Blog Profile / Second City Cop
| URL : | http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Public Safety / Law Enforcement | |
| Posts on Regator: | 8103 | |
| Posts / Week: | 29.8 | |
| Archived Since: | March 4, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
48 Hours Report
The entire episode can be viewed at this link here. Our opinion? It's kind of a "shotgun" approach to reporting: Hadiya Pendleton, a white suburban junkie, a crusader from 011 using YouTube to move dope dealers off his corner, more Hadiya,...Show More Summary
Warm Saturday? Must Be Wilding Time!
Here we go - again: Eleven juveniles and one adult were arrested this evening after a large group converged near the Gold Coast and were blocking traffic, police said.The people were arrested and charges were pending, said Chicago Police News Affairs [...]Show More Summary
Where Are My Keys?
Three shot in Lawndale: When the shooting stopped in Lawndale late Friday night, three people lay on the ground with gunshot wounds outside a family prom party on Kolin Avenue. It’s not clear why at least two shooters took aim at the group of people partying out on Kolin Avenue, among them at least a few children. Show More Summary
Enforcers Football
Sunday: Hey SCC the annual First Responders Bowl football game is this Sunday. The CPD Enforcers vs. CFD Blaze play Sunday at 3pm at St Laurence HS 77/Central in Burbank. The games the first three years all came down to the last minute. Proceeds benefit the respective Police and Fire charities.
Flawed Concealed Carry Dies in Springfield
DOA: A Senate effort to impose restrictive concealed-carry limits on Illinois gun owners failed to surface for a vote Friday as expected even after the legislation was changed to ease opposition from the National Rifle Association."One...Show More Summary
Everything is Fine - Trust Us
Thank goodness that the supposed robbery on Michigan Avenue was a hoax. We'd hate to think that misguided youths left the green pastures of Englewood and deliberately targeted the weak or infirm members of society for whatever nihilistic...Show More Summary
No Exempts in DC?
Well this is just sad if true: [McCarthy] hasn't got a clue. He is not respected, nor has he earned any. And he has no respect for us or this department, which was abundantly apparent these past few days in Washington DC at Police Week. Show More Summary
CPS Bait and Switch
Typical Rahm ploy: Go out and threaten to do something bad. Let everyone get riled up. Back off slightly and let people think they won. Laugh Bask in the glory of the "great compromiser" Rahm did this with city stickers, proposing an increase in fees for vehicles over a certain weight. Show More Summary
McPeacock
A couple of e-mails coming in describing CompStat yesterday. Seems a national news outlet, possibly CNN was there to tape the meeting, as a sort of rebuttal to the Saturday "48 Hours" report depicting Chicago crime as out of control....Show More Summary
Robbery Hoax
Liar liar pants on fire: Chicago police have discredited a 68-year-old woman's claim that she was robbed of tens of thousands of dollars of jewelry during a brazen attack Wednesday afternoon along the Magnificent Mile.The woman originally...Show More Summary
Nothing to See Here!
Move along! Mayor Rahm Emanuel gave a preliminary comment Thursday to a broad daylight mugging on Michigan Avenue this week.A 68-year-old woman says she was surrounded by a group of young men on the 700 block of North Michigan Avenue...Show More Summary
Concealed Carry Bill Moves Forward
These idiots in Springfield are going to have to be held by the hand and guided through everything, step by step, by a federal judge at some point: Favored by gun-control advocates, a push establishing tight limits on where IllinoisShow More Summary
State Hires Data Entry Operators
Someone has to help the ISP catch up - might as well hire it out: Anyone who has recently applied for a firearm owner's card in Illinois knows that it there is quite a wait. State police say that's because 70,000 applications have piled...Show More Summary
Not Another Targeted Senior?
In the Red Line tunnel. By "youths." An man in his 80s was hospitalized after he was knocked to the ground and robbed of his wallet at a Loop CTA subway station Thursday morning.The attack happened at 10:33 a.m. in the subway in theShow More Summary
Wilding Jackpot
The Tribune plays dumb, but this has all the hallmarks of a wilding: A 69-year-old woman was robbed of as much as $200,000 in jewelry, cash and other items by a group of young men in front of a North Michigan Avenue department storeShow More Summary
Mother of the Year Nominee
There really ought to be an exam and license to have children: A South Side woman who had parked her car in an alley refused to yield to a marked police squad car, then grabbed a Chicago police officer and dragged her as the SUV with...Show More Summary
Another Warm Night
And another baker's dozen shot: Two men were killed and at least 11 people were wounded -- one of them by police -- in shootings from Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday morning across Chicago, police said. Among those wounded overnight...Show More Summary
Rahm Finds Another $100 Million
Another nail in the City's "we're broke!" excuse: Plans are in the works for a $300 million, 12,000-seat arena for DePaul University’s basketball teams to be built near downtown Chicago, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.Chicago mayor Rahm...Show More Summary
Another PPO Foot Patrol Shooting
Somewhere in 003 Monday night?They've done a good job keeping this one under wraps - we haven't found any mention of it. No one got hit, so it must not have happened, but some people went to jail over it.
Wait...Red Light Cameras are About Money?
Who would have thunk it? City Hall cannot back up claims that its controversial red-light camera program is designed to make intersections safer, according to a watchdog's report released Tuesday.Inspector General Joseph Ferguson said...Show More Summary