
By 4:20 I managed to make it past North Avenue Beach and to the Underpass of Lake Shore Drive behind the Chess Pavilion. I went under lake shore drive as I emerged I sighed some relief as I thought I was out of the the worst.
Boy was I wrong. I swear to god my first thought after coming into the Park behind the Chicago History Museum was, are they giving Link Card Bonuses for people who get to North Avenue Beach between 4 and 5. Honor Students walking 5 abreast acting like a menace, at one point they tried to push me off my bike. I got away and put off my dinner plans in order to make to REI before they closed and buy some Bear Mace.
I am not lucky enough to be a Cop. In hind sight I should have taken that career path, as I share your thoughts on most issues That others look at me as being a racist or asshole. Thanks to the emasculation of not only Law Enforcement, but the law abiding public as well, Bear Mace is the best I think I can do to protect myself and not stay confined at home.
Remember boy's and girl's "Hand's Off" Police work, the media is looking o hang us out and make us the bad guy, (Last weeks tribune, perfect example), bosses are scared of losing there spots, and now we have a new boss that nobody has seen yet and no one knows how he feels about real police work, or does he prefer bus checks and seat belt missions.
Going to get worse before it gets better
Where the outrage? If whitey is knocking down an honor student, Anita would be charging them with hate crimes, Jesse would be marching with the ACLU on City Hall, and new "tougher legislation" would be introduced.
City reaps what is sows for allowing the inmates to run the asylum. Sanctuary city, no gun laws, and demonize the police. Gary, Detroit, and now comes Chicago.
Pretty soon the only safe place at the beach will be in the water. We all know gangbangers can't swim.
I live close to the Oak Street beach and went running along the bike paths yesterday around 5:00 PM. I have never seen it this crowded in the 7 years I have lived near the beach. I had to stop running during a two block stretch of the bike path between around Division and Oak streets. The bottleneck was caused by moronic black youths who were standing in the middle of the bike paths while goofin' and jivin'. I didn't see anyone on a bike get pushed, but it was probably only a matter of time until a runner or biker snapped at the black youths and received a pummeling at the hands of 15-20 black hoodlums at once. Closing the beach early was the right thing to do.
These gangbanging thugs are brining their ghetto mentality down to the lake front. They were walking around in packs of a 100 or more blocking the bike path intimidating all the good citizens trying to enjoy the nice day.
You may be asking yourself why didn't you do anything about it? Well there was probably a good 1000 gangbangers and there was a total of my partner and I for most of the night. It was ridiculously unsafe for us.
I can't understand how an area of the city that draws in to many tourists and surburbanites (aka money) would be so understaffed. You mean to tell me they could not have sent 50 from the tru/msf detail to 018?
5/31/2011 10:11:00 AM
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You want to send 50 officers to 018? Nothing ever happens in 001 or 018. What's wrong with you??? j/k We need at least 200 to control the likes of these savages this summer.
This is what the reverend s wanted, all the police stacked in their districts, the bs calls are not changing. All the workers from the dumped units are driving around answering bs calls while the north end goes up. Now we have no resources to send.No officers available at a moments notice and enjoyed doing it. We changed all that. Unfortunately the no. siders have not spoken loudly enough yet, just wait. And try to get that ethic back, good luck.
And why was there not one news station reporting on the crime recently, hhhmmm
No violence since jody left? And the report on the beach was just that the police closed the beach?
I had a deer that was doa on 4100 blk of Cumberland. Does that count?
So, the new term for the reckless youths of the ghetto is "heat?" Got it.
Incredible was there what a shit fest, the animals were coming in drove. Some comments on here say we should "take off the gloves," yea ok if you want to kiss your pension, house,family goodbye,and maybe a stint in prison for trying to correct these misunderstood morons!
Sorry I will wear the sexy dress I am done,unless a copper or his/her family need help sorry don't want to lose everything since the barry and richie administration destroyed the rights of the taxpayers!
