New Year''s Eve, 2011

Good evening, everyone, it's 6pm. It's New Year's Eve, and what an exciting night it is. We're all getting ready to enter a new year, which personally, I'm happy for. 2011 was not a good year for me. But, I do wish all of you the best for 2012. May you have happiness and everything else you want for the new year. Anyway, I'm going to be monitoring all of the Zones this evening until 11:30pm. After 11:30, I'm going to take a break until 12:15am in 2012, then I'll come back until about 3am. So here's crime on this last night of 2011.

6:02pm - Fireworks. 5606 W Chicago Ave.

6:08pm - 1) Child left alone. 29XX N Sayre. 2) Assist the citizen/burglar alarm. 2555 N Normandy. At the Home Depot. Caller is an employee of the store and accidentally locked theirself in the store. An alarm is also going off from there.

6:22pm - Shots Fired. Wellington and Long. Three heard.

6:27pm - Shots Fired. 49XX W Altgeld. Three heard. Gray van circling the area as well.

6:45pm - Beat car 2534 needs more cars at 1806 N Keystone. They're on a domestic, that's out of control. Beat cars 2531 and 2535 are heading over, along with Beats 2572 and 2583.

6:46pm - 2534 is giving a disregard. Suspect is in custody. They're okay.

6:58pm - Robbery. 5145 W Lake. At the Laramie Green Line station. Three males in black hoodies and jeans robbed the caller of their iPhone.

7:07pm - Disturbance. Cicero and Augusta.

7:11pm - Narcotics. 52XX W Adams. Three people, including a 10 year drug dealer, are selling and smoking drugs.

7:38pm - Beat 1555 has a foot chase from a domestic on the 100 block of N Parkside. Running towards Cocrahan. He's got a gun.

7:39pm - Running towards Central on Cocrahan.

7:40pm - Suspect's in custody. 157 N Central.

7:46pm - Shots Fired. 10XX N Massasoit. One shot heard.

7:47pm - Burglary in progress. 50XX W Monroe. Four people seen entering the caller's garage.

7:49pm - A slow down is being given on the 7:47pm job.

7:51pm - A 15th District Tac unit is pulling an RD number for an "1811" from somewhere. It's HT654853 with the event number of 14271.

7:52pm - Suspicious person. Hirsch and Austin.

7:54pm - 1) Battery report. 6XX N Central. 2) Gang disturbance. On the 10 sector of 25. 3) Disturbance. 59XX W North Ave. 4) Disturbance. 4400 W North.

8:03pm - Burglar alarm. 27XX N Greenview.

8:05pm - Loud music disturbance. 1450 W Eastwood. In one of the apartments.

8:06pm - Beat 2372 is being asked to transport a prisoner to 19 from 23.

8:28pm - Battery in progress. State and Lake.

8:29pm - A slow down is being given on the 8:28pm job.

8:36pm - Traffic accident. 45XX S Justine. 18 year old hit by a gold Ford.

8:42pm - Loud music disturbance. On 1231's Beat.

8:55pm - Parker. On 211's Beat.

9:01pm - 1) Parker. 16XX W Touhy. Caller can't get out of their driveway. 2) Disturbance. 61XX N Seeley. Kids in the upstairs apartment are jumping up and down, making too much noise.

9:05pm - Person w/ a gun. 16XX W Juneway. Six or seven male drug dealers in front stealing things out of a red minivan with a plate of A184492. I'm assuming one has a gun.

9:08pm - Beat 2020 is telling all of the early midnight cars in 20 to fill their cars up with gas ASAP.

9:12pm - Shots Fired. Morse and Ashland. One heard.

9:13pm - Disturbance. 4882 N Clark. At Lincoln towing. Male in front disrupting business.

9:14pm - 1) A slow down is being given on the 9:12pm job. 2) Battery in progress. 64XX N Winchester. Neighbors are fighting. 3) The 9:13pm job is now coming in as a "battery in progress". People are fighting in front.

9:16pm - Burglar alarm. 1959 E 71st. At M & R.

9:20pm - Beat car 331 has four loud reports, possibly four gunshots, heard a couple blocks east of Clyde around 69th. So possibly at 69th and Merill, Jeffrey or Paxton.

9:23pm - Battery in progress. 72XX S South Shore. Large family fight on the 10th floor.

9:27pm - Shots Fired. 7000 block of S Cornell. Three heard in the west alley, near Stony Island.

9:28pm - 1) EMS run. 6XX E 73rd. 2) Parker. On 313's Beat.

