Houdini Fails
A purported gang member arrested this week for shooting a year-old girl last summer tried to escape by climbing into the drop-ceiling of a police interrogation room, authorities said.
Malik Jackson, 17, didn’t get very far — but officials upped his charges to include attempted escape and criminal damage to property.
When he was being questioned at Area 2 police headquarters on the Far South Side Tuesday, Jackson allegedly tried to escape by scaling the wall and climbing into the drop ceiling in an interview room.
Detectives heard the tile falling, and Jackson was detained in the ceiling above, Caceres said. Jackson’s alleged antics damaged the ceiling. It will cost $350 to repair, Caceres said.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
36 Comments:
Oh, SCC, why would you want them to fix it? The entertainment value is so high, it's worth leaving it just the way it is!
Malik Jackson should be thanking his lucky stars that his ceiling meandering didn't result in him falling through into A2's lockup.
We all know what happens in A2's lockup.
One of the fondest memories I have had on this job was when I found a burglar hiding above the drop ceiling of the Erie/LaSalle Bodyshop on Christmas morning. He was refusing to come down from the beam he was perched on, so I started to tug on his leg. As I pulled his leg from the cabinet I was standing on, the two of us, and half the ceiling came crashing down. The toxins in the dust that mushroomed into the air probably took five years off my life, but man, did everyone get a good laugh out of it. Sadly, all it does is remind me of how much fun I used to have on this job.
Good luck collecting that $350!
Apparently he was unaware of all the pathogens that exist in our aging buildings. He'll come down with an unknown ailment eventually.
Perhaps the wanna-be escapees "fix" it. Every time one of them climbs up there and rambles about the heating ducts for a while, the heat kicks back on.
Great story coming out of Calumet City where police shot and killed a 15 year old "boy" with a knife. Seems the little "autistic" thug was out of control and hiding in the basement of the house. Cops went down to the basement and ordered junior to drop his knife and come out. Little junior decides to lunge at the cops with his knife and cuts one of the officers. Cops shoot the young man dead. Case closed? No way. Now we have the wailing family going after police because they didn't do something different with this little crazed maniac. The last incident at this house had the same little bastard go after cops with a butcher knife and he was tased. In another incident he beat up his mother. Lots of Monday morning quarterbacks around after the fact. I can't understand why family members and/or neighbors didn't go down to the basement to talk to this lad and try to disarm him. No way. Just dial 911 and let the police clean up your festering mess. Can you imagine how many lawyers have been pounding on the door to get this case. CHA CHING!
Does the Superintendent notice the general low opinion that the rank and file have of his Exempts? Does the Superintendent realize this is a direct result of publicly flogging them every week?
Does the Superintendent realize that Compstat and the poor treatment of his Exempts leads the regular guys to believe the Superintendent and the Mayor think poorly of them too? Does he care?
Nope. Playing "whack a mole" with the Exempts is just too much fun.
I'm suprised the repair was so cheep. To repaint a jail cell with a union painter cost over a $1000 and several hours. It must not be a union job.
We had that happen in the Suburban Police Dept. I worked for. Dirt Bag wouldn't come down out of the ceiling, so we borrowed a pike pole from the Fire Dept. I worked great, unfortunately he broke his leg from the sudden stop he encountered when he hit the floor. True Story. Name witheld to project the innocent. Be safe out there.
You would think someone would fix that somewhere in the intervening thirty years.
Naw. It's much cheaper to punish the det's that left him alone in the room.
Union job. The city needs a work order to be written up. Then it will be processed through regular channels. Repair will be started next year.
Fix it? We're missing the point arent we? Why wasnt someone watching the savage?
For all of the older or retired officers: remember when the area 2 dicks put a dead racoon in the false ceiling over the desk of George Sams, the drunk detective commander? It was up there for days until the smell was overpowering. Sams called the crime lab.
Was he debriefed to find out if there was any mold up there?
This isn't the first time this has happened. Even the newest CPD stations were designed more as community centers not with security and officer safety in mind.
If the city were ever to build any new facilitiy they should get input from the people who work there and see what they need and what causes problems.
