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West Side police commander paying home visits to warn gangbangers (Chicago's 'heat' list)
Chicago Tribune ^ | 7/20/13 | Jeremy Gorner

Posted on 07/21/2013 4:30:53 AM PDT by Libloather

The commander of a West Side police district plans to knock on the doors of the most dangerous gangbangers to issue warnings to stop the violence.

The effort by Austin District Cmdr. Barbara West comes as Chicago police try to quell gang violence with both innovative ideas and more traditional methods such as paying hundreds of officers to work overtime on their days off.

West told reporters she and an undisclosed community leader planned on Friday to begin going to the homes of about two dozen people who have been singled out on the department's "heat list" as those most likely to commit violence and to fall victim to violence themselves.

West, the first police commander to take on this assignment, said she plans to talk for a few minutes at each household and drop off a letter warning the targets that police will seek the most serious punishment possible against them if their criminal behavior persists. If the target isn't home, West said she would relay the message to a relative.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicago; commander; gangbangers; police
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Wouldn't that be profiling?
1 posted on 07/21/2013 4:30:53 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
"...she plans to talk for a few minutes at each household and drop off a letter warning the targets that police will seek the most serious punishment possible against them if their criminal behavior persists."

LUNATICS ARE SURELY IN CHARGE OF THE ASYLUM!!

2 posted on 07/21/2013 4:33:30 AM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: Libloather

I have high hopes that this will work./s The gang bangers will laugh at them.


3 posted on 07/21/2013 4:37:13 AM PDT by Catsrus (`)
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To: Libloather

oh yeah that’ll work


4 posted on 07/21/2013 4:37:21 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Catsrus

have high hopes that this will work./s The gang bangers will laugh at them.

If they don’t shoot them.


5 posted on 07/21/2013 4:38:13 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Libloather

In order to prevent profiling, the heat list also includes local boy and girl scout troops and assisted living facilities.

/s/

IMHO


6 posted on 07/21/2013 4:38:42 AM PDT by ripley
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To: Libloather

This is an endeavor sure to provide the Chi-Town Thug Community with hours of merriment and laughter.


7 posted on 07/21/2013 4:38:54 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: windcliff

“Why don’t ya’ just...cut it out.”


8 posted on 07/21/2013 4:43:32 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Libloather
police will seek the most serious punishment possible against them if their criminal behavior persists.

So basically its business as normal.
9 posted on 07/21/2013 4:43:38 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Libloather

If they answer the door, shoot on the spot. That would have a better effect.


10 posted on 07/21/2013 4:43:55 AM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising.... Civil War II)
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To: Libloather

Yeah, Commander, broadcast your impotence. That’ll learn ‘em!


11 posted on 07/21/2013 4:47:08 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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she and an undisclosed community leader

Tio Hardiman's out on bail for domestic violence , isn't he? He's one of those "community leaders" who middlemans between the gangs and the police, to protect the gangs on behalf of the aldermen, because the gangs "get out the vote" for the good revruns when elections roll around.
12 posted on 07/21/2013 4:47:26 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Libloather

Hey, they're paying hundreds of officers to work overtime on their days off, to play out this scheme concocted by a sociology professor at Yale University...LOL.

13 posted on 07/21/2013 4:50:06 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Libloather

: )....... but of course.

The Obamalike pleading will accomplish nothing. The attempt will be viewed with contempt.

Only death will solve the problem. Until the Amishtrash fears for their life, there will be no change.


14 posted on 07/21/2013 4:51:29 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: Libloather

It’s okay if they do it. It’s okay if they do anything because they are Democrats. It’s the outcome, not the process.


15 posted on 07/21/2013 4:51:47 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: onyx

Gee, I wonder if she was some mayor’s limo driver, too, like then Police Chief Beverly Harvard of Atlanta was.


16 posted on 07/21/2013 4:52:58 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

LOL. I have no idea about her.


17 posted on 07/21/2013 4:54:09 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Libloather

Over the past 100 years Chicago has been blessed with some of the most prominent progressive social activists and community organizers this country has produced. Saul Alinksy, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, and Jessie Jackson are some of the many who have worked the streets of Chicago. The city has showered billions of federal, state, local, and private funds on its poor and disadvantaged. It has been governed by progressive Democrats for decades who have been able to employ every social initiative conceived by the best academic minds of the nation. The city employees are some of the highest paid government workers in the world. Its wealthy liberal elites give millions every year to philanthropic causes to benefit the masses.

Despite all of these advantages, the city has an atrocious crime rate and a permanent parasitic underclass that has become a cancer destroying the economic, social, and cultural underpinnings of the city. What could possibly be wrong here?


18 posted on 07/21/2013 4:54:46 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: Islander7

POTUS Obama = Failed City of Detroit = Failing City of Chicago = Failing United States of America!!! Conclusion: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AFREE LUNCH!!! IMPEACH OBAMA or, FORCE HIM TO RESIGN!!!


19 posted on 07/21/2013 4:55:33 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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To: Libloather

Double-secret probation!


20 posted on 07/21/2013 4:55:43 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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