Although you won't find this information from CAPS beat 2431 leaders, on March 13th, Danny Wilcox was caught by the Chicago Police Department in the 1500 block of West Morse Avenue, carrying a concealed handgun!
This is the same block as the Morse Senior Home where Wayne Jones was killed last year. The same block the CAPS meetings are held. The same block where there is a church and youth center are located.
Wonder why Danny needed to carry a gun around there? That area should be safe to walk without having to carry a concealed gun, right?
Danny doesn't think so.
Well done officers. I wonder why Kevin O'Neil and the CAPS program in 2431 didn't want the community to know about this dangerous guy roaming the Morse Hell Hole? Wasn't there anyway Kevin O'Neil could have spun this into Joe Moore taking credit for this arrest? Maybe we could've had a glossy, 4-color, political mailer with Joe taking the handgun away from Danny and handcuffing him? Or a fancy T.V. commercial with Joe wearing a white cowboy hat and shiny badge, kinda like there was a new sheriff in town. The possibilities were endless. Kevin, you dropped the ball on this one.
31 comments:
Don't be surprised to find out that joe moore caught and arrested Mr. Cox. Thats correct in the world of joe moore he had the arrest along with his side kick little kevin o'neal.
Graig stated " I wonder why Kevin O'Neil and the CAPS program in 2431 didn't want the community to know about this dangerous guy roaming the Morse Hell Hole? "
Joe Moore was re-elected, now joe doesn't have to account for what he is doing. All the bullshit flyers and made up promises are irrelevent. WE are stuck with joe moore, so little kevin doesn't have to tell anyone in the caps meting about anything, Why? Because joe moore won, so get used to "NOTHING" it will be as it was before the election.
People have stated on this blog that hopefully joe will wake up and make some changes for the good.
Think about it 16yrs of doing nothing , what make s you think that now joe will change.
> WE are stuck with joe moore
For years the unions tossed money at Mayor Daley, but recently they decided it wasn't working fast enough for them, let's target his City Council. The unions specifically targeted wards with weak aldermen with weak grassroots organization and bought their seats. To some extent the 49th has a union stooge alderman because the residents do not have a strong enough ground organization to deflect the onslaught of union dues. The war is not union vs. management or machine vs. reform, it's residents vs. outside agendas. Outside interests bought a seat in City Council. Moore's re-election was a great day for gang bangers and slumlords: four more years of national issues.
WELLPUT BLOGERS-
THE UNION COULD NOT HAVE SELETED A MORE PUPPET STOGIE THAN JOEMO,
NOTICE HE HAS ALL READY OPENED HIS BIG MOUTH ON CHANEL 7 LAST EVENING-
And notice the Last Known Address (LKA) on this guy - 2900 block of Columbus - far SW side. Doesn't look like he just went for a stroll outside his door. If he came all the way to Morse, there was probably a specific purpose for that pistola.
I bet if you check the voting lists, you will find this man is a new resident NOH and probably voted early at Pottawatomie Park
Gang bangers and drug dealers and slumlords agree:
We want an alderman who will work to stop the war in Iraq!
We want an alderman who will protect ducks!
We want an alderman who will Just Say NO to Walmart!
Inkjar:
What did our represenative say on the news last night?
Thanks
I just thought of something.
Let's say we have someone who is a union loyalist, and this person lives in a ward other than the 49th. Let's say this person voted in february in his ward, and that there was no need for a runoff in that ward.
Let's say this person has a friend, another union loyalist, who lives in the 49th ward. Let's say our someone then registers to vote in the 49th ward, using his friend's address to do so. He then votes in the April 17th election for Joe Moore, never having lived here.
Is something that could happen? I feel like it is possible.
For fairness, however, please feel free to substitute "union loyalist" with "republican" and "Joe Moore" with "Don Gordon".
ryne- the union mouthpice did not agree on MAYOR DALY'S selection of the new ctA head, said he should go to the outside-
new orleans?
Fargo, don't be surprised that guy with the gun has a south side address. A lot of crimes in the ward have been committed by people who live outside of it who happen to have connections to the bad guys and girls who already live in our ward. Unfortunately, we've got the same alderman who'll hide from this and other ward concerns until a photo op presents itself or when the next election comes up.
