Sunday, February 22, 2015

Update On Last Night's Shooting

Ald. Cappleman's update on last night's shooting:
 

"Last night just after 5:00 p.m., a known P-Stone gang member who was a convicted felon was shot entering the alley behind 4650 N. Malden. He was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital.

Police are currently reviewing video surveillance footage from the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA). If you see any suspicious activity, please report it by calling 911. If you have any information regarding this incident, please call the 19th Police District CAPS office at 312-744-0064. Before the shooting occurred, the 19th Police District had an entire TACT team in the area and this team will remain in the area.

I have been meeting with the police and the CHA's security staff and property management over the past few months regarding one particular unit at 4650 N. Malden. Eyewitness reports state that the victim ran into this unit after he was shot. A few months ago, CHA reported criminal activity at this unit to the police and now there is a legal case pending with a hearing date in the next few months. I will continue working with the police and CHA to resolve this situation.

I want to thank the neighbors who have been calling 911 to report suspicious activity, which is how the police were able to gather the evidence needed to assist CHA with this court case. And while crime has gone down overall, just one shooting is too many. Every family and child should feel safe no matter where they are in the ward."

17 comments:

  1. Really? Cops patrolling the area? Who are you kidding Ald Cappleman? I live down the street from where the shooting occurred. I was outside at the time and I heard the shots and saw the shooters flee in a silver car down the alley between Malden and Beacon. What I haven't seen is this TACT team you speak of. It took the cops over 5 minutes to respond, so don't tell us you had cops right in the area. Also, still haven't seen any cops patrolling around today. If everyone knows this unit was such a problem, like you say, why isn't it under surveillance? This is the second shooting there in the past couple of months. Stop feeding us B.S. and do something about it. The streets are not safe around here and haven't been for a while.

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    1. Wow Concerned Neighbor. You've been so concerned that your ID goes all the way back to............well it was created this month. Not like we have an election coming up in two days or something, huh?

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    2. This sounds like a problem with the logistics used to decide which cops are to arrive on the scene of a crime, rather than the number of cops in a specific area. As in, e.g., queuing theory, the availability of cops is a random process. I think the CPD needs to commission a study by (or with) a local University.

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  2. @Concerned Neighbor: I also share your frustration. And @irishpirate who really cares when they created their account? I've been jumping on this site for months, reading your garbage, refraining from engaging with you.

    James Cappleman is a puppet for someone. I've barely lived in the area and seem to be way more in tune to reality of what the hell is going on around here. The man obviously knows who the problem people are and is doing nothing about it. He's WEAK minded and my skin crawls knowing he is my leader.

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    1. Up early this morning huh? I like your use of capitalization. Very impressive. Your skin crawls? Have your tried a cortisone cream?

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  3. There has been a TACT SUV parked by Gooseberry Park for the last week, at least. I see them when I walk my dog. Not sure of the night in question as I was out that night. So, yes, the TACT team was around. If you believe that police patrols are all that's needed to stop gangs from shooting at each other, you've not lived in Uptown very long.

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  4. I also live on Malden and have a view of the building where the shooting occurred. I wasn’t counting the shots but my guess is there were at least 10 and they sounded a lot further away from where they actually came from. While the shots were still going off, I looked out my window and saw a female bystander running out of gooseberry park. Even from a distance she looked obviously shocked. It did seem like it took the cops longer than expected to arrive on the scene. It wasn’t over 5 minutes like “concerned neighbor” said. Seconds feel like minutes in these situations and if I had to guess, I’d say it was about 3 minutes before they arrived.

    The location of this shooting and the north neighboring building have long been hangouts of the local misguided youth. I’m happy that Cappleman has been working with the CHA but I believe the management companies and/or landlords of these buildings need to be held accountable for the mini thugs and bands of merry misfits who roam in and out all day and night long.

    Cappleman is doing a good job at getting Uptown in order. This group of people who love to publicly complain about our alderman need to finally accept that he is in charge and it’s going to take years to clean up the mess that their lady left behind.

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    1. If a thug were to attack you, and grab your wallet, even on foot, he'd be half a mile from you by the time the cops arrive. I hope they get the thug. Every time the news reports that a shooter got away with murder, it might embolden other thugs to commit mayhem, with or without a gun.

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    2. Well, what do you suggest? That every citizen of Chicago have an officer personally shadow him or her all day long? Traveling from where they are to where things happen takes time - just a basic concept of physics, dude. If you truly expect a cop to miraculously appear every single time something bad happens, you are delusional.

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  5. There's a lot of awful in this story, but what's jumping out at me--how is it acceptable to refer to the victim of the shooting as nothing more than a "gang member who was a convicted felon"? I'm pretty sure that before you can be killed by a gunshot wound, first you have to be human.

    I understand that gun violence is a huge concern for the ward, and Cappleman's purpose with this press release is to show us what he's doing to make us safer (especially given the election). But a human man is dead, and that's a tragedy. Victims of gang-related violence are too often reduced to nothing but statistics, as if gang affiliations relieve society from having to care about the deaths...

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    1. I think it's relevant. Maybe you love all people equally, but most of us are sadder to hear someone innocent got shot than a gang banger or drug dealer. Just a fact, jack.

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  6. Surprise Surprise, Cappelman must have a standard letter that he just edits and sends out. tomorrow, I hope people in Uptown smarten up and get rid of this fool. Is he better than Schiller, Maybe, but does he have a clue otherwise. NO, he is more focused on stuff that has no importance to the citizens.

    Time to get rid of Cappelman

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  7. Yes he was human. And Mr Adams was a devoted father of a baby girl by all accounts.

    He was also a member of the "Insane Cutthroat Gangster/Pooh Bear Gang" faction of the P Stones centered on Magnolia in Uptown and Farwell in Rogers Park. They like to call it "Northpole Chiraq"

    His street name was HiCity Dirt. Some called him "Splashking". Do you understand the inference there Stephanie?

    Anyway, watch a couple of the videos he made right here in Uptown, and decide if he was a hapless victim...or not.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcV4bWpOJnw

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn31Gp3RzPo

    Now, I am -NOT- saying he deserved to be murdered. No one does. But the bottom line is he lived a life...Deliberately lived a life... Where murder is an acceptable action. And he paid the price in the end..."For Dat Cash"

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  8. 3 minutes for the arrival time of the cops is terrible. Estimating the effective speed of a cop car to the scene at 30 mph, it would be as if there were no available cop cars within a circle of radius 1.5 miles, which has an area of slightly more than 7 square miles--an area 3 times that of Uptown!.

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    1. According to American Police Beat, the average response time for an emergency call is 10 minutes. Atlanta has the worst response time with 11 to 12 minutes and Nashville comes in at a lightning speed of 9 minutes. Jun 19, 2014.

      Arriving in one-third of the time of the fastest average response time of large cities isn't exactly terrible. It's actually pretty good. And *if* you actually drive in Chicago, you ought to know that traffic only moves at 30 mph when traffic is light and the drivers are courteous. Usually between 2 am and 6:30 am weekdays.

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  9. I forgot to menntion that this is according to Wikipedia.

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