From the Chicago News Report: "Police were called to a North Side Chicago business after customers were reportedly harassed by men engaged in alleged illegal activities. The incident occurred (yesterday) around 6 p.m. at 1100 West Thorndale Avenue, near Thorndale and Winthrop in the Edgewater neighborhood. The address belongs to a business called T’s Piasan’s Pizza and Grill. According to several 911 callers, a group of men, whose ages and races were not disclosed, were harassing citizens and selling drugs in front of the North Side business. As of 6:25 p.m., it’s unclear if any arrests were made, or if police made contact with the suspects."
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I feel bad for this owner. He's a really nice guy and is trying to stay open. His food is pretty good plus he delivers. I really think it's up to the business owners to make these thugs move away from their businesses and the community to continue to call 911 about the drug dealings and harassment of the residents. Where was the Beat Cop? Where were the patrols I've seen there many times? We cannot drop the ball on these groups of thugs. It's our neighborhood, not theirs! Eyes and ears, that's what we all need to be to keep our community safe.
Those dudes are out there CONSTANTLY. The owner would have to call the cops every 5 minutes.
If that's what needs to be done to get these thugs out of our neighborhood, so be it. I understand the more 911 calls received in a neighborhood, the more police presence we get. Call 911!
...git er done!
Those dudes are out there CONSTANTLY.
If they are out there constantly, they it should be easy to identify them for future reference. And if a cop can cruise by every hour or so, they'll get the message and move on. They probably won't like the constant heat.
Put cameras around his business and make sure it's visible. presto!
There is already a police camera on the light post on this corner. Someone should be monitoring this police camera, but I think this is the same corner where the 2 different police beats meet and neither one wants to take responsibility?
Business owners need to call 9-1-1. The more calls in, the higher numbers. The higher numbers, the more police presence. If I were a business owner and I had this type of activity hanging out in front of my business intimidating customers from patronizing my services, I would be absolutely furious. The police camera on the corner is a Cop Cam. Good luck trying to retrieve that information. The cameras from the el station should be capturing this activity.
beerecorder wayne and farwell used to be a very active corner.
There were days I had no idea how many times I called 911, and my phone would die later because I forget to unlock it from 911 more times that I can recall.
Today is a different story. Even if one crew cant make it at a corner another crew will move in, A summer ago I think 6 or 7 rotations went through. They are hardheaded, but persistence does pay off. Gangs go the path of least resistance. Give them no resistance and YOU are the path of least resistance and they are at your doorstep.
Thorndale and Winthrop, good to note that intersection, how many of you guys have cars? Even bikes? How about doing a pass by on your way home and then call 911 when you see the loitering?
I call that running patrol, you arent the cops but I myself like to make sure that the "coast is clear" before going home. You dont have to become a vigilante 911 caller but hey that is an easy way to pitch in.
When Im in the neigborhood I will make it a point to drive by and call in any loitering I see around there, and technically Im not even allowed there since I live in Rogers Park, haha.
yeah it is sick. the whole block smelled like marijuana as i walked home 2 days ago. That poor guy has to deal with so much crap. I myself have told loiterers to leave his store.
im tired of drug dealers, and now that it is warm they will move back outside and start shooting real guns instead of video games.
I have a car and live around the corner, Jeffo, I don't know why I never thought of going out for a quick drive at night. I'm going to start.
Sure^^^ its good to make sure neigborhood is safe.
I remember in my neck of the woods just a block away from my corner they would go or on morse, so whenever i came home I did circle around to make sure no shenanigans.....
And i still do circle around,
When Im in Uptown I make sure Kenmore and Argyle is okay, because theyve been loitering around there as well.
IMHO there shouldnt be any gang loitering tolerated anywhere on the northside.
Sounds like "Neighborhood Ambassadors" to me. This is what HAS to be done by the community to keep our neighborhoods safe. Walk your dogs around there, up the foot traffic there. Whatever it takes, they have to know this is OUR neighborhood and these are OUR streets. Call 911 EVERY time you see them.
those guys are there everyday, everybody including the cops know where they live and that they are selling dope and probably packing some heat, they do it right in front of the cops faces, but cops too scared to get out of there vehicles..
Hmmmm. Millions of TIF dollars, why not hire some privaate security guards stationed from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. Harry are you out there?
I stopped through yesterday to see what was going on. Copper parked on south side of street east of the EL.
Bangers on West side of EL north side of street.
Two bangers at kenmore and thorndale.
Inertia. Sometimes you just have something that just keeps happening, but there has to be a push from locals to say, this is just not okay. Now is the time to do it.
I didnt call the cops because the cops were there already, but next time I will. These guys do need to be dispersed. Ofcourse the problem is, its an EL stop and really no residential there, just businesses,
but business owners can shoe these guys away themselves and tell the cops how they dont want them there.
And when I stopped/drove through yesterday it was 530pm.
I can also tell you that that type of loitering is not allowed on Morse, I call it in whenever I see it and so does my mom.
Granville started to change when the liquor sales ceased and they put the Loyola cop shop there.
Walking home between 10 and 10:30 Wednesday night, going east on Thorndale, it was actually quiet and peaceful. No hangers, no loitering. It gave the appearance of a quiet, calm residential neighborhood. What's what we deserve and expect. Harry will be cracking down hard on this public safety issue. I expect to see continued improvements.
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