November is off to a positive start, with the month’s robberies pacing flat to down when compared to 2012, 2008, and 2003.
The city has released the following information regarding robberies in our neighborhood since the last CWB Ticker update. CWB’s original reports of incidents are linked via the case numbers, when available.
Case: HW519802
Date: 11/4/2013 12:30AM
Block: 3400 N BROADWAY
Description: ROBBERY STRONGARM – NO WEAPON
Location: SIDEWALK
Case: HW514384
Date: 10/30/2013 12:00PM
Block: 600 W WAVELAND AVE
Description: ROBBERY STRONGARM – NO WEAPON
Location: CTA BUS
Case: HW522938
Date: 11/5/2013 6:10AM
Block: 3600 N BROADWAY
Description: ROBBERY STRONGARM – NO WEAPON
Location: DEPARTMENT STORE
Case: HW526465
DATE: 11/8/2013 11:05PM
Block: 900 W SCHOOL ST
Description: ROBBERY STRONGARM – NO WEAPON
Location: ALLEY
Case: HW526453
DATE: 11/8/2013 11:18PM
Block: 1100 W ROSCOE ST
Description: ROBBERY STRONGARM – NO WEAPON
Location: SIDEWALK
Case: HW526438
DATE: 11/8/2013 11:20PM
Block: 900 W BELMONT AVE
Description: ROBBERY ARMED: HANDGUN
Location: CTA PLATFORM
The CWB 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, our problem did not spring up overnight. It has built and built over several years. Simply comparing this year to last year misses the huge increase that we saw in 2011 and 2012. The dashboard shows the bigger picture.
Our source is the city itself, with robbery data taken from the City of Chicago Data Portal. In the event of an outage or update failure at the data portal, information is obtained from the Chicago Police Department web site. The city quarantines crime data for at least 7 days.
The complete list of 2013 robberies is here.
The complete list of 2012 robberies is here.
The complete list of 2008 robberies is here.
The complete list of 2003 robberies is here.
Beat ranking information is from the Chicago Police Department web site.
Our standard statement regarding historical data applies:
The city quarantines crime data for at least 7 days.
The CPD realigned our area’s police beats in March 2012. The lines that divide Chicago police beats literally run down the middle of their shared streets and it is not possible to know with certainty which side of a street crimes were reported on before March 4, 2012. In order to maintain consistency across all years, we have included all robberies that were reported on both sides of the border streets (Irving Park Road, Southport Avenue, and Belmont Avenue) in our calculations. As a result, our post-March 4, 2012, stats may vary slightly from official records.
