We’re going for the gold medal!
With last Monday night’s robbery of Milt’s BBQ For The Perplexed, Wrigleyville and Boystown has tied 2012’s record for worst annual robbery total in the neighborhood this century.
The Milt’s hold-up was the 233rd recorded robbery of he year
There have already been other reported robberies since Milt’s, but the city quarantines crime data for a week and there won’t be an “official” new record set until we see how those events have been recorded.
For now, here’s the info regarding robberies in our neighborhood that the city has released since the last CWB Ticker update. Our original reports of incidents are linked via the case numbers, when available.
Case: HW545939
Date: 11/24/13 1:10 AM
Block: 006XX W GRACE ST
Description: ARMED:KNIFE/CUTTING INSTRUMENT
Location: APARTMENT
Case: HW553181
Date: 11/30/13 2:00 AM
Block: 007XX W ROSCOE ST
Description: ARMED: OTHER DANGEROUS WEAPON
Location: SIDEWALK
Case: HW557704
Date: 12/3/13 9:45 PM
Block: 035XX N RETA AVE
Description: STRONGARM – NO WEAPON
Location: SIDEWALK
Case: HW561663
Date: 12/5/13 3:00 PM
Block: 034XX N BROADWAY
Description: STRONGARM – NO WEAPON
Location: CTA BUS
Case: HW561828
Date: 12/7/13 3:00 AM
Block: 035XX N RETA AVE
Description: ARMED: HANDGUN
Location: RESIDENCE PORCH/HALLWAY
Case: HW562803
Date: 12/7/13 11:40 PM
Block: 33XX N CLARK ST
Description: ARMED: HANDGUN
Location: ALLEY
Case: HW565115
Date: 12/9/13 10:41PM
Block: 05XX W ROSCOE ST
Description: ARMED: HANDGUN
Location: RESIDENTIAL YARD (FRONT/BACK)
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.
