I have spoken to several on our block who are INTERESTED! I spoke to some technology people in the city. They are interested.
Hot diggity dog.
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...an Urban Garden in #EastGarfieldPark at 1pm on Sunday, April 22nd. The exact location is 400 N. Albany. The City reflects who we are. We have a responsibility to what it is. #formyblock
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We did our spring RAT PATROL walk on Good Friday in the 6-8 block area we focus on cleaning up. They were pleasantly surprised at how much better this area is! We had a very low RAT HOLE COUNT. It is the lowest ever. A couple seniors came out of their house and thanked RAT PATROL.
It has taken quite a few years to get rats under control. Josie Cruze has helped us for about 5 years and now we...
We did our spring RAT PATROL walk on Good Friday in the 6-8 block area we focus on cleaning up. They were pleasantly surprised at how much better this area is! We had a very low RAT HOLE COUNT. It is the lowest ever. A couple seniors came out of their house and thanked RAT PATROL.
It has taken quite a few years to get rats under control. Josie Cruze has helped us for about 5 years and now we have very few rats!
it is an effort involving: 1. Baiting, 2. Getting Garbage cans. #. Replacing damaged cans. 4. having Safer clean alleys, streets, parkways, vacant lots. 5. Getting weed spray.6. getting forestry to pick up branches. 7. getting flydup0ed tires, construction debris, trees, etc removed.
We now are at the point where we need CPd to issue citations for can theft, can rummaging, littering, using COMMUNITY CONCERNS and CITY SERVICES directive to continually have Beat and Patrol cars order the city service we need as well as gang/drug issues.
Everyone said this clean up could never be done. WELL...it is done!
gpblight: Great information. We are in the 1500 West blocks of Van Buren, Jackson, Adams and Monroe. We are on Adams which is part of the Jackson Blvd Historic District. Lots of old row-houses with Salvation Army's vacant facility on Monroe, vacant Church of the Epiphany and Chase House on...
gpblight: Great information. We are in the 1500 West blocks of Van Buren, Jackson, Adams and Monroe. We are on Adams which is part of the Jackson Blvd Historic District. Lots of old row-houses with Salvation Army's vacant facility on Monroe, vacant Church of the Epiphany and Chase House on Ashland and a new industrial tear-down at Adams and Laflin. Lots of reasons for the rat population to grow.
I will study your details over the weekend, put together a plan and enlist the help of our wonderful neighbors and the new developers of the vacant buildings who are probably dying to figure out ways to be a good neighbor..
Thank you so much.
Yikes! Tear downs always scatter the rat population as they look for a new home.
This is actually pretty easy. It just takes setting up the steps, executing the steps, and rotely doing the same over and over and over.
This year I may only have to walk 3 times...
Yikes! Tear downs always scatter the rat population as they look for a new home.
This is actually pretty easy. It just takes setting up the steps, executing the steps, and rotely doing the same over and over and over.
This year I may only have to walk 3 times instead of 8 times. IF we can keep the stuff off the ground and alleys clean.
We were a REAL MESS with 550 active holes on half a block, once upon a time.
Post the steps you did. What happened. It is always good to SHARE steps that work.
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THANK U Inspector General for exposing bad practices at the Police Department. Reform has started but because of anti reformers there is a HUGE struggle within the department itself.
Please find a way for WHISTLEBLOWERS to help you.
We all can help the IG keep us safer by holding a department ACCOUNTABLE as 5 regulatory agency reports say they need.
THANK U INSPECTOR GENERAL. Readers THINK on how bad practices are keeping your neighborhood dangerous and report abuses. The Inspectorgeneral...
THANK U Inspector General for exposing bad practices at the Police Department. Reform has started but because of anti reformers there is a HUGE struggle within the department itself.
Please find a way for WHISTLEBLOWERS to help you.
We all can help the IG keep us safer by holding a department ACCOUNTABLE as 5 regulatory agency reports say they need.
THANK U INSPECTOR GENERAL. Readers THINK on how bad practices are keeping your neighborhood dangerous and report abuses. The Inspectorgeneral homepage has a place to report and make positive suggestions.
Our Superintendent is doing more than any other in this effort. We need to support him in ways that are meaningful. He gets reports. Reports may not be true. It is up to us to tell him the truth. It is our new civic duty in a place like chicago.
