Saturday, September 28, 2013

Suicide by Police?

  • Police shot and seriously wounded a woman who they say pointed a gun toward them in a Pilsen alley.

    A group of people called 911 after the woman aimed a gun at them in the 1000 block of West Cullerton Street about 10:30 p.m. Thursday, police said.

    The woman had been walking with the gun when the group approached her. The woman continued north on Morgan Street and west into an alley between 19th Street and Cullerton Street, police said.

    Plainclothes officers approached her in the alley and the woman pointed the gun toward them, police said. The officers fired at her, hitting her several times, police said.
Camden covers the obvious:
  • Fraternal Order of Police spokesman Patrick Camden said the weapon was a BB gun and that she had ducked behind a garbage can before poking back up and pointing it toward the officers.

    "Nobody's going to wait around to see if it's real or a toy," Camden said.
Precisely.

Good job to the involved Officers - you did exactly the right thing.

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41 Comments:

Blogger I Fart In Your General Direction said...

"Suicide by Police?"


Naw.

Death by Stupidity.

9/28/2013 02:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why cant we elect people to the FOP who actually care about the working cops? All we elect are self seving people who are there just to pick up their monthly stipend and all they worry about is getting re-elected to keep the money coming in. They all make me sick.

9/28/2013 04:39:00 AM  
Anonymous The Bear said...

He who hesitates loses.

Good work to all the involved officers. God and St. Michael keep you safe.


To anyone else who second guesses or bad mouths these courageous officers: Shut the fuck up!

9/28/2013 05:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Police Impersonator(s) Officer Safety alert continued. Someone posted about a black dodge charger. Approx. 10 days ago I was driving on I 80 east from Lagrange Ave. Around 0010hrs. When a Black Dodge Charger (black tints front and back) with a police spot light on drivers side, regular IL plates, came behind my truck at a high rate. I moved out the way thinking it was the police going on a call. My police (6th sense) experience told me otherwise. Naturally I followed it keeping 1/2 mile distance because I was with my family. I followed it to I 57 where the vehicle got off on 159th headed east bound to the town of Markham, Harvey area. All officers in this area and Joliet area heads up. My family was never in danger so don't start with the BS. All officers know this is an extremely high risk traffic stop so heads the fuck up. I didn't call ISP because they got off too fast and they were gone.

9/28/2013 05:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

supposedly she has a tattoo on her back saying "fuck the police"

9/28/2013 05:59:00 AM  
Blogger Cuthbert J Twillie said...

Hey!! How did she get a BB Gun?? Those have been Outlawed in Chicago since the 1950's.

Not kidding. You used to be able to go to Sears (or 'Morrie Majors') in Chi and buy real guns but not a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun, which couldn't break a beer bottle (this was way before old man Daley was 'May'r').

(when BB Guns are outlawed only outlaws will have BB guns)

9/28/2013 06:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SCC,

Every time you open the blog page now, at the bottom of the page the below appears:


"Do you want to open or save analytic.js from a.sitemeter.com?"


Of course we should click on the "cancel" box to make it go away.

Do any of you computer people know what this is about ?

9/28/2013 09:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Couldn't have done a better job A.O. And G.N. Great job. Take a few days off and relax.

9/28/2013 09:34:00 AM  
Blogger The Keesing Bandit said...

You called it. She wanted to have the post-mortem notoriety of having been killed by the police.

No keeses for her.

9/28/2013 09:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off topic SCC:

Recent article from Rolling Stones(I know you dont have it on the coffee table but..) about how Wall Street looting public pension funds:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/looting-the-pension-funds-20130926

9/28/2013 10:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

glad the police are ok and rahm you suck big time

9/28/2013 10:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A BB gun is hardly a toy. Imagine getting hit in the eye; isn't that "great bodily harm" or permanent disfigurement? The point is well taken, not to wait around to see exactly what type of weapon it is, but I would not call it a toy.

9/28/2013 11:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

According to Chuck Goudie of ABC 7, the reason for all the crime on Clark St in 019 is......wait for it...... THE BLACKHAWKS....??? Huh? Blackhawk revelers are the ones robbing and beating the yuppies down? Wha?

