Thursday, August 28, 2025

Bad Crash

This is going to short the Watch for a few weeks:

  • Police fired shots at train burglary suspects who plowed into police officers and their cars early Wednesday in Englewood, leaving two suspects and five officers hospitalized during an incident that also involved a pursuit, according to officials.

    At least one person was still being sought following the incident that unfolded at 5:05 a.m. as officers were conducting a burglary mission. They were alerted to multiple people taking items from rail cars in the area in the 5800 block of South Princeton Avenue, Chicago police said.

    As officers approached, people who matched the description of the thieves “accelerated rapidly” and in an SUV and hit an officer with the vehicle, police said. Officers then fired their weapons in the direction of the SUV, which then slammed into a marked squad car, officials said. The SUV driver was taken into custody and taken to an area hospital for injuries related to the crash, officials said.

And then there was another crash two miles away that injured the fourth and fifth officers.

Best wishes for a rapid recovery to all involved. 

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42 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

See you after New Years....

8/28/2025 12:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good ole fashion train car robbery and Wild West shootout!

8/28/2025 12:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Something to ponder:

Vehicles this century have bookoo computer control of functions, including engine, transmision, fuel injection and such.

Computer has wireless functionality.

Remote disbling, via unique vehicle identifiers, of ignition, fuel delivery, etc., could be effective to terminate motion of vehicle targeted, without the mess of impact.



8/28/2025 12:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Shall be known in history as....
The Great Train Givsme of 2025....

8/28/2025 01:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

These two fools are out fighting against the will of the people and they get away with blatant lies which the news media never calls them on.

8/28/2025 02:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

These two fools are out fighting against the will of the people and they get away with blatant lies which the news media never calls them on.

8/28/2025 02:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My question is where are the so called railroad police ?? Union Pacific , Norfolk Southern , etc ? those freight cars are there property on there tracks . Where are the feds ? Why are our guys the 5720 and 5740 teams doing a mission when the rail police are nowhere to be found at 0500 hours ?? . Time to tell the rail police you take part in the mission or we’re done .

8/28/2025 04:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Greg G said...

Should be charged as theft from Interstate Commerce. When the Feds get to Shitcago things are going to get ugly for the criminals. Put a few of these people in the morgue then listen to FatAss and Conehead cry! One shot one kill. Long guns with silencers from a couple blocks way! Heads will be coming off! The Railroad police could hire Ex Military to clean up the trash!

8/28/2025 05:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Take advantage of your IOD status. Do not rush back to work. Fuck this job.

8/28/2025 07:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

One lesson: if you are injured on duty, DO NOT GO or TAKE A FELLOW OFFICER to University of Chicago Hospital for treatment. Heard the injured officer had to wait hours to be seen/treated and only after threats were made to go to the media about their treatment of the officer…that place is a cesspool of police haters…they go out of their way to obstruct officers and treat the police like shit

8/28/2025 07:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Railroad police are useless just like metra police..ever see them around??? Chicago police have to do everyone's job.

8/28/2025 07:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Injured on duty..fill out the paperwork and see your own DR.

8/28/2025 07:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

yea right,, the libs and dems will call that technology racist

8/28/2025 07:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

that must be the "reparations railroad"

8/28/2025 07:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Usually fake plates on stolen vehicle so not able to immediately contact appropriate kill/cut-off company

8/28/2025 07:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Never go to northwestern or UofC, always go to Stroger/Rush if you can.

8/28/2025 07:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They will be Monday morning quarterbacked. I thought you couldn’t shoot at cars and shouldn’t put yourself in that situation to be hit by a car. Get out of the way. Officer on that team has 2 years in the job. How does that happen. Taking care of people. That’s why this job is as bad as it is.

8/28/2025 07:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

These rail bandits need to be brought to trial and convicted. Then sent to an Ugandan prison. Democrat politicians, defense attorneys and restorative justice activists would argue the convicted don't speak the native tongue. Surprise! The native languages of Uganda include English and Swahili. And exported American convicts could experience multi-culturalism in a controlled setting and learn a second language. No need for U.S. Aid. Just send over some prisoners and compensate the host nation for their incarceration services.

8/28/2025 08:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Stop it now many retired coppers now working for railroad doing security we work lol! Now where is my coffee,and netflix got a movie to watch while I doze!

8/28/2025 08:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Northwestern is no different

8/28/2025 08:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And never forget.

8/28/2025 08:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

One of the first jobs I responded to when I came on 27yrs ago was a burglary to the boxcars at the same area. Good to see that NOTHING has changed in the intervening years.

Usually, a fun foot pursuit was always involved (especially in the snow) and an easy part 1 pinch.






8/28/2025 08:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Then, the lawsuits hit because whatever happens after they disable the vehicle.

8/28/2025 08:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i guess the pohleeses gotta wait in line jus like the " new arrivals"

8/28/2025 09:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That's fine for YOUR vehicle. Just try getting a signal through the lead box and tin foil wrapped around the antenna on mine.

8/28/2025 09:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great question, but ask yourself how far railroads stretch and how few Railroad Police there are. It’ll take quite a while for them to respond, so municipalities take over. Not to mention places like BNSF randomly lay off their POs so there’s even less of them. NS actually responds and sometimes helps out during calls in 009 and 007

8/28/2025 09:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sadly majority of hospitals are like that nowadays.

The politicians and media have turned us into the enemy. People who lack common sense and critical thinking have fallen for all of the lies about law enforcement. The communist play book is sadly working in America. Who knows how this country will be in 10 years.

8/28/2025 09:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where was the Pinkerton Man???

8/28/2025 09:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

U of C Hospital implements the Hippocratic Oath on a case-by-case basis.

8/28/2025 10:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A 300WinMag would do the trick!

8/28/2025 10:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

doesn't OnStar have this?

8/28/2025 10:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

057 Gang rides again!

8/28/2025 10:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

But,but the mayor said lack of affordable housing causes crime and the governor of buffet’s said crime is down when you walk by the river with armed bodyguards.

8/28/2025 10:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have wondered this same thing for years.

8/28/2025 11:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Onstar equipped vehicles have this already. But good luck trying to get through the red tape to have a vehicle manufacturer do this in time with the proper legal authority.

8/28/2025 11:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Technically, it’s a burglary. Nobody got stuck up.

8/28/2025 12:30:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

U of C has a bulletin board asking for SJW doctors to band together and sympathize with those oppressed by the police, ICE, and various institutions. When I read it my blood boiled.

8/28/2025 12:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

sad to hear that about UIC, they use to be standup all the way around. like every
other avenue in life the dumbing down is the standard & this is who teaches those that follow. fn scarry

8/28/2025 01:05:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

great work officers recover and stay on an extended iod

8/28/2025 01:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

looks like the CPD needs to remove CAPS Officers from hiding and put them on 1st watch in a beat car, does the commander really need all his sworn administrative officers ? I don't think so. Superintendent , call commander and man those beat cars. Officer Safety Sir.

8/28/2025 02:07:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Handled a 7th District Boxcar Burglary from 55 Stewart before I retired. Several hundred cases of French Champaign were taken in early December. Cliqueot Juette retailed at 40- 150 bucks per bottle at the time. However, if you went to Moo & Oinks parking lot over by Halsted you could buy one for 5 to 10 bucks each..

8/28/2025 02:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I thought 5720 and 5740 were the fbi task force ?

8/28/2025 03:01:00 PM  

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