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3146 W. Franklin Blvd. CommentREPLACE (1) PORCH SYSTEM OPEN WOOD PORCH AS PER PLANS
2 days ago
The States Attorney Office is interested in making a MAP of public and private Camera addresses. Would u be willing to sign up for this list?
the purpose is to get evidence for crimes in HIGH CRIME areas like ours.
It could help with Prosecutions
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Updated Apr 13
I have spoken to several on our block who are INTERESTED! I spoke to some technology people in the city. They are interested.
Hot diggity dog.
Apr 13
Feb 10 2017
Updated Apr 11
The sound of gunshot will dispatch police who have the special celphomes. Technology is good. Lets see if if this strategy works. POD cameras were/are not widly used as a tool.
Source is from link below
We had semi automatic fire last week end. We did NOT get police response in seconds.
Sometimes shots are not counted at all.
Mar 19 2017
Updated Apr 11
Can this be true???? If it is!!!! Who is to blame????? The ward is a trainwreck
http://chicagoworksforyou.com/ward/28/#/
Checkout chicagoworksforyou.com for your,ward.
The commissioner did not die. Robert Meyers in charge of lights died. He was a remarkable civil servant and the job pressure may have killed him. Many who work extremely hard can work themselves to death. People with his kind of dedication are the real heroes on Chicago government. He...
The commissioner did not die. Robert Meyers in charge of lights died. He was a remarkable civil servant and the job pressure may have killed him. Many who work extremely hard can work themselves to death. People with his kind of dedication are the real heroes on Chicago government. He was humble and even tempered. He would bristtle if I told,him stories like yours,and deny defects in the system. He was loyal to the union and his people.
Foia service requests for alley lights using the range of addresses on your block. See what the real status of where your service requests went. If u see that requests were marked"completed" and they were not; send to the commissiomer Rebekah Scheinfeld and IG Josepj Ferguson.
The object is to hold workers responsible when they falsify work orders. Falsifying work orders means turning on a time sheet saying you did work when in fact you did not. People who have been playing this game for decades have gotten away with their cheating and fraud because WE do not report them to the proper authorities.
You know the best way to get city service is to ask the mayor and commissiomer. Why didn't u do this?
Letterforthemayor@cityofchicago.org
Rebekah.scheinfeld@cityofchicago.org
We are trying to get the 11th District to follow (3) Directives given to me by Gen Csl of CPD. Riding for 6 months with an Area North CAPS co coordinator the (3) Directives were not followedto the letter.
We requested Organized Crime fill in forms and got better results....
We are trying to get the 11th District to follow (3) Directives given to me by Gen Csl of CPD. Riding for 6 months with an Area North CAPS co coordinator the (3) Directives were not followedto the letter.
We requested Organized Crime fill in forms and got better results. They are now too busy to do it.
We will now have clusters of people fill in 21-235 forms and submit them directly to the Superintendent, the responding department, and Dept of Information Technology.
We expect having heads of Departments track orders that can be foia'd will help improve city service requests.
There is some kind of conventional wisdom that needs to change. We PAY civil servants who are on our streets, sidewalks, etc hour by hour. YET instead of them ordering service we need or supervisors or Aldermen ordering what we need THE RESPONSIBILITY IS SHIFTED TO US.
MANAGEMENT needs to hold their staff ACCOUNTABLE. CAPs is Directed to turn in service requests and does not in any meaningful way in ghettos. Instead city employees push their responsibility on to citizens. Citizens give up when they call time and time again and do not get service. The IG needs to follow the order trails and punish slackers.
It is great you are able to get city service! We are getting pretty good service in a 6-8 block test area but it is a daily email paper trail.
Mar 28 2017
Updated Apr 11
Lets see if things get better. Jonathan seems to be sincere. Can he get better results? Technology used effectively can bring wusmtum leaps,in,oroductivity. GOOD LUCK we need a guy like u desperately.
Today CPD got 10Mil for more sdsc rooms. THANKS to the billionaire who donated.
The problem is, in the camera room people at 11 do not get police service even when they call 911. What is that about?
News does not match reality on the street. Keeping people honest is difficult indeed!
Jun 17
Updated Apr 11
Be sure to use, give feedback on,work performed or on software ised.
https://www.cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/depts/311/general/NewOpen311InformationChart.pdf
Oh, forgot to say Do not use the app. It has a 30-40% error rate in Google addressing. It is HORRIBLE and will result in union people coming out to a wrong address.