Boxing tomboy - I'm not surprised. This is a long-term pattern. Many arrestees in 2422 have been individuals with south or west side addresses.
There used to be an unsavory bunch living next door to me who had a lot of west side pals.
2900 Columbus = West side, NOT Far South.
"Many arrestees in 2422 have been individuals with south or west side addresses."
SMH. As a former south side resident, it's great to see how people *really* feel. For future reference, just say "those black people." It's quick and to the point.
I'd rather call him Danny Wilcox, the guy caught carrying a concealed gun in the 1500 block of West Morse Avenue.
You can spin it anyway you want JC.
And JC, you didn't answer the question. What did Danny need the gun for in that block?
Yeah, JC, nice attempt at putting everyone on their heels. The fact is that this man was walking a neighborhood with a concealed gun. The neighborhood he was walking was nowhere near his residence. So, there are a few questions, and mind you, all of these questions are asked AFTER and BECAUSE this man was caught carrying a concealed weapon.
A. Why was he carrying the weapon?
B. Why was he in this neighborhood with that weapon?
C. What did he plan on doing with this weapon?
Don't make it racial.
You tell us, JC, if what Fargo said is correct, and a large portion of people being arrested in this neighborhood are from other neighborhoods, what are all these individuals doing here getting arrested here? Is it that they don't want to shit where they eat?
I think you should build a great big wall around Rogers Park.
And once there is a wall, then Craig and ryne and abe can stand at the ready, checking IDs. Anyone caught trespassing can be shot on site by the snipers in the towers. And then if anyone leaves for more than 24 hours they can't come back. Yeah. That's the ticket.
ra - ha ha.
But you know what? You go to the West Side, and a great number of people geting arrested there are from the suburbs - and they are there to buy drugs.
So this guy was in RP with a concealed gun, and a good number of ppl arrested in RP are not from RP. It is a valid question to ask, "what are they doing here? Is it not? Are we unreasonable? I think the ppl on the West Side are glad for the arrests and angry at the suburbanites that come into their neighborhood looking to break the law. Are we not allowed to?
I can tell you that he certainly was not here shoping our thriving (legitimate) business district.
And JC there are plenty of white and hispanic guys getting busted with guns here too. This one just happened to be black. That's the beauty of the diversity in RP, you never know what kind of person is carrying a weapon.
Where's Joe tonight? I hope he's standing guard in the cold. Locked and loaded. Protecting the weak minded from the weak willed.
ra: your right I hope one night or even day your walking down Morse ,I hope run across a person like Mr Cox, I hope he shows you his sidekick (his weapon) then we will see what you say.
My career allows me to have a badge & a weapon (US Federal Goverement issued) I when I walk in parts of Rogers Park (as well as other parts of this city I do not feel always safe!
Walls do not work, thankfully the Chicago police do a very good job keeping a good amount of these men off the street.
I think you, and all the other law abiding people in RP do not want the Mr Coxs of this city walking our streets with the purpose of possibly harming the citizens of our ward.
Finally this story was more about our alderman & his staff & CAPS leader not keeping people informed,as well as joe being joe which means joe doesn't run the ward for the people but for those who contribute to his campaign fund.
Craig,
I didn't know there was a question posed. How the hell would I know? Contrary to popular belief, not all black people know each other (and btw, if you do happen to attend another CAPS 2423 meeting, advise them not to ask the lone black people in attendance if they're related to some drug dealer they've just collared. Sorta makes them look a bit stupid). Besides, I'm pro gun control.
Having been a casual reader of your blog for a while, I will say that it's definitely informative. Your views (and the views of a number of commenters here) on people of color may be a little questionable, but eh...y'all really can't help it, and I'm beyond caring. All I want is the ability to come home from a long day's work and not be stopped for fitting the description. (Who knew a 5'1" black woman in heels could be so menacing?) Or stared down by a group of teens who should be in someone's afterschool program. I would like to be able to do my laundry without worrying about some homeless guy breaking into my building for shelter (and my apartment for my iBook). I'd also like to be able to AFFORD staying here, but I'm afraid that my and my fiance's modest salaries will be no match for the plethora of luxury condos popping up all over the place. I'd also like an alderman who paid more than lip service when it came to affordable housing, but I guess it just wasn't meant to be.
