Thursday, April 3, 2008

6 O'Clock Post

5:43 4526 Sheridan
Man called about his downstairs neighbor who refuses to leave his apartment.

5:55 Montrose and Malden
Street stop.

5:56 3456 Clark
Traffic accident.

Half Past 5 Post

5:21 4540 Hazel
People smoking drugs in the alley.

5:27 1411 Wilson
Disturbance former employee on premise refuses to leave.

5:32 945 Montrose
Man drunk yelling at and harrasing people walking by.

5 O'Clock Post

4:51 4068 Kenmore
Beat car needed for a disturbance.

4:45 Irving Park and Byron
Major accident with very serious injuries, they need extra cars to assist with traffic and they need to tape off the scene. Victims are being transported to Masonic Hospital with very serious injuries. The Major Accident squad is on the way to investigate and beat cars were told to hold their position and secure the scene until they arrive.

I posted the last one even though it is outside of Uptown because it might impact some readers trips home from work this evening. Also all non-emergency radio traffic was put on hold until they could get all their ducks in a row responding to this incident.

Are You Interested in Helping?

Several people have indicated a willingness to help if you are one of these people email me at paulinstpaul@gmail.com I look foward to hearing from you.

Home From Work and Listening.

3:20 4400-4800 Magnolia
Officer to go on foot patrol.

3:33 4486 Marine Weiss Hospital
Domestic battery at the emergency room.

3:34 Wilson Skate Park
Known sex offender watching the kids at the park.

3:36 851 Montrose
Accident truck hit a fire escape in the rear of the building.

3:46 4437 Sheridan
Traffic stop.

4:12 Northbound Lake Shore Drive
Man slumped over the wheel of his car.

4:13 834 Sunnyside
Two males loitering in the hallway of the building.

4:15 Lawrence CTA
Premise check.

4:16 911 Leland
Battery in progress

4:21 4426 Magnolia
Domestic Battery flash sent out looking for the offender who lives at 4426 Magnolia.

4:23 Marine and Buena
Two black males drinking in the alley.

4:33 Lawrence and Sheridan
Street stop backup called.

4:37 4554 Broadway
Criminal tresspassing in progress black male bangin on the windows of office building and yelling at people inside.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Last Post Before Bed

10:23 4615 Malden
Black males in the alley drinking and drugging.

10:26 4626 Clifton Cornerstone Community Center
10 year old caught robbing a 3 year old.

10:33 4621 Sheridan
Missing 23 year old from the nursing home. First time escape for this guy.

Quiet Night

10:00 Somthing is happening that they cannot say over the radio need an officer to call in on his cell phone to get the information. Apparently they are supposed to go to a location to meet some detectives who want a uniformed presence for somthing they are doing. They are being very secretive about the location.

10:05 Curfew Mission
5 units asigned to look for curfew violators.

10:08 1050 Wilson
Curfew Violator.

10 Post

9:38 4550 Sheridan
Traffic stop plates are expired and the plates were reported stolen.

9:50 Montrose Harbor
People having Sexual intercourse in a blue Honda Civic.

9:30 Post

9:12 4025 Clarendon
Black males loitering.

9:13 4554 Malden
Black males possibly dealing or doing drugs.

9:20 4454 Malden
2 arrests made

9 O'Clock Post

8:45 4117 Broadway
Parked car blocking driveway.

8:50 Sheridan and Sunnyside
Two black males fighting in the street.

8:51 4554 Magnolia
Street stop

8:53 Montrose Harbor
People having a party, the officer reminded the dispatcher that smelt fishing has begun.

9:01 4153 Sheridan
Burglar alarm

After Nap Post

8:20 4347 Hazel
Caller said her section 8 neighbors are being annoying. She thinks
they are cooking cats aswell.

8:30 4736 Malden
Domestic Dispute

8:35 1143 Leland
Street stop


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Taking a Nap Back on in an Hour

Still Real Slow

5:27 4423 Sheridan
3 male blacks drinking in the alley tresspassing on property they keep trying to come in the building and have been kicked out three times today.

Evening Off to a Slow Start

I suspect with the nice weather though that will be short lived.

