Where Has CeaseFire Been?

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In June 2012 Chicago residents read about, a so-called, new pilot program that calls for the anti-violence group CeaseFire to partner with the Chicago Police Department.  CeaseFire was to recieve one million dollars from the city’s Department of Public Health Department to curb violent crime. 

It was not until the beginning of August that it was known that they had assurances that their "no snitch" policy was ok with the Chicago Police Department, after a month of shootings.   They just don't want to be snitches.  But yet the police department want the residents to be snitches; tell them what they saw, hear or knew and jeopardize their family and home.

August has seen the shooting numbers going up as the Tribune just reported, " Through Monday, the city had 1,648 shootings, 152 more than the same time last year, according to preliminary police statistics. The city also had 52 homicides for August, 17 more than all of August 2011."  And not only shootings but every other crime, no matter how they spin it. 

This is the most that was heard from CeaseFire:
wttw Video  CeaseFire and CPD

Watch August 23, 2012 - CeaseFire & CPD Embark on New Anti-Violence Initiative on PBS. See more from Chicago Tonight.

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Mindless shootings

Everyone was horrified by the shooting in Colorado and now wondering what went so wrong in the life of Holmes that he found it necessary to take the life’s of innocent people.

But in Chicago, mindless people shoot in the streets making it an everyday occurrence. The Chicago Tribune reports 3 dead, 18 wounded from 8 p.m. Friday night to Saturday morning, reports like this happen every weekend and has left over 275 people murdered so far this year.

The video shows them washing away the blood after a shooting – maybe it should be left – maybe with enough blood on the streets – it would be enough of a visual reminder to stop the senseless killings.

Bad Summer?

DATE: 04/19/2008 12:08:50

Listening to police scanner yesterday afternoon between 4PM to about 10PM - 8th and 7th Districts were indeed busy. Counted about 12 shootings and at least 10 people injured - at least 3 dead at last count. The news media only gives you one side of the story check out http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/ for another side.

A small example:

Cops OK, Bystander Hurt?

Our money would be on the goof with the AK-47:

A 35-year-old man was hospitalized Friday evening after being shot just blocks from a police-involved shooting on the South Side. A man was shot in the 11300 block of South Emerald Avenue before 7 p.m., according to police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli. As responding officers investigated the shooting, shots were fired at the police in the 11000 block of South Union Avenue, Mirabelli said. No officers were injured. Officers recovered an AK-47 assault rifle from the Union Avenue address, Mirabelli said. A 35-year-old man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in "trauma" condition from the Emerald Avenue address, Fire Media Affairs spokesman Joe Roccasalva said. It was not clear whether the man was shot by police or another individual.

Shot just blocks away? Our ammo can barely make it to the end of the block, even with a decent tailwind. And when it gets there, it's isn't about to do any damage.
Thank god no coppers got killed.

COMMENTS:

Anonymous said...

Massive violence in Area 2 last night... about 10 different people shot and 3 homicides maybe 4, one is clinging on with a faint heartbeat.

They ran out of Detectives and had to call Area 1 for help!

That is just 9 hours on a wet friday night.

Look out summer,,, it is going to be a bad one!

4/19/2008 06:23:00 AM

Anonymous said...

I was out there this evening and was on the scene when this guy was placed in custody. The 35 year old was shot at 714 west on 115th street. 022nd district tact guys spotted a man who fit the description of the offender from the shooting on 115th street. The guy bailed out of his vehicle and opened fire from the ak47 spraying the front windshield of the vehicle and officers returned fire without hitting him. The guy attempted to ditch the weapon but was caught after a brief footchase. Later on in the evening, the man who was originally shot on 115th street was pronounced dead at Christ. Those officers were truly blessed because from the looks of that windshield.... its hard to imagine them not being hit.

4/19/2008 02:10:00 AM