Car Hits 008 (IMPORTANT UPDATE)
21-year-old driver.....0400 hours.....draw your own conclusions:
- A woman was critically injured when she drove a vehicle into the Chicago Lawn District Chicago Police station early Friday on the Southwest Side.
Shortly after 4 a.m., the 21-year-old was at the wheel of a car that hit the community room of the 8th District station at 3420 W. 63rd St., according to police.
She was taken in critical “but stable” condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said. No officers were hurt.
Damage is estimated at $2,500 or so, due to the cheap substandard construction materials used.
Now, leave aside the fact that this was unintentional. Can you imagine if this was a vehicle-borne IED? Get that truck halfway into the community room and detonate - there wouldn't be an 008 District building any more. But hey, glass fronted (and enclosed) buildings, low curbs, knee-high fencing. You can see exactly how much thought went into making these buildings safe for the people working in them.
UPDATE: Special Ed arrived back from The Big Apple last night, and promptly stripped the building. All officers are to report to Area Central for assignments, radios and vehicles.
Now, leave aside the fact that this was unintentional. Can you imagine if this was a vehicle-borne IED? Get that truck halfway into the community room and detonate - there wouldn't be an 008 District building any more. But hey, glass fronted (and enclosed) buildings, low curbs, knee-high fencing. You can see exactly how much thought went into making these buildings safe for the people working in them.
UPDATE: Special Ed arrived back from The Big Apple last night, and promptly stripped the building. All officers are to report to Area Central for assignments, radios and vehicles.
Labels: safety issues
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
66 Comments:
Stupid, cheap City for great security. We want CPD protected too.
No problem, Rahm will replace the entire 8th district if necessary. Cops are cheap labor to democrats. After 911, every downtown building was installing cement barricades to protect the building from drive up crashes, guess they forgot about 008 and installed windows.
Only in Chicago?
The 008 District building was written up for a preventable, and now has to do the driving class.
States Attorney wants reciepts for felony charges..::
Not to mention a COMPLETELY unsafe desk area with no bullet proof glass & people sleeping in lobbies. You'd never see this ANYWHERE ELSE!
I guess DOJ will make recommendations. HA
We have Maggie Daley to thank for these "Stations". She and her idiot husband wanted citizen friendly stations. They could give two shits whether the Officers are safe or not.
I heard desk crew still made her wait for a report
One of Obamas dreamers ..
BOLLARDS!
That's the answer. Surround all police stations with bollards. It would also be a great idea for the Moosejaw store at Clybourn and Kenmore Avenues.
Contact Daley-Vanecko Bollards, LLC. for estimates. We also sell a wide selection of winter down coats with hoods at discount prices.
I don't think they are gonna replace the windows with Andersen series 100 Windows.... Estimates too low
08 station easy target for criminals , for some crazy fool...across street parking lot.... security a joke
008 has a drive thru?
Was an ISR done?
There was a scandal with cook county judges years ago, maybe it's time for the Feds to look into this judicial system again
These new buildings are as soft as soft can be.
The city couldn't care less about their employees within these buildings.
If they cared they would have fortified the police stations..... after all just about every surrounding suburban police stations are much more fortified and secure than our Swiss cheese buildings.
OT - ODPO shot at in 025.
What's going on in 008? I heard a couple weeks ago some nut tried to set the back of the station on fire.
001 still hasn't been repaired from when a car ran into the front of the building...over two years ago.
Perfect excuse to shut the building and move 008 East to the "community"
A currency exchange has better security than a Chicago Police Station!
All these new Police Stations were NEVER built with Officer safety in mind!
They are low bid contract junks that are already falling apart!
Sorry, but there simply is no more room for police personnel at Area Central. Not to mention the 82 degree indoor temperature.....
They simply don't love us.
you guys need those big fat round concrete barriers that you tell people to install in front of their doors after they are victims of a vehicle smashing in the glass doors and a crew rips off everything they can grab. you need them all the way around the bldg. " i forget what they call those things"
We are lucky the shitters work!
better call Feldco!
So let me get this straight.
Because the sprinklers aren't working on the first floor they don't want any prisoners in the building..... but apparently it's ok to put all the coppers working on the first floor at that risk huh?
Glad they're showing their true colors: cater to the prisoners and fuck the police.
With crime being rampant and the severe shortage of officers, who has the time to stop in and fill out those pesky reports. But wait!!! Now thanks to the Rondo drive-thru, you can do it from the luxury of your own vehicle! Shipping and handling extra... Just glad nobody got hurt. Stay Safe & Merry Christmas!
