Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Crime Up North

What happens when you strip more police from the "low crime" areas?
  • Imagine walking into a gas station and right into the middle of a robbery. It happened in Portage Park and surveillance cameras were rolling.

    [...] The clerk and a female customers were tied up with plastic zip ties along with two more customers who walked in during the robbery.

    “He was like, ‘You know I can shoot you, right? I can shoot you. Don’t move,’” said store clerk Mudassir Mohammed.

    The threats were backed up with a handgun aimed at the convenience store clerk behind the counter Monday night.

    Muddassir Mohammed says just after 9:45 p.m. a pair robbers, a man in a red hat and a female in a white hat, acted like customers at first when they entered the Citgo store near Milwaukee and Berteau in the Portage Park neighborhood. The man was wielding a gun and demanded cash from the register.

  • Police are warning the public on the Northwest Side to be wary following two home invasions this month.

    Most recently, Monday about 1:05 p.m. in the 6300 block of North Lowell Avenue in the city’s Sauganash neighborhood, two or three attackers forced their way into the victims’ home, showed a handgun and searched the house, according to police.

    An earlier similar incident happened June 7 about 9:50 p.m. in the 5800 block of North Jersey Avenue in the Hollywood Park neighborhood. Police believe that the same people are responsible.

    During one invasion, shots were fired and during the other attack, they told the victims they “were the police and they were looking for someone,’’ according to police.

    The three attackers are all described as black males about 5-foot-7, and 150 pounds, they each wore a ski mask or hooded sweatshirt pulled tight police said.
Well, at least htey described the attackers in the second incident. Careful up north boys and girls.

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103 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

What happens when people make no effort whatsoever to defend their home. You don't even need a CC permit to keep a firearm(s) in your home for home defense.

6/18/2014 01:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And people ask why I carry.

6/18/2014 01:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow now what is the reason I work south but live in 016?!!! Thanks Rahm!!!!

6/18/2014 01:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

5800 block of north Jersey. To close to home. Bring our Law Men back. Now. Fuck this bull shit. Worst mayor ever.

6/18/2014 01:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

016 is not what it used to be, it's time to leave Illinois. Chicago is an unsafe city everywhere today.

6/18/2014 01:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You mean the North Side VRI isn't curtailing that?
Oh that's right they only do VRI in the ghetto.
Fuck the tax paying base that's Rahm n McFailure's motto

6/18/2014 01:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Operation Saturation Sandbag said...

And yet, like clockwork, there'll be anywhere from 4 to 8 Saturation POs huddled in the 011th District Tactical Office for hours brainstorming on how to write-up their bullshit 3-bagger, TVB or Mob Action arrests. Doesn't matter if it's their day crew or night team, they're downing several cars/officers FOR HOURS for total bullshit in the shitholes of the city while the mutts travel and wreak the kind of havoc described in this thread. That they're allowed to do this shit day in and day out is fucking pathetic. That it's tolerated and promoted by their supervisors is borderline criminal. All for the sake of the numbers game so the supervisors can keep McCarthy out of their asses at Compstat meetings. Gotta love the logic of those 3-6 year wonders.

011, 2nd W

6/18/2014 02:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank you SCC for the tip I will be waiting shotgun in hand for such a visit ret.CPD.

6/18/2014 02:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

According to the first article, I should be weary of people with hats. Thanks media, for being less than helpful when it come to descriptions.

6/18/2014 03:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I guess Rahm does not care about the northwest side vote-- he must think the only people that live up northwest are city workers. Keep taking officers out of 016 and not replacing retires and this is what you get. The boogie man up north.

6/18/2014 06:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wonder why those homes were targeted? They sell dope in 016 too.

6/18/2014 06:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Stay Armed, Alert and prepared to defend yourself and those that you love at ALL times.

6/18/2014 06:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Obviously this gas station needs to put one of the "no guns allowed" decals on the door!

6/18/2014 06:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Operation Saturation Sandbag said...
And yet, like clockwork, there'll be anywhere from 4 to 8 Saturation POs huddled in the 011th District Tactical Office for hours brainstorming on how to write-up their bullshit 3-bagger, TVB or Mob Action arrests. Doesn't matter if it's their day crew or night team, they're downing several cars/officers FOR HOURS for total bullshit in the shitholes of the city while the mutts travel and wreak the kind of havoc described in this thread. That they're allowed to do this shit day in and day out is fucking pathetic. That it's tolerated and promoted by their supervisors is borderline criminal. All for the sake of the numbers game so the supervisors can keep McCarthy out of their asses at Compstat meetings. Gotta love the logic of those 3-6 year wonders.

011, 2nd W

6/18/2014 02:05:00 AM
__________________

You just figured this out?

6/18/2014 07:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

conversation between g "i'm smart" mcdiddler and mayor 1 term:

mcdiddler-boss i can prove crime is down
1 term-how jerry?
mcdiddler-we got less police districts, boom!

6/18/2014 07:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

But Rahm has 2 cars stationed on his block 24 hours a day!

6/18/2014 07:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Crime is down in 016. so we need to do cuts in manpower to help in troubled west and southside areas of the city.

6/18/2014 07:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Channel 9 neglected to mention race.

I work in 11, and there are hardly ever any broad daylight home invasions THERE!

News mentioned really not much taken? Are these mutts looking for someone? A copper who locked them up maybe and they got some bad addresses?

Sounds very strange.

6/18/2014 07:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

All you Cop land cops have to transfer out of OCD, vice and hidden cushy units and transfer into 016 to do some aggressive patrol.........

