Exclusive Breaking News on the Crime in Rogers Park:
7:57 AM: Good morning everyone. A person was shot at 1558 West Juneway this morning. The Aunt of the victim called the shooting in. She said her nephew was hit in the leg and was in her hallway. Anonymous neighbor called 911 saying 4 males were out front with guns. But when the police arrived on scene to ask questions - everyone standing around the area heard and knew nothing. Much like calling the Alderman's office wanting ZULAC information.
8:05 AM: I've got a name of the victim. I'm not releasing the name at this moment. I will tell you he's 21 years old.
4:09 PM: A large gang fight is taking place at Senn High School at 5900 North Glenwood. Up to 50 kids are going at each other with bricks and bats in the parking lot.
4:12 PM: Go figure. Officer arrived on scene and the kids started running in all directions.
4:15 PM: Police give the "slow-down" to Senn High School.
5:00 PM: Mr. Anonymous neighbor in Newtork 2424 calls 911. Male/black is harassing people. The location is the 7300 block of North Winchester. Nothing further.
5:57 PM: A flash has been given out regarding a burglary in progress. Two black male teens stole two bikes from 6518 North Greenview. The two youthful bike thieves fled in an unknown direction.
6:05 PM: "G-Flash" has been spotted at 1100 West Morse by the Morse Circle Garden.
7:23 PM: Vandalism in progress. 1601 West Greenleaf. Homeowner says neighborhood teens have broken the fence.
8:15 PM: Gang dispersal at Soo Liquors (1418 West Morse). Dispersing 10 gang members to another corner. Council time is 20:14 hours. Event #19068.
8:27 PM: Whoo hoo. Battery in progress. 20 kids fighting at Paulina and Jonquil.
8:32 PM: Battery in progress. Two guys beating up a female 6928 North Lakewood.
8:32 PM Bonus Network 2424 Anonymous 911 Call: Birchwood and Seeley. Kids hanging out on the street.
8:40 PM Network 2424 Anonymous 911 Call: Birchwood and Seeley. Kids STILL hanging out on the street.
8:53 PM Network 2424 Anonymous 911 Call: Battery in progress. Fargo and Hoyne. 10 kids fighting in the street.
8:55 PM: Police radio back to dispatch. Fargo and Hoyne kids are moving north and they're peaceful. Not fighting. Just enjoying the weather. Seems Mr. Anonymous neighbor in CAPS beat 2424 is just wasting the police manpower.
9:10 PM: Anonymous 911 caller. Battery in progress. 40 people fighting in the street. Police radio back immediately saying there's nothing going on.
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This isn’t Iran, or Iraq – it’s our neighborhood
It's pitiful that people only call after the fact. Too many are either afraid to call or don't care.
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Yes, such incidents really need to be reported and publicized---so more unsuspecting, decent, and law-abiding people don't make the mistake of renting or buying property in RP.
"Diversity" is, indeed, a two-sided coin.
@1 yrs old and will now walk with a limp.
Wonder if he was wearing a white t-shirt and baggy jeans.
Just a guess.
I was over that way on Tuesday right when school was letting out. I was at the post office on Paulina. It was the most disturbing scene. There were male teenagers giving each other gang signs. There were females who were about 16 standing around smoking and screaming obscenities. I couldn't believe how these girls were talking and man are they LOUD. They were demonstrating to each other how they were going to kick some girl's ass. Quite ladies! I am assuming they learned this behavior from their mothers. They all had cell phones too. Aren’t cigarettes over $7.00 a pack? Who funds this stuff? They sure weren’t running home to get ready for their after school job. I have a kid this age who just got a job and struggles to keep gas in his car. If I caught him smoking I’d kick his ass and he knows it. He wouldn’t have to worry about gas for his car. I’d yank it.
Amen, billyjoe....
We need a police "sweep" of certain well-known and troubled buildings, that are known to house gangers.
That means you descend upon the place with a SWAT team and lock it down totally, while you search every single apartment for contraband, such as drugs and weaponry.
Then you arrest everyone who has this crap in their homes.
This has been done before. Handled correctly, it is perfectly legal. It was done on buildings in neighborhoods that our leaders decided they wanted cleaned up.
But our august leaders have decided they DON'T want our neighborhood cleaned up, I believe, and have designated NOH specifically and the Rogers Park and West Ridge areas in general, as dumping grounds for the people with the worst problems, that they no longer want anywhere near all the multimillion dollar mansions and sleek condos in the inner-city neighborhoods.