Now we have susie mendoza the idiotic new city clerk has been asking for 4 yes 4 coppers and another new cpd spec car to cart her lazy ass around! Seems Delvalle dumped the D-3 paid valets but yet she wants bodyguards! Although why does the city treasurer have a fleet of cpd drivers/ Why does eddie burke have so many? Why does ex-mayor "the king of all crime" have coppers and a commander making over $160,000 (pensionable) on his detail? Why does rahmbo have a D-1 patrolman as a $160,000 commander for his detail? Why did the mayors guys that were dumped keep the D-3 salary? That is not contractual,you serve at the pleasure of the head thief err sorry mayor!
Hey Gmac there is over 40+ coppers more on the street "got balls?"!
Mayor Coming Off As Liar -- Beach Story Spinning Out Of Control
Why was North Avenue Beach really closed?
WLS Radio's Monica DeSantis Reports
"CHICAGO (WLS) - Was it a flash mob that forced the closure of North Avenue beach on Memorial Day?
"Chicago Police News Affairs released a statement saying they had to close the beach for safety reasons, as people were suffering heat exhaustion and emergency vehicles couldn't get through to help.
"But, WLS listeners say there was what they called a "large gangbanger element" at the Oak Street and North Avenue beaches.
"Listeners report being at the beach, and seeing dozens of gang bangers pushing people off their bikes.
"Another listener says those causing havoc were not dressed for the beach and looked like "bad elements."
"...recently in Chicago, flash mobs have gathered along Michigan Avenue to do anything but entertain.
"In January, groups of teens assembled along Michigan Avenue and shoplifted at three separate stores. Eleven teens ranging in age from 14 to 17 were arrested.
"Chicago Police are denying that a flash mob intent on causing havoc forced the closure of the North Avenue beach on Memorial Day Monday."
http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=2200256
"Growing Problem At Beaches" - County Commissioner
WGN TV just reported Cook County Commissioner John Fritchey's comments --
"There is a growing problem at the beaches, one that I believe that are trying to keep under wraps.
"Even more interesting is that the papers so quickly bought into the heat story without reporting any of the real problems that went down.
"And if the police can't get a handle on beach safety, there are going to be a lot of problems this summer
"Based on a couple of conversations that I've now had, yesterday's beach closure had more to do with crowd control concerns than the heat."
http://twitter.com/#!/johnfritchey
5/31/2011 02:42:00 PM
Same in Boston. You may remember Carson Beach if you're old enough to remember the forced busing protests of the early 70's in Boston.
I'm a little disappointed that our much over hyped State Police only made one arrest for Disorderly. I guess there was no one speeding.
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Hey superhero...
We called in every cruiser in the troop and were only able to field 25-30 bodies. That's what happens when the legislature doesn't give you the green to run a class in almost 6 years. We grabbed 6, not 1 -- don't believe everything you read in the press. The guys on scene were ORDERED to clear the beach and AVOID making arrests. All irrelevant I suppose, since a hot shot like you can handle a mob of 300 all by your lonesome. Good luck, doofus.
Sorry for the rant, SCC. Stay safe everybody.
NOW HEAR THIS: Chicago Tribune website has CLOSED THE COMMENT SECTION on the beach story as of 1600 hrs on Tuesday. Probably a result of so many people who were posting just how out of control the beaches really were. Sun Times comments are still up. Keep up the great work SCC.
Savages shut down a water park in Nashville over the weekend too... throwing strollers etc over the fence to get in.....this country is getting out of control....
What would be the patrol officer's stance on people carrying mace or impact batons to defend themselves from being ambushed by these shitstaints?
5/31/2011 01:21:00 PM
We understand your need to protect yourself since we can't anymore. Too many hungry hungry lawyers.
My advice: don't stick around to tell your side of it.
Two words: Summer mobile. Why was it disbanded?
What would be the patrol officer's stance on people carrying mace or impact batons to defend themselves from being ambushed by these shitstaints?
