Cop Shot in 014

We're told it was a tact team from 025 serving a warrant:

• A 34-year-old Chicago police officer shot in the shoulder during the execution of a search warrant Saturday evening in the Humboldt Park neighborhood is expected to survive, police said.
  
  The alleged shooter, a 19-year-old woman who was a target of the search warrant, was arrested at the scene, police said.
  
  The shooting happened about 7:20 p.m. in the 2700 block of West Potomac Avenue, police said. The officer, part of the Grand Central District tactical unit, was taken to Stroger Hospital.

Search warrants are in and of themselves, as dangerous as anything cops do. It's too bad that the intelligence didn't indicate there might be a gun on scene:

• While officers were serving a “typical” search warrant for “narcotics and illegal weapons” and were attempting to reach a rear door, “a shot was fired,’’ through a door, hitting the tactical officer in the shoulder, said Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson during a news briefing outside the hospital. A weapon was recovered from the apartment, police said.

Oh. It was a search warrant for "weapons."

Hmmmm. Well, it's too bad there isn't a requirement for a SWAT team to be consulted and used in such situations:

• Special Order 04-19,Section VIII-A-4, subsections a through c: consult with a SWAT team supervisor if:
  a. the offender has a violent criminal history;
  b. the offender has a history of violence against the police;
  c. the offender is known to keep firearms readily available;

Oh. Well, it's not like the subject of the search warrant was known to keep a loaded gun nearby:

• Anonymous said...Speaking of the county. Female offender that shot the officer from 025 last night was arrested on weapon violations (possession of a shotgun) on 22-feb-19 but felony charges were denied. 
• Anonymous said...Hearing the woman who shot the officer in 014 was found to have a loaded shotgun in her vehicle during a traffic stop last week. Crimesha and friends refused charges.

Golly. Seems like a lot of people knew, even at Crimesha's office - and they let her go. But the cops followed up and wrote a search warrant.

Well, hopefully someone in charge will step up and have a SWAT team working 24 hours a day so tactical sergeants and lieutenants can call on so that their expertise in high risk entry situations isn't wasted:

• :::inset uncomfortable silence here:::

So who dropped the fucking ball on this one Special Ed?  And why is an officer in the hospital with a built in weather barometer in his shoulder for the rest of his life due to either incompetence or ignorance?

Get well soon Officer.

Hopefully Special Ed doesn't strip you for your supervisors' stupidity. Maybe he'll promote them.