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Bank Employees Thwart Scam Targeting Elderly Customer
ATMs are mighty convenient, but can they stop a con artist in his tracks? That’s a job for real human beings, like MB Financial Bank employees Andrew Briel and Carrie McNay. Briel and McNay, working out of the MB branch at 4800 N. Western Ave., were recently awarded Honorary Civic Commendations from the CAPS Implementation [...]
19th District CAPS Meetings Set For 2012
November’s City Council budget vote ensured the 19th Police District will be folded into the 23rd District, but for now how that transition will be conducted is up in the air. Part of that transition includes who will manage CAPS meetings, if the beats will stay the same and often CAPS meetings will be conducted. [...]
Tonight: CAPS Meetings for North of Lawrence
Beats 2031 and 2032 have their bi-monthly CAPS meetings this evening. This is your chance to talk to your beat cops and district police commanders about what’s been going on in the neighborhood. Beat 2031 lies between the river and Leavitt St. and Lawrence and Foster Aves., while 2032 lies between Leavitt and Clark Sts. [...]
CAPS Meetings To Be Less Frequent In 2011
Starting this month the Chicago Police Department will no longer conduct monthly CAPS meetings. “Chicago’s Alternative Policing Strategies” meetings, which emphasize face-to-face contact between the actual officers from each beat and local residents, have been moved to quarterly and bi-monthly schedules, depending on your police district. The changes are a result of a city-wide shift [...]
November CAPS Meeting Beat 2031: Graffiti, an Ongoing Nuisance
“We have a relatively quiet district,” Officer Cesar Garcia said of Beat 2013 at the most recent CAPS meeting, held Nov. 30. But when it comes to graffiti, the area (Lawrence to Foster, Leavitt to the Chicago River) receives more than its share. While much of the scribbling is tagging, some of the graffiti is [...]
CAPS Beat 2031 September
Where theft of items taken from inside vehicles was the top concern at July’s meeting of Beat 2031, the autos themselves have now become a primary target. Eight vehicles were stolen in the past two months within the beat’s boundaries, Lawrence to Foster and Leavitt to the Chicago River. “That’s a huge increase for us,” [...]
CAPS Beat 2031: Property Theft on the Rise
Thefts and burglaries are up across the city, largely attributed to the state of the economy, and Beat 2031 has not been immune to this trend. Reporting to the approximately one dozen residents in attendance at last night’s CAPS meeting, Sgt. Jeffrey Sacks noted that while there’s very little violent crime within the beat (covering [...]
Center Square Burglary Stats by District
Center Square Journal obtained statistics from the Chicago Police Department showing the total number of cleared burglaries (forcible entry) in Districts 17, 19, and 20—the three districts in our coverage area. The graph shows the number of burglary incidents for 2008, 2009, and through May of 2010 (representing the most recent statistics available for this [...]
Crime on Brown Line Among Chief Concerns at Beat 1713 CAPS Meeting
Yesterday four police officers and 15 residents met outside in Ravenswood Manor Park for the monthly Beat 1713 CAPS meeting. Between June 24 and July 22, 42 arrests were made in the area that covers Wilson to Foster and Kimball to the Chicago River. The same number of arrests were made during the previous evaluation [...]
Beat 1724 CAPS Meeting Addresses Car Break-ins
This past Tuesday residents gathered in the hot second floor meeting room of the Horner Park Field House for Beat 1724′s monthly CAPS meeting. Officers reviewed incidents in the area (the beat covers Ravenswood Manor south of Wilson) between June 15 and July 20, and 15 people were in attendance. Topics of discussion included waste [...]
Beat 1724 CAPS Meeting Addresses Theft, Graffiti
Beat 1724 has been relatively quiet in comparison to other beats, said Chicago Police Sgt. Kristin Barker in a monthly CAPS meeting last night at Horner Park Field House. Barker told those present?six residents and one other officer?that the city average is 100?125 incidents per beat per month, but last month Beat 1724 (covering Ravenswood [...]
Thefts from Vehicles and Washroom Drug Use Top Concerns at Beat 1724 CAPS Meeting
Last night’s CAPS meeting for District 17′s 1724 beat attracted nine people and ended within 30 minutes, and that might have something to do with the fact that one of the most popular television shows on air was showing its penultimate episode. District 17 police Sgt. Kristin Barker warned residents to be aware of a [...]
Ronan Park Assault Never Happened – Ald. Mell Tries To Quell Crime Fears in Ravenswood Manor
About 80 residents of the 33rd Ward turned out last night for a special CAPS meeting with Ald. Richard Mell and 17th District Police Commander Michael Mealer at Our Lady of Mercy Church Hall, 4432 N. Troy. The two-hour meeting, organized by Ald. Mell following a recent increase of reported violent crime in Ravenswood Manor, [...]
CAPS mtg addresses Manor robbery attempts; Police support ‘Whistle Alert Awareness Strategy’
The CAPS meeting held last Tuesday night, February 16, at Horner Park Field House, 2741 W. Montrose, Chicago, IL, was the first Beat 1724 meeting since?a January strong-arm robbery attempt in the CTA Francisco stop vicinity. Another woman was similarly attacked in Beat 1724 while walking to the Brown Line at the Sacramento entrance of [...]