6/18/2014 07:32:00 AM  
Blogger I Voted For Obama said...

My brothers like the north side. Easy victims. Easy police.

6/18/2014 07:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

These bastard pinko democruds would take good guys guns away if they could. Thats downright subversive.

6/18/2014 08:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

016 is not the what it used to be. city workers are retiring and moving out and the city doesn't hire like it used so city workers like cops and firemen and teachers aren't buying houses to replace the good people that used to live there. 016 is going down the toilet, unless you live in a yuppie area, you are screwed

6/18/2014 08:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

016 is stripped of manpower, 017 is not much better.
The alderwoman just sits there waiting for Rham to tell her what to do.
The last two commanders were dumped for asking for more manpower.
Oh, by the way, taxes are going up!

6/18/2014 08:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Operation Saturation Sandbag said...
"while the mutts travel and wreak the kind of havoc described in this thread."


They are already here. Section 8 spreads them everywhere, including suburbs.

6/18/2014 08:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And yet, like clockwork, there'll be anywhere from 4 to 8 Saturation POs huddled in the 011th District Tactical Office for hours brainstorming on how to write-up their bullshit 3-bagger, TVB or Mob Action arrests. Doesn't matter if it's their day crew or night team, they're downing several cars/officers FOR HOURS for total bullshit in the shitholes of the city while the mutts travel and wreak the kind of havoc described in this thread. That they're allowed to do this shit day in and day out is fucking pathetic. That it's tolerated and promoted by their supervisors is borderline criminal. All for the sake of the numbers game so the supervisors can keep McCarthy out of their asses at Compstat meetings. Gotta love the logic of those 3-6 year wonders.

011, 2nd W

And the funny thing is, they still bring in more than your sorry ass. 011 2nd watch is full of complainers. I know, I know, you were all the "real police" back then. I can count the 2nd watch officers that were the "real police" on one hand. They know who they are and I know who they are. Besides them, I don't want to hear a peep out of any of you. Just do your 5 parkers to keep your spot.

011 3rd w

6/18/2014 09:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

During the school year in 016, cars are deployed for the morning school crossings, leaving zero cars patrolling the streets.

6/18/2014 09:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You've been robbed of your police services, yet you democrats keep electing aldermen that allow it to happen

6/18/2014 10:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So looking at the orders yesterday they approved new weapons. We have kel-tec junk approved, and the glock fanboy commandos of the range approved a 5.31" barrel competition gun for carry, but for those of us that don't drink Glocks kool aid, and would rather carry a xd-s these twats won't approve it because the Sally ass sgt says they won't send one to T&E. Get over yourself. Most incompetent range in the nation. Hopefully no one that goes out and buys the bodygaurd (that has a manual safety on it) gets killed, especially since we don't train with manual safety's. Keep drinking the glock kool-aid.

6/18/2014 10:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

As "Best Dressed" Rahm preens and struts in his fine suits -- the butcher's bill --

9 injured, 1 dead, in South, West Side shootings

9:18 a.m. CDT, June 18, 2014

* 14-year-old was shot about 10:25 p.m. in the 1400 block of South Drake Avenue...hit in the lower back and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.

* Four people were shot in the 3700 block of South Langley Avenue at 5:30 p.m...22-year-old man was shot in the buttocks, a 40-year-old man sustained a graze wound to his hips and side and a 31-year-old woman was shot in the arm...30-year-old man was shot in the chin, neck and chest and was in serious condition.

* 4:45 p.m., a man was shot on the 3900 block of West Washington Boulevard... shot in the head and taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in critical condition, where he later died...

• About 9:30 p.m., a 22-year-old man was shot in the 100 block of East 42nd Street. The man was standing on the street when some opened fire and fled in a white minivan...shot multiple times and taken to Stroger, where he was listed in critical condition.

• A 23-year-old man suffered a graze wound to the head in the 5400 block of West Walton Street about 10:15 p.m.

• About 2:20 p.m. a 17-year-old boy was shot on the 6800 block of South Paulina Street, said Sweeney. The boy was shot in the buttocks and was taken to an area hospital where his condition had stabilized.

• Someone shot a 25-year-old man in the chest during a possible drive-by at 12:19 p.m. in the 9800 block of South Avenue J...taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-man-critically-wounded-in-far-south-side-shooting-20140617,0,4285406.story

6/18/2014 10:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Operation Saturation Sandbag said...
And yet, like clockwork, there'll be anywhere from 4 to 8 Saturation POs huddled in the 011th District Tactical Office for hours brainstorming on how to write-up their bullshit 3-bagger, TVB or Mob Action arrests. Doesn't matter if it's their day crew or night team, they're downing several cars/officers FOR HOURS for total bullshit in the shitholes of the city while the mutts travel and wreak the kind of havoc described in this thread. That they're allowed to do this shit day in and day out is fucking pathetic. That it's tolerated and promoted by their supervisors is borderline criminal. All for the sake of the numbers game so the supervisors can keep McCarthy out of their asses at Compstat meetings. Gotta love the logic of those 3-6 year wonders.

011, 2nd W


Why don't you go show them how its done? Or maybe you should be out on the street stopping all the havoc instead of getting in other peoples business at the station. why don't you go back to watching your bootleg dvd you just bought at Madison/springfield.

6/18/2014 10:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

whats this word going around that Mike Shields is going to run again for the pension board against Lappe when the times comes? I thought him and Lappe were good friends.

6/18/2014 10:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"What happens when you strip more police from the "low crime" areas?" -- SCC

...and...

