New Gang Tactic
Frankly, with the advent of "breakaway" poles, we're surprised this hasn't happened earlier....and more often:
Supposedly, gangs in the area of 45th and Hermitage used a stolen car to take down a light pole that happened to have a Pod Camera and Shotspotter and Plate Reader technology on aboard. They know any break in coverage gives them an opportunity to make some money or shoot someone and who knows how much it costs to tie up a city crew to replace the pole and then reset/repair or replace all the tech stuff, which can't be cheap because (A) it's electronics and (B) some connected contract has to be fulfilled via some aldercreature's nephew.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
51 Comments:
The city won't even attempt to fix it.
It is a wonder that it took them this long, but a three-banger (POD, ShotSpotter, License Plate Reader) on their first time out is 3,000 points! But, minus 500 points for the destruction of the stolen auto leaves them with a grand total of 2500 points from their first time playing the Pole Down game. More Pole Down to follow.
I recall a few years back assholes stealing rammer cars and doing this. its been done before-- I will go back to bed.
Lol...
Seeing that picture reminded us of the savages out of
the late and unlamented 340 S. Western building...
How they would send a shorty up the light pole to
cock the traffic signals so that in the resulting
eventual crash, they would swarm the wreckage and
rob the injured, dying and dead motorists/passengers.
It happened at other locations but 340 was epicenter
in a nasty cluster of those incidents.
Shit heads being shit heads...
It would've been hysterical if somehow, those cameras
were mounted topside of an old CSL trolley pole and
those assholes crashed their sled into it trying to
knock it down...
>Front of a ghetto sled split in half to the firewall
Engine knocked clean off the mounts and driven the
passenger compartment... Still running... Spewing hot
oil everywhere... Every asshole in said sled that ain't
dead/wadded-up/blown through the rear bulkhead into the
trunk cuz they sawzalled the fuck out of the bulkhead
for them aftermarket speakers, are doing their level
best trying to duck hot oil and flying metal while
shoving doors that are impact-welded shut in a bid
to get out before the whole works go-the-fuck-up
with them still in it<
Being a Policeman is fun sometimes.
You get to see the aftermath of self-inflicted,
thunderously stupid shit...
Like the still occupied sled wadded-up at the bottom
of the counter-weight pit of a bridge where some
geniuses tried to "Dukes of Hazzard" one of Chicago's
inland waterways while the bridge was being re-built.
Bent-all-to-hell rebar and crickets...
Hey "G" can u take down some red light cameras and a few speed ones when you get a chance. All good in the hood thanks in advance !
You could use Jersey Barriers in high risk locations.
This is a variation of the old smash & grab burglaries
going back to the 70s. At first, hammers and crow bars
broke the glass. One independent pharmacy owner
fortified his storefront only to have the actors use a
dump truck to breach entry. Goal was always the same:
grab drugs & merchandise then jet. No time for a safe
job.
You're going to see more of these. Chicago can't be the
first place. Since camera companies & ShotSpotter are
nationwide, legal action is in order, because I guarantee
they have seen this before, yet sold you the systems
anyway. It's called discovery. They knew a way the
system could be defeated but they failed to disclose it
upon sale. That's fraud.
Can't help but notice basketball playoffs: the hoop
is right where it should be, but it's connected to a
Cherry picker Star Wars type vehicle parked about
30 feet back. Ther's no more single straight-up
poles with padding anymore.
A new design is in order for certain intersections
prone to defeat by using "burner" cars & trucks
to serve as rams.
I say the ShotSpotter and camera companies eat
the repair cost because of faulty design (easily
defeated). Cities were sold the Brooklyn Bridge when
they purchased these systems, only they didn't know it
at the time.
It's the old jail maxim: jails are designed to keep
people inside; not designed to keep people from
breaking in.
This is a design flaw. It may take class action
attorneys to win this for Chicago and other cities.
Chinese & British very big on camera surveillance.
Funny, they don't have this problem.
The City screwed up. It never should have allowed the CPD put all that hardware on a twenty foot aluminum pole. Too much weight. The aluminum pole should be replaced with a steel pole. Only common sense, something City Hall and 35th Street lack.
---Mike the cityworker
You may have to go 4 on 4 in high risk intersections.
Two dummies and Two Redundant cameras.
They will run out of cars before they defeat us!
This willful destruction of surveillance apparatus
should be a high class felony. It endangers public
safety and is a form of domestic terrorism.
Bring back public hanging. Shit will stop overnight.
Abraham Lincoln, are you listening?
Stop, wasn’t this predicted by the cocks at the University of Chicago Crime Lab! There must have been a mission there. Hunch lab mission, watch they will have cars guarding the pods.
I watched in amazement as an 11 year old boy slowly shook an old steel pole by just getting it rocking, (oscillating) until the arm on top broke off and hung by the wires. You don't have to be big, just patient. You get it rocking and just slightly assist it, like pushing someone in a swing, going higher and higher until pop.
