Austin Crime Blotter: March 15th, 11:00pm Hour

Good morning, everyone. As you all can see from this blog, I mainly cover Zone 12 most times, for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, I live on this Zone, in the 25th District, so I'd like to hear what is going on in my neighborhood. Secondly, I feel that there is never any sort of media attention given to Chicago's West Side and the amount of crime the residents and citizens of the communities on this side of town see.

You all also know this, but it has been very warm in Chicago for the last few days for this time of year. We're only in mid March and temps have been in the 60s, 70s and even lower 80s during that time. When it gets to be this warm in Chicago, traditionally, crime and disorder really goes through the roof. Crimes such as burglary, theft and etc. tend to go down just a little bit (but are relatively high at any given time of the year), while crimes like assault, robbery, battery, etc. really go up. As a result of that, in one neighborhood in particular, large groups of people tend to start loitering on the street, leading up to fights and shootings at times. Not to mention, you also have gangs and then their conflicts arise, resulting in turf wars and incidents over drugs and other things as well. I focus a lot of my attention on the 15th (Austin) District on this blog, and that is due to the high crime rates it has, and due to what I feel is the media not paying attention to the problems in this District/neighborhood.

I listened to Zone 12, the 15th District during the 11:00pm hour last night (March 15th), just to hear what was going on, and here are just a few incidents that occurred:

• Around 11:15pm - 15th District officers recieved reports of a very large crowd, in upwards of 100 people, fighting and threatening each other at Race and Lockwood.


• Around 11:50pm - A malee broke out at Lockwood and Adams with a pretty big group.


• 10pm hour - A shooting, or some other really big incident, took place on the 5500 block of W Congress.