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=9263227&pid=9263221


9/28/2013 12:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It was an interesting story the officers conveyed.... Sometimes they need to be smarter when cameras are across the street.... Hopefully it goes away quietly and not too many people look to hard into it.... Could look bad on the police

9/28/2013 01:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off topic but apparently a lot of SGTs have wished up and are getting out while 55& out is still free. Starting in 2014 55+ retires will have to pay 2% for health insurance. The FOP is going to lose this perk also. People need to plan for the future. Often you will do better retireing with free healthcare and a part time job than staying on this job. Consider your options and do what's best for you and yours.

9/28/2013 01:55:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Do any of you computer people know what this is about ?

9/28/2013 09:08:00 AM


It's a javascriptlet meant to, as you may guess, provide page hit data to whomever is looking.

You see it now due to a recent MS update to IE.

9/28/2013 02:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Often you will do better retireing with free healthcare and a part time job than staying on this job. Consider your options and do what's best for you and yours.

9/28/2013 01:55:00 PM


Nice sales pitch buddy.

Apparently Emanuel's starting to figure out we're not going any fucking where because of his bullshit pension threats or his petty taunts to try and piss off senior officers.

In the end, the pension will prevail with no diminished benefits, as it should. They don't want this in court because their lies will be exposed and made public for all to see.

So since Mr. Dipshit thinks all he has left is to do is rid himself of senior officers his goals in negotiation are to diminish protections for senior officers, thinking that will force them to quit.

His latest scam he's having McDrunkard pull in 012 will prove that scam wrong once again.

This little runt fuck is running out of bullshit to spin and he knows it. He's panicking, it shows, and we'll be here long after this shitstick is gone to rob the middle class somewhere else in the private sector.

9/28/2013 02:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Watchdog: Store with ties to felon latest problem for blighted neighborhood

Poverty and profits: City gives felon six-figure grant to open liquor store

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-promo-austin-liquor-store-20130927,0,2407751.story

9/28/2013 03:31:00 PM  
Blogger sharky said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Police Impersonator(s) Officer Safety alert continued. Someone posted about a black dodge charger. Approx. 10 days ago I was driving on I 80 east from Lagrange Ave. Around 0010hrs. When a Black Dodge Charger (black tints front and back) with a police spot light on drivers side, regular IL plates, came behind my truck at a high rate. I moved out the way thinking it was the police going on a call. My police (6th sense) experience told me otherwise. Naturally I followed it keeping 1/2 mile distance because I was with my family. I followed it to I 57 where the vehicle got off on 159th headed east bound to the town of Markham, Harvey area. All officers in this area and Joliet area heads up. My family was never in danger so don't start with the BS. All officers know this is an extremely high risk traffic stop so heads the fuck up. I didn't call ISP because they got off too fast and they were gone.


9/28/2013 05:35:00 AM
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That is exactly the area they were thought to be first working----127th st to 159th St on I-57, before branching out to SW side Chicago and south suburbs (Oak Lawn, Alsip). Plates 3925774

9/28/2013 03:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not kidding. You used to be able to go to Sears (or 'Morrie Majors') in Chi and buy real guns but not a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun, which couldn't break a beer bottle (this was way before old man Daley was 'May'r').

It was Morrie Mages Sports, not Majors. They were bought out by Sportmart, which was bought out by Sports Authority. Morrie Mages has a playlot named after him on the Lakefront near Irving Park. Does anyone else remember Brown's Sporting Goods at Harlem/Irving, or Herman's Sporting Goods? There was a Herman's at Six Corners.

9/28/2013 04:05:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

....When a Black Dodge Charger (black tints front and back) with a police spot light on drivers side, regular IL plates, came behind my truck at a high rate. I moved out the way thinking it was the police going on a call. My police (6th sense) experience told me otherwise....

Not challenging what you wrote, just additional info that the County has some Chargers as you describe...as do the Feds. And who knows what IAD or the Confidential Unit has here??
Not saying it was them but other Agencies do have them. I know of a Chief in the suburbs that has one exactly as you've described.

9/28/2013 04:29:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Glad to hear the Officers are ok.