* Destroy the city's manufacturing base, and with it, the city's middle class

* Kick over the housing projects and scatter their contents for fifty miles around

* Declare a "Sanctuary City" for illegal aliens, who will be held to be "above the law" in many aspects

* Turn the place into a playground for graft, theft, corruption, and the savage real estate and financial speculators comprising the great Rolodex Of Evil?

Look out the window...

6/18/2014 11:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

rudy guiliani for mayor

6/18/2014 11:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Operation Saturation Sandbag said...
And yet, like clockwork, there'll be anywhere from 4 to 8 Saturation POs huddled in the 011th District Tactical Office for hours brainstorming on how to write-up their bullshit 3-bagger, TVB or Mob Action arrests. Doesn't matter if it's their day crew or night team, they're downing several cars/officers FOR HOURS for total bullshit in the shitholes of the city while the mutts travel and wreak the kind of havoc described in this thread. That they're allowed to do this shit day in and day out is fucking pathetic. That it's tolerated and promoted by their supervisors is borderline criminal. All for the sake of the numbers game so the supervisors can keep McCarthy out of their asses at Compstat meetings. Gotta love the logic of those 3-6 year wonders.

011, 2nd W

6/18/2014 02:05:00 AM

And what are you doing to stem the tide of assholes other than complaining? What does 3-6 year wonders in 011 have to do with crime in 016 Dist? You should be directing your so-called outrage at the cops who work in 016 Dist, but instead you lambaste cops in 011 Dist.

6/18/2014 11:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Will matter though
http://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/2014/06/18/has-chicago-reduced-its-crime-rates/

6/18/2014 11:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And they were Barry's kids too

6/18/2014 11:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not to worry, some of the hardest working coppers in the city just bid from 013/012 to 017 to safeguard or families and property-not. I'd leave Sauganash now if I were you!

6/18/2014 11:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good,now you assholes can feel the pain that us southsiders deal with.GFY

6/18/2014 12:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why aren't you tax payers up North killing these m/fers who dare to travel from their over policed nesting grounds on the west and south sides to inflict THEIR special brand of grief and aggravation on YOU because McCarthy is a fucking two faced coward and the mayor is a fucking coward, hater and a shit-ass?

You people pay exhorbitant and punitive taxes, fees and fines for the mere appearance of Police Coverage because you don't get mad and fight Rahm Emanuel back. Fuck him hard in his racist and classist ass by killing these criminal mutts who come to prey on YOU because where YOU LIVE is where Police protection (by intentional design) ISN'T!

Don't you think that if the areas where these criminal shitbirds were besieged by roving bands of white home invaders, armed robbers and sex assaulters, that the shitbirds and their litter mates wouldn't be storming City Hall?

The Catered To Constituency can't even deign to come to grips with their "Armed Wing" shooting and killing the shit out of every fucking thing that moves!

You people play too nice with rotten and corrupt bastards like Rahm Emanuel and are giving him a lot of room to play race card and class card politics against YOU by INTENTIONALLY LEAViNG YOU UNPROTECTED in the face of what's going on .

You see, Rahm Emanuel is cowardly shit-ass. He has embraced shit-head thinking that the good tax paying people on the north side should be willing to put up with intentionally diminished Police Protection, coupled with increased peril at the hands of criminal shit birds.

Why? Ecause you're white, you play by the rules and you're "rich" compared to the assholes traveling north to rob, steal, rape and get up in YOUR house on you to even the score in life because YOU have what THEY want to take.

WTF? When Rahm says to board "The Freight Trains To Nowhere," you north side tax payers aren't gonna say shit as you're being rounded up.

Mmm-Hmmm... Be good citizens. Don't kick up a fuss, don't get mad and don't fight back... You're "Racist" if you do.

Bullshit!
You're letting a slippery shit-ass full of hate and a master's degree in how to talk slick designate you people as the losers?

This so called mayor and piss poor excuse of a man would rather offend YOU who pay the fucking freight in this hellish, GOD FORSAKEN city, than the assholes who inflict by order of magnitude, more than their collective mass in grief and aggravation on everyone else.

Rahm and McCarthy, for all their smug, know-it-all, laughing up their sleeves because they're the only two "smart enough" to get the punch line of this very bad joke being played on this city... Have no real answers to any fucking thing except keeping up the charade that the constant parade of "new strategies" to bullshit people into thinking something is actually being done.

When these two poofters finally blow town, only then will it become clear that they accomplished jack shit.

Hey! Local media!
Disable THIS comment section you fucking cowards!

May all you worthless fucks be reduced to sharing our fate and fighting with The Police you revile so much for the last passable onion to mince up in the cat food Rahm wants to see US reduced to eating.

Shared sacrifice an' shit... Right?

Viva Hate.

6/18/2014 12:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm all over the city for work. As a relatively new CCW, I still worry that I'm going to be "made" by a client, and they're going to ask me why I'm carrying. Working in someone's office is a lot more intimate than walking down the sidewalk. The scumbags sure are making it a lot easier to justify, if the need should arise.

6/18/2014 12:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://uicradio.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/26023470.jpg

6/18/2014 12:59:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why even report this? It's the same no description guys with hats, great thing to go on, in any other state they would have the animals faces plastered all over the media, nope not here don't want to say offenders are black, hey tony precwinkel why are so many black n brown in jail, look around moron seems they are doing most of the crime, yep toni you needs to talk like to your peoples, bring Jesse Jackson and the rest of the "black extortion crew" with you speak out Toni the truth hurts huh?

