The worst phrase heard on the police scanner happened again last night in the CAPS beat 2431-23 area. Shots fired.
The description of the perps - they were all wearing hoodies. One beige hoodie, one grey hoodie and a couple of black hoodies. The area the police were searching was Morse and Clark - Lunt and Paulina sector.
So the hunt was on for the multi-colored hoodie gang.
30 minutes later, here's the police scanner summary. A bottle was thrown at the window of a car. A weapon was produced. A shot was fired. Possible car-jacking.
Blognotes: How many crimes were committed? How many charges could be filed here? Many or none? Criminal damage to property? Weapons Violation? Unlawful use of a weapon? Unlawful discharge of a weapon?
I'm not sure if any arrests were made? That wasn't mentioned in all the police chatter. If no arrests were made, then we all can say this crime never even happened and 'Crime is Down' 100 percent.
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I remember when Rogers Park was a place you might want for your first apartment in the city. Now, its a place where you need to worry if you will be safe on your long walk from your parked car to where ever you need to walk to. I know someone who, a few years ago, tried to park a little west of Sheridan, down Morse or Lunt (not sure) but were prevented from driving further by gang members halting traffic. My neighbor has a friend who has a condo on Lunt and was mugged walking his lap dog. No one wants to live there anymore. Loyola students on tight budgets still live in those neighborhoods, most people just avoid them now. The north east part of Rogers Park between Howard, Jonquil, Clark and Sheridan are places most people would not walk through in the daytime. Craig, good work on increasing public awareness of the problems. Rogers Park would be different with a lesser concentration of housing project relocations (smaller numbers work better), and more parking structures, more area businesses, better maintained streets, and less substandard housing. You can see it was all once beautiful and could be again.
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