5/31/2011 01:21:00 PM
1. conceal them well.
2. if you use them, be quick about it.
3. when you're done using them, conceal them well and exit the area.
4. remember that the saying, 'he who hesitates is lost' applies to every moment of your existence.
5. also remember to forget.
I'm not a cop, but for the last 10 years of my life I have been well-aware of the problem that these Scandinavian "youths" pose all around the country, especially when they congregate in numbers. My sympathies to any cop having to deal with this BS- do nothing, and you get what happened Memorial Day. Do your job and protect innocent people from these savages, and you'll face discipline and the divershitty tyrants.
Isn't Illinois the only remaining state in the country that doesn't allow people to conceal carry? A regular Joe has to be crazy or painfully naive to show up at the beach with his girlfriend or family and put himself at the mercy of the Scandinavian thugs.
question for the police,from a concerned citizen... how should i 'prepare' in advance, if i plan on spending a Sat eve strolling the magmile/bike path area w/my girl after dinner (besides cancelling my plans)? Should i carry pep spray just in case,or would that just aggravate any 'situation' i might find myself in ? thanx for any advice...
Kilgore: You can either surf, or you can fight!
Willard: Are you crazy, Goddammit? Don't you think its a little risky for some R&R?
Kilgore: If I say its safe to surf this beach, Captain, then its safe to surf this beach! I mean, I'm not afraid to surf this place, I'll surf this whole fucking place!
I can't speak to the problems over the weekend, but I rode 15 miles down the bike path today on the north side.
I counted ten cops on bikes. Eight of whom were leisurely biking in one group and two who were talking to some 'yutes' near the North Avenue beachhouse.
Now I don't know which merit promotees run the lakefront bike patrols, but I suggest maybe you enforce a little common sense regarding the size of groups they bike in.
Same shit year after year. I bike miles and see no cops and then suddenly I see a large group coming toward me.
That had to be one of the better summer assignments so if the cops detailed don't want to space themselves properly I suggest a footpost at 115th and Michigan.
"..impact batons to defend themselves from being ambushed by these shitstaints?..."
Asps might be considered as bludgeons and as such are a felony to carry in the state. O.C. is legal in Chicago as long as you don't use it inside. A knife of any length is legal at State level as long as you don't have intent to use it unlawfully, City Municipal code (misdemenor) says you can't carry a CONCEALED knife of greater than 2.5" Personally O.C. with a good knife as a last resort. That said, you really want to avoid trouble if possible. If not, a good O.C. like Fox labs used liberally and on any complaining liberals and then get the fuck out of there. The knife is a last choice and you got to be prepared I mean really ready to hurt somebody seriously,it aint like the movies, not necessarily a trait all of us have.
Tact teams and Area gang teams = several hundred coppers available every night for situations like this. Forget the one baggers and 2 hour lunches for a few nights and take control of Downtown by sending in every tact team!
It's those damn roving bands of pillaging and plundering Amish youth again.
5/31/2011 12:28:00 AM
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Nah, it's those shiftless Mennonites.
"Roll them bones"
5/31/2011 02:57:00 PM
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While all Amish are Mennonite, not all Mennonites are Amish.
Who are the most deadly and dangerous to police officers nationwide?
(1) The Amish
(2) Canadians
(3) Scandanavians
(4) None of the above.
You only have 100 seconds to decide on the correct answer.
Tick-Tock...
Well its a good thing everyone is treatly fairly in this country otherwise it may look like some groups continue to get an advantage.....
Anonymous said...
Anybody hear the rumor that Tiny Dancer 9.5 is going to use a parliamentary maneuver to circumvent the contracts and put the CPD back on 6 and 2s and 56 day rotating watches due to manpower and equipment shortages.
This is taking on a life of its own.