9/28/2013 04:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

9/28/2013 05:35:00 AM

I bet your family was impressed by your spidey senses

9/28/2013 04:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
According to Chuck Goudie of ABC 7, the reason for all the crime on Clark St in 019 is......wait for it...... THE BLACKHAWKS....??? Huh? Blackhawk revelers are the ones robbing and beating the yuppies down? Wha?

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=9263227&pid=9263221

9/28/2013 12:01:00 PM

All he's doing is repeating what the CITY is telling the media.

Two days ago, the Dept announced foot patrols on Clark and Broadway, claiming it's because of the outbursts up north when the Hawks won. NOT ONE WORD about the dramatic rise in street robberies in the last month.

If I was a reporter, I'd be asking why it would take the City THREE MONTHS to implement those foot patrols! (Answer: because it has nothing to do with the Hawks and everything to do with that blog in boystown that's publicly documenting all the rising crime and police radio calls.)

9/28/2013 05:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Guys sayin but bUt I gets all this OT. BWAHAHAHA and pay your health care into your president's OBAMACARE . FOOLS!Support the ghetto rats whom you are workin OT for. LOL

9/28/2013 06:21:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To: 9/28- 1:44pm
F*ck yourself. I take it you were on scene, and talked to the witnesses? Have you been behind the trigger before? The people who actually "get it," understand that when your life is on the line- it doesn't matter if there's 10 camera's in front of your face- you go home safe at the end of the night. I sure hope you're not an officer.

Great job officers! Glad you're safe, and relax on your time off....

9/28/2013 07:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

>>>Anonymous said...
Off topic but apparently a lot of SGTs have wished up and are getting out while 55& out is still free. Starting in 2014 55+ retires will have to pay 2% for health insurance. The FOP is going to lose this perk also. People need to plan for the future. Often you will do better retireing with free healthcare and a part time job than staying on this job. Consider your options and do what's best for you and yours.

9/28/2013 01:55:00 PM<<<

Hmmmm...

Reminds me of something, years ago, Medical insurance was going to cost us just a tiny $2 a paycheck.

I only found one person who said that they voted for that contract,fj

9/28/2013 07:31:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

>>> Anonymous said...
According to Chuck Goudie of ABC 7, the reason for all the crime on Clark St in 019 is......wait for it...... THE BLACKHAWKS....??? Huh? Blackhawk revelers are the ones robbing and beating the yuppies down? Wha?

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=9263227&pid=9263221

9/28/2013 12:01:00 PM<<

Ya'see! I knew it wasn't those damn Pilgrims.

9/28/2013 07:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

n the final months of 2011, almost two years before the city of Detroit would shock America by declaring bankruptcy in the face of what it claimed were insurmountable pension costs, the state of Rhode Island took bold action to avert what it called its own looming pension crisis. Led by its newly elected treasurer, Gina Raimondo – an ostentatiously ambitious 42-year-old Rhodes scholar and former venture capitalist – the state declared war on public pensions, ramming through an ingenious new law slashing benefits of state employees with a speed and ferocity seldom before seen by any local government.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/looting-the-pension-funds-20130926#ixzz2gF5CamZv
Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook

9/28/2013 08:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

According to Chuck Goudie of ABC 7, the reason for all the crime on Clark St in 019 is......wait for it...... THE BLACKHAWKS....??? Huh? Blackhawk revelers are the ones robbing and beating the yuppies down? Wha?

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=9263227&pid=9263221

Last I checked, DUMB ASS CHUCK PUKE! The Blackhawks have NOT played all summer!

I'm willing to bet that most of the mayhem caused in 019 District especially on weekends are "Chicks with Dicks" A.K.A. Men in woman's clothing!

Da Pelon

9/28/2013 09:28:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Police Impersonator(s) Officer Safety alert continued. Someone posted about a black dodge charger. Approx. 10 days ago I was driving on I 80 east from Lagrange Ave. Around 0010hrs. When a Black Dodge Charger (black tints front and back) with a police spot light on drivers side, regular IL plates, came behind my truck at a high rate."

So someone has a spotlight on their black Dodge Charger and you think that qualifies as a police impersonator. Seriously?

