Scarecrow Policing Fail
Even a visible police presence isn't a deterrent any longer:
A Chicago police officer jumped into action after witnessing a shooting outside the Howard CTA station in Rogers Park on Thursday afternoon and it was all caught on video.
The footage shows the cop, posted in a squad car just across the street from the shooting scene, spring out of his car and work his way across the traffic lanes of Howard Street with his gun drawn to help the gunshot victim while calling for help on his radio. Other officers located the gunman nearby and charges were pending on Friday morning.
The video begins with CTA patrons on the overhead platform at Howard Street and the officer sitting in a marked squad car on the corner of Paulina and Howard around 3:41 p.m. A local resident says the officer was there at the urging of the community following a series of shootings at and near the intersection over recent years, including in February.
“Police have been stationed all day and night lately as we had a meeting with police,” she said.
In the video, a gunshot is heard and the squad car begins rolling forward. People are seen running around the corner under the viaduct as two more shots are heard.
Sometimes, you just happen to be in the area of a shooting. We can recall almost a dozen instances of being on patrol, driving around corners or sneaking through alleys, stumbling into shootings completely by accident. Once, we heard shots and had a guy almost run into the side of our squad car with a pistol still in his hand - we were both surprised as Hell (he got away).
But being parked in a fixed location due to ongoing concerns and the offender doesn't even care that the police are there....wow.
Be careful out there.
Labels: crime
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
38 Comments:
The post should be roving or at least 10-4. Install a porta potty for God's sakes. Face to face screws over the late car. Two cars down for hours during lunch reliefs. No lunch on the end if you come prepared and stick it out. Protecting an open air drug market with prostitutes and hypes all over. Waste of manpower. 2nd time in like a month they shooting right by the post.
Scarecrow with the shitbirds landing on the hood
"Sometimes, you just happen to be in the area of a shooting. We can recall almost a dozen instances of being on patrol, driving around corners or sneaking through alleys, stumbling into shootings completely by accident. Once, we heard shots and had a guy almost run into the side of our squad car with a pistol still in his hand - we were both surprised as Hell (he got away)."
You mean back in the days before "proactive time" became a bad thing?
I don't see this as surprising with the squad and officer at the station and shots being fired. The lack of respect for the police or any other authority figure has been going on for decades. When you have community leaders and the mayor holding the police in contempt and the judges' dismissing charges those who attacked police and federal officers, why should that surprise anyone? Are you?
One time I was practicing how to chew gum when suddenly this shit bird let of some rounds so I chased the piece of shit down and said listen motha fucka lemme teach how to chew a pack of gum.
But in this instance the local aldercreature will say something profound! Like the victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time! And that the officer responded but was unable to apprehend the suspect?
Why do you think they call that part of 024 the Jungle?
Worked in 024 for long time there…..nothing has changed!
The bosses should take the mayor to Oz, and all of them can get brains.
Please, all officers be careful while sitting in a stationary post. A few years ago in the St. Louis area, a University City police officer was killed while being in a stationary post with his vehicle. Stationary posts are a bad idea especially with just a single man car. All it does is let the bad and the crazy know where you are at so they can take you out when they want.
Howard is the worse open air drug market / mental ward location in the entire city! I love working that CTA special location with big, strong, aggressive, smart, ex-military, resourceful, clear minded, data warehouse tacticians. The mindset needs to be get those CB numbers and request strip searches from the WOL.
If the city really cared about preventing crime they wouldn’t handcuff the police with 7 layers of oversight and having the police make notifications for EVERYTHING they do. The city clearly doesn’t care , so why should the police. Take your 100K a year job with benefits and make it work for you. Fuck this job.
Where are the social workers for this open air drug market! Putting a PO there but leaving the late side short there’s no back up on late jobs but all the DOGS that hold onto jobs and don’t carry tasers nor back anyone up on the early side can leave early
Just have the citizens of Evanston cross the border to do a hug-a-thug.
Hein is retiring.
Let em shoot each other up to thin out the herd. The dept will go over budget on crime scene tape
OT - Another "fail." The Democrat game of "ring the doorbell and then run away giggling" has backfired.
Vote for Biden and flood the cities with illegal aliens while you call yourself a moving van.
Masked burglary crews terrorizing ritzy neighborhoods show ‘they’re doing their homework,’ veteran cop warns
"We used to think high-end neighborhoods were exempt from crime...that’s no longer the case."
"YOU'RE NOT SAFE ANYWHERE ANYMORE, ESPECIALLY IN AFFLUENT AREAS."
The latest incidents unfolded Wednesday night in the San Fernando Valley, where burglars hit homes in Studio City and Toluca Lake and targeted a commercial property in a separate theft that led to a police chase.
The violence escalated Thursday night when a woman in her 70s was strangled during a home invasion in the Hollywood Hills, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The suspects, described as at least two masked men, fled with cash and jewelry and remain on the run.
Those break-ins are the most recent in a pattern that began around April 10, with similar crimes reported across Sherman Oaks, Encino, North Hollywood and surrounding communities, in some cases with homes hit within minutes of each other.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/masked-burglary-crews-terrorizing-ritzy-neighborhoods-show-theyre-homework-veteran-cop-warns
These crews are Chilean and Colombian career burglars; they put on all your Rolexes and jewelry and wave your cash around in one hand while swigging your liquor with the other - and taking video of the whole thing.
