High priority mobile command center was set up outside of a West Rogers Park apartment where a woman's body was found covered in blood. Police officials are not commenting on the case, which is now being classifying as a homicide.
This has made almost every media outlet.
Chicago Sun Times
Chicago Tribune
Channel 2 With video
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Paradise---this issue came up at my CAPS meeting recently. The CPD has a couple of security expert who will come to your building (free of charge) and offer security tips. They looked at our locks, doors lighting etc and made recommendations about improving the lighting by increasing the wattage in the front of the building.
I don't know if they can offer that service if it is a rented apartment. Hope that helps.
I think things are getting a bit unreal around here. Every city neighborhood has crime- as do we.
The reaction on this site to any crimes really seems to be very knee jerk and doom and gloom.
Things are improving from what I see albeit slowly. We need a little faith here I think.
This pdf is a good guide to security basics and has a helpful checklist. Print it out and use it to survey your home:
http://www.usaonwatch.org/resource/neighborhood_watch/doc_homesecuritybook.pdf
You can also find more detailed tips at www.crimedoctor.com, particularly in the Burglary Prevention Advice section.
Apartment dwellers may want to consider organizing an Apartment Watch group in their building. This may help if you detect security breaches in common areas, or if your apartment has vulnerabilities that are too expensive to fix yourself. Find out what you need, what it costs and how to get it installed, then band together with like-minded neighbors in your building to propose clear-cut security enhancements to your landlord. True, some landlords will ignore these requests, but others would rather spend some money to make their buildings more secure than risk being held responsible if crimes are committed on their property.
Another rare moment, and I actually have to agree with Mr. Westgard. No, crime isn't going up because of people breeding like rats. Since when did having children become rodent activity? And, no, crime isn't going up because of limited jobs. Job opportunities, minus minor monthly fluctuations, have improved significantly over the last 4 years or so (get off the 'net and you can't swing a dead cat for all the want ads and help wanted signs for hardworking, enterprising people). Leaving aside crime reporting shenanigans that likely only reallocate crime type without reducing stats significantly overall, crime has largely gone down in most metro areas. But criminals, like rats, will cluster where the pickings are easy and ripe. And the point of all this should be that RP continues be fertile ground for bad guys (and gals) in spite of development, in spite of those future $4 mil planters for Morse, in spite of SSA levies and DevCorp (cough cough) programs. While we are running from one redevelopment meeting to another and paying for pretty drawings for Morse, the bad guys are having a good 'ol time. Methinks we may have been focusing on the wrong things.
The boundries of the 24th Police District ( Rogers Park District) are Kedzie to the Lake; Evanston to Petterson Avenue. Big!!
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