9:31pm - A 3rd District unit has a traffic stop at Maryland and 63rd.

9:36pm - I don't know what the problem is, but the feed for Zones 8 and 9 on RadioReference isn't loading.

9:37pm - Burglary in progress. 2XX W 103rd. Someone's breaking in.

9:38pm - The feed FINALLY loaded. This means I'll have to monitor this feed now from 11:30pm to 11:38pm. Great...

9:39pm - Beat car 2213 has a group of teens stopped at 99th and Maplewood, along with Evergeen Park PD.

9:41pm - Beat 505 has loud reports at Prairie and 103rd.

9:43pm - Beat 563Eddie tells Dispatch that if he gets any calls from around the area 505 called in loud reports, he can disregard them. They're fireworks, not gunshots.

9:44pm - Shots Fired. 104th and Parnell. More than a dozen fired.

9:49pm - I apologize to all of my southsiders reading the blog, but I cannot get RadioReference to load. This is delaying me from monitoring Zone 6 now. Sorry, guys. Really wish there was something I could do about it.

9:51pm - The feed just came up. About time...

9:58pm - 1) Beat car 814 has a traffic stop at Cicero and 51st. 2) Beat car 722 has a traffic stop at 69XX S Paulina.

10:00pm - 1) Battery in progress. 5900 S Ashland. Two men beating one in front of the liquor store. 2) Disturbance. 2300 S Ridgeway. At a party.

10:05pm - Car alarm. 25XX S Christina.

10:07pm - 1) Theft. 15XX S Drake. A known man took $80 from the caller's friend and refuses to return it. 2) Person w/ a gun. Arlington and Springfield. Male Black, blue leather jacket, skull cap and black pants is robbing another man at gunpoint.

10:08pm - Beat 43Sam17 has a traffic stop at 4057 W Madison. They're taking one in from there. Event number for this is 16873.

10:09pm - 1) Narcotics. 3300 W Chicago. 2) Narcotics. Keeler and Adams.

10:18pm - Battery victim injured. 47XX N Kildare. Male was jumped in the rear.

10:30pm - 1) Fireworks. 3900 block of W Bryn Mawr. 2) Person w/ a gun. Huron and Ashland.

10:35pm - Disturbance. 14XX N Damen.

10:38pm - Beat car 1421Robert has a traffic stop at 1503 N Western.

10:44pm - Beat 1365Boy is pulling an event number from 21XX W Randolph. It's 17670.

10:48pm - Battery. Elizabeth and Chicago.

10:52pm - EMS run. Fulton and Ashland. Very intoxicated man keeps stumbling into the street.

10:58pm - Person down. 15XX N Damen. Unconcious female is down.

11:01pm - 1) Beat car 1524 has a street stop at 8XX N Leamington. 2) Beat 45Sam71Adam just heard three loud reports a little east of Lotus and Chicago.

11:02pm - 15th District Tac units are being requested to shut down an illegal party at Erie and Cicero.

11:05pm - Beat 2363Eddie has a handwaver at Austin and Division about a reckless driver heading east on Division, towards Mason.

11:06pm - 1) Per Beat 1463Eddie, fireworks are being set off at Chicago and Lockwood. 2) Beat 4306 has loud reports at Massaoit and Thomas. They're checking it out. 3) Shots Fired. Cicero and Deming. Several heard.

11:10pm - EMS run. 52XX W Potomac.

11:17pm - Beat car 2511R has a loud music disturbance on the Beat. Also, there's a selling on the 30 sector of 25.

11:34pm - Shots Fired. 7900 block of S Mainstee. Four heard.

11:35pm - EMS run. 7600 block of S Jeffrey. Two people fell on a CTA bus. Not sure if it stopped or if it's moving.

11:36pm - 1) Shots Fired. 83rd and Buffalo. Numerous heard. 2) Beat car 2234R needs an event number for a violent Zone mission. It's 18512.

11:39pm - Beat 420 is telling Dispatch to send Beats 456, 458 and 472 to Exchange and 79th. I guess he's excepting problems over there at midnight.

11:40pm - 1) Person w/ a gun. 8600 block of S Carpentar. Group of male Blacks walking towards 87th with guns. One has on a gray jacket and one has on a blue hoodie. 2) Beat 4210Adam is hearing 10 to 15 loud reports on the 8700 block of S Justine. Dispatch is requesting a few units to head that way.

11:41pm - I'm gone with this blog until 12:15am. I'll see you all then. If you don't read anymore until late tomorrow, Happy New Year to ya! :)