Sounds of the New Year
Man, we remember these nights:
When we started (and it was expectd) we ran around scooping up offenders and guns.
In later years, we spent it under viaducts where it was safer.
Fun memories.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
49 Comments:
They stopped at stop sign....
New Years Eve, never touched the brakes....
Music to our ears!
Just funnin and gunnin. Lil capones bustin caps cuz dats what day gonna do
lead pipes my ass. just another commiecrat scam.
Used to go up to the apt. bldg. roof in 024, East Rogers Park, and conduct our Annual Gunfire Survey. Jesus. Full-auto came in like 20 years ago. Blue-white flashes from between the buildings. Bursts from Juneway Terrace, etc. and next morning finding expended, rifling-engraved slugs from .30 Carbine on Ridge Blvd. Just amazing.
Proper CPD technique was to get under overhead cover like a sturdy viaduct from 11:30 PM and stay there until 12:30 AM or so.
Wish I still had my audio tapes of the zone. Built a VOX control for the reel-to-reel (running 15/16 i.p.s.) to eliminate the dead air between calls. Just hours of continuous shots-fired entertainment. Sent a cassette tape to sheriff I knew in small town out in Kansas - they'd never heard anything like it. Sound track from the end of the world.
...and right in the middle of this , they actually assigned a car to go up to the Gaslight Tavern on Howard and "check the well-being of a man named Shorty."
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God bless all here. Stay low, stay safe.
Spent New Year's Eve at my elderly mother's house in the South Suburbs. At midnight I stepped onto the back patio only to be greeted by the Tet Offensive. Gone are the sounds of whistles, horns, pots and pans being banged and car alarms. This was gunfire from all directions. Even heard a stray whiz by and lodge into a tree.
yep,,, I remember driving in those same Amish neighborhoods years ago,,, things never change
It boils my blood anytime my fellow dinosaur PO says this nonsense at rollcall. NYE spent hiding under viaducts for safety. What a bunch of cowards. Sorry SCC but someone has to say it. Aren't we the profession who claim to run toward gunfire?... :D
Would grilling in the back yard or the back of the station under the stars be any different? On NYE do rounds only land on squad cars, on duty cops or viaducts? Might touch a nerve or two.
The good old days.
Are you serious?
NYE is amateur hour. Everyone and I mean everyone , women , men and children shoot guns to celebrate. Why would you put yourself into a possible deadly force incident for this
bullshit? Years ago an old and wise Watch Commander told a bunch of us young coppers that getting a gun on NYE is like shooting fish in a barrel. He went on to say,” no is going to pin a ribbon on your chest for getting a gun on NYE.” He then took a drag off of his cigarette and asked the sergeants if they had anything then walked out of the toll call room.
Gosh, I remember the pots banging, horns blowing, fireworks, and news spewing the next day about stray bullets hitting one or more, along with arests. Gun fire was only in the ghettos, never in decent areas. All anyone had to worry about was the drunk drivers. Until Cabrini was spread out everywhere.
You’re an idiot.
Moron!
Welcome to Stalingrad on the Lake.
Sounds like - movie The Purge (the original) ...
It's too bad the city doesn't have a system that could pinpoint where the shots come from. You know, like some sort of shot spotting system which could prove useful beyond NYE.
"It boils my blood anytime my fellow dinosaur PO says this nonsense at rollcall. NYE spent hiding under viaducts for safety. What a bunch of cowards."
Go get'em, Tiger.
I love Day Drinking too.
My first New Year's Eve on midnights in 013 was spent under a viaduct with old timers who brought little bottles of champagne ~ good times!
Lemme guess..Dolton? Burnham? Calumet City? Lansing...??
FAKE NEWS... That was fireworks prior to starting the intro's to the midnight basketball game! :)
Brave words until you’re involved in an OIS. At that point, you’ll have a different perspective on what you should be doing on NYE’s. .
...says one of the bosses kids sent to a soft district til daddy can get him promoted. The bosses kids in 018 used to brag..: I stay in the Green.." I replied " ..so do I..cheap rents..". Not one of them ever bailed out and went to a fast district . 07, 06, 11, 15. etc always had vacancies...
In the mid 80's some officers came over to hang out in Dalton. Put coffee on at 1130. All night convenience store beat a viaduct.
Conehead said it was just cars back firing or cars with fart cannon mufflers.
all i heard was yotes in the northwoods
Yes and no. NYE shooters are not all gangsters. Stupid yes shooting into the air but majority are idiots with guns. Do you really want to draw down on some drunk with a house gun and maybe have to kill him?
AHhhh...for the old days when ammunition was cheap. Only pennies per round.