5:01 Lawrence CTA
Premise Check.

5:06 1045 Lawrence
Traffic Stop.

5:19 4701 Winthrop
Premise Check.

5:23 Lawrence and Sheridan
Traffic Stop.

Home From Work and Listening.

4:29 Challenger Park
People in the dog area without dogs, caller reports that she suspects they are smoking drugs or up to something.

4:30 1331 Irving Park
Disturbance.

4:41 Sheridan and Wilson
1 arrest being taken to 19th district.

4:44 4112 Broadway
Ride with EMS man with hand injury and angry group of people surrounding him.

4:50 1028 Wilson
Car with a broken axle leaking oil all over the street. Odering a tow to have vehicle removed and cleanup from Streets and Sanitation after the car is removed.

4:52 Montrose and Sheridan
Hit and run white female in a silver Volvo hit a car and fled south on Broadway.

First Week in The Blogosphere

Nothing succeeds without success. I am going to call the first seven
days a success. 2400 hits on the counter increasing frequency of
comments. People that want to help. This is important and relevant.

I know the police said that the gang activity is just the beginning of
what is to come in the summer. We could spoil the Gangs Summer.

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Hey I am Taking a CAPS Holiday

See you tomorrow.

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After CAPS Post

I thought it was a good meeting, this was the first one I have
attended. The turnout seemed at least from my point of view pretty
good 54 was my head count I could be off by a few, this does not
include the 5 Police Officers in attendance.

If you have not been to one I highly recommend attending the next one
where they plan on having an expert on personal safety.

Plenty of concerns were addressed, and the forum was easy for people
to speak and bring up their particular areas of concern.

I did hear a few folks asking others about the author of this blog, at
this point I wish to remain anonymous at least until I get more
comfortable with what I am doing.

If you wish to contact me my email address is paulinstpaul@gmail.com

Thanks for reading

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Offline Till After CAPS

Hope to see you people there.

The 5 Spot Post

4:45 3820 Broadway
Parker in the loading zone.

4:46 1117 Lawrence
Well-being Check

4:47 Sunnyside and Magnolia
4 black males possibly selling drugs.

4:48 Lawrence CTA check

4:56 4644 Dover
Premise check.

Home and Listening

Here is a post to start off the day. There will be a posting blackout tonight to attend the CAPS meeting but will begin posting again after the meeting.

4:01 4647 Broadway Traffic stop.

4:06 Montrose and Beacon Traffic stop.

4:19 Lawrence and Magnolia hit and run involving an ambulance.

4:21 Lawrence and Beacon traffic stop.

CAPS Meeting Tonight

7:00 pm Truman College. I am going and you should too. If you read this blog you are clearly interested.

Monday, March 31, 2008

The 10 O'clock Post

9:46 4515 Sheridan
Black Males making lots of noise. Police have already been here several times today for these guys.

9:51 Clark and Montrose
Drunk White guy with a green shirt walking around asking people if they can sell him drugs.

9:57 Clark and Irving Park
2 White males fighting.

10:00 800 block of Sunnyside
Gangbangers causing trouble again flashing signs.

10:04 4530 Magnolia
Supervisor needed for a stop.

10:05 Curfew Mission
Several units assigned to look for curfew violators.

19th District Craziness

The 19 th district shares the airwaves with the 23rd district here in Chicago, for those of you not familiar with the 19th district geographicly it uses the same north and south borders as the 23rd district Fullerton to Lawrence. The 19th district begins at Clark and heads west. Tonight they have been having non-stop craziness.

Some of the highlights so far was the first dispersal of the year for the “Bucket Boys” these are the guys with the pickle buckets that drum in front of busy places. There is a guy running down Lincoln Ave in a hospital gown and his private parts keep falling out as he is running. They have a love triangle on Hoyne Ave. with one of the participants armed with a box-cutter. There are a group of drunk people doing push-ups and sit-ups in an alley, off of Southport. Someone who lives on Newport heard what he thought was an explosion turned out that it was the EL going by, he just moved here from out of town and it is his first night living there and was not used to the noise the EL makes.