6/18/2014 01:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is what happens when criminals come to the area and assault or thieve and The residents of the naighborhood do nothing or laugh. The criminals then come back and steal mostly.

6/18/2014 01:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

(OT) analysis Barry Obama worst president in history no legacy! Blame President Bush!

http://washingtonexaminer.com/about-that-wall-street-journal-poll-is-the-public-saying-obamas-presidency-is-over/article/2549878

6/18/2014 01:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Wrigleyville blog broaches the signed complaint thing but doesn't have the guts to explain WHY disorderly conduct/loitering arrests cannot be made.

Cognitive dissonance is a bitch but a little education would go a long way.

http://crimeinboystown.blogspot.com/2014/06/disturbing-peace-without-signed.html

6/18/2014 01:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
016 is not what it used to be, it's time to leave Illinois. Chicago is an unsafe city everywhere today.

6/18/2014 01:46:00 AM
A over the top statement, ?? Name a middle to large city that does not have crime? You can't Chicago actually has a lot less crime then most US cities. The gang murders catch everyone attention. And, don't go and tell me that the crime stats for Chicago are all phoney. There may be some fudging there, but not that much to really make a difference.

6/18/2014 01:59:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
According to the first article, I should be weary of people with hats. Thanks media, for being less than helpful when it come to descriptions.

6/18/2014 03:48:00 AM
And, why do you think that the media is vague on physical descriptions of violent crime offenders?

6/18/2014 02:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think you mean theft from building.

with simple assault...

6/18/2014 02:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wonder what the response time was on those capers.....

6/18/2014 02:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

don't forget about the 2 bb-gun incidents along N. Michigan Ave

6/18/2014 02:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My sister lives 3 blocks from that Citgo station.

Generally a nice neighborhood up there, but it doesn't take much to get from the south or west sides to ply their fucked up trade of robbery.

Just a Ventra card or a set of wheels. Preferably stolen.

6/18/2014 03:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Section 8!

6/18/2014 03:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Pension reform but not welfare reform....

6/18/2014 03:48:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

After I retired,I moved to a state with shitty weather and no crime. You can prepare for bad weather

6/18/2014 04:06:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

(OT) ahh dean oh dean Angelo disability dean psst over here:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-firefighters-approve-contract-hiking-pay-11-percent-20140618,0,4511200.story

6/18/2014 04:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is why Chicago is no longer my home. Translation; I no longer pay property tax, city sticker extortion, any and all taxes/fees pertaining to the city as well as Illinois.
Retired CPD

6/18/2014 04:22:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


So what's the breakdown for beats and manpower?

Ghetto beats are 4 blocks by 4 blocks and have a dozen coppers on each with District Personnel, Special Units, Detailed Teams, and Special Employment Cops.

The Northwest Side has beats that are miles squared. Skeleton crews working. Striped of manpower and (some) concentrate much of their effort on nonsense.

Keep your powder dry 016 and 017.

6/18/2014 04:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where has 10th Dist MR. T been lately? He/she has been quiet for a few weeks. Possibly on vacation?

We miss you 10th Dist MR. T.

6/18/2014 04:48:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I wonder why those homes were targeted? They sell dope in 016 too."

6/18/2014 06:32:00 AM

The invaders "searched" the homes. That's all? Fascinating.

First time I've heard of a home invasion without the story mentioning "the robbers took cash, jewelry, and the TV."

"Wha the safe! Wha the safe!" etc.

Here, they claimed to be "looking for someONE."

Mmm.

6/18/2014 05:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why even report this? It's the same no description guys with hats, great thing to go on, in any other state they would have the animals faces plastered all over the media, nope not here don't want to say offenders are black, hey tony precwinkel why are so many black n brown in jail, look around moron seems they are doing most of the crime, yep toni you needs to talk like to your peoples, bring Jesse Jackson and the rest of the "black extortion crew" with you speak out Toni the truth hurts huh?

6/18/2014 01:24:00 PM
Video of robbery:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-robbers-hold-4-at-gunpoint-i-was-hoping-they-dont-shoot-20140617,0,3390558.story

Sexual assault on near west side last month, trib did the same thing. Bank robberies? Same thing. Attempted child abductions? Same thing. So shut the fuck up with your "they don't give descriptions of blacks" bullshit because it's more times than not bullshit or doesn't matter, i.e. what race shit heads are when shit heads cause havoc downtown. No one can give a legit reason for why that would mean shit other than "they would do it if it were white kids".




6/18/2014 06:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

NortSide would call out over Zone 12 ;
"...have a car waiting southbound Central at the bridge and the Austin tunnel".
Those were the days in 025.
Those were the days.

6/18/2014 06:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And how many have forgotten when coppers and those who own firearms stood outside their homes on guard against the shitheads. The only thing the shitheads understood then and now is the show of force.


Police Move In As Party Spills Over Preserve

August 03, 1998|By Abdon M. Pallasch and Graeme Zielinski, Tribune Staff Writers.



An attempt by police to break up a gathering of thousands of people in a Cook County Forest Preserve near Schiller Park on Sunday afternoon resulted in at least a dozen arrests and injuries to both police officers and participants.

Authorities said that as the crowd got out of control on the Northwest Side and in neighboring suburbs, they shut down streets clogged with participants and called in extra units from 15 law enforcement departments. The melee peaked as some 150 police officers faced a shower of bottles from a portion of the crowd at a Melrose Park shopping center, officials said.








