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Again, how about a locked, secure door with a doorbell, closed circuit TV and inch thick glass. In numerous suburbs, this guy wouldn't even get in the front door. But here?
A Northwest Side man was charged early this morning with heaving chunks of concrete at a large plate glass window at the 16th District police station in Jefferson Park Thursday night.
Three officers were injured when they tried to arrest the 38-year-old man, Chicago Police News Affairs [...] said.
Andrzej K. Borowiec, of the 5300 block of West Wolfram Street was charged with three counts of aggravated battery to a police officer, one count of criminal damage to property and one count of misdemeanor resisting arrest. He was ordered held in lieu of $200,000 bail following a hearing today in Cook County Central Bond Court.
Mentally ill people wandering into police stations with rifles, destroying equipment, getting tasered 30 times, and now, bringing concrete into the station to inflict mayhem.
But everything is fine.
But everything is fine.
Labels: safety issues
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
45 Comments:
Let's get those civilians behind the police desk before another copper gets hurt. Maybe that fire captain could help out too.
Don't forget to mention that one of our citizenship-challenged female custodians here in 011 boosted a 1/W copper's iPhone out of the men's locker room last night. Victim PO was able to track phone via GPS to her residence in 004. She opened the door to return the phone but "refused to come out to be arrested" (another testament to how college/hairgel fucked this job up beyond repair...but this is a topic for another time). She was processed when she showed up for work in the morning, then had the nerve to bitch about not being read Miranda in Spanish (she WAS, I was there when they were read to her). Moral of this heartwarming holiday story???? What else have these bastards lifted from the station? Out checks, personal identifiers, interdepartmental mail, WEAPONS have the potential to be swiped. If mentals and others hellbent on causing chaos wasn't enough, we now have to keep a more scrutinous eye (as we always should've been) on the hired help. It'll be interesting to see if this broad has a criminal history. Speaking of which???? Anyone know whatever came of our other custodian that was arrested for ties to some terrorist group?????
True about suburban police stations. You get into a small waiting area with bullet proof glass protecting the officer on duty. Only when they consider you safe and on official business will you get any furthur.
Of course, McNutball and the police hating Mayor only want one armed officer in the stations now.
What can possibly go wrong with that idiotic plan?
And the sad thing is he was 4th in line and had to wait his turn at the desk until he could go off!
Hope everyone is OK up there in 016.
Did you any Boss in any of your districts or other facilities do a walkabout outside and see what could go wrong here?
Did they or you look for loose and broken concrete curbs, garbage on the streets and overgrown weeds in empty lots around the stations?
Did they keep an eye on nearby buildings for hazards, and know about auto or motorcycle thieves living on the next block from the station.
Did they or you look for anything that might be picked up and used as a weapon, smash our car windows or one of those huge plate glass windows?
More importantly, did they or you do anything about it? We did to the point of pulling over Streets & San and Sheriff's S.W.A.P. crews to help clear away the hazards.
Things are better than they use to be since our station opened; at least now if someone wants to throw a rock at us they have to bring it with them.
I hope the powers that be are paying attention and rethink their silly idea of one P.O. and a couple civilians working the desk. More and more these unsecured desk/lobby areas are becoming catastrophes just waiting to happen.
Don't have blood on your hands by downsizing current staffing of desks.
Thats what happens when you close down Mental heath Clinics, these people are wandering around no where to go and no one monitoring them if they are taking there Med's or not. Not a Good situation!
There is grant money available that can be used to fortify or 'bombproof' police stations. We use it in the burbs.
Man you put that concrete on me!!!! thirsty ass blue eyed white devil!!!!
I was just in a police station in Crestwood. You know, the department with all part time officers? The lobby is about 10 x 10. An elderly gentlemen sits behind the desk which is enclosed with two inch thick protective glass and an intercom. You have to be buzzed into this lobby in the first place. They have a large door under the window, probably to pass things out to the citizens. A camera in the ceiling. The inner door leading to the back is secured . There is no room for the homeless to lie down. Retrofit all CPD stations, make the lobby smaller,protect the working cops.
You should see the homeless mentals at O'Hare airport!
Perhaps the desk crew should keep their eyes open when folks wander in.
FOP should be screaming about this every day in the press and through safety grievances filed by every desk crew in the city. Both 35th St and City Hall are locked down by the "bosses" offices to protect them with guards and metal detectors. Why are district police not afforded the same protection? It's coming people, a repeat of the Detroit station shooting here. I just pray none of our people get hurt or killed.