Wreck everything and keep backing away until you bump into something. Look behind you, and it'll be the very person you thought you could escape - while leaving others to suffer.
Oops.
They did, but were told to "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" after which, they quietly left with hat in hand.
yep,, the jonquil - juneway jungle
I worked there too, it hasn't been the jungle for years. A few occasional shootings and the normal drug dealing, it's not a big deal anymore.
In this instance it worked. He pushed the problem to the west side of the train station where the shooting was, the offender ran south and got caught. Back in the day they'd run east and disappear into the apartment buildings. That station is under constant surveillance, as it is THE biggest problem in the district, and amounts to the most calls for service in the district, yearly.
Sorry O/T; has anyone else taken notice of all of these AMC messages from departments throughout the nation looking for accessors to participate in their promotional testing process. Don’t these departments know that most of the people promoted by our department either never passed a promotional exam and were promoted by merit or by having the insider information on what was going to be on the exam; aka had the answers. Our promotional process is broken and we are the last department they should be asking for advice on how to promote!
I believe that's what happened to the Metra officer in Riverdale years ago. Sitting in a 10-99 car as a deterrent until someone walked up and shot him
Maybe Hein can reunite with his BFF , Dan Godsel and doing a painting collaboration.
This is evident by the DEI supervisors that have no clue what they’re doing. In typical Chicago fashion , just wing it.
They should be buying us a pack of gum and teaching us how to chew it.
The Criminals know Gov Pigster and the Dems have their back with the safety act.
The communist Alderman up there, Maria Hadden, decided that corner would be a great place for a homeless overnight men’s shelter. Her cop hating assistant, Leslie Perkins, managed to sneak that in by letting people outside, not impacted by it, be a part of the survey for it. It’s fun to see them wander into Evanston to panhandle. Add to it the new “all affordable” housing up and down Howard and various other “social welfare” offices. It’s all there- one street, taking on the burden of it all. It’s already one of the densest areas for Section 8 vouchers in the city, if not thee densest. Hadden’s literally created Cabrini Green north. The mall up there managed to have a Marshall’s close bc of rampant theft. Who knows how long before Jewel packs it in. Imagine having a major street & ward on the cusp of wealthy northern lakeshore burbs, a stones throw from the lakefront. It’s literally the gateway into the city from the north and it’s been shit for decades thanks to extreme progressive politics there for years. Just as Joe Moore was gaining common sense, he got voted out by the insane that are even further left. Howard Street- a complete and utter embarrassment to the city.
“Not a big deal?” Do you live there? Because I hear gunshots at least once or twice a week. Not a decent store or restaurant on Howard from Sheridan to Ashland. You couldn’t pay me to walk down Howard street to take the redline. We get to watch fentanyl addicts doing there zombie hang on the curbs. It got better for a hot minute 10 years ago when Evanston tried investing in their side. Then moron Maria Hadden got elected and could care less about that area.
Howard Street is a disaster. I've been to Haiti, Afghanistan, and El Salvador. Howard Street is more dangerous than all three. Real talk. All Chicago mayors have been a joke for not fixing that problem.
Howard isn’t even in the top 5 of open air drug markets in the city.
Lived in Rogers Park back in the 70's... Juneway Terr was a shithole back then. Savages would shoot out from the apt windows at people in the street... seems like the only thing that's changed is the cancer has spread.
The non-demonized amish yutes all belong to the IDGAF Disciples... You could have 100 cars there, won't matter.
"You couldn’t pay me to walk down Howard street to take the redline.
5/16/2026 09:14:32 PM"
Haven't been that way since maybe early '80s? You could still see a little of what once was - very well-known German guy, violin maker had his shop there. Also a guy, one-man shop, who made blasting machines for mining, quarrying, etc. A thrift shop I liked.
As in so much of the rest of the city, anything worthwhile is gone.
High spot of the trip - glanced down an alley as I passed and there is an M/1 beating the s__t out of another, using a bathroom plumbing stack about 6' long. Shower head still attached at the top.
"Walk on by...Walk on by..."
-Dionne Warwick
LIsten Friend, Howard might be the worst open air drug market in Area 3 but its nothing compared to spots along Chicago Ave, Madison, Jackson, Etc, Etc in 011
Sneaking through alleys. The good old days. Now the majority of new officers have zero desire to do anything resembling police work. It’s really sad.
It happened on Dolton’s side I believe. Thomas Cook was his name
Once while working CHA at the fixed post in the townhomes, was talking with partner. Viewed a guy in passenger side mirror (I was driver), sneaking up on the Passenger side of car. Let my partner know. We both jumped out, just as the guy grabbed back door handle. He ran off. Car doors should also always be locked when you’re in it.
Fomer Riverdale PD Ofc. Tommy Cook was shot as he sat in Harvey in his Metra squad car on Sept. 27, 2006. The offenders were identified and arrested, one sentenced to life, one sentenced to 40 years, in 2016.
Lawful Policing is not that difficult. Now if you're trying to turn it into some 1990s version of Policing, yeah, stand down.
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