Breaking Bad
The aluminum fasteners that are designed to "break-away " and shear are of the same material that hi-point uses for their uppers on the firearms. Just an interesting tidbit of information..
Not to longer ago remember when the savages robbed the on-duty copper that was unconscious slumped over the wheel of the squad car involved in a serious collision?
Cameras are racist. They should be taken out.
Could any of these gangbangers make it over President The Donald 's wall?
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Like the still occupied sled wadded-up at the bottom
of the counter-weight pit of a bridge where some
geniuses tried to "Dukes of Hazzard" one of Chicago's
inland waterways while the bridge was being re-built.
Bent-all-to-hell rebar and crickets...
4/08/2019 01:50:00 AM
I remember the crash into the bridge on Cermak, that was still under construction. It was late Saturday night, early Sunday morning. There was a guy sitting on the bridge smoking a cigarette. Some on lookers were speculating out loud if anyone survived. The smoker said ya, we almost made it!!!
I’m pretty sure we had one of our own police officers shot on that block last year. I know there was at least 4 shot in that area in less then a year.
Before the shotspotter crap I remember a couple areas that would throw eggs on the camera portion of the PODS. The city would never come fix it because the POD showed it was working when downtown looked.
Just look at all the people jumping out of their vehicles to assist the Officers'.... oh wait, there aren't any. CPD Officers have to be the BEST I've ever seen... to do so much for the ungrateful folks, and down-right HOSTILE political leaders, takes some kind of commitment. Just sayin'...
I had no thing to do with no ga-angs.
The city has fixed plate readers now? And what's up with storage of the records I'm surprised noones bitching about the privacy concerns. I know the dicks used to be able to pull up locations where even the revenue plate readers hit on cars.
I could see the community start knocking them down w/ enthusiastic applause and I didn't see nothing response if they start knocking off the redlight revenue generators.
coming soon to your neighborhood......
Situation room officers filed a safety grievance today. They are truly scared and fear for their safety in the workplace. In their grievance they are seeking airliner cockpit security doors for their rooms. A permanent armed actual police officer would be assigned to the situation rooms providing a police presence. They have a legitimate fear for their safety from the street gangs invading and migrating into their batcaves.
They have a point. If the gangs are targeting the sophisticated surveillance equipment in low level operations, what makes you think they won't target a high-tech nerve center trophy with assigned real-sophisticated human assets.
More questions than answers.
A Summer of SpecialEd-Cook County Joint.
The angry feral welcomed community isn’t worried about non admissible video.
10 strikes misdemeanor DUI or just clownin’?
Did the District in-house camera watchers take a day and a half to notice it?
Did the bloated News Af’flairs indicate that the Area was investigating and no one is in custody?
Did City crews come out promptly to secure the scene, erected a new pole, spliced the wires, tested and reset the apparatuses within the hour?
The City that Works.
Sanctuary First.
Did Shotspotter pick up the BANG of the crash??
What about the new gang tactic practiced at City Hall today Laurie won a two day delay of the vote to spend over $2 billion of taxpayers money freely given away to the ultra rich multi billionaire developers who are friends of the mayors and his friends friends of the alderman this is going to be interesting because Wednesday will be another vote will Laurie be in the backseat of the car or will she be in the front seat the mayor and everyone else need to get paid off before they are done the taxpayers be damned Laurie are you going to show us what a leader you are or will you show us That you are taken the backseat you would look in the rearview mirror well they are looking out the windshield this is going to be a travesty if this passes! Time to make a phone calls to your federal partners at 219 S. Dearborn St. they are ready to go just give them the word let’s have a massive indictments brought it in to City Hall and over to the County building you could be the nucleus deck and finish taking care of the problems you will be respected forever if you do this! If you do nothing you’re so you’re just like the old boys club you will just be like Tony and her crew the same exact thing do nothing for the people!
Time to go back to the light poles that will bisect a car.
As to the red/speed camera request, use a burning tire like they do in Europe. There are other methods but burning tire is the most dramatic. The yellow vests last I heard and destroyed or disabled nearly all the enforcement cameras in France.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The city has fixed plate readers now? And what's up with storage of the records I'm surprised noones bitching about the privacy concerns. I know the dicks used to be able to pull up locations where even the revenue plate readers hit on cars.
4/08/2019 10:15:00 AM
No one? You're a little out of touch. Read up a bit more.
If they were smart, they'd take the transmitter unit, digitally extract the wifi authentication key, then reuse that same key and mac adress manufacturer range & channel to jam/ launch a denial of service (dos) attack so none of the cameras city wide would work. But ehh... theys be to busy with shorty at the boost store.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Situation room officers filed a safety grievance today. They are truly scared and fear for their safety in the workplace. In their grievance they are seeking airliner cockpit security doors for their rooms. A permanent armed actual police officer would be assigned to the situation rooms providing a police presence. They have a legitimate fear for their safety from the street gangs invading and migrating into their batcaves.
