Happy New Year! (2014)

Good morning, everyone, and Happy New Year to all of you!!!! It's 12:00am on the first day of 2014. Well, another year is upon us. I'm really looking for this year, and I hope all of you will truly have peace, joy, prosperity and fun this year. Today, I'm going to be monitoring all three Districts on a special schedule. I will be starting my monitoring of 25 from now until 1. As for 14, I will be finished monitoring by 1, and for 17, I will be done by 12:15. Additionally, I know that it doesn't make sense that the calls won't be up here for a while, but this is the only way I can do it. I'm also doing my other blog, Chicago Crime Blotter, and am monitoring all of the other Zones in the City. If anyone has any concerns or questions, please do not hesistate to contact me. Here's crime on this first day of 2014.

12:01am - Beat car 2534Robert has loud reports at Wabansia and Harding.

12:02am - Shots Fired. 2200 block of N St. Louis. Several shots heard.

12:05am - Person with a gun/Shots Fired. 26XX N Ridgeway. Three male Hispanics in black clothing in the alley are firing shots in the area.

12:10am - 1) Traffic accident. Hamlin and Fullerton. Two males hit a car and then they bailed. 2) Shots Fired. 25XX W Lyndale. Several shots being fired from several guns. 3) Shots Fired. 18XX N Spaulding. Male Hispanic in the alley shooting a real gun off in the alley, he's on a balcony of a coach house.

12:12am - Shots Fired. 18XX N Kedzie. Seven gunshots fired in the alley.

12:21am - Shots Fired. 16XX N Central Park.

12:22am - Person calling for help. Shakespeare and Hoyne. Man yelling for help.

12:23am - Shots Fired. 2700 block of N Lawndale. Six shots being heard from a small caviler gun.

12:24am - 1) Theft. 24XX N Avers. Two males took a plate off of a car and ran into the alley. 2) Beat 2554 is saying that the Hamlin/Fullerton job is related to the Avers accident.

12:25am - Traffic accident. On the Kennedy Expressway. Car with a plate of 893548 struck the caller's car on the Expressway.

12:26am - Residential alarm. 35XX W Medill.

12:27am - 1) Beat car 1431Robert is giving a disregard at the 12:22am job. Coded 19Boy. 2) Beat car 2522Robert has a traffic stop at Avers and Cortland. 3) Assault in progress. 27XX N Hamlin. People arguing with the caller over a parking space.

12:30am - 2554 is asking Beat car 2514Robert, the unit originally assigned to Hamlin/Fullerton, to come on Avers and look into the backyards for these offenders. They're looking for three male Hispanics.

12:33am - All Third Watch late cars in 14 are being released.

12:34am - A unit had a male Hispanic in a white polo ran into a house at 2107 N Kedvale who had a pistol, as if he was about to shoot.

12:35am - I'm done monitoring 14 until later. I'll be back with 17 later today.

12:36am - 2554 is ordering a tow on the vehicle.

12:37am - An RD number is being pulled from the Hamlin/Fullerton accident. It's HenryXRay100022 with the event number of 00074.

12:43am - They have one in custody from the Hamlin/Fullerton accident. Also, 2514R is pulling a second RD number from there, but this one's for a simple battery. It's HX100027 with the event number of 00576.

1:00am - I'm done monitoring for tonight. I'll see you later today. Have a great night and start to your year, everyone!

1:58am - Regretfully, I must inform all of you that Zone 1 is not available on RadioReference, meaning that I will NOT be able to obtain any archives of what happened in 17 last night into early this morning. I'll still be able to get archives of 14 and 25, though, and will be working on those all day tomorrow into Friday.

3:00pm - I'm back, with 17, for the next ten minutes. Good afternoon, everyone.

3:10pm - Nothing was heard in 17, so I'm going to go until 3:40, at which time I'll be back with 14.

3:40pm - I'm back, with 14.

3:41pm - Burglary report. 28XX N Sawyer.

3:51pm - I'm done monitoring 14 for today. I'll be back with 25 at 4:30, and again at 5. See you all then.

4:30pm - I'm back with 25 for the next ten minutes.

4:40pm - I'm going to stop monitoring 25 for now. I'll be back in about ten minutes.

4:50pm - I'm back with 25 again, this time for the evening. I'll be here until midnight.