The Chicago Police Department finished up a three month undercover sting to correct a major wrong! But is it enough?
Alderman Moore has sent out his press release last night thanking himself, one neighbor got fourteen of them from Joe's e-mail puppeteers, but Joe left off some key names.
Thank You, Mary Jane and Paul C. from the Rogers Park Neighbors! You got the ball rolling this summer.
Thank You, Margot Hackett co-founder of Paws 4 Peace for keeping the ball rolling this fall and winter! Five long months ago, you and I got fed up and started walking our dogs up and down Morse Avenue ourselves, at times I felt like I was in an episode of The Andy Griffin Show, where Sherriff Taylor deputizes Aunt Bee and Gomer Pile.
Thank you Mr. Vernandez Jones and his northside team at CeaseFire, those circle prayers do work, you did make a difference! Thanks for the call last night, we still have alot of work to do, don't we?
Today the Chicago Police Department stands proud!
The biggest Thank You goes to the Chicago Police Department, none of this could have been done with-out you!
Take a bow!
Jack Bess said it best in this weeks Lerner News Star, "We are just the supporting cast of West Side Story"!
I am sure all the neighbors are asking for a "Curtain Call", and offering a "Standing Applause"!
I pray we never have to see this nightmare production return to Beat 2431 Arts District again? Yet we still have work to do.
Thoughts on Operation Five and Dime Store Street.
Joe on Estes said, "Okay - Now What? The big bust was yesterday. Are we going to wait and let Morse Ave be taken over by another gang (I've seen this happen before) or are we going to step in to stop the cycle."
Michael J. Harrington said, "On the heels of last month's police statistics documenting that index crime actually went up on Morse Avenue and not down as the propagandists told us, we and our neighbors are all so very, very desperate for anything that shows signs of improvement on Morse Avenue. However, I think it's too early to start popping champagne corks and celebrating.. . . and certainly too soon to be counting on the results to last much more than a few days."
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I could not find the article about Craig online but found this:
Street-corner drug market busted
February 2, 2005
BY LISA DONOVAN Staff Reporter
They were open for business, midnight to 8 a.m., near a North Side train station, a fixture on the path for commuters, kids walking to school and others headed for places of worship, Chicago Police said.
And after a flood of complaints about the gang members dealing drugs at Glenwood and Morse, police launched a three-month long crackdown that ended Tuesday with 11 arrests and more to come.
"There's been a history of violence over there and we did an operation with 14 targets, all members of the Gangster Disciples street gang," said Lt. Elias Voulgaris in Chicago Police Department's Narcotics and Gang Investigations Section.
"Operation End of the Line," which began Nov. 1, involved videotaping drug deals, many with undercover officers, near the Rogers Park L stop. By stacking up evidence over time, in the form of repeated drug deals captured on video, police are hoping the gang members will face more serious conspiracy charges, said Sgt. Tony Di Cristofano of the narcotics team.
Police rounded up the suspected gang members on Tuesday. All of them live within about a mile of the 1400 block of West Morse.
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