One man was treated for a gunshot wound to his arm in the Forest Preserve, and a woman was sexually assaulted at the shopping center, police said.

Organizers of the event said in their permit application that 2,000 people were expected at the gathering in Schiller Woods, called "Freaknic," according to Steve Mayberry, a spokesman for the Forest Preserve District. Instead, 8,000 to 12,000 people showed up, prompting police to shut down the event at about 4 p.m., he said.

At that point, according to authorities, the gathering got out of control as participants took to neighboring streets. Order was restored by about 8 p.m.

"The impression I got was it was just too many people in the same place at the same time," said Cook County sheriff's police spokesman Bill Cunningham.

Sunday's event was patterned after a celebration of black college students held each spring in Atlanta, participants said. It was the second one held in Chicago.

Among the injured were two Chicago police officers who were taken to Resurrection Medical Center for minor injuries. Forest Preserve Supt. Joseph Nevius said the man shot in the arm was taken to Gottlieb Memorial Hospital in Melrose Park, where he was listed in good condition.

"It was just going crazy," said Michael Lawrence, 20, who was at the event Sunday. "(Picnic-goers) were pulling girls' clothes off. They were fighting."

Michael Jones, who was also at the event, said that after a fight broke out between participants and police, additional officers were called in. A phalanx of officers in helmets and riot gear marched down Irving Park Road dispersing the crowd.

As the crowd spilled onto side streets, residents became alarmed.

"We were terrified," said one woman who lives near Oriole Avenue and Addison Street. She said she was so frightened by the scene, she took her two toddlers and hid in the basement.

While the incident began in the forest preserve, police and witnesses reported the problem spread.

6/18/2014 06:56:00 PM  
Anonymous 1st and 16th Only said...

Anonymous said...
And yet, like clockwork, there'll be anywhere from 4 to 8 Saturation POs huddled in the 011th District Tactical Office for hours brainstorming on how to write-up their bullshit 3-bagger, TVB or Mob Action arrests. Doesn't matter if it's their day crew or night team, they're downing several cars/officers FOR HOURS for total bullshit in the shitholes of the city while the mutts travel and wreak the kind of havoc described in this thread. That they're allowed to do this shit day in and day out is fucking pathetic. That it's tolerated and promoted by their supervisors is borderline criminal. All for the sake of the numbers game so the supervisors can keep McCarthy out of their asses at Compstat meetings. Gotta love the logic of those 3-6 year wonders.

011, 2nd W

And the funny thing is, they still bring in more than your sorry ass. 011 2nd watch is full of complainers. I know, I know, you were all the "real police" back then. I can count the 2nd watch officers that were the "real police" on one hand. They know who they are and I know who they are. Besides them, I don't want to hear a peep out of any of you. Just do your 5 parkers to keep your spot.

011 3rd w

Hahaha who cares what goes on in 011, it's a slow district anyways. I guess 1 rockers of the poor white guy passes for real police work these days in 011. Don't act like 011 is a rough district it's a semi retirement spot with a bunch of cowboys who think people really care about the REAL POLICE. Wake up tools go to the homeland and be the police there than you get respect, until than all you fools working in 011 deserve your homes broken into cause you want that 44 date. I have seen the PO's there wearing the Fillmore hoodies, you look like fools. Grow up anybody can police the ghetto, don't act like you are some superheroes, you are baby sitters.

765B

6/18/2014 07:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sauganash. The new Garfield Ridge.

6/18/2014 07:30:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Trib put up a video of the Citgo robbery. The mutt in the white hat hid his face the whole time. I guess he knew exactly where those cameras were.

6/18/2014 07:33:00 PM  
Blogger I Fart In Your General Direction said...

Operation Saturation Sandbag said...
And yet, like clockwork, there'll be anywhere from 4 to 8 Saturation POs huddled in the 011th District Tactical Office for hours brainstorming on how to write-up their bullshit 3-bagger, TVB or Mob Action arrests. Doesn't matter if it's their day crew or night team, they're downing several cars/officers FOR HOURS for total bullshit in the shitholes of the city while the mutts travel and wreak the kind of havoc described in this thread. That they're allowed to do this shit day in and day out is fucking pathetic. That it's tolerated and promoted by their supervisors is borderline criminal. All for the sake of the numbers game so the supervisors can keep McCarthy out of their asses at Compstat meetings. Gotta love the logic of those 3-6 year wonders.

011, 2nd W

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Why don't you go show them how its done? Or maybe you should be out on the street stopping all the havoc instead of getting in other peoples business at the station. why don't you go back to watching your bootleg dvd you just bought at Madison/springfield.

And...

And what are you doing to stem the tide of assholes other than complaining? What does 3-6 year wonders in 011 have to do with crime in 016 Dist? You should be directing your so-called outrage at the cops who work in 016 Dist, but instead you lambaste cops in 011 Dist.

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I see two obtuse Saturation members have chimed-in with their 2 bags...oops, I meant 2 cents.

Which is just one reason why your Stupidvisors exploit your naive, sorry asses to make themselves look good and justify their very existence. I'll bet you guys talked "as a team" about getting slammed on the blog and concocted these half-assed rebuttals together. Sarge said it sounded like a good idea to fire back, huh?

And all along you goofs allow yourselves to be pimped because you somehow arrived at the conclusion that driving an extra half hour a day, to a district across the city, to work a less desirable watch answering calls for service would sting more than consistently and continually crossing into gray areas to play the CPD Compstat Numbers Game*.

