Chicago Police
Posted May 25th, 2008 by jitler23
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It was Saturday, around 5:30 pm. I was sitting on a futon near the back door of a little two story apartment/house watching Dr. Who on the BBC. The door a foot to my left splintered loudly.
I looked through the window and saw two guys trying to force their way through. I got on the other side of the door and pushed back while yelling. I didn't have time to find a weapon or anything. Eventually the guys gave up and ran off. I called the cops.
The two chicago cops that came were great. The got there two minutes after I called. They had me hop in the back and we rode around the neighborhood while they peppered me with questions, I was helping them look for the guy. They stopped someone who looked suspicious and it turned out the guy had tons of warrants out for all sorts of things like drugs and sexual assault. They arrested him right there. More cops showed up and they all seemed like professional, nice guys.
They dropped me off back at my place after a while and we did a report. They made jokes about my Hookah and all sorts of stuff, they seemed like nice guys.
I'm posting this because I've seen a lot of stuff in the patriot/freedom community where people have concerns about the militarizing of the police and their ''thuggish'' mentality. I just thought it should be stated that when I needed help the Chicago pd was great. I couldn't ask for better.
Anybody else out there want to share their experiences in this thread?
James Cates, Lincoln Park, Chicago
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Try living in rural areas
Try living in rural areas where cops have nothing to do but harass you and write speeding tickets. What a neusance.
You live in Lincoln Park.
You live in Lincoln Park. The police have a neighborhood image to protect, Of course they are going to be cool. Try living on the west side. :-)
Individualism
Good Story, I had an experience when I was walking home one night, was stopped and questioned by police, thought I was an addict or something (I'm not), got a ride out of it though.
Are you OK?
Really...that sounds pretty scary.
yup
I'm completely fine. They never made it through the door, but only because i had the fortune to be right by it when they tried to break in. If i had been in the kitchen or the bathroom at the moment they would've been inside before I knew it and there would have been a fight... just my good luck.
Though, I will say this. I always had guns in Indiana when i lived there and never needed them. I didn't take them with me to Chicago because of the very strict laws here. When I needed one, I didn't have one. I gave the cops a bit of grief over that, believe me.
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
A policeman was going to help me get my 11 mo baby
who had stuck a cut-off broom stick in the track of my sliding glass door when I just stepped out for a second and locked me out, but I found a way in before he got there. He's a policeman supported by local taxes. Of course, he was willing to help. What was he going to do? Say he only goes on "thug" calls.
Then again, if he'd got there earlier, it would have been clear he was the most physically able to jump through that window (I got pretty bruised up from it). He would have found my baby, having knocked over a table with an older-style phone on it, with a phone cord wrapped around her neck, batting at the receiver. She was okay, but who knows if I would even still have custody of my baby if he was the one who found her.
Yeah
Kids are like that. When I just started to move around a lot as a baby my mom found me on top of the car once.
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms should be a convenience store, not a government agency.