Craig, at the beat meeting last night:
1. You attacked the police with what they say were false charges you made about them not doing their job.
2. You attacked your own neighbor Jim Ginderske for passing a signup sheet.
3. You yell and scream over top of other neighbors when they are are trying to have their chance to say something at the beat meeting, including Jim and Tom Wesgard and others of your neighbors from Lunt who were trying to complete the CAPS problem solving model.
4. You are generally rude and obnoxious at just about every public meeting that we have both attended, to the point where other people (not just me) are yelling at you to sit down and give others a chance to talk.
5. Here in this email you confront Katy and Steve about their own whereabouts when you were outside "looking" for them for 15 minutes. You imply that since you couldn't find them in that short period of time, they are slouches who can't be trusted to keep a promise.
6. Then while you are out looking for them, you get in the face of the DevCorp workers,calling them lazy, and saying who knows what in intimidating and attacking words to them.
And you're surprised that they called the police?
If you recall at the beat meeting last night, Sgt. Kulp said if a person is in some fear of imminent danger, they can sign a complaint for assault. Now, I wasn't there and thus don't know what happened, but based on my past experience with you detailed above, I have every reason to believe they did fear for their safety, and thus called police.
Instead of griping about it to me and others in this email, I think you should be saying thankful prayers to whatever God you might worship that you indeed were not arrested.
Kevin O'Neil
Beat 2431 CAPS facilitator
5 comments:
that's just crazy talk.
I felt bad after my last comment calling Kevin's email "crazy talk." Sorry Kevin- I was trying to make light.
I think issues like litter and drug dealing and crime are inter-related. And to focus on one to the exclusion of another- I am not so sure I agree with that.
I walk the neighborhood every day to work and with my dogs. Whoever puts half of these flyers up has their head up their butt- They put them up so flimsily that they are bound to become litter. This does not need to be-flyering shouldn't turn into a litter problem-period.
I feel like someone should hold a training session on how to flyer correctly. I saw many many flyers attached with one skimpy piece of tape on top and on the outside of buildings where they could have been inside. At the risk of sounding intolerant- I am going to call this pure laziness and sloppy work at best. Where is the pride and care in the neighborhood that these people flyering should seemingly have? A little TLC (2 pieces of tape top and bottom-walking the extra feet to the inside of the gate etc...) goes a long way to prevent litter. Most of us could use the exercise anyway.
And that CAPs meeting does not just belong to residents of Lunt. It includes other streets too I just want to point out. Focusing every single meeting on that one problem (although very glaring) is not totally fair. I don't live there but am glad to support the efforts there as it effects the entire community. And also many people that live there are very involved- to their credit.
Maybe we need to have a CAPs meeting before the meeting with a good number of us in attendence so we can be really organized. I myself would attend.
We are all frustrated with the police response to crime in Rogers Park. The CAPS meeting on Monday was a good step forward. I was somewhat disappointed when I was at the meeting that Ald. Moore and Fagus weren't in attendance, but now I think that was a good thing.
I saw the incident that Craig was speaking about (at the CAPS meeting) unfold right outside my window, and I too was disappointed with the police response. I wouldn't accuse them of not doing their job. However, the police response to that incident in question was undeniably poor. Even the speech given about "probable cause" was laughable. If a video tape of a person hitting another person in the head with a bike isn't "probable cause" for felony assault, I don't know what is.
This being said, we need to organize ourselves better at CAPS and zoning meetings. Tom and James did an excellent job of turning "bitch sessions" into a working meeting that is helping us arrive at solutions. I was ready to stop going to these meetings because no-one listens to each other. It’s always the community complaining the police don’t do enough, and the police responding to every complaint with "we can't ______ because _____."
Enough complaining! It’s time for us to put our heads together and do something about all of this.
We need to get away from officials telling us they can't do something or what they are going to implement and letting the community respond to decisions already made behind closed doors. This hasn't worked in the 10 years most of our officials have been in power and holding these meetings. They are part of the problem. Monday’s CAPS meeting was a good step forward.
At the CAPS meeting, we as a community worked together to outline the problems and propose the solutions. Imagine if all our community meetings worked that way…Our public comments would be more than an after-thought.
Personally, I want to see where this process goes. I am going to make an effort to try and keep my comments on track at the next meeting to help that process along. I urge others to do the same. It was much more useful than hearing the same complaints and grievances from citizens, the inevitable “let me respond to that” from the meeting facilitators, and the latest crime statistics – which are a complete aberration from reality.
The message to our leaders is simple: If you won’t do anything, we will.
Kevin wrote...
> ... the CAPS problem solving model
With the help of the Alderman, DevCorp North raised property taxes on Beat 2431 to fund themselves (Special Service Area #24).
DevCorp North then imposed themselves on Beat 2431 as the solution to the beat's crime problems, using part of the property taxes to go into the private security business, subcontracting to North Central Security. DevCorp North is a VENDOR of services to the residents of Beat 2431.
As Beat Facilitator for Beat 2431, Alderman Moore appointed a member of the Board of Directors of DevCorp North, and the Chairman of DevCorp North's Publicity and Public Relations Committee.
Is this the CAPS problem solving model you are talking about?
So PogersRarker,
What is the procedure for residents to replace a beat facilitator, say for example for, I don't know, non-performance, or a conflict of interest of some kind?
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