CAPs has a form 21-235. they are supposed to use it to Register and Monitor
1. Community Concerns 2. City services.
If it doesn't work at your Beat meeting; fill out the form, send it to the Superintendent and ask he get it done.
Jun 22
Updated Apr 11
Follow this link. you can find a treasure trove of police services you never dreamed of let alone knew exist. No more whining about not getting service. Quote the directive
Can't say, at this point, that I have favorite topics. This is a learning experience for me, and so I will have to delve further into it. I think maybe I would like to work on keeping crime low in my area.
Will keep plowing through the material.
Did u achieve anything Gabe? What was it?
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Here is a list of evenings where the ATTORNEY GENERAL will hold evening meetings.
If you have an interest in what we are ENTITLED TO please attend
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The first shooting happened around 1 p.m. A 34-year-old was shot in the leg in the 3300 block of West Huron. He was taken to Stroger Hospital. The shooting may have been drug releated, police said.
This article has 1 other Chicago location (Show)The last shooting happened shortly after 11 p.m. A 34-year-old was shot in the hand and lower back while walking in the 9300 block of South Woodlawn. He was treated at Trinity Hospital.
Apr 02
He was in the 3300 block of West Huron Street about 1 p.m. when he heard shots and felt pain, police said.
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My students need a wire countertop organizer and books in Spanish so we can begin to read for pleasure in Spanish class.George Westinghouse Prep Comment
Mar 24
Updated Mar 28
...50 a.m., a 33-year-old man was shot in the leg in the 500 block of North Kedzie Avenue in the West Side’s East Garfield Park neighborhood, police said. He was on foot...
This article has 3 other Chicago locations (Show)Police investigate after a 33-year-old man was shot in the 6500 block of North Francisco Avenue on March 24, 2018.
Two men were shot around 3:45 a.m. Saturday in the 7100 block of South State Street in the Park Manor neighborhood on the South Side, police said. A 34-year-old...
...old man was shot in the leg around 9:25 p.m. Friday in the 2400 block of South Whipple Street in the Little Village neighborhood on the South Side, police said. He was on foot...
Are there any actual veterans on this thread?
the irony here lets look at every school shooting to have been documented. with a few exceptions the general number injured or killed is low and consistent see for yourself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States
Oh my would you look at that prior to 1977 the release of the first ar-15 look at those...
the irony here lets look at every school shooting to have been documented. with a few exceptions the general number injured or killed is low and consistent see for yourself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States
Oh my would you look at that prior to 1977 the release of the first ar-15 look at those numbers ironic. Please more gun laws isnt going to prevent the criminal element from carrying out the attacks its like saying the US will win the war on drugs HMMM that hasn't happened not even close. Funny when we banned alcohol the problem only got worse. see the common denominator here. But not matter how much proof you provide the antigun will always retort to make more gun laws. How about making more laws that convict dirty politicians cause we know both sides of that fence is corrupt as all can be.
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There are 164 pages. Pg 14&15 and 134-39 talk about CAPS failures. The Fderal Civil Rights Department wrote this report about Chicago Police problems. It has a nice index. Pick what you like tor ead by topic.
https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/file/925771/download
Superintendent Johnson is attempting to revamp CAPS and make it a viable department..
If you have suggestions email: Eddie.Johnson@chicagopolice.org
His new Caps Chief is Dwayne.Betts@chicagopolice.org. Talk to him too.
If you get good results please post here.
Mar 26
A 33-year-old man was standing in the 500 block of North Kedzie when he was shot in the leg. He was taken to Mount Sinai in good condition, according to police.
This article has 10 other Chicago locations (Show)The first fatal shooting of the weekend was reported just after 4 a.m. Sunday morning, when a man was found on a sidewalk in the 1900 block of West 52nd Street with a gunshot wound to his head, according to police.
...in critical condition after he was shot while standing in a parking lot in the 5400 block of West Irving Park Road early Sunday morning. The 35-year-old was taken to Community First Hospital, where he...
In the 2500 block of South St. Louis Avenue, a man was shot in the left side of his face just after 6 a.m., according to police. The man was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition, and the shooter fled in a black SUV.
...most recent shooting, a 15-year-old boy was shot in the arm in the 5700 block of South Mozart, according to police. The shooting, which took place at approximately 7:13 p.m., occurred...