(*Tip & Clue, from me to you: those Contact Cards ARE coming back to bite you over zealous boys and girls in the ass, and HARD. Close friends that are attorneys specializing in Civil Rights Law are feverishly at work compiling ammunition).

You fellas kinda missed a good portion of the point being made in the original post. I suggest you go back and read it. And then read it again for good measure.

The ass(ets) you save may be your own.

6/18/2014 08:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT. Word from headquarters is that McCarthy's health problems are more serious than what has been reported. The Superintendent might take a leave of absence and Wysinger is going to take over in an interim basis.

6/18/2014 09:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

During the school year in 016, cars are deployed for the morning school crossings, leaving zero cars patrolling the streets.

6/18/2014 09:32:00 AM

Same in 020 & 024 and 018 ....

6/18/2014 09:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm just wondering what the saturation team in 11 has anything to do with the armed robbery in 16? If you have a problem with those guys, go into the office and tell them instead of typing it out here. Just another Blogger tough guy who loves to complain and whine.

6/18/2014 09:28:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Over the weekend the twenty-year-old daughter of a friend had her wallet lifted near Loyola U. Within minutes, four $100 Ventra cards had been bought using her Visa card. No doubt quickly sold on the street for what, $25, for that Blue ride out to 016, stylin' hats, natch.

6/18/2014 09:29:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You know what I miss scc...the jib jab videos....Whata say? Brig em back !

6/18/2014 09:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

FYI, Gypsies working around Nagle Ave today, from
4800 North to 5600 North. 3 m/2's in a goldish colored Honda minivan.

6/18/2014 09:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
016 is not what it used to be, it's time to leave Illinois. Chicago is an unsafe city everywhere today.

6/18/2014 01:46:00 AM
A over the top statement, ?? Name a middle to large city that does not have crime? You can't Chicago actually has a lot less crime then most US cities. The gang murders catch everyone attention. And, don't go and tell me that the crime stats for Chicago are all phoney. There may be some fudging there, but not that much to really make a difference.

6/18/2014 01:59:00 PM

Hey Tiny D, stay off the blog.

6/18/2014 10:00:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Swat school is a joke. SWAT is done. Instead of feeding the candidates with training, evolving techniques, lessons learned from other teams' mistakes, policy writing (there was none), solidifying trust and developing a true 'team' mentality, the powers that be decided to create an environment of those who are friends of the clout and those who are not.

This school sucks monkey balls. I'm gonna quit. There are plenty of guys who just like to wear green and be seen. Haven't been thru the door or in harms way for years now and that's OK because they don't make waves for the powers that be. It's a shame how it all falling apart. More disappointing is how I see first hand what a hand job the SWAT teachers are. Talk about real hand jobs.

This SWAT school sucks giraffe balls and antelope ass. Really unorganized. It really could, and should have been an amazing school with unlimited potential. Instead, it's plagued with those who know too much and those who haven't a clue. No identity what so ever. It's the flavor of the week with the training staff who dictate the teams direction based on whatever class they've attended or speech they heard from some Tier 1 operator. It's actually comical that these, would be warriors, are so incompetent. I was afraid it would be a joke. Not putting up with another day of this bullshit.

6/18/2014 10:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So looking at the orders yesterday they approved new weapons. We have kel-tec junk approved, and the glock fanboy commandos of the range approved a 5.31" barrel competition gun for carry, but for those of us that don't drink Glocks kool aid, and would rather carry a xd-s these twats won't approve it because the Sally ass sgt says they won't send one to T&E. Get over yourself. Most incompetent range in the nation. Hopefully no one that goes out and buys the bodygaurd (that has a manual safety on it) gets killed, especially since we don't train with manual safety's. Keep drinking the glock kool-aid.

6/18/2014 10:12:00 AM
You have to be kidding me. Kel Tec ? Junk alert, better off with an old wheelgun inherited from the Ghost of Revolver Police. Glock long slide comp gun ? Really ? The stupid holster will be down to the knee and Comp Glocks have lighter trigger pull (3.5# not fit for street duty...Hmmm What the H are they thinking ???

6/18/2014 11:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is why Chicago is no longer my home. Translation; I no longer pay property tax, city sticker extortion, any and all taxes/fees pertaining to the city as well as Illinois.
Retired CPD

Your lucky you got out Most will be Trapped

6/18/2014 11:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Robbery on the north side ? Why do people act like this is anything new? Yeah, it's a relatively low crime area - and still is compared to majority of the city. I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to find a robbery from up north that happened before police were stolen from the area. I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to find a robbery from 5, 10 or 20 years ago. And I'm not talking some Iphone robbery. People who live in the area will stay put because it still beats living almost anywhere else.

6/19/2014 12:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dean Angelo Sr campaigned on not putting in his personal choices in as field reps, blasted his opponent in the runoff election for not making the same commitment to allow the elected positions of 1st, 2nd and 3rd vice presidents, recording secretary, financial secretary and treasurer to occupy the 6 field rep spots in the office. Well boys and girls newsflash he lied. He replaced DiMaria, Gorman and Bella who were elected by the membership with three of his pals Keith Carter, Marlon Harvey Tom McDonagh who were not elected by the membership. So the Field Reps are Casiano, Carter, Harvey, Kilmer, Capparelli, McDonagh with a new position created for Bella that never existed before upstairs in the office. Dean Angelo also stated the FOP members could use any attorneys as long as they worked for the established rate FOP paid. Well an officer called and was told by Kathy Moore sorry we don't use those attorneys any more. Talk about a lying dictator. We need a by law passed that states that if you are elected to the top 6 spots you automatically become field reps. Was hoping for a legit guy after voting for Dean but should have known better. He's showing his true colors, telling everyone what they wanted to hear during the campaign and then totally going back on his promises he made to the members. No different than any of the elected officials in this state.