Did the desk crew do the dui or did they have a beat car do it
Inside / Outside the powers that be do not give a fuck about you..
And now if you see a subject driving in, you are not allowed to shoot !
As a citizen at what point, do you the real crime stoppers,
Take Back Your Authority and Safety ?
A boss once asked me" what would you do if a bomber can into the station?"I was working the desk. I said " direct him into your office".
Contact Daley-Vanecko Bollards, LLC. for estimates....
Dude, give it up already. Your posting this over and over is old and no longer makes any kind of point. Find a new line or stay in mommy's basement and off the blog.
Yet they have these million dollar flower boxes screwing up traffic everywhere with connected contractors filling them with flowers, some are concrete 6 feet down, and they cannot even reinforce police stations? a simple junky passenger vehicle smashes right through no problem, rahm really cares about us!! Look at federal building downtown concrete columns with steel reinforced inside to stop a terrorist vehicle, our buildings are held together with scotch tape and glue, the contractors have to payoff the politicians and use shit substandard materials no wonder doors are falling off, look at 35th street after a short time, doors won't close, desk drawers open on there own, they had to replace round dumbbells with hex bells as the round ones rolled to the other end of "tilt-a-whirl" building shoddy construction, not counting the water pooling in parking lots because of terrible drainage and the water coming right back into the building!
Did anyone as the station if it required EMS? Gotta cover your ass coppers.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
States Attorney wants reciepts for felony charges..::
12/18/2016 12:17:00 AM
They have wanted either a receipt or video footage for years. Calm down new guy.
"critical but stable" sounds so fucking stupid. What does that even mean???
Hey Clown, I want a Bonus Jack with cheese, 2 tacos and a medium coke.
OK, that'll be $1.39, pull forward. Bonus Jack .54 + Tacos .29 X 2 + Coke .20 + 5% tax .07=$1.39
I miss those prices, but not the $1.40 minimum wage...
For those of you young'uns, that clown was at the Jack in the Box drive thru.
I was at the Duece the other night and the homeless shelter that is the lobby of the station is still there. Damn, it was like that in 1995 and still hasn't changed.
...and the building did'nt attempt to evade (get out of the way of) the oncoming vehicle?
That's gonna be a day!
Even our buildings are staying fetal
People have been sleeping in the stations and using our washrooms since the 70"s.
The buildings sprinkler system is shut down. All arrests taken to 002 for processing. And 002 is a dump by the way. Hidden gem my asshole. You can have it. "Girrrl, do you want your beef sammich dipped or not?"
No sprinklers on 1st floor? Fine for the poor schmuck coppers who work there but too unsafe to put prisoners there.
Talk about ass backwards. C'mon Eddie!
Somebody wake up Dean and fill him in.
Dean.... hey Dean... are you there? Hello??
Why was flathead ED in New York?
Christmas shopping on the taxpayers.
Exactly.
Chicago police stations have never been built with security of the facility or the officers in mind. But try and bring a firearm into the city council chambers and it is near impossible. Aldercreature lives are so much more important.
Citizen reader opines: You couldn't repair the fence for $2500 believe me. I bet just in the photo I saw the damage is > $25,000. It does bring up the issue of security for sure. It is truly amazing what goes on in that city. The best so far is the deal on 105th yesterday in Fernwood. Five or six shot and four dead at high noon on a Saturday. You have to respect the drama with some people. Respect the drama, it will kill. Be safe police, no one there is worth it.
Now that Stations are warning centers, wonder what the liability payout would be if any homeless were runt-over.
Is it true the Desk had to call a car in off the street do do the paper and TVB?
(Btw, $2500 was just for the Mohammed Ali 24hr Board up Service.)
Yeah my car got keyed on every section when I was parked at 008... Security camera system did not work either cause I asked the desk asshole if there was camera footage. Said the camera did not work... So if an asshole would had came from behind me and disarm me and put a few in me. Like what had happened to another officer, well there you go CPD... 10 grand for a funeral, and a could cops who didn't know would be there, very nice!
Desk should be enclosed with bullet proof glass , all citizens should be buzzed into a waiting area , reports taken via closed circuit tv.
No homeless allowed sleeping in Police Facilities. One bomb in a sleeping bag , bathroom , desk area will be deadly .
Want to provide warming shelters open up a field house in a few parks
It's a safety issue that FOP and PBPA better address
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Contact Daley-Vanecko Bollards, LLC. for estimates....
Dude, give it up already. Your posting this over and over is old and no longer makes any kind of point. Find a new line or stay in mommy's basement and off the blog.
