22nd district tact car fired on by offender with AK 47
left click picture to enlarge (Via SCC)
Thank God these officers are still with us. Great job job 22nd district.
What a weekend here in the Windy City. Over at CBS2Chicago.com the headline reads like this;
Bloody Weekend: At Least 21 Shot, 4 Dead
This just after the department made these stats available:
From January through March, murders decreased 1.1 percent and aggravated batteries decreased 0.8 percent, according to a release Friday from police. Criminal sexual assaults were down 13.9 percent, the release said. Robberies were up 16.3 percent in that time period. Overall crime was up 1.9 percent, though. The Harrison District on the West Side had the largest decrease compared to the same period last year, the release said, with an overall reduction in crime of 16.1 percent.
Fast forward to this evening and and look at CBS2Chicago.com
There have been 26 shootings this weekend, four of them fatal – that's seven more than this same weekend last year.
The department will be targeting gang leaders, enhancing bike and foot patrols and saturating violent zones or areas of the city with more resources.
What resources Mr. Weis?
On Friday Mr. Weis thought it prudent to gut TRU of 91 officers and 6 sergeants effective the 6th period. Despite the attitude by many readers over at SCC I take a contrary opinion to the relevance of TRU. Why? I think large departments need a large unit that can be deployed at the drop of a dime to a critical incident. For instance, an airplane rolling off a runway at Midway Airport, a bomb blowing up downtown or a commuter train derailment. Besides,deploying 25 tact teams to handle a protest march is ridiculous. Tact teams and gang teams need to stay in their district where they know the players and the game. When there isn't a critical incident then a unit like TRU can be deployed to hot spots throughout the city to saturate and be a deterrence to increased violence.
Early Friday the department announced the decline in homicides and aggravated batteries between the months of January thru March. This may have been the news that motivated Mr. Weis to decide it was time to eliminate two companies from TRU. Now if you believe that the addition of six sergeants to patrol is going to make a difference then you my friends are drinking the Federal Kool-aid. The addition of 91 officers to patrol sounds like it may make a difference but keep in mind that these officers are detailed and would be sent back to their districts. Depending on which districts they are from, at best, 5-6 patrolmen may be back to your district. Sorry but that isn't the solution to our manpower needs. The problem is the lack of hiring and the attrition rate, plain and simple.
This is just my opinion but I think the Former SAC is in way over his head and if he thinks gutting TRU is a great idea then beware.
By the way Mr. Weis, January thru March was cold and miserable and there is a call for a long hot summer.
Would love to hear from sergeants in patrol and from TRU.
Comments about hair gel and 2 year wonders may not be published. Lets take a few things a little more serious.
UPDATE: The final weekend count From CBS2Chicago.com
In all, at least 37 people were shot, two were stabbed and at least seven people are dead.
43 comments:
I agree with everything that you said about TRU. Listen... there are a lot of beat offs on this department, not only in TRU, but this entire department. Coppers are jealous and envious because TRU gets or (was getting) a play with lunch and little shit like that. But if, sorry, when shit hits the fan with the examples you just listed we will need a timely response. Can't take people out of the Districts, they need to be manned. This is nothing but Daley and Wies grabbing their ankles for the "Reverends" who want more police in their respective districts. This will be the illusion of more P.O.'s in the districts... Again Revs. win, CPD loses. I love the amount of homicides and shootings we had this weekend.. Might want to rethink downsizing TRU... They really can saturate an area, you might want to add more. Whatever, these bafoons (Dickie and Jody) will continue to bury this department and city into the ground until it's the likes of Detroit. Federal oversight is here and breathing. It's like the eye of the tornado. I have come to hate the politics of this department and city. God ,I hope I last.
32 SHOT,2 STABBED CRITICALLY,6 DEAD!!!
QUITE EMBARASSING,WHAT TO DO??? Lie to lower the mayhem count???
Unreal,
The City of Chicago is now stating for the record that the mixup with the number of shootings/CONFLICT has to do with different tracking methods.
LMAO,I guess that means the actual number of physical shooting incidents versus the actual number of people shot/victims. This method does not count multiple victims from one incident as more than one shooting. Very slick,way to spin it,someone is being groomed quickly. It is all a matter of perception and smoke and mirrors.
