The Rogers Park bloggyness continues. No less than four bloggers have focused their blogging attention on my blog this week. One blog in particular caught my eye. Jocelyn over at Rogers Park Neighbors is keeping track of the CAPS beat 2431 meetings now that I don't waste my time going.
Seems a police officer places blame on Mr. 'Broken Heart' for the woes of Morse Avenue. Somehow this officer says I show photos of officers harassing the open air drug market salesman. That's hard to believe. I looked back at my collection and I believe this officer needs to review the photographs him/herself. Most all, if not all of my photographs show the open air drug market salesmen working unhassled and unabated.
Update: I just got a e-mail from someone who went this poorly attended meeting. The person said the beat facilitator lady, I'm guessing this was Joe Moore's political CAPS appointee Jane Hoffman, shouted down a business owner for not calling 911. Something to the effect, "How dare you not call 911"... My beat reporter says the business owner has called 911 many times before - and by the time a police response comes, the incident has already happened and moved on.
Having a combative beat facilitator like Jane causes beat attendance to decline. This type of beat facilitator behavior is the reason why CAPS beat 2431 is a total joke.
The e-mailer also mentioned I was a easy target for the CAPS officials to blame, because I wasn't there to defend myself.
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I saw uniformed officers standing on the el platform,sticking out like a sore thumb, looking down on the street for drug exchanges the other day. Everonyone was looking up at them, including the drug spotters I'm sure.
Then I walk over to Pratt & Greenview and there is a large group of people, like 15, that resemble the ones in the photos I see here, all loitering on the playground of the preschool, like thay're waiting for someone to call and tell them that the cops are gone.
I want to think these cops are incompetent for not being able to read a blog like this, handing the criminal activity details to them on a silver platter, in video and photos. But I'm forced to think they just don't care, and are standing on the el so people will see them and it will look like they are trying
> ... CAPS beat 2431 ... the beat facilitator lady, I'm guessing this was Joe Moore's political CAPS appointee Jane Hoffman
WHAT?! Has Joe Moore's political CAPS appointee Kevin O'Neil been replaced? Since when?
Those guys that you speak of were probably working whats called "Special Employment". It's a program thay allows them to work one of their days off. They are there for one purpose and one purpose only. To maintain law and order on the CTA. They more than likely don't even work in R/P. But having said that, how can you be sure they didn't call it in on their radio? Or, how do you know that they weren't acting as a spotter for the tac guys that were waiting in the wings, ready to pounce upon those gang bangers?
Then I walk over to Pratt & Greenview and there is a large group of people, like 15, that resemble the ones in the photos I see here
You mean... they are young and black?
Yea... they all look alike...
No offense, but don't you need to be inconspicuous when you're spotting illegal activity for plain clothes cops waiting in the wings?
"You mean... they are young and black?
Yea... they all look alike..."
Actually, put a different set of clothes on them all, and give them something to do other than loiter, and I would have had nothing to say about them. Did I notice they were all black? Yup. Have I seen any white people doing that lately ? Nope.
I'm sorry, but a uniformed cop on the el is doing nothing but telling the drug dealers to hold off for a while. They were not waiting for the next train, they were looking for activity on the street, which is not happening because EVERYONE CAN SEE THEM. Big Daddy, why don't you read some past blogs that Craig bravely documents here with photos and video to learn EXACTLY how these guys operate. You seem to have the same mindset as the police, maybe you should be one, or are you already one?
Why does the Marathon Station at Howard and Sheridan charge 9% tax on 'food' such as chips and the Citgo Station charge only 2% tax on
'food' such as chips?
Why is a bag of 99 cent lays chips one dollar and one cent at the Citgo on Sheridan and Touhy
and at the Marathon the same bag of chips cost one dollar and nine cents?????????
I'm going to give Dave a chance to post a few more idiotic comments, then he can take his head up his ass opinion over to Wee Wee's blog.
regarding security on the CTA - the CTSA used to have its own security detail. They really did do a good job of keeping riff raff off the train
Jane Byrne fired them when she was elected Mayer in 1979
LOOKS LIKE JANE HOFFMAN IS PASSING THE ANSWER BACK TO THE COMPLAINENT-
IF SHE HAD ANY BRAINS SHE WOULD TOSS THE ISSUE AROUND TO THE GROUP AND GET OTHER ATENDENCE OPINIONS-
TYPITICAL 49TH GOOSE LIVER-
Sandm, why do you assume that I'm either the Police or a wannabe Police Officer? Because I tell the truth and perhaps you can't handle the truth? Sorry, I couldn't resist. While I'll agree with you about Craig bravely documenting the thugs doing what they do, I don't need him to tell me how they operate. BTW, if we are going to use that one video in which we see two male blacks standing around in front some kind of store and are eventually met by another person on a bike, unless Craig didn't film the entire episode, I didn't see drug dealing. I did however see a couple of teenagers doing what teenagers do-hangout. Craig?
If you're talking about the kid riding up on his bike and getting a quick lesson from the three guys playing chess in front of Golden Mini-Mart?
"Sandm, why do you assume that I'm either the Police or a wannabe Police Officer? Because I tell the truth and perhaps you can't handle the truth?"
I didn't say you were lying, or that you want to be one. I said you SHOULD be one because you are thinking like they apparently do........backwards
Actually, the only one thinking backwards is you, no offense. I tried to explain to you who those Officers were but apparently YOU have all the answers. When you get your degree in law enforcement techniques check back in. BTW, when I said that they were working their days off and assigned to guard CTA property, you said that no, they weren't waiting for the next train. So what? What does that mean. I said they were there to guard CTA property. Where did I say that they were going to get on a train? Is not a CTA station CTA property? If yes, then they were doing there job. You would be surprised at what you THINK you know but in fact do not.
I think I specifically said that I saw them looking down on the street for drug exchanges. Hiding and everything, in uniform. That is what I meant by not getting on a train. Guarding CTA property? Has anyone ever seen a police officer in uniform just guarding CTA property? Nothing else? 2 guys run by with guns, sorry can't leave my post, but I'm doing my job, guarding CTA property. Yea, that's what I saw, cause Big Daddy said so.
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