All of this was in the last 10 minutes, as soon as somthing happens in the 23rd district I will post it.

Back Home Posts to Follow

Listening now so expect half hourly posts starting at 10

Time Out

Will be out doing a few things for the next few hours. I need a break from doing this every night. So look for a post around 10 but I do not expect that it will be one of the retroactive posts with content that happened while I was away.

Post

I added the area around Wrigley for this post as it got kind of interesting as the game got closer to completion.

5:28 1041 Wilson
Pedestrian stop, and name check, person does not know there Social Security Number or have ID. Name check comes back as a person with parole status and gang affiliations and an active order of protection.

5:31 3620 Clark McDonalds
Security is holding a white male for damage to property.

5:35 4403 Sheridan
Domestic battery woman called from payphone said that she is having a problem with her boyfriend.

5:36 Clark and Addison The Cubby Bear
White female refuses to pay her $700.00 bar tab.

5:38 3525 Seminary
Man lying on the pavement completely unresponsive

5:39 Ashland and Addison
Drunk Man drove into a parked car is trying to flee the scene.

5:40 4520 Clarendon
Check the well-being, woman called in to claim that she talks to her son everyday and has not heard from him today. She wants the Police to go and see if he is ok. Turns out he was fine and the Police said that they were another pair of overserved citizens.

5:47 3714 Clark
Drunk man hit a drunk female big fight broke out.

6:03 745 Wilson
Premise Check

6:08 3564 Sheffield
Fight at the 7 Eleven

6:16 651 Hutchinson
Burglar alarm same address as yesterdays burglar alarm. Same reason to the guy forgot to shut his door.

6:20 4332 Sheridan
Car broken down in the bus stop officer asking for courtesy to allow the time to get the car moved from the location.

6:32 POV Mission
7 units involved to patrol the area from Broadway to Clarendon Lawrence to Montrose.

6:36 Newport and Sheffield
Auto Theft in progress. Police caught the offender trying to steal a gray SUV.

6:40 Addison and Halsted
Auto accident at the Shell gas station, Cab vs. Honda Civic. Cab trying to flee the scene.

6:46 3622 Clark
Suspicious package in the ATM vestibule

6:47 3900 Broadway
Accident driver to take himself to the hospital.

6:47 928 Wilson
Dispute over change at the store.

Resident Witnesses the Fire on Magnolia

Fellow Uptown Blogger Butternut witnessed the fire and took pictures. This was the never ending saga of the weekend in the area with at least five fire and police calls from saturday through sunday. Check it out here.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Things Picked Up

11:19 1325 Sunnyside
2 black males in their 40s bothering people on Sunnyside Mall.

11:31 915 Wilson
Disturbance in the hallway of this building

11:32 Leland and Sheridan
Arrest made

Things Still Slow in the Area

10:00 Curfew Mission
2 units to go on a curfew mission.

10:02 802 Sunnyside
Traffic stop.

10:26 1047 Leland
Pedestrian stop.

This will be the last regular post tonight. I will continue to monitor the radio and if anything interesting happens I will post about it. If you see anything in your area make sure you call 911 and report it. If we work at it, every night can be as quiet as tonight.

9:30 Post

Nothing to report, I actually checked the radio a couple of times to make sure it was on. It was just things have gotten real quiet around here tonight. So in order to make the post interesting I thought I would add a few of the spots that the Police like to eat at. Police usually know all the good places. 3292 Broadway is probably the number one place that they request time to take lunch at, this is the address for Windy City Gyros, a close second is Thorek Hospital, I checked the Cafeteria hours here and found that it was closed they must have a special deal for the Police.

9:00 Post

8:51 654 Hutchinson
Burglary in progress. It turns out the guy forgot to shut the door and the wind blew it making a noise which led him to believe that he was being robbed.

8:58 3838 Broadway
Female with protective order banned from property will not leave. Police warned to use universal caution at this location.

8:30 Update

8:06 Challenger Park
Park Check

8:17 Leland and Sheridan
Traffic stop.

8:29 4346 Kenmore
Black male hides drugs in the bushes and deals to people that drive up. He is wearing a black leather jacket that says Chicago on the back.