NEVER TELL THE TRUTH THE PUBLIC MUST NEVER KNOW THE TRUTH!!!
Don't get too hung up on the numbers SCS,they really don't mean too much in Chicago. The bean counters can make anything look good or happen with numbers in Chicago.
Figures Lie and Liars Figure.
This is addressed to all the "hair gel" goofballs who think they have seen it get wild in Chitown. I admit that it was a very admirable start to the Spring season and this might signify a bloody summer.
We still have away to go to catchup to the glory days of "real policing" and real mayhem though. The early 90's rocked here with the "ready rock" hitting. 28 homicides in one weekend,219 guns recovered and there was no TRU goofs either or hair gel. It was not uncommon for a watch to experience 7 or more homicides in one tour.
The coppers that worked gangs,the Westside-010,011,012,013,015 and Southside-002,003,005,006,007 back in the day know their shit and did the job.
The new jacks and new jack bosses better understand what might come to pass and be prepared to be baptised with fire.
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Chicago's Weekend Warfare // The Toll: 28 Murders, 79 Gunshot Wounds
From: Chicago Sun-Times Date: September 9, 1992 Author: Jim Casey; Fran Spielman
The Labor Day weekend statistics sound as if they came from a war front rather than Chicago's neighborhoods: 28 murdered; 79 shot and wounded; 219 guns seized.
The largest group of victims was young, black males, including an 8-year-old who was shot in the head while sitting on his front porch. And most of the dead - 22 of the 28 - were shot.
This jolt to an already jacked-up murder rate seemed to surprise and stun everyone Tuesday, including Police Supt. Matt Rodriguez.
"One is too many, and 28, of course, is ridiculous," he said. He later said he would add 90 detectives.
The higher death toll - up from an earlier police estimate of 18 murders - covers the period from 5 a.m. ...
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Somethings never change,they blamed gangs,guns,drugs and weather on Sept 11,1990 too:
Deadly Chicago Weekend Blamed on Gangs, Drugs; 13 Are Killed in Worst Violence of Summer
From: The Washington Post Date: September 11, 1990 Author: Lauren Ina
Police recorded 75 shooting incidents, resulting in 13 deaths, in a rampage of violence here last weekend marked by gang warfare and drive-by shootings.
The weekend's violence-the worst of the summer-brought the number of homicides for the year here to almost 100 more than during the same period last year.
Gad Bensinger, chairman of the Criminal Justice Department at Loyola University, blamed the outbreak on drugs, accessibility of weapons and gang-related violence. Chicago police agreed and also cited a hot, humid weekend that capped several days of sticky weather.
"It has rained so many weekends this summer and, with this being the first
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15 Are Killed in Weekend Violence // 2 Die in Separate Clashes With Cops
From: Chicago Sun-Times Date: June 12, 1995 Author: TIM GERBER; JORGE OCLANDER
At least 15 people were killed during acts of violence in the Chicago area over the weekend, a sharp increase over the death toll in recent weeks.
There were few discernible patterns to the killings.
"We've got too many guns, too much dope and too many idle kids with nothing to do," said Capt. Robert Reilly of the South Chicago District.
Thirteen of the slayings took place in Chicago and one each in Milton Township and in Lemont. Ten were committed with guns, four were stabbings and one was the result of a beating.
The Area 2 Violent Crimes unit was investigating five deaths.
"Last year we had 1 percent of the homicides nationwide," said Sgt. Ronald Palmer, an Area 2 ...
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Weekend violence kills 8
From: Chicago Sun-Times Date: June 3, 1991 Author: Lou Ortiz
Weekend violence in Chicago left eight people dead, authorities said Sunday.
Police also were investigating the death of Stanley Brown, 18, whose body was found buried in woods near the 8600 block of West Irving Park.
Police said Brown's body was exhumed Sunday after they arrested two juveniles and an adult who had bragged about killing someone. During questioning Saturday, one of the suspects told police where Brown was buried.
Brown, of the 7000 block of West Wellington, was reported missing May 9. Police believe he was killed in mid-March.
Two 16-year-old boys and Clyde Rutherford, 54, of the 4500 block of North Christiana, were charged with Brown's murder.
Meanwhile, police ...
