Uptown CAPS Beat 2311 Meeting Tonight, August 10

Beat 2311 meets at 7:00 p.m. this evening at Truman College, 1145 W. Wilson Avenue in the Faculty Room. Beat 2311 is bordered by W. Lawrence south to W. Montrose, and N. Clark east to N. Broadway. Beat Meeting Agenda 1. Introductions 2. Top crimes in the beat 3. Old business 4. New Business CAPS Beat 2311 meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. CLEARpath 23rd District Site: https://portal.chicagopolice.org/portal/page/portal/ClearPath/Communities/Districts/District23/Events

Uptdate - ANOTHER Uptown Gang Fight, Sept 1st, 2pm

UPDATE/CORRECTION, SEPT. 5: Uptown "Gang Riot" Was Actually Minor Shooting Word in the street is that there was YET ANOTHER gang fight in Chicago's troubled Uptown neighborhood, said to have happened at 2:00 in the afternoon at W. Wilson and N. Broadway, a few yards from the CTA train overpass. We get this from a woman who was at the CAPS Beat 2311 meeting on Monday night (Sept. 1). Five hours after the gang disturbance, the 7:00 p.m. CAPS meeting took place at Truman College, less than 300 feet away from the reported rumble. The woman who told Chicago News Bench about the fight said that "a police captain" in the meeting acknowledged the fight, but would not discuss details with the meeting attendees. One has to wonder why not, and also why the superhuman anti-crime fighting efforts of 46th Ward Alderman Helen Shiller and her entire staff of expert crime fighters have not yet put a stop to the seemingly weekly gang battles in Uptown, despite their sworn implementation of Shiller's Secret Safety Strategy (SSSS). Looks like "positive loitering," the latest social networking craze for socially challenged Uptowners, is working about as well as SSSS is. RELATED: CAPS Beat 2311: Gang Problems Contained … For Now - Lake Effect News The Lake View Citizens' Council (LVCC) - CAPS Beat Maps Helen Shiller Wallows in Lies, Self-Pity Video: Ald. Helen Shiller Mob Chase, Press Conference, Olympics Town Hall, 2009-08-17 Another Useless Public Safety Meeting Alderman Shiller's Bloody Hands Cool Hats & Shirts for Cool Conservatives Leave a Comment... Chicago News Bench RSS Feed We're on Twitter...

Chicago's 24th District More Violent than 23rd District

After the recent shooting in front of Gigio's pizza in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, I thought that Tuesday night's 7:00 pm CAPS Beat 2311 meeting would be packed with concerned citizens. It wasn't. I counted 19 local residents in attendance. There were nine CPD officers there. The meeting, held as usual in part of the Truman College cafeteria, was uneventful. I did learn a few things, however. Aggrevated batteries in the 23rd District (map), we were told, are down by 33 percent from a year ago. "Thats 12 months to today," said Officer Tom Walsh, a CPD liaison to area businesses. "Our number one priority is to curb aggrevated battery." (Source: Lake View Citizens' Council, Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors, Thursday, August 3, 2006) Gang "hot spots" were discussed, too, and what was said surprised. There two gang hot spots in the 23rd District, which includes Uptown. They are the 4500 block of N. Magnolia and the 900 block of W. Wilson. However, we were told that there are five hot spots in the 24th District (map), which is primarily (east) Rogers Park. Is the 24th District more violent that the 23rd? Yes, according to Officer Walsh and his colleagues. The city has two levels (Level One and Level Two) with which it categorizes polices district violence. Level Two is considered more violent than Level One. Both the 23rd and 24th districts are within Area Three. The 23rd District is a Level One. The 24th District is the only Level Two in Area Three. Most of the rest of the city is Level One. The Level One and Level Two designations determine how police manpower is concentrated and deployed to "where there is the greatest probability of violent crimes." "Rogers Park has about twice as much violent crime as Uptown," said one of the officers on the evening's panel. Residents of the 49th Ward might want to point this out to Alderman Moore the next time he brags about low crime in Rogers Park. RELATED: Find Your District, Beat and Community Chicago Police Announce Plan to Deploy Additional Officers in Preparation for Upcoming Summer Violence Interactive Map of Crime Incidents in Chicago CopWatch Pocket Guide CommieBama Hats and More Chicago News Bench RSS Feed Follow ChiNewsBench on Twitter

Few Details in Fatal Uptown Shooting

About 40 Uptown residents turned out for a CAPS meeting last Tuesday at Truman College to learn more about the mid-afternoon shooting on Aug. 29. Chicago Police Sgt. Alex Silva, of the 23rd District, told residents that Belmont and Western Area 3 detectives had "someone they are looking for" in connection to the shootings. One resident asked Silva if the shootings were retaliation for other previous gang activity. FULL STORY by Tom Mannis at News-Star... TOTALLY UNRELATED: Rogers Park Rake: Angry, Job Hoppin' Tranny - Now it has been two weeks since Mannis got a byline in the News-Star.