The 8:00 Post

7:27 940 Cuyler
People having sex behind buildings in the alley.

7:33 925 Lakeside Pl
Domestic Battery offender fled in victims gray trailblazer

7:35 Buena and Broadway
White male in front of the liquor store harassing people.

7:48 940 Cuyler
Caller wants to report a missing person.

7:49 3919 Fremont
Fire rolling to apartment fire Police asked to respond and provide traffic control.

7:53 Wilson and Sheridan
Theft in progress someone called to report that people were stealing items from the Salvation Army dropbox.

Still a Bit Slow

7:03 4626 Magnolia
Disturbance neighbor complaining that the people upstairs are playing there music too loud.

7:10 3480 Lakeshore Dr.
Premise Check

7:12 1114 Wilson
Traffic Stop, Police pulled over a car with Pennsylvania plates.

Things Slowed Down a Bit

6:30 Beat 13
Public Violence Mission, 5 units assigned to patrol Town Hall 13.

6:39 Leland and Sheridan
3-5 Black Males loitering on the corner.

6:42 3741 Broadway
Fire en route need assistance man passed out on sidewalk.

Dreary Weather not Slowing Down the Criminals

6:03 4407 Clark
Auto Theft, man left his car running went into Subway for a sandwich came out and his green Ford Explorer was gone.

6:06 Ashland and Montrose
Police found the vehicle and made an arrest. Offender was one of the top ten targets from the earlier mentioned mission.

6:09 927 Wilson
Drug dealing

6:25 Montrose Harbor
Traffice Stop

Things Are Picking Up

5:29 4437 Magnolia Broncho Billy Playlot
Black Males gambling in the playlot.

5:36 4526 Sheridan
Hand waiver flagged down unit about a battery in progress backup unit sent to assist.

5:37 3950 Lakeshore
Check the well-being building manager is concerned about a resident that has not been seen in a while.

5:38 BP Station Lawrence and Marine
Assault offender still on the scene.

5:44 Top Ten Target Mission
5 units being used from Beacon to Broadway, and Wilson to Montrose.

It Has Been Pretty Slow

5:07 4424 Racine
Traffic Stop

5:11 Lawrence CTA Check

5:14 4747 Magnolia
Police asked to ride with Fire to check on a rubbish fire. Funny you would think by now they would know that this has been going on for 24 hours now. At least four calls that I have heard.

At Home and Listening

Look for some posts soon, on a side note I took a drive through the neighborhood and the bonfire that made a few posts last night at 4747 Magnolia is still going.

Comments Please

People if you see any of these items taking place, make sure to comment.

If you see anything not on the list comment on it as well.

I enjoy reading your comments as do your neighbors. I respond to most
if not all. This should developed into a community collaborative forum.


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Another Mobile Post

10:33 4737 Magnolia
Bonfire in the rear of the building.

10:41 915 Wilson
Domestic dispute woman called in to report the father of her child
will not leave. Father has an active order of protection and is not
supposed to be there.

11:04 Curfew Mission

11:05 Lawrence Redline
Kidnapping in progress. Male in black pants and gray goodie forced a
female into a gray SUV. Police arrived and male fled on foot eastbound
on Lawrence female not interested in pursuing the matter.

11:59 4550 Clarendon
Report of loud music.

12:15 Southbound LSD
Traffic stop backup called.

12:17 Irving Park and Clark
Strong smell of gas in the air.

12:21 3720 Broadway
Traffic stop.

12:31 3600 Recreation Dr
Two name checks on a pedestrian stop.

12:34 823 Buena
Check the wellbeing on the earlier domestic dispute victim.

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Saturday, March 29, 2008

The Next Post

9:51 4730 Winthrop
Man passed out on the stairway.

9:56 Sheridan and Leland
Crash

10:01 4747 Magnolia
Fire rolling want police assistance for somthing burning in the front
of this address.

10:02 Stockton Elementary School
Burgular alarm

10:16 3020 Broadway
Arson in progress at the old Dominicks. Fire on the way two white
males pouring gasoline on a dumpster in the alley behind this building.