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Violence kills 8 over weekend
From: Chicago Sun-Times Date: August 26, 1991 Author: Tim Gerber; Michael Gillis
Eight people were killed in weekend violence, including one man who died during a gun battle over control of a Chicago Housing Authority high-rise, police said.
Ricky Gibson, 19, of the 1500 block of East 73rd, was pronounced dead at Mercy Hospital late Saturday after he was shot in the chest during a gunfight at 2420 S. State, a high-rise in the Harold Ickes Homes, police said.
Three other people were wounded in the gang gunfight, which began about 10:30 p.m. Police have made no arrests.
In an incident early Sunday, a 19-year-old man was killed and his brother was wounded when they were fired upon by alleged gang members who surrounded their car in the 2800 block of East 89th, police ...
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THERE IS ALOT MORE TOO!!!
It has been almost twenty years since the last major cycle of violence began,are we do?
If so,they better hire more police...
The above was my reply and I am unapologetic about the reference to hair gel.
Of course he's way over his head. He went from running an office with a couple of hundred "special" agents to running a Police Department with thousands of coppers.
Plus, the work is completely different. The FBI has the luxury of laying back, studying a case, serving subpoenas, gathering information, etc. This can go on for years before a person is charged or charges are declined. In Chicago, we deal in volume. Every day coppers are out in the middle of it all. They're not in an ivory tower studying and planning. Each street cop is making a hundred decisions a day and almost any one of those decisions can blow up in the copper's face. Buy him out. Put the real police in there.
To above poster:
Your post gives insight to all officers with less then 10-15 years, hair gel or not.
Who cares, for the most part its drug dealing gang bangers getting shot. I do nothing anymore. I wont even write a parking ticket. J-Fed will have the feds indicate you. Its not worth it anymore. My policy is...... Get do nothing because the new administration will do NOTHING for you!
You can blame the liberal society for todays problems.
Mon Apr 21, 02:47:00 AM
Damn-28 homicides in one weekend and 219 guns recovered,now I know why you guys hate the hairgel guys. That is like a war zone
38 shot and 8 dead is what the new number is.
The bottom line is we need help!! I was just listen to the news radio and a defense attorney, yes I said defense attorney, said that what Chicago needs is for the armed forces to come into town and take over our streets--raid gang leaders houses for guns and drugs--have tanks rolling around--and have a show of force so great that eventually these "terrorists" will lose control!! As far as the 4th amendment goes and violating the thugs rights he said "let the judge rule on that in court"--in the mean time we would get the guns away from these low lives and honest citizens could walk the streets and not be afraid---Where can I sign up to help? He also said his clients think there so big and bad when they are committing the crime but then when they get caught and need him they cry like an 11 year old girl---I thought that was pretty funny--but still I can't understand how that attorney can live with himself, defending pieces of shit that he knows are guilty, I KNOW--MONEY TALKS!
Would love to hear from sergeants in patrol and from TRU.
Comments about hair gel and 2 year wonders may not be published. Lets take a few things a little more serious.
UPDATE: The final weekend count From CBS2Chicago.com
In all, at least 37 people were shot, two were stabbed and at least seven people are dead.
posted by SECOND CITY SARGE at 12:21 AM on Apr 20, 2008
I think we just heard from a TRU Sgt...........
Nice try, but no cigar.
I posted this story on our site & floated a promo all over the main website to your blog, SCSarge
be safe
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Superintendent Jody Weis will be interviewed by Roe Conn on WLS 890AM on Thursday,April 24,08 from 2:00PM-7:00PM. I would imagine that he will be on in the early portion of the show.
Encourage your friends,family and coworkers to call in and ask some tough questions while he is on the air and with anonymity.
1. Why doesn't the city hire police officers? We are dangerously low,below 10,000 sworn members when it should be 13,500.
2. Why is the city unjustly stripping and firing Chicago police officers?
3. Why do we have to wait years for a contract and then receive a paltry 1% cost of living raise?
4. Ask the Superintendent to define MERIT,this should be interesting.
5. Why does MERIT exist and could the percentage be reduced to 10%.
6. Ask about the nonexistent morale problem and how he will address it and boost it.
7. Ask why we are still working 6 days in a row and why we don't have the ten hour day like he promised.
Please,circulate this information to everyone and call in. Be sincere,well mannered,courteous,polite and prepared. They will screen callers to avoid this situation so you may have to fabricate a story for the call screener to get on the air. There should be thousands of calls on Thursday,jamming up WLS's phone lines for hours. This is OUR chance to present our side to the citizens of the USA. WLS is a nationally broadcast station and the show is also simulcast worldwide on the internet.