12/18/2016 09:42:00 AM
60 million in police pension money given and now lost guess that's ok with you jagoff
7:18 and 10:27 AM:
You are referring to BOLLARDS to secure buildings, etc. from crashing motor vehicles.
9:42 AM: GFY
Old Retired Guy Here....Again !!! Years ago a guy in a pick up truck, apparently got "Upset" with the service at the 019th. Dist Desk. He backed that pick up in the 019th. lot and headed for the doors. The truck all most made it, through both sets of doors. Some folks just did not want to sit on the bench, and wait, till the desk crew was ready to take their report.
Hey Clown, I want a Bonus Jack with cheese, 2 tacos and a medium coke.
OK, that'll be $1.39, pull forward. Bonus Jack .54 + Tacos .29 X 2 + Coke .20 + 5% tax .07=$1.39
I miss those prices, but not the $1.40 minimum wage...
For those of you young'uns, that clown was at the Jack in the Box drive thru.
12/18/2016 11:32:00 AM
It was, "Hey Clownie".
Umm why i we giving middle eastern radicals any ideas with this post? Not in j.t.t.f. but seen those hacks like the one who lost her gun at the cubby bear while undercover
The building when rehabbed and re-opened should be re-named for Mike Madigan.
Security is a joke all around in the city. I won't go into specifics, but the 911 center was supposed to be built 90 degrees counterclockwise. That would have provided better security for critical infrastructure, but, the 'look' on that side didn't match the look they were going for facing Madison St, so they rotated the building. But, do you think the infrastructure was moved??
I said it here before, I will say it again. At OEMC, some genius had a stone sculpture placed just outside of the rear entrance, of Thoreau's saying " No man is an island unto himself". The fucking thing is in the shape of the numbers 911...outside of the 911 building????? Why not just paint a giant bullseye on the ducking roof? But hey, what the fuck do I know.... I am just an unclouted retiree.
Very very very poor leadership in 005
It's quite obvious this Commander does not have a clue
Not a fucking clue
"I miss those prices, but not the $1.40 minimum wage...
For those of you young'uns, that clown was at the Jack in the Box drive thru.
12/18/2016 11:32:00 AM"
Needn't worry in 4 years time you'll be wishing for a $1.40 wage.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
So let me get this straight.
Because the sprinklers aren't working on the first floor they don't want any prisoners in the building..... but apparently it's ok to put all the coppers working on the first floor at that risk huh?
Glad they're showing their true colors: cater to the prisoners and fuck the police.
12/18/2016 08:19:00 AM
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Are you a complete moron? Police and every other employee can simply leave if a there is a fire. People in cells can't leave. There's a difference.
It's not ok that the sprinklers not working puts the police at a greater risk, but Jesus Christ the bitching about how it's ok for you but the prisoners are getting some preferential treatment is ridiculous.
If you're so concerned, you should file a grievance for an unsafe workplace. Sue CPD. Call a journalist and get it on the news. That will make them change their tune.
My bet is that over 50% of those crying about sprinklers don't have a working smoke alarm and CO2 detector in your house and think that securing your firearm means putting it on top of the fridge. Because no kid or shithead will ever find it there.
12/18/2016 10:42:00 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Anonymous Anonymous said...
States Attorney wants reciepts for felony charges..::
12/18/2016 12:17:00 AM
They have wanted either a receipt or video footage for years. Calm down new guy.
12/18/2016 11:10:00 AM
Well hero, it was called sarcasm because one can see the damage is well over 500. Go back to mommys basement and change your underwear, the shit stain is growing
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Sorry, but there simply is no more room for police personnel at Area Central. Not to mention the 82 degree indoor temperature.....
82?? It's closer to 92! Ridiculous.
60 million in police pension money given and now lost guess that's ok with you jagoff
12/18/2016 05:56:00 PM
And so what have you done to try to correct this? Not a thing but keep posting idiotic shit on the blog. Maybe I am a jagoff, but you are an immature moron.
Hey, 11;38 pm. Just keep your gun at work in your locker, its secure there.
"...Thoreau's saying " No man is an island unto himself"..."
Never happened.
I get placing prisoners in cells with no sprinkler system but why can't 008 process offenders and then transport them to 002 for holding? Just a thought.
"lost her gun at the cubby bear while undercover"
Heard she lost it playing Highball at Sluggers during 50 cent beer night? That undercover work is some rough duty in Wrigleyville, talk about living on the edge.
The edge of a Barstool that is.
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