5/31/2011 11:53:00 AM
There is no "parlimentary" maneuver available to him to circumvent the contracts other than declaring an emergency condition exists in Chicago. Anything else is a losing lawsuit that will cost millions to repay in contract violations.
Any chance of the little runt having the balls to declare an emergency condition exists in Chicago has already left town because the only thing worse than telling the entire country that Chicago is out of control and a danger to anyone who lives here or visits here is formally declaring bankruptcy.
No, these rats will do whatever it takes to continue raking in the cash from the gullible public at all costs, and they have no intention of cutting their own white collar governmental criminal throats.
You'll just be blatantly aware that no media outlet will be allowed to print anything that alerts the rest of the country to the disaster that is Chicago. And that means NO publicly available outlet such as video media or print or online media where there is a known readership that could leave Chicago to the ghetto disaster that it's running towards.
Sure, you'll find the truth here and a few blogs, but that's not enough circulation to make the criminal scumbags worry.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Two words: Summer mobile. Why was it disbanded?
5/31/2011 07:14:00 PM
2 More words school patrol why was it disbanded? Now we send many cars cta special etc to help get the savages out of the area before they destroy everything! ENOUGH!!
send them back to Hegewisch where they came from.
It's those damn roving bands of pillaging and plundering Amish youth again.
5/31/2011 12:28:00 AM
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Nah, it's those shiftless Mennonites.
"Roll them bones"
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Actually Amish kids can be a pain in the ass when they are 18-20 and they are allowed to "experience" the real world ( as much as Douglas and Moultre County Illinois can be) and deal with us "english". After that, they have a decision... stick with the family or move on;. You would be surprised how many brews are in those buggies......
What goes clop clop clop... bang bang bang?
An amish drive by.......
Thanks.. enjoy the veal.. I hear its very good tonight. I have another show at 10.....
Liberals should love the fact the the police can't bother the young people now frequenting the beaches and bike paths they use.
You got exactly the city and the type of policing that you wanted. I hope you all enjoy it as much as you enjoyed voting for Obama, Quinn and Rahm.
You got what you wanted. Enjoy it. I know I am.
Two questions from a citizen.
Any police officer meet, call or email with any city newspaper reporters with specifics about this or any of the other wildings from the past year?
There's been a shitload of incidents talked about here which seem to involve a ton of youths.
How come there's no video or stills of any of these events from a bystander or onlooker's cameras, showing hordes of youths, anywhere to be found on the internets?
While all Amish are Mennonite, not all Mennonites are Amish.
5/31/2011 08:40:00 PM
subtle.
....this country is getting out of control....
5/31/2011 06:37:00 PM
it's not the country's fault, as i've yet to encounter a single blade of grass seeking to do me harm.
5/31/2011 05:42:00 PM
keep the gloves on.
less likely to skin those knuckles.
016 District Section 8 said...
I had a deer that was doa on 4100 blk of Cumberland. Does that count?
5/31/2011 05:39:00 PM
that depends, was it a natural death?
Supt. Garry McCarthy:
How do we resolve the problem with the savages at North Avenue Beach.
From your early days working the 4-5 Pct., we must provide "Bronx Party Hats" for all. It's the only thing they understand.
Completely disband units rather than cut back, no
Teams to send at a moments notice. Didn't we learn the many other times we disbanded units?
Sos, etc, etc, etc
5/31/2011 11:14:00 AM
the only difference is they have always started another unit before they disbanded to other. That way you always had a response unit.
From the unSunny-Times:
Emanuel said he was not consulted before the Chicago Police Department’s unprecedented decision to clear the beach and send patrons back to, in some cases, homes without air-conditioning. In fact, the mayor said he didn’t find out about it until the morning after.
WTF? Swan Lake has to be consulted on this issue? Talk about another micro-manager (and considering our new mayor, I do mean micro)
--No Cop Here
question for the police,from a concerned citizen... how should i 'prepare' in advance, if i plan on spending a Sat eve strolling the magmile/bike path area w/my girl after dinner (besides cancelling my plans)? Should i carry pep spray just in case,or would that just aggravate any 'situation' i might find myself in ? thanx for any advice...
