"Crime is down - Crime is decreasing." Everytime I hear Alderman Moore or Kevin O'Neil say this line, I want to just throw up.
Please Alderman, tell us the truth for once. Morse Avenue is a Hell Hole and you can't do anything about it.
Dry cleaning employee beaten on North Side
By Dan P. Blake
Tribune staff reporter
August 29, 2006, 4:37 AM CDT
A 62-year-old employee of a Rogers Park dry cleaner is hospitalized this morning after a teenager assaulted him during an altercation over a clothes pick-up, Chicago police said.
The attack occurred around 4:30 p.m. Monday when the 17-year-old boy came into the Cameo Cleaners dry cleaning shop and couldn't provide a ticket for clothes that he claimed were his, Rogers Park District Capt. Howard Denk said.
When the employee of the store at 1349 W. Morse Ave. refused to hand over the clothes, the boy struck him in the face.
"He didn't have a ticket and when they wouldn't give (the clothes) to him he punched the man in the nose," Denk said, adding that the man fell back and struck his head.
Paramedics took the victim to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston where he was treated for lacerations to his head and was being held for observation, police said. His condition was not available this morning, but Officer David Banks described his injuries as "not major."
A 60-year-old woman, thought to be the victim's wife, witnessed the attack and told police the boy was about 5 foot 6 inches, and weighed 160 pounds, Denk said.
The clothes were not stolen from the store, police said, and no arrests have been made.
Copyright © 2006, Chicago Tribune
2 comments:
Crime is down relative to what? 1989? Crime is down across the U.S.
Up or down, we do seem to have a spate of aggressive assaults, in otherwise nicer areas that haven't suffered things like gunshots. 2 weeks ago 4 shots were fired in alley btwn Estes and Touhy, off Ashland. The vic was shot in the leg; he lives in a condo on Touhy and has no idea why he was shot. Around same time, someone on Greenleaf and Greenview went out to their car after midnight and was bashed in the head and lost vision in one eye. No robbery in either case. Check the crimeorg stats. The News(less)Star is apparently no longer reporting shootings and beatings. When queried about their crime beat reportage, they declined to answer. Are they working for JoMo?
Paradise, I have also heard the same thing from people. Also, ten years ago my mother died and left me some buildings on the west side. One was in housing court for lead paint. When I met with the city inspector at this property he told me that in the next decade Rogers Park was going to get the CHA tenants as buildings were torn down. I don't know how he knew this but he was in the business.
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