A 28-year-old man was walking with a group of friends in the 2400 block of South Whipple at approximately 9:24 p.m. when an occupant of a passing vehicle fired shots, striking him in the leg. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition, police said.
Two people were shot in the 7100 block of South State Street at approximately 3:45 a.m. The victims were walking when they heard gunfire. A...
In the 9300 block of South Paxton, a 40-year-old man was shot at approximately 8:15 a.m., according to police. He was taken to a local hospital in serious condition.
A man was shot in the shoulder and ankle by a person in a grey vehicle in the 800 block of North Lawndale at approximately 12:35 p.m., police said. The man was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition.
A 21-year-old woman was walking in the 2400 block of North Ridgeway at approximately 1:24 a.m. when she was shot by a person in a dark colored SUV, police said. The victim was taken to St. Mary’s in good condition with a gunshot wound to her right leg.
Two men were shot in the 4200 block of West Van Buren at approximately 2:21 p.m., police said. A 30-year-old man was shot in the arm and was taken to Mount Sinai in good condition, and a 27-year-old man was shot in the buttocks and abdomen, and was taken to Mount Sinai in fair condition.
Mar 24
...50 a.m., a 33-year-old man was shot in the leg in the 500 block of North Kedzie Avenue in the West Side’s East Garfield Park neighborhood, police said. He was on foot...
This article has 3 other Chicago locations (Show)He saw someone stumble and fall near an SUV in the 6500 block of North Francisco Avenue on the Far North Side.
Two men were shot around 3:45 a.m. Saturday in the 7100 block of South State Street in the Park Manor neighborhood on the South Side, police said. A 34-year-old...
...old man was shot in the leg around 9:25 p.m. Friday in the 2400 block of South Whipple Street in the Little Village neighborhood on the South Side, police said. He was on foot...
Mar 22
Use this Anonymous tip line to submit info. Am getting calls to help get cameras operable. Turns out they are operable but Police do not dispatch from SDSC camera surveillance. All complaints are coming from residents in District 11 Controlled camera room. 6 so far.
The latest said that CPD revealed their identity to the dealers We don't need more dead or shot people on our blocks.,
The City has this special tip line for those who are afraid of...
Use this Anonymous tip line to submit info. Am getting calls to help get cameras operable. Turns out they are operable but Police do not dispatch from SDSC camera surveillance. All complaints are coming from residents in District 11 Controlled camera room. 6 so far.
The latest said that CPD revealed their identity to the dealers We don't need more dead or shot people on our blocks.,
The City has this special tip line for those who are afraid of drug dealers. it also features a reward.
Go to town. Report crime tips. Post if you got good results. We need to see if this is a real tool or a tinkertoy.
Print and give to everyone you know who needs it.,
https://home.chicagopolice.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/TXT2TIP-Brochure-2017.pdf
Mar 22
A man holds a woman who said she was the niece of the person killed in the alley, in the 500 block of North Kedzie Ave., in Chicago, on Wednesday, March 21, 2018. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune)
This article has 1 other Chicago location (Show)Members of the Chicago Police department at the scenes of fatal shootings in the 500 block of North Kedzie Avenue and the 1100 block of South Independence Boulevard in Chicago, on Wednesday, March 21, 2018. (Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago Tribune)
Mar 22
Shooting in the 500 block of North Kedzie
This article has 6 other Chicago locations (Show)The man was trying to close the vehicle’s door in the 1100 block of South Independence Boulevard in the West Side’s Lawndale neighborhood when a blue sedan pulled up and the shooter got out and fired.
Around 7:30 p.m., a 26-year-old man was shot in the 700 block of North Avers Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side, according to police. The man suffered a gunshot wound to the arm and was taken to Norwegian American Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
...37-year-old man was shot during a robbery about 6 p.m. in the 7300 block of South Drexel Avenue in the Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side, police said. The man was walking...
An 18-year-old man was shot about 4:20 p.m. in the 100 block of South Leavitt Street in the Near West Side neighborhood on the West Side, police said. The man, shot in the right leg, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition had stabilized.
A 15-year-old boy was shot around 4 p.m. in the 8000 block of South Halsted Street in the city’s Gresham neighborhood on the South Side, police said. He was taken...
...25 p.m., an 18-year-old man was shot in the buttocks in the 7900 block of South Ellis Avenue in the East Chatham neighborhood on the South Side. He was walking when an attacker...
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