We need to go back to the GOOD OLD DAYS, when the coppers INSIDE the station were nuttier than anyone OUTSIDE! That'll learn 'em. You wanna act crazy? I'll show ya crazy!
He must have been frustrated after getting blown off for a traffic crash report in 012 and had to walk to 016.
Do the custodians and other civilian
employees like they do at the Daley
Center, lay everything on the moving
belt and run it through the scanner
and frisk the person as he or she leaves for the day. Damn the civil
rights violations, protect the rights
of the Police Officers manning the premises.
Good thing there weren't any red crossing flags available to use as a weapon!
12/10/2011 02:41:00 AM
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Did they or you look for loose and broken concrete curbs, garbage on the streets and overgrown weeds in empty lots around the stations?
Are you fucking kidding me? Have you ever been to the city other than Navy Pier or Michigan Ave? The city is not sending crews out to clean streets in the neighborhoods so yes there is broken concrete because after years of neglect it breaks into chunks. And yes there are abandoned buildings and empty lots around the city. The police in this city are so busy running from assignment to assignment they dont have the time to cut the overgrown weeds of the vacant lots or to break up the loose concrete and pour new concrete. And we really dont have time to pick up all the garbage in the street that lazy ass people cant find a garbage can to throw it in. Instead of bitching saying the police should do these services maybe the city could come up with a department that can handle it maybe they can call it streets and sanitation.
Sorry for the rant but sometimes stupid people bother me.
God Bless and be safe.
Our suburban station is like a fortress. Can't even get in front doors after 4pm without talking with dispatcher. Then lobby is beautiful, but with the all bullet proof glass and reinforced walls by desk area, looks intimidating, and we can keep the shitbags outside.
Been in CPD 002 and 005 and laughed my ass off at the lack of security. A friend of mine was on design team for 005 when it was built in the late 70s. Acceptable idea back then for a desk open area I guess....Its sad how behind the times CPD is on this sort of thing now. Its not 1950's anymore with the desk sergeant greeting the nice clean cut visitors in an open lobby.
and who says nothing happens in 016 and they don't need extra manpower...wake up people and smell the reality....anything can happen on this job...this city is trying to kill us all...be careful out there and back each other up, even on small jobs-as it might became a disaster in seconds....stay safe brothers and sisters in blue
Supt Garry - "I WANT MORE CONTACT CARDS", "I WANT MORE CURFEWS", I WANT MORE ANOVS", "I WANT MORE DISPERSALS", "I WANT MORE EVENT NUMBERS PULLED", I WANT MORE SEARCH WARRANTS", I WANT MORE ARRESTS"! want want want. ummm supe, while driving in circles tripping over each other in the box, we cant give them to you if they aren't there. now throw in that its winter time, the numbers will go down even that much more. take a deep breath and relax. do you need a hug?
Wow!
Oh shit!
THE PADDY WAGONS NEW POLITICALLY CORRECT NEW NAME IS THE BIPOLAR EXPRESS.
As society continues to break down, and the economics continue to decline, I fear you will see more of this. The Police are, and have always been, a symbol of the establishment. Like it, or not, some people feel, that striking out against the police, is striking out against all the problems we are facing in this country.
"Be Careful, Out There, Or In There, Or Wherever"
Many times, I had the very same idea, right after roll call
Yep 016 has really taken a turn for the worse just as the politicians wanted. Section 8beasts roaming around everywhere,a couple methadone clinics one at Milwaukee/Lawrence,beggars,bums.A skeleton of a police force. But the property taxes are still 2-4x the southside even a comparable house on the west side of 8 has half the property taxes.
I am a believer in mostly civilians in administrative jobs to include the desk. But, not until the buildings are secure, which they are not at this point. As far as the cleaning help stealing around the station, that, my friends is nothing new. A few years ago 011 tact caught the janitor of 010 buying heroin. He was breaking into our lockers and taking vests and weapons, coffee cujps, flashlights, anything he found in the locker or lying around. Don't use cheap combination locks ( they are easy to defeat) or leave anything laying on the bench unattended. These jobs are political and sponsored and I doubt any background check is made.
Thats what happens when you close down Mental heath Clinics, these people are wandering around no where to go and no one monitoring them if they are taking there Med's or not. Not a Good situation!