PLEASE DO THIS AND STEP UP AS A UNITED FORCE!!!
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WLS 890AM phone numbers:
Call 312.591.8900.
Fax number is 312.984.5283
Check out "Burb cops". They say all of the bullets came through the unmarked from the inside.
google "weekend violence"
1. Somalia 2. Chicago 3. Mogadishu 4. Afghanistan
kind of funny
You think this is bad wait until all the Vietnam Vets on the job retire then all hell will break loose.
Check out "Burb cops". They say all of the bullets came through the unmarked from the inside.
If that's true, then that means they were getting shot at.
I am a Sgt. in TRU, TRU did exactly what was asked of it, hit the DOC and conduct zero-tolerence enforcement, lock them up, ticket them and tow their cars when applicable, in essence, work as a team and make their lives miserable, it was called pimpy etc. but was very effective. When we hit a DOC with 25-30 cars it shut down, period. They then decided they wanted us in more DOCS and split the companies, less cars in each location, less effective, now they have been split again, now covering 8 DOC zones, 3 in area 2, 3 in area1 and 1 each in area 4 and 5, some days you hit a DOC with 8 cars, how effective is that? and now they are downsizing? they will go back to 3 Deployments and 8 man teams, sending 6 Sgts. and 91 P.O.s back to patrol. All 6 Sgts. are far northsiders who it is said, will all be sent to area2, talk about bullshit! they will stay a period or so and bid to anywhere else to get closer to home; what has this accomplished? the 91 P.O.s, some will have their detail cancelled and returned to whence they came, others will be dumped outright and sent guess where? that's right area2. No manpower to 016, 017, 018, 019, 020, 023, 024, 025, 013, 012, 014, 008, 022 where all the taxpayers are, tac and gang teams will be starting their annual pilgrimage to the west and south side along with sending a car to Garfield Park everynight, thus further depleting manpower on the northside even more! Why is this allowed to happen? when will someone step up and say enough is enough, put some responsibility on the people causing the problems not the police. Why anyone does anything more than is required is beyond me, stay safe and take care of each other, let them kill each other, we can sort it out later..
Sorry for the long rant.
is j-fed and his top brass at 35th commiting a rule 14 violation when they give out wrong stats to make themselves look good, or is that rule for patrolmen and women only.
There is a bogeyman.
The bogeyman was that unknown entity that was going to take your life, house, sue you, kill your family, etc.
For years, most of us did not worry about the bogeyman because we believed that although the city could be a royal pain in the ass, they would protect us from the bogeyman with their sea of lawyers and seemingly unlimited resources.
Now it seems that the city not only does not protect us from the bogeyman but has become the bogeyman.
A dinosauer like myself could give a rat's ass because a bad marriage and needy kids have taken almost everything. For a young guy starting out however, they are afraid to act because no one is there to protect them from the bogeyman.
I can't blame them.
It's called "cleansing". It's a natural way of life. Although, they use "tools" to take of business, it is what it is. There definately has to be more cleansing due to the mutt population being steered down the wrong path of existance. Ie. rappers, M-tv, video games and useless excuses for mothers. One thing that should be offered is a proper firearms course. Sight alignment, stance, breathing and trigger control are the key. Let these mutts kill each other. For all we care, it's only paperwork.
Just make sure the red tape is on the inside and the yellow is on the side.
Case report narrative: He shot in head, now he dead.
Okay, now I'm REALLY mad! See what you Chicago Cops started? Villa Park cops just shot a very nice little doggie! So what if it was chewing that girl's foot off?! She can always get a metal one! I'm so mad I could stamp my feet! Why didn't they Taser it and put those little doggie paw handcuffs on it? Where were the Milk Bones? I'm filing a Level One Double Secret Probation complaint with PETA. You're REALLY gonna get it now!
It's like deer season. Time to thin out the herd. Let them kill each other. It's better to do paper and go home safe then get your ass shot and leave your family without a father, mother, son or daughter. Just get the CB# for the gun arrest before the honor student bites the dust.
