Beat 1411 CAPS Meeting Wednesday (7-6-11)

Good evening, everyone. I attended 1411's CAPS meeting on Wednesday, July 6th (sorry for the delayed post). This was my second visit to the meeting, and I do plan on coming back to another meeting later in the year or early next year. The first thing we did at the meeting was introduce ourselves, than we went to the old problems that came up at May's meeting, which were:

* 2916 N. Washtenaw - Problems at Sal Gamboa's residence.
* Campbell and George - Gang presence, drug activity.
* 28XX N. Campbell - Loud disturbances involving a female.
* Algonquin Playlot - Problems with Maniac Latin Disciple gang members congregating and conducting gang and drug activity.

Now, I'll move on to the one new problem:
* Sacramento and George - There's a big problem with squatters trespassing into a vacant building on the southeast corner. Numerous complaints have been made on this building and a bunch of residents living right by the building represented their respective blocks at this meeting. In fact, a group of us met in front of the building, and walked over to the Beat meeting. CPD is definitely working on this building, having put signs on it when the group was at the corner. Phone calls have been made to the owner, and the whole nine yards.

Other observations:
* This meeting was standing room only. There were about 40 to 50 people in attendance, so there was a very large turn-out this time. A lot of the residents were heated/emotional about the Sacramento and George problem, as a majority of them represented the block this building is on. But there was a show of other concerned residents, too.
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For this Beat meeting post, I ask for those residents who read the blog but don't come to the meetings (because they don't want to), please, go!

Next meeting: September 7, 2011 at Resurrection Church, 3045 N. Francisco, at 6:30pm.

Thank you,
Timmy

Beat 1411 CAPS Meeting This Evening (3-2-11)

Good evening, everyone. I attended 1411's CAPS meeting tonight. This was my first and, so far, only visit to that meeting. There were old issues, according to a list I obtained from the meeting, but they were not talked about, so here's the new problems:

* There has been a lot of gang activity lately at the corner of Campbell and George. It's a gang conflict area, with gang members from 25 and other parts of 14 coming by, shooting.
* 2900 block of N. Fairfield - Problem with a residence who is causing trouble and has been for 8 years. Apparently, there's loitering, shootings and etc.
* Talman and Diversey - Sketchy-looking people constantly going in and out of the ground floor apartment.
* 2800 block of W. Barry - Parking is a really, really big problem by the UNO Charter school over there. Parents are included by ignoring the signs. The CAPS Sgt., the Commander of 14 (Linda Flores), the CAPS Organizer and the school will have a meeting about it.

Other observations:
> I was rather impressed with the turn-out at this meeting. There were about 15 residents in attendance at this meeting, along with the 14th District Commander Linda Flores, the CAPS Sgt., the CAPS Community Organizer, and two officers working Beat 1411 on Afternoons.
> Commander Flores is quite defensive when it comes to citizens questioning 14. She gets kind of loud when responding to people inquiring about problems, calls, etc. I actually felt uncomfortable with her attitude.
> The most crimes were motor vehicle theft (15 reported incidents), domestic battery (11 reported incidents), and theft (11 reported incidents).

For this Beat meeting post, I ask for those residents who read the blog but don't come to the meetings (because they don't want to), please, go!

Next meeting: May 4, 2010 at Resurrection Church [basement] (3045 N. Fransisco) at 6:30PM.

Thank you,
Timmy