Chicago Police Department
COMMUNITY ALERT
Wanted for Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault/Home Invasion
Area Three Detective Division
February 15, 2006
RD# HM 175151, #630-06-006
Chicago Police are investigating a home invasion and criminal sexual abuse that occurred around 5:30 a.m. Feb. 11, 2006, in the 6700 block of North Lakewood Avenue.
The offender opened a kitchen window, reached in and unlocked the rear door of an apartment to gain entry. The victim awoke when the offender entered her bedroom. A struggle ensued and the offender fled through the back door.
Police are looking for a male offender in his 20s to early 30s, who is approximately 6’ tall and was wearing dark clothing with a hoody and thick black leather gloves. No further description is available about the offender.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Make sure all windows and doors are properly secured in your apartment/home.
Be aware of your surroundings.
Note any unusual activity in your area.
Call the 911 if anything appears to be suspicious.
Area Three Homicide
Sex-Gang Crimes Unit,
312-744-8261,
24th District
312-744-5907
COMMUNITY ALERT
Wanted for Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault/Home Invasion
Area Three Detective Division
February 15, 2006
RD# HM 175151, #630-06-006
Chicago Police are investigating a home invasion and criminal sexual abuse that occurred around 5:30 a.m. Feb. 11, 2006, in the 6700 block of North Lakewood Avenue.
The offender opened a kitchen window, reached in and unlocked the rear door of an apartment to gain entry. The victim awoke when the offender entered her bedroom. A struggle ensued and the offender fled through the back door.
Police are looking for a male offender in his 20s to early 30s, who is approximately 6’ tall and was wearing dark clothing with a hoody and thick black leather gloves. No further description is available about the offender.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Make sure all windows and doors are properly secured in your apartment/home.
Be aware of your surroundings.
Note any unusual activity in your area.
Call the 911 if anything appears to be suspicious.
Area Three Homicide
Sex-Gang Crimes Unit,
312-744-8261,
24th District
312-744-5907
8 Comments:
paradise, thisaintoz,
these 2 comments illustrate a fundamental problem with crime prevention and safety information.
if we can pay for silly ( pressure washer )expenditures with TIF and SSA money, why can't we have crime and safety information seminars given periodically throughout the year? seems there is a need.
i believe this would qualify as money going back into the community as the original intention of TIFs promised.
paradise-
i agree with the TIF repeal as an endgame but i know the money exists right now to fund seminars without raising taxes. wouldn't that be a better way of spending existing TIF funds than a 15k pressure washer.
paradise-
well,both of these "right back to the community" expenditures would be better than spending a dime on "cart before the horse" streetscapes. you will get no disagreement from me on that issue, paradise.
that idea is nothing more than "make work" for devcorp to appear busy.
Gary -- On the crime and safety issues: I'm not sure about the benefit of seminars either. It will be interesting to see how well-attended Toni's event is. There was a lack of interest in the fliers at my CAPS meeting. The problem is that no one cares about crime until they are a victim and then it becomes a paramount issue. It's human nature and we all fall in that camp. Our house was broken into 10 years ago which prompted us to get new windows. Intellectually we knew broken/open windows were an invitation but until forced, we lived in denial. I became street smart because I had to as a young woman alone in DC with a job that had me walking home at night. People care about protecting themselves when it's about imminent survival.
Instead, we should be screaming at the Alderman's office, City Hall, and our local precincts to focus on the issue and provide better protection through increased patrols, community alerts (with advice on burglar-proofing). Dear Mayor Daly, RP does not need to give tax abatements to developers. Keep those taxes (because the developers are here anyway) and just give us more police.
pamela-
yeah, unfortunately, there is no better lesson than personal experience. my experience included incidents in n.y. and for the first time in the 20 years i've lived in chicago when i had my life threatened,this past summer.
i am curious about the seminar attendance also. we will post it and help toni in her efforts.
I also acknowledge you point Pamela, but I do think the right kind of seminars can be helpful. Lots of street crime involves opportunity and I think most perpetrators look for what they believe is the easiest mark (not always, of course...I'm not suggesting it is always a rational process on the part of criminals...)
Let me give you an example of how I think the simple sense of empowerment can help. I was on the subway in NYC. The car was only about 10% full. A young woman was sitting directly across from me. A young man entered the car. Everyone's radar started beeping - everyone's except that young woman. In NYC, if you ride the train enough, you come to realize that don't have to be a psychiatrist to recognize when someone is in a psychotic state - the hairs on the back of your neck will tell you. This young man was drifting around the car, "invading the personal space" of several passengers, who had the good sense, or whatever, required to simply step away. Then he spotted (I say spotted, but it was really more like "sensed", he was so out of it) the young woman. He sat down next to her and proceeded to lean in, and lean in, and lean in, until I thought he was going to climb right into her lap. This guy was clearly in another world - what he might do next was impossible to predict. During this whole time she and I had eyes locked - and my eyes were saying "get up, get up, get up" and her eyes were saying "but I don't want to offend him..." See, she was being polite, but this guy was well out of being able to absorb any such social niceties. Finally, I couldn't stand it anymore. I got up, crossed the aisle, extended my hand to her, which she took and then I pulled her over to my side. The young man just got up, drifted over the the train door and at the next stop, got off.
Moral of the story: Too much politeness can put you in danger.
It's a lesson that lots of women need our help to learn.
everyone-
the story agent 99 told is all too common, especially for women. she was being polite, but i believe she was also frozen into a submissive state out of fear. she was probably looking at you and making eye contact in the hope that you could help her and you did.
i admire your courage. many women experience this and are put in this predicament on a daily basis. if you take a glance at the hollaback blog, you will see that this intimidation tactic has now reached, almost epidemic proportions in ny.
i really think seminars would help people to understand what to do in these instances and what others, who witness these encounters can do to help. agent 99, your response was effective. i'm sure there are other methods we could all learn about from experts in this field.
It actually didn't take that much courage, but what stopped me from doing it right away is that I was being too polite to her.
But at any rate, she was really grateful that I did it. We had a nice little chat afterwards were she told me how frozen with fear she had felt.
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