And we are stuck with two aldermen who are not the least bit interested in doing anything to protect their wards, which would include riding herd on slumlords and enforcing housing regulations; or in working with the police to clear the gangs and other criminal scum from this area.
Look at the difference between these two northernmost neighborhoods, and adjacent neighborhoods to the south of us. Edgewater was a complete rathole in 1997, but got a strong alderman who decided that she wasnt going to tolerate this crap. Same with O'Conner. When a building develops problems in the two Edgewater wards, Smith and O'Conner move on them very quickly.
Well, West Ridge has an alderman who is literally asleep at the wheel, and we, as well as Uptown, are stuck with Poverty Pimp aldercreatures who've built their careers on donations from slumlords and SRO owners.
You'll note that only a minority of the residents of the 49th even bothered to come out to vote last year. Maybe if local homeowners cared enough about their neighborhood to at least come out to vote, we'd have better leadership. This is how we have become in this country- most people won't even bother to vote, or involve themselves in community matters in any way, but howl to the heavens about what has happened to their community, their city, their country.
Well, if you didn't give yourself anything to say, don't complain.
I actually think I heard the shots. I live right down the street and was leaving to walk to the Howard L about 7:45, if that was when it happened. But I didn't see any people standing around or running or anything so I figured it was just some other noise. I'm not too up on what gunshots sound like. There are often people hanging out in the neighborhood but I think lots of them are just kids having fun and being a little noisy.
"You'll note that only a minority of the residents of the 49th even bothered to come out to vote last year."
I suggest that this isn't because of mere apathy. It's because many of these residents are poor, unsocialized, nearly illiterate, and living day-to-day existences. The only time you find them out checking out their neighborhood is after midnight, when the weather is hot and they worry they'll miss a fight that's about to start. For them, a computer is something to steal and sell, not something you can use to better yourself.
In short, the poverty in the NOH area is way too ingrained and intense to be "fixed" by politics.
The only solution is to mow down the problem buildings where these folks are concentrated and force 'em to go somewhere else to live. Too bad there are an equal number of RP "activists" who would never allow such a solution.
5:57 PM crime was solved. The police found the bikes dumped in the alley.
Maybe, Moore can get his gal pal Schakowsky along with her north side neighbor Kirk to send more Section 8 Housing just north of Evanston. I suppose that by the time that this happens, there will be glaciers stretched over their ravines.
As long as these Section 8 renters are densely packed on Birchwood, Jonquil, etc. with little attention or supervision, then they will continue to have the obnoxious manners of uncaring parents who feed at a system in need of oversight.
11:45 pm - White guy with a doo rag on his head throwing rocks at cars on Sheridan.
Actually, from what I'm seeing and hearing, Evanston already has more than its fair share of blighted, exploited buildings filled with undesirable tenants, and that these two areas-ours and south Evanston, deteriorated in tandem with each other in the 70s and 80s.
In fact, according to an old friend of mine who lived in Evanston in the 1950s, and left for St. Louis in the 60s, south Evanston had problems with blighted housing before Rogers Park, and these spread to our area in the 70s,with its large supply of multifamily housing, when landlords were only too happy to get government checks guaranteeing the rent at above-market prices, for aging buildings. Sans the vouchers, they would have had to price their rents for the local market, which would mean somewhat less than the luxury rents that had prevailed formerly. But, with vouchers combined with weak or nonexistent enforcement of HUD rules and housing codes, they were able to get high rents for buildings that they were permitting to deteriorate.
In other words, the voucher program is really a welfare program for bad landlords, for it enables them to get a "market" rent for a product that is substantially "below market" in terms of quality and service. These people don't want to have to deal with "normal" tenants, who want quality housing with good maintenance at a reasonable price. They want a rentpayer who pays top dollar for deeply substandard housing, and never complains about bad plumbing and subgrade wiring, or vermin infestations, or gang graffiti, or trash and human waste in the hallways, and the HUD and related agencies make good, compliant rentpayers.
Like ignoring a transparent zoning progress, Joe equally ignores crime.
Heard that maybe the idiot shot himself..............no good banger anyway
Northcoast-
How do you propose to accomplish your "sweep" legally. I'd like to know where and when this was done before.
You're right about Evanston, North Coast. When I first started working in that town about 20 years ago, I was surprised to find some areas to be as run-down as some of the neighborhoods I grew up in on the west side of Chicago. It's the same situation as in RP where good renters have to deal with unresponsive landlords and irresponsible renters living near them.
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