5/31/2011 07:25:00 PM
Go to Naperville. Food's better. No danger.
I never ever thought I would hear. The beach is closed because its to hot(90). When will it open, when it gets cold out. I guess we will have to wait until winter to get back in the water. I can't wait to see what's next.
'That had to be one of the better summer assignments so if the cops detailed don't want to space themselves properly I suggest a footpost at 115th and Michigan.'
Go f-ck yourself. Thousands of gangbangers on the beach that got so bad cpd needed to close the beach and you're worried about 8 bike cops riding together? I hope you aren't a cop, but my guess is you probably are and you are what's wrong with this department. Go crawl back underneath your desk and shut your mouth. Let the real police do their job. And if you want to threaten officers with foot posts at 115th and Michigan, don't be a pu$$y and sign your name.
Well, after about 36 hours of enjoying what passes for "spring" around here, I read the news about the beach and lakefront on and off all day today, and now the comments on this excellent blog and post.
Two thoughts:
[1] I'm depressed.
[2] CPD Officers: please know that you are appreciated. And needed.
Jeez. Looking forward to December, when I pretty much had the lakefront path to myself :)
Best,
Michael
DePaul Univ.
Anonymous said...
The city and the so called cpd bosses always dropped the ball every summer. The park has a limited amount of parking spaces. Once the park is filled, make public announcements on the radio/phone or post electronic signs, on the arterial street leading into the park, warning motorist of full lots. Then close the park to vehicle traffic, have them walk in, that way there is not deniel of entrance to a public space or park. On oak st and north ave beaches, there are 2or3 ways in, have a half day post, a day and afternoon teams of po's, to check coolers for alcohol, they need a permit, without a permit, beer, etc. are not allowed on park district property. Give them a choice, they can enter the park/beach, but not with the alcoholic beverages. PUBLIC SAFETY, is what is of the utmost concern. Enforce, the existing park and traffic ordinances early, not at 6pm. Citizens will alert friends etc. of the rules being enforced. This is a good way for the citizens to be part of the solution, no need to lament the 90day disbandment of msf or tru. Be safe. God bless the CPD and CFD.
5/31/2011 12:13:00 PM
Once upon a time there was such an operation: the 018 Bech Detail. It was ended by Joe the Boss and it has been down hill ever since.
From the unSunny-Times:
Emanuel said he was not consulted before the Chicago Police Department’s unprecedented decision to clear the beach and send patrons back to, in some cases, homes without air-conditioning. In fact, the mayor said he didn’t find out about it until the morning after.
WTF? Swan Lake has to be consulted on this issue? Talk about another micro-manager (and considering our new mayor, I do mean micro)
--No Cop Here
5/31/2011 10:18:00 PM
He also said it is the responsibility of the police department to make the call, that the decision would be reviewed, but he saw no problem with it.
Had to laugh, though, when he said, it had nothing to do with any rioting and that gang activity was just a rumor.
Land Mines!!!
Kilgore: You can either surf, or you can fight!
Willard: Are you crazy, Goddammit? Don't you think its a little risky for some R&R?
Kilgore: If I say its safe to surf this beach, Captain, then its safe to surf this beach! I mean, I'm not afraid to surf this place, I'll surf this whole fucking place!
Kilgore: Charlie don't surf!
No sand at CCC.
AND
No ones at NAB.
MEANS
NO PROBLEMS.
NO PAYROLL NO PRORATION!
How come there's no video or stills of any of these events from a bystander or onlooker's cameras, showing hordes of youths, anywhere to be found on the internets?
5/31/2011 09:33:00 PM
Because anyone stupid enough to get out their iPhone will get stabbed, shot or punched in the face...and get the iPhone stolen. Just ask the two men on Wabash and Chicago that had that happen a couple of months ago.