With all the covert racists lurking in this community, perhaps going back to the 3rd Ward wouldn't be a bad idea. At least Tillman's gone. Thank God.
jc- your comment pains me, and there were many things that did during this election. After the election, I feel a bit more like I understand what it's like to be judged by one's race because that is what seems to have happened.
It hurts on both sides, though I know people of color experence this much more than a white person does. I tend to judge people by their behavior and if they are doing something I consider to be antisocial (waking up the whole neighborhood yellng at 2am, loitering on private property, littering) it upsets me.
My neighbor one said to me (he is a white social worker), "You're so white because you want everyone else to be quiet." It didn't offend me because it's true. I do want people to respect others around them and not disturb everyone on a Monday night. I'm pretty sure it's not just me that likes a peaceful and quiet neighborhood though.
I will continue to think about these issues and work through them as best I can. That is the opportunity to grow that we have here in RP living in an integratd community. After this election though, it definitely feels a bit more divided, which is very sad.
I have traveled to various of our nice black neighborhoods in this city on errands, including the nice, solid area around 100th St., and I notice those people are not tolerant of noise and gaggles of goons hanging out on streetcorners, either. I don't see drunken vagrants breaking bottles on the sidewalk in those areas, and I don't see the types of businesses that cater to these goons, even though I see a lot of small, cheap retail that is good to have anywhere. Mind you, these neighborhoods are not affluent,and I saw many indicators of economic distress, such as meticulously groomed little homes that badly needed tuckpointing, many closed businesses, stripmall parking lots that were broken and pocked with potholes, and weed-choked lots. Yet these areas are very orderly, quiet, and filled with friendly, relaxed people, and there is everywhere a sense of order and civility, that to me mean a nice neighborhood.
So this is not a race thing. Believe me, JC, we wouldn't be any more tolerant of the kind of white folks who inhabit many outer suburbs, with their half-dozen trash cars parked on the lawn, their biker bars,their crystal meth labs, their oversized families they can't support, their dirty yards, and their endless noise and disturbances AND constant need for the intervention of social services, whether to resolve constant domestic problems, remove viciously abused children, or rescue some dumb people from destitution caused by running up $80K worth of bills buying big screen TVs and 4X4 trucks and then losing the job over drunkenness. Thank God they're 40 miles away.
But those folks are many miles up the road and are not ours to deal with, thankfully.If they ever are, you can trust people around here won't be one bit more tolerant, and in fact we would have to get really draconian. The goons around here are in our faces, on the other hand, and I notice that the bulk of them are distinctly not juveniles. There tends to be a pretty direct correlation between the number of purposeless, unoccupied young people congregating on street corners, and the amount of crime, and that's why people get upset about it.
I'm very disturbed by the fact that you have been harrassed for "fitting the description", but if it is any comfort to you, I have been, once, harrassed by the police in this city, too, in Uptown. I run an office there, and it's my habit, in summer, to sit on the bench by the busstop on Sheridan Road in summer during lunch, and smoke a cig, since you can no longer do it in a bldg anywhere. I found out that any white woman in business clothes sitting on a busstop bench and eating a cookie and smokig a cig is assumed to be a prostitute- an insulting assumption.
So I sympathize with you and wish we had brighter cops whose little brains were not so riddled with racial and sexual stereotypes, and who would go after known criminals-and they KNOW who's dealing in any neighborhood-instead of bodyslamming delicately-built young black males who are alone and obviously harmless, or harrassing other innocent citizens who they have no reason to believe are guilty of anything.
I'm with JC. . .I'd like to continue to afford to live in the area as well, but I work at a regular job -- not the type of person the condo developers and Moore want to welcome. I'd also like to not be viewed with suspicion by some cops and residents in the area simply because I'm a person of color. And JC, I'm 5 foot 1, too.
But then, I've known of some whites who were stopped by the police simply because they were hanging around with African-Americans. The former youth pastor at my church was regularly harassed by the police -- on the street, at his home and even in front of the church -- because most of the kids he worked with were African-American. My boxing coach was pulled over around Morse Avenue one night because the cops thought because he was the only white guy with several African-Americans in his car, they all must have been up to no good. Shame.