9/28/2013 09:51:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off topic but apparently a lot of SGTs have wished up and are getting out while 55& out is still free. Starting in 2014 55+ retires will have to pay 2% for health insurance. The FOP is going to lose this perk also. People need to plan for the future. Often you will do better retireing with free healthcare and a part time job than staying on this job. Consider your options and do what's best for you and yours.

Not as bad as it sounds, but not as good as free. Its 2% of your annunity or about $125 a month, could be worse, just saying

9/28/2013 10:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

She Gone!

9/28/2013 11:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SCC, I'm also getting some goofy message on my windows phone now about a file won't download when I go to the site.

9/29/2013 12:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To 5:35 AM The License number of the regular plate is?

9/29/2013 12:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"It was Morrie Mages Sports, not Majors. "

Whatever, close enough for 'Chicago purposes', you got it didn't you?. The point is still the same, Firearms were legally sold all over Chicago, but not BB Guns.

9/29/2013 06:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

9/28/13 11:13.00pm
Who gone?

9/29/2013 07:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
n the final months of 2011, almost two years before the city of Detroit would shock America by declaring bankruptcy in the face of what it claimed were insurmountable pension costs, the state of Rhode Island took bold action to avert what it called its own looming pension crisis. Led by its newly elected treasurer, Gina Raimondo – an ostentatiously ambitious 42-year-old Rhodes scholar and former venture capitalist – the state declared war on public pensions, ramming through an ingenious new law slashing benefits of state employees with a speed and ferocity seldom before seen by any local government.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/looting-the-pension-funds-20130926#ixzz2gF5CamZv
Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook

9/28/2013 08:49:00 PM


And when Rhode island took this drastic action, their pension funds were at a 49% level. This was considered catastrophic. Our fund is at 30%.

Hey Illinois legislators, no hurry, no need to rush, no pressing imperative to get it done. No, what is important is that you mopes get your paychecks so be sure to spend more public money suing the governor and forget about doing your job. Get paid! That is all that counts.

Sort of like the German Army grieving for their paychecks as the Russian Army is at the gates of Berlin in 1945.

9/29/2013 08:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
....When a Black Dodge Charger (black tints front and back) with a police spot light on drivers side, regular IL plates, came behind my truck at a high rate. I moved out the way thinking it was the police going on a call. My police (6th sense) experience told me otherwise....

Not challenging what you wrote, just additional info that the County has some Chargers as you describe...as do the Feds. And who knows what IAD or the Confidential Unit has here??
Not saying it was them but other Agencies do have them. I know of a Chief in the suburbs that has one exactly as you've described.

9/28/2013 04:29:00 PM


That was Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

9/29/2013 08:40:00 AM  
Blogger sharky said...

Anonymous said...
"Police Impersonator(s) Officer Safety alert continued. Someone posted about a black dodge charger. Approx. 10 days ago I was driving on I 80 east from Lagrange Ave. Around 0010hrs. When a Black Dodge Charger (black tints front and back) with a police spot light on drivers side, regular IL plates, came behind my truck at a high rate."

So someone has a spotlight on their black Dodge Charger and you think that qualifies as a police impersonator. Seriously?

9/28/2013 09:51:00 PM
***********

I don't know who posted this about LaGrange Road and the Charger, but keeping in mind the original story, its worth noting. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but I wouldn't dismiss it outright, all things considered.

9/29/2013 08:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Off topic but apparently a lot of SGTs have wished up and are getting out while 55& out is still free. Starting in 2014 55+ retires will have to pay 2% for health insurance. The FOP is going to lose this perk also. People need to plan for the future. Often you will do better retireing with free healthcare and a part time job than staying on this job. Consider your options and do what's best for you and yours.

Not as bad as it sounds, but not as good as free. Its 2% of your annunity or about $125 a month, could be worse, just saying

9/28/2013 10:09:00 PM
If you are 55 and have the years for retirement ( you should), then do your health and your family a favor and retire. The job takes it toll on you both in physical and emotional health and it starts to show the damage in the mid to late 50's. The only people who like to hang around longer are the gold stars who are afraid they will be nobodies when they retire.

9/29/2013 04:08:00 PM  

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