Wednesday, September 10, 2008
* Back-to-Back Robberies on Pratt
3:30 PM: There has been two robberies in the last 30 minutes around the Pratt and Ashland area. One involved a purse snatching - where a woman had her purse taken from her car as she was stopped at the corner. Her window was open and a group of young males reached in and took it, then ran away. The other was just a basic strong arm robbery on the street by a youth who fled in an unknown direction. No one is in custody.
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Any idea if it involved the guy(s), since it's in the same area and all?
On Saturday a guy with a cane was knocked over and his wallet stolen right next to Rogers Park in the 50th.
Are these the same thugs? Why can't the police get a handle on any of the craziness? Would it even help if I attend CAPS meetings?
This is, of course, right across the street from the public housing building. Thank you Joe Moore for letting these wonderful people into our neighborhood!
I recentlty moved out of Rogers Park to Engelwood but still watch my RSS feed to the Broken Heart. It seems the problem has gotten worse in Rogers Park and I don't attribute it to the warm weather. Yesterday around 12:00pm, I stopped at Morse Gyros for lunch to go. My friend waited outside to keep and I on our bikes. 3 youths (isn't school in session?) walked by and told my friend that if he was not standing there, the bikes would have 'ganked' the bikes. That borderlines on assault. The fights being reported after school in the neighborhood are ridiculous. I truly believe that more police are needed to be on foot patrol. I have seen a few, but there should be more. Could it be that our cops have been assigned to the South side to deal with their own problems? If so we are suffering. Comments welcome.
Joe Moore's office seems to love these lowlifes - I really think he and the people in his office should all move in with them.
Yes Joe Moore loves the low-lifes. They are his voter base.
Ken,
Don't know about the cop patrols and whether that will help (although it definitely couldnt'hurt). Most of the time they just move their operation to another street. But a strong cop WALKING presence might have a great psychological effect. As it is, the cops in the cars don't pose a threat. That's why you see so many of the big white t-shirt crew riding those little bikes... they can get away and go where the cops in cars can't. and they know the cops aren't going to get out and chase them on foot unless they REALLY have to. But seeing cops walking... not just one cop, but two or three on several blocks... would send an entirely different message.
As for the surge in crime, I used to work at CHA and I'm pretty convinced that the "Plan for Transformation", the city's "land grab" that resulted in the wholesale eviction of people from public housing areas, is to blame. The surge in gang activity direclty correlates to the beginning of the Plan for Transformation. While the public housing was unsuitable living conditions, at least it concentrated all of the gang and drug activity (or at least most of it). When they basically threw people out of public housing they handed them Section 8 voucher and pretty much pushed them into certain areas (residents are supposed to be able to move anywhere a landlord will accept Section 8 vouchers but most of them gravitated to areas where their "friends" already were). So if you want to blame anyone, blame Daley and the city. Tearing down those old projects was a good thing, but it screwed up life for a lot of people on both sides of the coin.
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