But if they removed teh dropped ceiling, where would the (PC?) put the racoon?
Anonymous said...
"...As I pulled his leg from the cabinet I was standing on, the two of us, and half the ceiling came crashing down. The toxins in the dust that mushroomed into the air probably took five years off my life, but man, did everyone get a good laugh out of it. Sadly, all it does is remind me of how much fun I used to have on this job."
2/02/2012 02:00:00 AM
Today there would be a CR against you for interfering with a criminal act and attempting to apprehend a docile offender without taking the proper steps to insure his safety!
West Side, Inside Do-Nothing said...
Malik Jackson should be thanking his lucky stars that his ceiling meandering didn't result in him falling through into A2's lockup.
We all know what happens in A2's lockup.
2/02/2012 12:24:00 AM
He'd just be hanging around for a while, with the brown racing stripe underwear to assist.
Another idiot why don't they entertain us more when they run,like jump off a building? Run into traffic? Would save the taxpayers millions!
When I worked in 004 we had a burglar stuck in the chimmney at a BBQ joint on Stony Island Kenny's ribs I think. The fire department had to cut him out. Man was that a riot.
I spent my honeymoon in Houidini Falls.
Great story coming out of Calumet City where police shot and killed a 15 year old "boy" with a knife. Seems the little "autistic" thug was out of control and hiding in the basement of the house. Cops went down to the basement and ordered junior to drop his knife and come out. Little junior decides to lunge at the cops with his knife and cuts one of the officers. Cops shoot the young man dead. Case closed? No way. Now we have the wailing family going after police because they didn't do something different with this little crazed maniac. The last incident at this house had the same little bastard go after cops with a butcher knife and he was tased. In another incident he beat up his mother. Lots of Monday morning quarterbacks around after the fact. I can't understand why family members and/or neighbors didn't go down to the basement to talk to this lad and try to disarm him. No way. Just dial 911 and let the police clean up your festering mess. Can you imagine how many lawyers have been pounding on the door to get this case. CHA CHING!
2/02/2012 05:21:00 AM
Great story?!?! What a doofus you must be. The kid is dead. The family is a nervous wreck, understandably. The department is going to get blamed for a justified shooting and a lawsuit will be coming. There's a vigil/peaceful protest scheduled for tonight outside the station. What is great about this story moron? Only good thing came of it is that the coppers didn't get hurt more than cut on the arm. Cal City had their house coded as a place with an autistic kid, this is just sad all the way around.
Area 2 has this happen every now and then, yet NOBODY takes ANY action to do anything about it. Although it usually is quite funny when it happens, there could also be some deadly consequences if the arrestee attempting to escape somehow gets the jump on any one of the numerous cops operating in the building, or gets a hold of an officers weapon. Weapon security should be much tighter up there, and everywhere else, just sayin.
Anonymous said...
Great story coming out of Calumet City where police shot and killed a 15 year old "boy" with a knife. Seems the little "autistic" thug was out of control and hiding in the basement of the house. Cops went down to the basement and ordered junior to drop his knife and come out. Little junior decides to lunge at the cops with his knife and cuts one of the officers. Cops shoot the young man dead. Case closed? No way. Now we have the wailing family going after police because they didn't do something different with this little crazed maniac. The last incident at this house had the same little bastard go after cops with a butcher knife and he was tased. In another incident he beat up his mother. Lots of Monday morning quarterbacks around after the fact. I can't understand why family members and/or neighbors didn't go down to the basement to talk to this lad and try to disarm him. No way. Just dial 911 and let the police clean up your festering mess. Can you imagine how many lawyers have been pounding on the door to get this case. CHA CHING!
2/02/2012 05:21:00 AM
Great story?!?! What a doofus you must be. The kid is dead. The family is a nervous wreck, understandably. The department is going to get blamed for a justified shooting and a lawsuit will be coming. There's a vigil/peaceful protest scheduled for tonight outside the station. What is great about this story moron? Only good thing came of it is that the coppers didn't get hurt more than cut on the arm. Cal City had their house coded as a place with an autistic kid, this is just sad all the way around.