It is true, the tact guys had to fire their weapons while they were still seated in the car. Believe me, I know, I was on scene and know the story. The cops shot through their own windshield, they had to.
"IS MR. WEIS IN OVER HIS HEAD?"
yes
You think this is bad wait until all the Vietnam Vets on the job retire then all hell will break loose.
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it would be interesting to know how many Nam guys are still on the job. Lots have retired.
Why won't FOP publish the monthly list of retirees. No list for the last four bulletins. I guess no one has retired. Maybe there are 13,000+? No problem posting the Obits though.
I hear one of our Museums is archiving the cougar's remains. They plan to have it stuffed and placed in the Great Hall so all the pinheads can come rub its belly and lament over its demise. "Omigod, Britney, I just can't stand this....hey! watch it! Your tears are falling into my part-skim triple latte!"
Anonymous said...
It's called "cleansing". It's a natural way of life. Although, they use "tools" to take of business, it is what it is. There definately has to be more cleansing due to the mutt population being steered down the wrong path of existance. Ie. rappers, M-tv, video games and useless excuses for mothers. One thing that should be offered is a proper firearms course. Sight alignment, stance, breathing and trigger control are the key. Let these mutts kill each other. For all we care, it's only paperwork.
Just make sure the red tape is on the inside and the yellow is on the side.
Case report narrative: He shot in head, now he dead.
Wed Apr 23, 01:53:00 PM
A man in the know,I salute you sir.
Darwin was correct!!
Anonymous said...
I hear one of our Museums is archiving the cougar's remains. They plan to have it stuffed and placed in the Great Hall so all the pinheads can come rub its belly and lament over its demise. "Omigod, Britney, I just can't stand this....hey! watch it! Your tears are falling into my part-skim triple latte!"
Fri Apr 25, 10:27:00 AM
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It should be stuffed and mounted in the 19th District lobby.
If anyone from upstairs reads this I have a solution to your homicide problem. I am not only the hairclub president but also the founding father of the forty hour day. You can either watch the city get 732 homicides this year ooooooooooooooooooooooooor
open up a gigantic operation safe summer for time in a half open to highest bidders(C.H.A. style) and put all your desk people back inside to type out the CR numbers. Give I.P.R.A a 3 month paid vacation and give the Mayor's Detail to I.A.D. Take the guys from the mayors detail and put them on S.W.A.T. team #2 and deploy them on the street. Take T.R.U. and place them on all Suburban borders. T.R.U., you have to make sure the gang bangers do not escape the city. Any cop who comes in with a felony gets to go home. Last but not least name another county cook and give us a county from another state and let the court system finish them off. And one more thing, bring back ATA but call it "Con Air" and fly all these mother fudgers to that prison system in Florida where all the bad guys have to do farm work and get humiliated on a regular basis.
That picture show panic, as officers fire their weapons in the car thru the windshield. The general orders prohibit firing guns from a vehicle. Were the cops engaged in a driveby?
For all of you guys/gals who doubted the fact that Jody Weis is a Reaganesque leader you have your proof. Finally rank and file CPD officers will be able to carry M4. I salute Supt. Weis.shown more innovative thinking and courage than any Chicago Police SUPT has ever shown. You can bet Chicago will be begging for him to stay.
This is only a test to see if my comment goes through. Been having computer troubles. Thank you.
"...Were the cops engaged in a drive-by?"
What an asshole!! You are allowed to disregard a general order if following that general order puts you in immediate danger. Are you just here to stir shit, or are you really that stupid and resentful?
Anonymous said...
For all of you guys/gals who doubted the fact that Jody Weis is a Reaganesque leader you have your proof. Finally rank and file CPD officers will be able to carry M4. I salute Supt. Weis.shown more innovative thinking and courage than any Chicago Police SUPT has ever shown. You can bet Chicago will be begging for him to stay.
Sat Apr 26, 10:17:00 PM
You need your head examined if you believe any of that.
I will give Mr. Weis one year from his takeover to judge his progress. That is fair and it will truly give him a chance to turn the ship around.
I will give Mr. Weis one year from his takeover to judge his progress. That is fair and it will truly give him a chance to turn the ship around.
J-flop was found under his desk, in the fetal position, sucking his thumb, crying "Mommy, Mommy>
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