CAPS Beat 2431: There was quite a commotion happening at the Golden Mini-Mart, 1339 West Morse Avenue this morning at 11:45 AMish. People were getting all upset and everything. 911 was called. (Photographs of angry people at Golden Mini-Mart this morning.)
CAPS Beat 2423: - 11:40 AM: 911 reports a battery in progress. 1745 West Greenleaf. Lot's of males fighting and stuff in the street. Nothing further.
CAPS Beat 2424: - Saturday Night: Residents at Birchwood & Hoyne report that there appears to be an illegal party at 2056 W. Birchwood, where tenants are charging teens to attend. Police were called when some 40+ teens began collecting near the Birchwood address. Police ordered crowd to disburse. Source: Bernard Garbo - Network 2424.
CAPS Beat's 2431/23/24: - Sunday, 2:10 PM: 6 to 8 people fighting in the street with sticks and bats at Lunt and Clark. Latin Kings are the alleged attackers. One was bald-headed, one over-weight. One got injured. Three offenders split in a black Impala, one took off on a bike. All heading north on Clark. Nothing further. Update - 2:18 PM: After 8 minutes, witness now says the car when southbound on Clark.
CAPS Beat 2431: - Sunday, 10:20 PM: 911 reports a battery in progress. Males fighting at Morse and Glenwood. 6966 North Glenwood to be exact. Wonder if the Blue Light Camera caught the action?
8 comments:
Bernard Garbo said....> "We've started an owners' initiative on Birchwood that the alderman's office has been very active in supporting."
Exactly how active Bernard? I haven't got a e-mail blast or seen anything on his website.
Craig - Good report. I hope readers don't misplace the blame on Golden Mini Mart's owners, though. They are the ones who, more than anybody else, have to put up with this crap every day and every night. Let's remember, too, that Alderman Moore's people and DevCorp are unfairly pressuring them and other merchants on Morse Avenue to remove their protection window gratings. The neighborhood is not yet ready to remove all of the window gratings. A little sympathy for the merchants is in order.
No blame on the owners, just the angry customers.
Just one thing, I haven't seen the owners at any CAPs meetings, which might be helpful if they would work with the police more proactively. Just an idea.
When I was young and dumb - and wasted my time having smoke blown up my ass at CAPS meetings, I would try to get the old owner to attend.
He told me CAPS meetings were a waste of his time and was not worth closing his shop and losing income for.
Obviously, the CAPs Office has to be more creative in soliciting the publics concerns in an age when the internet becomes the most efficient and effective eyes and ears.
Crime is down 49%, right Joe Moore?
that whole strip is one big eye sore and should be torn down. since the owners don't seem concerned enough try and fix the issue as things stand now, perhaps they could become motivated by the threat of being closed (and torn) down.
emptying the rider buildings was a giant step towards improving morse, and tearing this strip down and replacing it with something nicer and more practical, concerning the space, would definitely be another giant positive step towards improving rogers park.
i still can't understand why they didn't just tear down the strip on the other side of the morse stop, instead of building one nice new building, which is also taller than the others, and only half-assedly "remodeling" the others. doesn't really make sense to me.
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