CPD Catches up to CWB

We've been mentioning these waves of robberies on and off for a while....CWB has been reporting it for months now:

• Detectives from three of the Chicago Police Department’s five areas have issued a joint community alert to warn the public about the ongoing robbery surge we’ve been telling you about for the past two months.

  On Thursday, investigators from Areas Three, Four, and Five issued a bulletin about a robbery crew that they believe committed at least 11 robberies on January 17 and 18, mostly in Humboldt Park and West Town, but also in Old Town.

We're not blaming the Detectives, some of whom have almost certainly been tipping off CWB as to the wave of robberies while bosses sit and twiddle their thumbs. This notification is nearly five days old - wasn't CAPS supposed to make timely notifications years ago? Guess that fell by the wayside?

Next up, someone is going to issue a bulletin about the enormous burglary waves where a crew or crews are hitting ten or even twenty businesses overnight when there are only three or four cars up in certain Districts. We've gotten e-mails that say almost a dozen businesses in 016 were hit Wednesday night/Thursday morning and that there's tons of security video on social media.