JC and Boxing Tomboy,
I am a white, anglo saxon female, the very person you think would be loving life with the upwardly mobile rental prices and devlopment. I'm not.
You see I decided to start my own business and believe me it has been a struggle financially. If I may be forthright, the first year I grossed a little over 12,000 dollars. So, I completely understand where you two come from.
I also was displaced out of my eight year home by a condo conversion. I was determined not ot let that happen again and to find a place comparable to what I had. To do that I am now paying $450 dollars more in rent. I now have a three bedroom as opposed to a one bedroom. However, I did not see any one bedrrom, that I would consider decent for a rat that was renting for less than $950. Those that were decent were too small. I decided to up the ante and look at two bedrooms. Most were as small or smaller than the one bedrooms, the best I found was in Edgewater/Andersonville for $1100 plus a monthly pet deposit. For a 100 dollars more, I ended up at the place I'm at now, a two flat with good owners who were OK with my dogs.
I guess what I am trying to say is I am a white girl from the south who has seen, and was shocked, at how racially ignorant and divided the midwest is. I went to a High School where you had to have two white girls on the cheerleading squad, where my best friends were black.
However, I feel equally judged by my race and background. People assume I am affluent, or married, or gay, or a bigot, or eccentric and or you name it. None is true. We all have the burden of our own albatross to deal with. No one escapes that.
I'm not sure where I'm going in my personal diatribe except to say, you are not the only one worried about being priced out of your neighborhood. You are not the only one who recieves stares and questioning looks. You are not the only one being stopped by the police. I was stopped on a weekday at noon at the corner of Howard and Bosworth by the police and asked for my ID. My offense was stopping at the stop sign and saying hello to the two white officers in the car.
I think we all want the same things. To not be judged by outward appearance, to be able to live peacably without fear, to be able to make the best use of our community and to be able to remain here if we choose regardless of our financial status.
Best to both of you!!!!
Tuesday was a good day for the crack trade.
@JC - not all white people know each other either.
Craig's post identified an out of the neighborhood individual who was arrested and it was determined he had a concealed weapon. I'd want to know why, and race in this case is not the issue. He was up here with a concealed weapon. Why?
On the other hand, reflecting on your statement, Jocelyn's, The North Coast, and Margot Hackett, I see a platinum plated opportunity to force the issues regarding stereotyping and the focus on using those stereotypes to classify citizens. It is not necessary but it sure makes some folks feel better.
RP is supposed to be a shining example of diversity. It isn't when someone is pulled over just because of their gender, race, color, or - god help us - sitting on a park bench looking good.
There is a lot of work to be done here, that is certain.
There has been crime committed by people from the south and near west sides ever since they built the Red Line. This has been happening for decades, when Morse was mostly white and it wasn't always minorities that committed the crimes.
But I doubt minority people would assume the local white population must know the white guy they caught. No if he had been white, it would have been an anomaly.
Actually a large number of the crimes committed in neighborhoods are committed by people outside the neighborhood. Career criminals know you don't s*** where you eat.
Get a grip people. The CTA is the best invention for crime since the expressway. It's actually better because a car can be traced and described. For all you know, this guy was holding people up near every el stop along the route. Hold up, hop on, hop off, hold up, hop on. Get it? It's been going on for decades, then walk up to the nearest group that looks like you and blend in, deflect suspicion.
Stop looking at the color of people - if you don't, you'll miss the next white serial killer, the white student that will shoot up the next elementary or high school (the Asian kid was the anomaly),the white porn king, the white internet predator, actually, all mass murders in the history of this country are white, with the exception of the Atlanta child killings and the guy they convicted was convicted of one murder, never even charged with the rest and the one he was charged with is being looked into by a local sheriff who thinks he was railroaded.
Wake up and smell the coffee. White people don't have the moral high ground here.
And while you villify the minority drug dealers, just remember Joe Kennedy made all of his money as a rum runner during prohibition - just as violent and brutal an occupation as drug dealing is today. But of course, he's white, he's rich and he's a Kennedy, so we won't go there.
Sorry - congrats to the police for great work.
Good points, Margot. Like I mentioned, I know of whites who've been harassed by cops in RP for nothing, too, so it's an overall problem.
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