~~ Notr a cop, either
talked to officers that were there...basically a 5hr long 10-1 to clear the beaches,,,what a fucking joke this city and media are
Tast of Chicago should be fun this year....glad im getn the hell out of town.
"take off the gloves"? no
"put on the blinders" is more like it
802pm. Dont make generalizations on those officers on their bikes. At least they are out there. you dont know why they're in a pack, but once again the whining negative comment. There are safety in numbers, genius. Maybe if you worked the streets, instead of working days, at headquarters you would know that. Im a cyclist that appreciates the bike cops out there and enjoy your regular life. If you have a problem with them, get your sorry butt out of the air conditioned office and become a bike cop.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
It's those damn roving bands of pillaging and plundering Amish youth again.
5/31/2011 12:28:00 AM
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Nah, it's those shiftless Mennonites.
"Roll them bones"
5/31/2011 02:57:00 PM
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Don't forget the Stormin' Mormons
When the "thin veneer of civilization" is worn off by our coarse underclass, the lie of "Gun Control" is revealed to be fraud. The fact is there are not enough cops in America to handle what is not very far in our future. If you don't own a gun now, I'd get one soon and start practicing for real.
This won't be your father's Great Depression. Hold on to your ass. The Memorial weekend flash mob "wildings" across America are just a small taste of the future.
Anonymous said...
Kilgore: You can either surf, or you can fight!
Willard: Are you crazy, Goddammit? Don't you think its a little risky for some R&R?
Kilgore: If I say its safe to surf this beach, Captain, then its safe to surf this beach! I mean, I'm not afraid to surf this place, I'll surf this whole fucking place!
Kilgore: Charlie don't surf!
5/31/2011 11:30:00 PM
I really miss the smell of napalm in the morning.
The "Micro Mayor" says it was not the gangs and wilding that shut down the beach.
So he has Mcpuppet echo his BS.
Hint... to Mcpuppet The start of summer is not the time to "reorganized" a big city police Department.
This is going to be a long summer of BS.
How come there's no video or stills of any of these events from a bystander or onlooker's cameras, showing hordes of youths, anywhere to be found on the internets?
-----------------------------------Because there wasn't any police officer knocking the rabies out of any of those animals. Rest assured that if an officer laid hands on anyone, the photos would be on the front page of every worthles newspaper in the city.
maybe we need to replace the life guard towers with gun turrents.
Stay safe officers!
I never ever thought I would hear. The beach is closed because its to hot(90). When will it open, when it gets cold out. I guess we will have to wait until winter to get back in the water. I can't wait to see what's next.
5/31/2011 10:36:00 PM
That's what so annoying. The media puts BS out there like everyone is dumb and they're gonna believe that shit. People are supposed to go to the beach because it's hot!! But to top it off the mayor says they weren't closed because of gang activity. Why were they closed then?? If that's the case why were the beaches never shut down in the past when there were tons of people there on a 90+ degree day?? It wasn't that hot Memorial day!!!
Anonymous said...
Has anyone read Sneed today? Jesus, how transparent can you be? Obviously she is doing her best to continue to be a mouthpiece for the [fill in the blank] administration.
She must have callouses on her knees.
---not a cop
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More like calluses on her lips...
I guess Chicago closes the beaches in the summer and opens them in the winter?
Finally found a photo of thousands of people on North Ave Beach!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Lake_michigan_1925.jpg
the link to the old photo was garbled. here's the correct URL:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Lake_michigan_1925.jpg/800px-Lake_michigan_1925.jpg
Tried to jog tonight after work and ran into a flash mob at Oak Street beach. There was only three bicycle cops and one in a van. There was at least a hundred gangbangers. (not an exaggeration). I was planning on running to Lincoln Park but saw that the bike trail was completely overran by the mob. A couple of the gangbangers tried to knock a man off his bike in front of the cops and the cops just sat there. I turned around and considered myself lucky that I was only teased.
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