10:18 Northbound Lakeshore Dr.
Gold Toyota Camry driving wrecklessly.

10:24 4260 Broadway
Battery in progress Asian male bearing Asian female in the driveway in
front of a silver Mercedes.

10:25
Turns out arson in progress was a false alarm.

10:27 Broadway and Montrose
Police have stopped the silver Mercedes involved in the earlier
battery in progress.

10:30 Montrose and Clarendon
Traffic stop

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Things That Happened While I was Out

8:29 4125 Kenmore man upset with landlord for turning off the power in
the building for earth hour.

8:46 4621 Sheridan
Traffic stop.

8:49 3800 Recreation Dr.
Female officer needed for a search.

8:58 4700 Magnolia
Neighborhood bonfire going on in the front yard.

9:09 4750 Malden
Lady spent several days in the hospital now she is home and their are
people living in her place that will not leave.

9:35 851 Montrose
Disturbance

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4526 Sheridan

Disturbance upstairs neighbor making loud noises

Wilson and Broadway

Drug dealing.

823 Buena

Pregnant lady being beat by her husband.

4550 Clarendon

Traffic stop unit asking for backup.

3838 Broadway

The Chateau a she-male causing a disturbance on the 4th floor.

Broadway and Wilson

Vice complaint at the Currency Exchange.

4747 Magnolia

Flames in the side yard.

4626 Kenmore

Someone playing loud music.

920 Wilson

Jesus People USA having trouble with a white male.

Sunnyside and Hazel

Gang disturbance 20 gangbangers congregating.

920 Wilson

man refuses to leave.

1325 Wilson

Suicide attempt bipolar guy attempting to kill himself fir enroute need police backup.

1148 Wilson

Top ten stop.

4542 Magnolia

Top Ten stop.

Clark and Wilson

5 white males drinking and throwing beer cans on the sidewalk.

4421 Broadway

Vice complaint.

4541 Clarendon

Domestic dispute.

4640 Sheridan

Check the well being some people don't have a phone and some other people want to know if they are ok.

Not Heard on the Scanner

But some asshole is honking his horn outside my window.

Washington Mutual Bank

ATM skimming device found.

Sunnyside Mall

Selling Drugs and making a lot of noise no further details.

Top Ten Enforcement Mission

5 cars assigned to the area around Wilson to Montrose Broadway to Beacon.

The Last few Hours Were Pretty Uneventful In our Neck of the Woods

Not going to bother with typing up the details. Will post in real time for a few hours now.

As promised the 1:00 Post

11:51
1124 Wilson
Police asked to respond with engine 83 to a man down on the pavement unresponsive.

12:03
Chicago Police Marine Unit doing a safety at sea mission with the coast guard, there will be a helicopter rescue the use of flares and loud reports.

12:27
Irving Park and Marine Dr.
Auto Accident unknown if any injuries.

12:28
4551 Sheridan
Parking violators in the laundromat parking lot.

Too many moving truck parking violations to mention. Someone from the Alderman's office called this in.

12:33
4861 Broadway
Arrest at Borders.

I will Be Posting Today

I need to do a few errands then I will begin posting for today. I will probably go with the hourly update format today rather than the post as it happens format. Look for the first post about 1:00. Until then I hope everyone is enjoying there day.

Having a Fantastic Evening

I might post after a bit but having a good time now.

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Friday, March 28, 2008

Hourly Post From the Bar

7:47 4621 Sheridan
Battery one resident fighting another.

7:58 1111 Lawrence
Man unconcious on the pavement.

8:19 4427 Racine
5 black males fighting in the street.

8:27 4500 Magnolia
6 black males selling drugs on the street.

8:30 Weiss Hospital
White BMW parked in a no parking area.

8:32 Windsor and Hazel
Guys doing bong hits in the alley.