They have a point. If the gangs are targeting the sophisticated surveillance equipment in low level operations, what makes you think they won't target a high-tech nerve center trophy with assigned real-sophisticated human assets.
4/08/2019 12:01:00 PM
Human assets? did you mean asses? that would be the proper pronunciation,as they sit asses grow!
Worked that Bt 931 some 30 years ago back when the police were allowed to be the police.
Saints vs. la raza shootings were always happening.
I honestly miss those old days of rotating in 009.
God bless the CPD
In the 60s ,that area was flourishing...germans,mexicans ,polish were working the stock yards..Sacred Heart church, school ...47th Ashland shopping ,with just minor crimes ..took a relative who left in the 70s ... back to the Back Of the Yards in 2018.... he cried ...the new Detroit... shithole Chicago
Anonymous said...
"...ya, we almost made it!!!"
4/08/2019 08:07:00 AM
Lol!
Bullshit...
The freshly poured front retaining wall had about 2 feet of
approx. 2in. rebar bent all to hell... they tried the jump
but hung the undercarriage on the rebar which bent under the
weight and in a true testament of tensile strength, rebounded,
turned the car upside-down and flung their silly asses down
into the pit...
They ain't nothin' if'n they ain't entertainin'...
Idk scc, I’m kinda rooting for the bangers on this one...hope they focus on redlight cams next!
165 years after the end of slavery and still the bonds of servitude force children to do this. That picture leaves me feeling all Democrat.
Maybe Garry McCheese shot it down after happy hour?
Worked that Bt 931 some 30 years ago back when the police were allowed to be the police.
Saints vs. la raza shootings were always happening.
I honestly miss those old days of rotating in 009.
God bless the CPD
4/08/2019 05:33:00 PM
Hey senior citizen, at your age try working one three-police-period rotation backwards of midnights-afternoons-days accompanied by rotating days off on the 6 and 2 schedule with 2 weekends off of every 6 weekends and you would not be so nostalgic. But, working the 4 to 4's and the watch parties were fun.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
It's the old jail maxim: jails are designed to keep
people inside; not designed to keep people from
breaking in. This is a design flaw. It may take class action
attorneys to win this for Chicago and other cities.
Chinese & British very big on camera surveillance.
Funny, they don't have this problem.
4/08/2019 05:30:00 AM
Yobs in the UK know nothing will happen to them anyway so why bother to break the cams. Rather than concentrate on crime, drugs and homelessness in Hull, UK their MP introduced a bill to make wolf whistling at females illegal and a hate crime. Kids routinely break bus windows with bricks and are never caught. Often people are injured from these attacks. The elderly and weak are targeted by cowardly gangs of chavs but if they are caught they get no real punishment at all. So why bother with the cameras. One area in Hull is getting a few new cameras but that won't deter these young thugs because the criminal justice system in the UK is a joke. And they waste their manpower acting like the social media thought police hassling people if they share something that might offend the protected classes(i.e. Muslims). https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/break-ins-batterings-gangs-crime-12074454
come ON GUYS! WE KNOW YOU ARE SMARTER THAN THAT AND LOSE A RUNNING AUTO!!!! Just use the Saws all that was used on the catalytic converters!!! you could slice down that pole in 15 seconds!!! mak3ee sure you are wearing rubber gloves so when you cut through the wires you don't get shocked!!!!!!!!
Took down some dealers at that corner a few weeks back, actually got felony upgrade. Great arrest except for the help from the beat car
Anonymous said...
"The aluminum fasteners that are designed to "break-away " and shear are of the same material that hi-point uses for their uppers on the firearms. Just an interesting tidbit of information.."
4/08/2019 07:12:00 AM
There's aluminum...
Then there's "pot metal."
Took down some dealers at that corner a few weeks back, actually got felony upgrade. Great arrest except for the help from the beat car
Wow...great story bro. I love the part where you "took down" the drug dealers
with all that shit on the poles im surprised they stay up
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Situation room officers filed a safety grievance today. They are truly scared and fear for their safety in the workplace. In their grievance they are seeking airliner cockpit security doors for their rooms. A permanent armed actual police officer would be assigned to the situation rooms providing a police presence. They have a legitimate fear for their safety from the street gangs invading and migrating into their batcaves.
They have a point. If the gangs are targeting the sophisticated surveillance equipment in low level operations, what makes you think they won't target a high-tech nerve center trophy with assigned real-sophisticated human assets.
They can always bring in the military to guard the police. If the situation room is so dangerous, a better choice might be working a beat car
Why isn't anyone doing this with the speed cameras and RLC?
Took down some dealers at that corner a few weeks back, actually got felony upgrade. Great arrest except for the help from the beat car
4/09/2019 01:56:00 AM
Dealers...felony upgrade......don't play me fool
Anonymous said...
Took down some dealers at that corner a few weeks back, actually got felony upgrade. Great arrest except for the help from the beat car
sounds like your arrestee saw the video and now your POD is gone
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