6/19/2014 12:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

People have to be aware of their surroundings. Hold off the texting when you are getting ready to walk into a gas station or convenience store. Look inside before you go walking in.

Never allow the robbers to tie you up and/or take you into a back room. When they do that there is a higher chance that they will execute you.

6/19/2014 12:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Swat school is a joke.

This school sucks monkey balls.

This SWAT school sucks giraffe balls and antelope ass.

6/18/2014 10:27:00 PM

Sounds like your not mature enough for SWAT or even a paper route.








6/19/2014 12:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

As Lodge 7 President, he intends to bring a newfound sense of professionalism back as commonplace and regular practice of the Lodge

6/19/2014 12:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
I'm just wondering what the saturation team in 11 has anything to do with the armed robbery in 16? If you have a problem with those guys, go into the office and tell them instead of typing it out here. Just another Blogger tough guy who loves to complain and whine.

6/18/2014 09:28:00 PM

If you can't figure out the obvious, then you have much bigger problems than the absence of common sense. Let me help ya out, Einstein.

Ahhhh, disregard...you goofs just keep doing what you're doing and continue to fund my pension. God help you clowns.

6/19/2014 12:57:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

During the school year in 016, cars are deployed for the morning school crossings, leaving zero cars patrolling the streets.

Yes PO school crossing guard supervisors What a fuking joke and making zero arrests

6/19/2014 02:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

6/18/2014 09:32:00 AM wow aren't you a jealous little bitch ms 3rd watch. Don't worry kid someday you will be on days. Lol typical hairgel -- no time on the job but has something to say.

6/19/2014 06:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rahm Emanuel is guilty of stealing police resources from taxpayers.

He can never win the Presidency in the future when this news becomes national.

6/19/2014 07:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

16 is still a nice place to live. All of you who say leave, it is not the answer, the answer is stay, be active, organize, vote, take action. Because if you run once you will run your whole life.

6/19/2014 07:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Attention Liberals!!!!!

The government cannot protect you 24/7!!!!

The animals on the streets don't care if you voted for Obama!!!!!

Protect yourselves for once in your useless lives!!!

By a firearm! Learn to shoot! Get the permit!!!

That is all....

6/19/2014 07:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wouldn't worry to much about the two Northside "home invasions" not real victims in either location.

6/19/2014 08:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey SWAT wannabe, you do protest too much.
Sounds to me like you can't handle it. It also sounds like you think you know more than anyone else.

If you are such a bright star that knows what a real SWAT team is, then stay, and try to "fix" what you think is broken. But most likely got dresses down, and just aren't SWAT material.

I've met more whiners on this job that claim everything is rigged, when the fact is they just didn't pass muster.
Have some self respect and keep your pie hole closed.

Best regards,
pNot a SWAT Guy.

6/19/2014 11:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What is Napolean and McFailure saying about this?
Complete silence.
Why aren't the North Side citizens and Alderthieves screaming bloody murder about the complete lack of police resources in the "quiet" areas because all the resources are being stripped and sent to the ghetto??

6/19/2014 11:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just sayin', if you can get a property tax reduction for excessive airplane noise why can't you get one for excessive crime ?

6/19/2014 01:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"the training staff who dictate the teams direction based on whatever class they've attended or speech they heard from some Tier 1 operator"

Tier 1 Operator? Isn't that the name of a Mens Bathhouse on Halsted St.?

6/19/2014 03:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Hahaha who cares what goes on in 011, it's a slow district anyways. I guess 1 rockers of the poor white guy passes for real police work these days in 011. Don't act like 011 is a rough district it's a semi retirement spot with a bunch of cowboys who think people really care about the REAL POLICE. Wake up tools go to the homeland and be the police there than you get respect, until than all you fools working in 011 deserve your homes broken into cause you want that 44 date. I have seen the PO's there wearing the Fillmore hoodies, you look like fools. Grow up anybody can police the ghetto, don't act like you are some superheroes, you are baby sitters.

765B

6/18/2014 07:11:00 PM"

That was a very articulate post until you left the 765B Signature.
Engleweird Gang team?

Pot calling the kettle black, put your money where your mouth is Ghetto Hero.

6/19/2014 03:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I see two obtuse Saturation members have chimed-in with their 2 bags...oops, I meant 2 cents.

Which is just one reason why your Stupidvisors exploit your naive, sorry asses to make themselves look good and justify their very existence. I'll bet you guys talked "as a team" about getting slammed on the blog and concocted these half-assed rebuttals together. Sarge said it sounded like a good idea to fire back, huh?

And all along you goofs allow yourselves to be pimped because you somehow arrived at the conclusion that driving an extra half hour a day, to a district across the city, to work a less desirable watch answering calls for service would sting more than consistently and continually crossing into gray areas to play the CPD Compstat Numbers Game*.

(*Tip & Clue, from me to you: those Contact Cards ARE coming back to bite you over zealous boys and girls in the ass, and HARD. Close friends that are attorneys specializing in Civil Rights Law are feverishly at work compiling ammunition).

You fellas kinda missed a good portion of the point being made in the original post. I suggest you go back and read it. And then read it again for good measure.

The ass(ets) you save may be your own.