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Was Going to Leave the Radio at Home

As I was leaving it got real interesting so I put the radio in my
pocket grabbed my iPod and walked to the bar. Look for hourly posts
starting at 7:45


6:45 Wilson and Sheridan
A fistfight broke out offenders three black males took construction
horses and used them to beat out windows of a green Pontiac
Bonneville. The offenders fled east on Windsor in a dark blue sedan.
Then headed south on Clarendon. Police have stopped both cars a
warning for caution was issued as a weopon was found in the Bonneville
in a traffic stop last week on an unrelated incident.
The police have asked for the pod camera footage at Wilson and
Sheridan for help in sorting this out. All the video showed was three
black males fleeing south on Sheridan from the El Pollo Loco lot.
This was interesting to listen to from start to finish 30 minutes from
the start of the event till the police were reviewing footage on their
portable data terminals (PDT) as they refer to them on the radio.
Police apprehended both sets of offenders within 2 minutes.

7:30 Top Ten Mission Ended
I may have missed the begins of this mission, but the several posts
about arrests earlier on were part of this. I have noticed that
recently between 6:00 and 7:30 top ten missions are run looking for
players in the area that they stop and question.

7:22 Jewell Montrose and Sheridan
Security holding black male for theft.

Back with another post in one hour.


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It is Friday Night and I want a Few Beers

I am going to go to the local watering hole for a few see you in an hour or two. Sorry but I feel like getting out. I will post when I return.

Violence Mission

7 units sent to help patrol the areas around Broadway to Clarendon Wilson to Montrose.

928 Montrose Arrest

4600 Clarendon Assault

White male threatening building manager.

Wilson and Magnolia

Arrest one offender being taken to District 23

4363 Kenmore

Boyfriend of a tenant in the lobby now repeatedly comes into building when she is not there and bangs on her door and yells.

4426 Magnolia Assault

Female Black threatened resident black pants green shirt and a pink purse.

Broadway and Kenmore Man down on the Pavement

Guy appears to be high on drugs laying on the pavement.

Wilson and Sheridan Vicious Animal

Brown and White dog chasing people around and barking at them.

Broadway and Wilson

Gang Dispersal

4759 Sheridan S and L Pantry

Store owner is holding a shoplifter.

Death Investigation at Weiss Hospital

Update on the Guy Who fell Down the Elevator Shaft

Fractured Left Hip.

Broadway and Kenmore

Guy appears to be high on drugs yelling at people.

Clarendon Park Kids Throwing Rocks

5 calls people witnessing kids throwing rocks at cars.

4516 Sheridan Fight

Kids fighting in the alley 3 phone calls from residents.

4525 Kenmore Battery

Teenager hit a 10 year old in front of the elementary school, offender is in the school

Gonna Step Out for 30 Minutes

In order to improve this blog I am heading over to staples to see if they have anything I can use to try and stream the radio signal live so people can listen.


Be right back.

Broadway and Wilson

Cars asked to help dispersing a gang of kids congregating in front of Popeyes.

4750 Sheridan

Someone fell into an elevator shaft. First car on the scene reported back that this call is bonified someone did fall into the elevator shaft fire is on the way and several more cars were sent for back up this is a high risk mental health clinic.

7 Units Sent on Prevention of Viloence Mission

7 cars sent to the area of Wilson and Sheridan to patrol Wilson to Sunnyside Broadway to Clarendon. This is most likely in response to Uplift Academy and the Wilson and Popeyes incidents earlier this week.

4700 Block of Kenmore

Traffic Stop Officer asking to run vin # to make sure it matches the plates.

1120 Wilson Fight on Special Ed Bus

One special ed student struck another special ed student. One is bleeding and fire is en route
police asked to assist.

At Work Now Back on Around 4

First weekend of post coming up, Fridays are usually interesting so check back tonight to see what is going on.

Magnolia and Wilson Foot Chase

One in custody at the Sunnyside mall. Officers looking for three other suspects. All suspects ran into a building 4425 Malden. They were in a Hyundi SantaFe and refused to stop for the police they bailed and the footchase ensued.

Beat 2312 Detectives in the Area working a Robbery Investigation

In the area making arrests

919 Leland Premise Check

Clark and Montrose 7 Eleven

Man passed out in parking lot fire rolling. Police asked to assist.

I ran out of cigarettes so I decided to go check this one out. Some knucklehead drove his Saab onto the curb and sidewalk in front of 7 Eleven and then fell asleep.