* CAPS 2423 Notes

How many times do I have to report information about this little fuckhead. Marcus Herron is on the loose again. The original 'Gooner of 2004' is now terrorizing the Clark Street and Estes area. He goes by the street-name of Twin. Marcus, or Twin, can be found hanging with a guy named 'Dracula'.

And there's a guy named 'Cable Man' who has been arrested over a hundred times. Yet, he still winds up hours later repeating the crimes he was just arrested for. Mostly burglary. He steals, he goes out and buy drugs, he uses the drugs, then goes out and steals again. (1700 block of West Estes)

The laundry mat at Greenleaf and Glenwood is cleaning up it's act. But the neighbors who live near the laundry mat at Estes and Clark say, they are having serious problems with the gangs, drugs and Marcus Herron.

One neighbor complained about the wild pack of youth that roam the neighborhood and beat people up. Some call it gooning. When not beating people up for no reason whatsoever, these crazy weasels also break car windows, scratch odd little markings into the paint of people's car, etc. For real fun, they've also been known to break side mirrors on the cars too. The wild pack of kids walk around the hood with sticks, bats, golf clubs, rocks, bricks. And they just have one mission in life. Create a climate of fear and then brag to their buddies about it.

Speaking of rocks and bricks, one neighbor wants the rocks and bricks removed from the Public Garden on the northwest corner of Lunt and Greenview. While I defended this very interesting and creative looking garden, (even though it's a Katy Hogan and boyfriend venture) the neighbor wouldn't back down. She said the bricks and rocks should be removed. She claims they cause a potential danger to the community, citing the gooning across the street last week.

There is a Hispanic guy and Jamaican guy that one neighbor says are preying on the women of the area. Making sexual advances, that type of stuff. This is in the 1700 block of West Chase.

With-out fail, every time the subject of calling the alderman's office arose, the answers were all the same. "We've called, and called and called, they don't do nothing - but LIE! LIE! LIE!" Yes, this lady repeated it three times. She was ticked off.

About five minutes before the meeting adjourned, Michael Land walked in.

BLOGNOTES: The new beat facilitator has missed two of the last three meetings. I offered to facilitate the meeting, but was denied.

* CAPS Beat 2423 has the same issues as 2431. Low, low attendance figures. They do a poor job of advertising the event. There's constant spin from the police at every question that arises. The police never do anything wrong - it's always the citizens or the courts fault. We need to do a better job of communicating or we need to scrap the CAPS program altogether.