Crime will be down there while they gather ammo and reload.
nope offense,, I've been retired many years and "way back" then just about everyone knew to get under a bridge or behind a lonely factory building when it got close to midnight,,, why drive around and give the "yoots" something else to shoot at
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Love guys like this tooting his own horn. Most coppers know guys like this are usually the ones duck, dodging, and hiding from work.
2000 y2k or whatever it was called, rollcall at the academy, Hilliard was Sup, he
told us go find a viaduct
Your brain has boiled over & your nerves are touched, get over yourself, get out & enjoy a few laughs
I'm alive thanks to the following chain of events.
WW1 vets taught WW2 vets, taught korean war vets, taught Vietnam vets. Those Vietnam vets taught us in the 90's before they retired. The guys currently on the job with 26 years + who were liked and trusted by the Vietnam vets learned how to survive.
Stay under viaducts from 11:30-12:30 on New Years Eve!!
you are the type of clowns that would risk your life for a piece of $hit with a gun, leads that go up must come down. Rounds will go through the roof of cars and yes possibly still kill someone. I remember being ordered under a viaduct or a roof that can stop a round, and then the yahoo clowns chasing people with guns while Beirut was spraying round in the air. We the dinosaurs now had to leave the safety of cover because of clowns like you, people with guns are not going anywhere all year, NYE is NOT the time, especially when everyone with a gun is shooting. GO KICK ROCKS CLOWN!
Not everybody hid under a viaduct. Y2K I was parked hiding in a factory loading dock with a supervisor. There is a place and time for everything, NYE is not the time to chase random gunfire.
I remember when Phil became the sup, his first NYE he decided to show how great he was and rolled around 015 and 011 trying to get a gun pinch. What it turned into was his posse scream for help on the radio while not knowing where they were. We lost a great spot trying to find those goofs.
It will never stop. We all know that’s how it is in Chicago. I don’t know if anybody else has noticed there’s a certain Lieutenant, who was obviously a hero moved out of here many many years ago, but yet keeps popping up in the newspapers and anywhere he can criticizing bastardizing the city of Chicago. Listen Lieutenant Bob maybe you need to write about the place you’re living not gonna reveal it but you think it’s so great than write about it. Some of us have to live here you were a hero. We understand you really ran the streets or so you think just please do us a favor stop the nonsense and offer enough. You moved out you’re gone. Goodbye. Good luck God bless enough.
It’s called using wisdom, and being tactical . Your way is being foolish, reckless and inefficient. You sound stupid because even when we “run towards gun fire” we do so tactically at best, and situations involving running towards gunfire mean school shootings, things like that not these random shots in whatever direction they go where we don’t know where the offender even is. I hope you’re not in any supervisory role because if you were my stupidvisor, I’d be sure to make your life miserable for your stupidity and hostile leadership dumbass
You have to be joking right lol cowards to stay safe in minimizing getting hit by a stray round? Do you know where the offenders are or if you’re outgunned? They have the advantage during that time why wouldn’t one that has any brain cell want to minimize risk by taking cover during that time? Someone with your arrogant thinking will end up getting hurt themselves or hurt others and instead of magnifying this topic why don’t you instead go out there and show us how it’s done ask your wol to put you 99 and go get em tiger dumbass pussy
Roscoe Rules Says:
In da Chi, when it rains, it pours,,,, hot Lead.
Bronco Billy McCoy Says:
I had this close buddy he survived 2 tours in Nam, and got out and became a railroad Cop in Chicago. On every New Years Eve, the first place he headed for was a viaduct. What does that tell you ?
what's wrong with the current system where after the body starts to stink a citizen finally calls it in? that saves a lot of emergency hospital bills for the taxpayers
Sounds like someone is getting a new roof
The ghettos never change.
So many outstanding officers gave their careers and freedoms to clean up these toilets. In the end, the nature of the beast still reign supreme.
Be smart. Be safe. Bid out.
juneway terrace savages used to shoot out from the windows at my uncle when he was a probation officer in the 70’s... benn a shithole forever...
I worked for some Captains that had all their cars in the station from 2350-0015. They didn't want someone to light up the drunk uncle that was trying out his new Xmas present off the back porch.
We told you to go to your room uncle Phil!
I remember most of the NYE gun pinches getting thrown out based on an illegal search or suspect ID if the suspect ran inside after emptying his magazine. Anybody who claimed that they could recognize the suspect from a position in the alley shadows after midnight was just assumed to be bullshitting.
@ Bronco Billy McCoy: Was your Vietnam Vet buddy initials P. B. who was a Lt in the U S Army MP and joined the C & NW RR Police?
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