2/02/2012 03:44:00 PM
SOOO SAD, BUT TOO BAD, an autistic kid armed with a knife is an assailant armed with a deadly weapon, when they threaten or use it against a law enforcement officer. Maybe the parents should have been more concerned with keeping knives and other dangerous objects away from the kid, instead of being so concerned with blaming the Cops, and trying to win the Ghetto Lottery. Always the same shit here, Deny Accountability, Pass the Buck, get the police-hating mainstream socialist news media involved and stirred up, obtain a shyster ambulance-chaser attorney, blame the police, and when all else fails, cry Racism.
Malik is actually: Rakym Jones, and on Juvenile Probation
wait a minute, there are ceiling tiles missing in every area...the places look like bomb shelters.
No more domestic calls regarding my kid won't listen to me, mental or not....have them sign a use of force waiver before you enter their dungeon.
Must be the smell of money around the Calumet Park shooting. Rev. Jesse Jackson came by to see the family of the deceased moron and offer his help. Didn't see Father Flavor around crying his eyes out for the kid. Did notice dozens of Ghetto Reverands all blubering about police brutality. I am sure Jesse brought along a good attorney to handle their case. What the family should have done is chained this little criminal asshole to the kitchen stove away from any knives. At least they would know where he was all the time. The police acted properly in shooting this goof, but of course the courts will hand them a check to stem their "grief". In any other country this wouldn't even be a story.
FYI to the civilian posting about the Calumet City story. The vast majority of austistic kids don't chase people around with butcher knives. This little deceased rat was out of control and should have been put in a mental facility for life. Anyone who beats up their mother is no good. Can't forget about the nice Police Officer Grandmother who took care of her daughters kids when she booked. The one 15 year old beat and stabbed her to death and threw her into a sewer behind her house. This was all over this moron ditching school. Fuck these little sadistic murdering criminal bastards. I wouldn't show them any sympathy. If the kid is autistic then get him medicated. If he/she is violent then put them away.
Anonymous said...
For all of the older or retired officers: remember when the area 2 dicks put a dead racoon in the false ceiling over the desk of George Sams, the drunk detective commander? It was up there for days until the smell was overpowering. Sams called the crime lab.
2/02/2012 09:04:00 AM
To/Froms denying knowledge from anyone that worked there, visited there, or knew anyone that worked there. A forest of trees wasted in paper.
"A purported gang member arrested this week for shooting a year-old girl..."
Did he duct-tape her first?
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...and...
"Great story coming out of Calumet City where police shot and killed a 15 year old "boy" with a knife."
--2/02/2012 05:21:00 AM
More revs than you ever seen in your life, "pastors" attracted like flies from miles around, candlelight vigils on the lawn, and Jesse Jackson stating to the Feds that "the police were up on a pedestal and they shot down at him."
Huh?
"I can't understand why family members and/or neighbors didn't go down to the basement to talk to this lad and try to disarm him."
--2/02/2012 05:21:00 AM
This was all the time. How about back up out of the basement and lock the door behind you and just let it roll until he gets tired of "acting out."
...or drop him off at Pat Quinn's house, since the governor is closing mental health places like Tinley Park.
"...an autistic kid armed with a knife is an assailant armed with a deadly weapon..."
--2/02/2012 06:52:00 PM
Just when the figure hits "1 out of 100 kids are autistic," the shrinks go to work on the problem by "re-defining" autism to clear the books a little, so to speak.
It's scaring them, huh?
"For all of the older or retired officers: remember when the area 2 dicks put a dead racoon in the false ceiling over the desk of George Sams, the drunk detective commander? It was up there for days until the smell was overpowering. Sams called the crime lab."
--2/02/2012 09:04:00 AM
I've seen 'em in August. A large brown balloon with black stripes and 4 tiny legs, nose, and tail sticking out.
Like one of those weird puffer fish or something.
You don't need the crime lab, you need the bomb squad.
Clear the area!
Brick Sports Bar at 4422 W. Madison makin the TV news, 270 people inside a 97-person joint last night and won't let the police in, bullets flyin, everyone fightin, cars hittin buildings...
What do they do on weekends?
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