12/10/2011 03:35:00 AM
No, this is what happens when you spend all your life with your lips wrapped around a bottle of Spiritus, with a Zywiec chaser! Cragin Park forty years ago on a good night! Right Subby?
A couple of years go the cleaning supervisor in 025 was wanted by the Feds and was on the terrorist watch list.
Some guy got locked up in 016 last night after walking into the desk, pulling out chunks of concrete and breaking the station windows. He was muttering about how the government ruined his life. He also fought with arresting desk officers and injured them. Charged accordingly.
12/10/2011 12:31:00
What, with trespassing? Surely not agg batt on p.o. or anything like that. Misdemeanor that will get tossed most likely. Hopefully coppers are all ok.
Any battery to a p.o. should be an agg batt. Fists and feet can lead to a knockout or bell-ringing where a shithead will then go for the officer's gun.
Keep this in mind when Rahm shows up at the next Policeman's funeral.
Have you seen those windows? The day they installed those pastel colored eyesores I wanted to do the same thing. One bullshit artistic expression deserves another. The only thing that guy did wrong was fighting the police.
Anonymous said...
Have you seen those windows? The day they installed those pastel colored eyesores I wanted to do the same thing. One bullshit artistic expression deserves another. The only thing that guy did wrong was fighting the police.
12/10/2011 09:09:00 PM
100% AGREED! 016 is the ugliest station in the city,it looks putrid. Whoever designed those windows was smoking crack.
Truly and eyescore on Milwaukee Ave. It looks so rundown and out of place.
The windows on the 16th District were inspired by one of Dick Daley's drunken, acid flahbacks.
He must have been frustrated after getting blown off for a traffic crash report in 012 and had to walk to 016.
12/10/2011 09:44:00 AM
But they be sooooo busy in 012 hahaha
>>>Sorry for the rant but sometimes stupid people bother me.
God Bless and be safe.
12/10/2011 10:17:00 AM<<<
Read it again.
That is exactly why we had to pull over the Street and San and Sheriff S.W.A.P. crews to get something done. So who is stupid?
We got it done because we went to the street bosses of the guys in the orange vests with the brooms and shovels and weed cutters and garbage trucks and asked them nicely for a favor. That beats the shit outa filling out CAPS requests or calling 3-1-1.
And will do it again every so often so God Bless and Stay Safe.
"016 is the ugliest station in the city,it looks putrid. Whoever designed those windows was smoking crack."
"Truly an eyesore on Milwaukee Ave. It looks so rundown and out of place."
--12/10/2011 10:23:00 PM
Someone just dusted off the blueprints for "Modernistic High School, 1962." Lazy bastards.
At least the loans-on-auto-titles bail-money mill on the intersection island failed and shut down some time back. Those bright-yellow awnings with the powerful lights glowing behind them were a traffic distraction.
Methadone clinic at Lawrence/Milwaukee, huh? Walking distance from Jeff Park station...this'll be a real neighborhood "booster."
I wonder if they'll advertise in the little Nadig paper, hand out T-shirts and balloons at local events, be civic-minded like that.
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Need some more "massage parlors," too. Maybe a half-dozen bridal dress places.
Whole new remodeled street full of empty storefronts -- not even a legitimate secondhand store can survive along there.
All the retail is in the malls now, so the smaller, older buildings will get here-today, gone-tomorrow tertiary-scum businesses.
New Internet cafe one door down from a vacant, for-lease storefront that still has an "Internet Cafe" sign. (Belmont/Central)
In between them is a "Medical Supplies," looks like a billing-fraud mill of the kind so popular today, to extract the last pennies saved by working people in the 1950s...
"No, this is what happens when you spend all your life with your lips wrapped around a bottle of Spiritus, with a Zywiec chaser!"
--12/10/2011 04:16:00 PM
That ol' Spiritus makes for some real glassy-eyed walking zombies along Belmont on Polish Constitution Day. You can kind of see the fumes rising off them, like you do sometimes when filling a gas tank.
It's a trip.
Where I work we have ID cards that we swipe and enter our PIN on a dial pad that randomly scrambles the number so that if someone is looking over your shoulder they won't be able to figure out your PIN. This dial pad is on all entrance/exit doors, elevators and even our locker rooms/bathrooms.
Democrats Quinn and Emmanuel have closed (or will close) a certain number of mentally ill facilities.
If Quinn and Emmanuel were Republican, I'd read/hear about this "everywhere".
And there will be more mentally Ill out now that the mayor is shutting down some of the mental health clinics!!!
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