The "Ride To Remember," an annual Motorcycle Ride benefiting the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation, takes place this Sunday, July 25. Read more about it here. You can still ride in it (paying "at the door"), you can make a donation, or your company can be a sponsor.
Here's an excerpt from what a reader and participant sent to us: "The Area 4 Ride to Remember is a non-profit 503(c) organization that brings assistance to the families of fallen police officers. Through their efforts, families and children of police officers killed in the line of duty are assisted in the continuation of what is left of their lives. ... In our businesses we have good and bad days. A good day can bring profit, fun and even excitement. A bad day can bring losses and headaches. Either way, we go home after every day, even the bad ones. When a police officer has a bad day, he goes to the morgue."
Let's remember that one of the fallen police officers whom the riders will be remembering this Sunday is Sgt. Alan Haymaker, who died while on duty last February, while serving in the 23rd District.
Thank You UU!!!
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On Sunday, five men were charged in attacks Saturday that left three police officers injured, including a correctional officer.
Charles Rush, 23, is charged with aggravated battery with a firearm in a shooting that left an off-duty Cook County correctional officer hospitalized with a bullet in his stomach...
The officer showed his badge and Rush walked off the porch saying, "I've got something for the police," before returning shirtless with a gun, Tristan said.
About two hours later in the Pilsen neighborhood, an off-duty Chicago Police officer was attacked by three reputed gang members, police said.
One man struck the officer with his fists while two others came at him with a manhole sewer cover,...
Saturday afternoon, an officer was slashed in the face while responding to a domestic disturbance on the South Side.
Police took two people in custody Sunday night for firing a weapon in their direction in the West Woodlawn neighborhood.
About 11:23 p.m., police pulled over a vehicle during a traffic stop in the 6100 block of South Eberhart Avenue, said Police News Affairs
Police fired shots at a suspect they say pulled a gun on officers during a traffic stop this morning in the city's Lawndale neighborhood.
The shooting happened about 12:05 a.m. in the 4200 block of West 21st Place, said Police News Affairs
We need community support because the police are under attack from the gangbanging thugs
This is also on secondcitycopblogspot.com ....
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Just hold out for 6 more months!
A day after off-duty Chicago Police Officer Michael Bailey was killed, City Hall revealed plans Monday to hire 100 new cops, and the FBI joined the hunt for the killer.
Sources said the Police Department was analyzing surveillance video, and officers were "hitting the gang-bangers hard" to shake loose any information about the killing, one of three slayings of Chicago Police officers in two months.
A shortage of officers is emboldening criminals, said a former high-ranking Chicago Police official who said he's "terrified" for officers because felons no longer fear the police. A two-year police hiring slowdown has left the Police Department understaffed by more than 2,230 officers a day, below the city's budget-authorized 13,200
There's a number we haven't seen yet - 2,230. That's a BIG number for those of you keeping score at home.
And that "six months" is just an estimate seeing as how they haven't even sent out a letter for the POWER test and other procedural hurdles to actually hiring officers.
Figure at least nine months until help arrives...and then it'll be 1.3 officers per watch.
Hey Mayor Daley and tax paying citizens, do the math! 2200+ cops devided by 25 districts comes out to 88 cops per station! That's 30 cops per shift. Do you think another 30 police officers per shift would make a difference? Do you think that will make crime go down?
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