6/18/2014 08:04:00 PM

I can see now that you were never the POLICE. Oh that's right you stopped doing anything to earn your pay other than to bitch about working POLICE. If you have been on the JOB long enough then you the meaning of dog ass. Better yet just retire and then you can brag to you neighbors how you were the POLICE and have come to hate the city while still living here.

Again if you are that good of cop which I have my doubts then bid into 016 Dist and show us all how its done to make the district a safer place.

6/19/2014 04:38:00 PM  
Blogger John Northen said...

7:11 PM ("765B")

As a damn proud alumnus of Fillmo' (1967-1970), allow me to school you on "da REAL PO-leese". The term actually began in 011 back then when citizens referred to us out of 4001 W. Fillmore St. by that term. This occurred in the bloodiest badass district during the most tumultuous times in the entire history of the CPD.

Today's CPD will never know the camaraderie that we shared in 011 under then Cmdr. George Sims.

On a 10-1, with "no cars available" on the zone, a dozen squads, Mars lights flashing and sirens wailing would appear in a minute to back up our blue brothers. Great memories of great coppers who sure made me more streetwise than most cops will experience during their entire careers. Nobody fucked with us. If they tried, they'd get a wood shampoo, if not worse. We weren't white or black police--we were BLUE police to the bone.
While we worked "where angels feared to tread" and the devil was always there, it was fun with lots of laughs. We worked hard and God knows, we played hard.

Bow your head when you speak of my almighty Fillmo', punk!

6/19/2014 06:57:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

""People have to be aware of their surroundings. Hold off the texting when you are getting ready to walk into a gas station or convenience store. Look inside before you go walking in.

"Never allow the robbers to tie you up and/or take you into a back room. When they do that there is a higher chance that they will execute you."

6/19/2014 12:35:00 AM

My friend, you are not kidding. My high-stress moment is using an ATM. Scope the whole place, then stand with your back against the machine with head up and looking around while you put the bucks in your wallet. Real tired of Twitchy there, going from one foot to the other near the front door like something's going to shake out for him.

"ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SOMETHING?"

There is plenty of room in a store. Anyone breathing down my neck, like they are going to wet themselves if they don't get to the machine right that second, is told to "wait over there," politely or not so politely. "Yes, sir, I am a real asshole. I don't know you. Now get away from me." You get idiots behind you in checkout lines today, trying to cameraphone your card number and keystrokes when you use the terminal. Once it was a young woman jugglin a baby for distraction.

Control YOUR situation. Like, you don't have to get on an elevator with anyone. You can step off the second a couple of em get on, too. Our "civility" is a handicap in "multicultural" situations, and gets us killed.

The one thing that gets my back against the lobby wall, the mailboxes, anywhere, is someone going "Are you alright? Are you alright?"

"You touch me and I'll kill you where you stand. Get away."

...and NEVER GET INTO A CAR. Odds are you will never be seen again, until they are trying to find your dental records to ID what's left of you. "Found in a wooded area by some birdwatchers." Not me. Better to run, duck, fight for your life on the sidewalk. Anything but that.

99 percent of life goes by OK. It's that 1 percent that needs everything you can give it. You don't owe anyone anything. First job is to get home to your family safe, and it doesn't matter what you have to do in order to accomplish that. "Violence doesn't solve anything." Ha. Watch this.

God bless all here. Stay safe. It's gotten harder...

6/19/2014 11:17:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Police Move In As Party Spills Over Preserve -- August 03, 1998"

6/18/2014 06:56:00 PM

Boy, that brings back memories. 12,000 people trying to use the one bathroom in the Dominick's there in River Grove.

Had 5 + 18 with me. Only thing you could do was find cover and resolve to get 23 of em as they surged out of the Che-Che-Pin-Qua Woods. Had a dozen pierogis in me too, so was ready for anything.

*

What a summer. Real nice except for that.

6/19/2014 11:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

As a damn proud alumnus of Fillmo' (1967-1970),....

6/19/2014 06:57:00 PM

Wow, three years in 011. So that is where you got sent when you came out of O'Brien St.

6/20/2014 01:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bow your head when you speak of my almighty Fillmo', punk!




nka "Harrison". Try to keep up

6/20/2014 02:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow, three years in 011. So that is where you got sent when you came out of O'Brien St.

Yep, but it was at Fillmore and Pulaski S/W corner

6/20/2014 06:48:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

Bow your head when you speak of my almighty Fillmo', punk!




nka "Harrison". Try to keep up

6/20/2014 02:56:00 PM

Hey Hard-Ass!
Try to have a little respect.
We're all big boys but your cute little
shot was uncalled for.

6/20/2014 08:10:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have seen the PO's there wearing the Fillmore hoodies...

Aint heard from you in a while. But here you are again. Complaining about the 011 guys and their hoodies or whatever. Why does that grate on you so much? I mean, you've been crying like a lil bitch about the "Fillmore Rangers" hoodie for at least 4 years now. What's the matter? Somebody couldn't make the tac team? Buck up, lil cowboy. I'm sure make some district's team, some day...if you try really, really hard. Until then, try to remember that nobody likes a jealous whiny lil bitch. Just aint a good look.

6/21/2014 11:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why is this such a shock? It happens all the time all over the rest of the city.
Maybe you 016th district coppers need to start making your presence felt in the local businesses...like what we used to do when CAPS was the order of the day.
And please, spare us all the BS about 'we need our cops back.' Back in the days when you had an abundance of them, few of you assigned there would dare to get out of your squads and actually take a proactive stance at anything. Stop talking about protecting the homeland, just DO IT.

6/22/2014 06:33:00 PM  

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