Month: August 2013

2:14AM A “homeless person” brandished a knife and threatened a man at Halsted and Roscoe. The assailant, described as male, black, 5’10” tall, 210 pounds, wearing a white shirt and jeans, was last seen walking near Cornelia and Elaine Place. 3:00AM Police handled a verbal altercation at Belmont and Halsted. An I.D. check of one

The city released new information on one robbery today. CWB’s original report is linked. HW413829  19 Aug  05:53  700 W BUCKINGHAM STRONGARM  NO ARREST  SIDEWALK The CWB Daily Ticker is a dashboard of the most up-to-date robbery statistics possible for our neighborhood over the past year, 5 years, and 10 years. As we’ve often said,

19th district officers snared another phone thief Sunday evening in the 3700 block of N. Pine Grove. The incident began around 5:45PM when the offender stole a man’s phone near Waveland and Lake Shore Drive. The offender is described as being male, black, in his 20’s 5’8″ tall, 150 pounds, wearing a black hat, tank

A reader forwarded an email exchange that he had with an executive within the Chicago Police Department about our neighborhood’s crime problem, specifically beat 1924’s rank as #1 for robberies over the past 90 days. The executive wrote, “Beat 1924 has been number 1 in robberies for the last 6 years yet you choose to

7:36PM August 24, 2013DISPATCHER: 915UNIT 1915: 915DISPATCHER: Your location?UNIT 1915: Right next to my last location. What you need?DISPATCHER: Um…GPS shows you in Lake Michigan, that’s all. 11:44PM August 24, 2013Police were called to the Circle K/Shell gas station at Halsted and Addison because there was a naked man in the bathroom who refused to

Here are some highlights and lowlights from the past week. Let’s keep pushing on! WINS Officers found and arrested a man who allegedly pointed a handgun in a motorist’s face at Belmont and Halsted Sunday morning. ABC7 helped spread the word about the serious robbery problem this neighborhood is fighting. Officers intervened in two robberies

 Officers on-scene at a reported strong arm robbery, 3760 N. Hslsted this morning. Image: @ChrisChaten on Twitter CWB has few details, however, a strong arm robbery was recorded at Grace and Halsted this morning. The first 911 call came in at 7:49AM, giving the address of 3760 N. Halsted. During their investigation, officers determined that

We’re setting all kinds of records around here. This morning, the district set another one by running out of police officers and entering Radio Assignment Pending (RAP) status earlier than ever recorded by CWB: 12:34AM. This morning’s depletion is also the longest we’ve recorded. It lasted 6 hours and 39 minutes, until 7:13AM. You’d think

Image: @CyonFlare on Twitter Here’s an excellent example of our police and politicians using smoke and mirrors to manage “perception” rather than actual police officers to reduce crime. Last night, there was a big old Chicago Police bus parked in front of 3352 N. Halsted Street. At 1:58 this morning, Roscoe’s Tavern, located just one

A motorist called 911 at 4:50 this morning after someone put the undesirable end of a 22-caliber handgun in his face at Halsted and Belmont. The gunman, a black male wearing glasses and black shirt with white shorts, was last seen walking westbound toward the Belmont L station. As officers spoke with the caller at