Here's the video from Channel 7 of last night's Guardian Angel/citizen march through the Carver Terrace neighborhood. The Angels recently announced plans to remain in Carver Terrace & to begin a youth program for kids aged 8-15. Participants in the youth program would not patrol their neighborhood, but would participate in neighborhood cleanups & plantings, & would be given the opportunity to study martial arts.
Here's the Channel 5 video on the march and the shooting that specifically spurred this march. The shooting occurred Saturday evening a little before 5:30. A man was working on an apartment he is renovating, and he had his ten year old daughter with him. The man approached a group of youths who had been playing football in the street and were now sitting on, or leaning against his car. He asked them to move. A few minutes later a rock was thrown at the man while he retrieved something from his car. He was then beaten & shot repeatedly. The video says the man was shot at least 6 times. I've heard nine (it appear he has 9 holes from 6 bullets). His daughter witnessed much of the attack. Luckily, he's in stable condition at the hospital. The shooter has not yet been apprehended.
Here's Channel 9 on the shooting.
7 comments:
Hey Elise, were you on the channel 7 footage of the march? Were you marching near the front of the line of people?
Some of the shootings, while despicable, seem to have some sort of motive, be it drugs, retaliation for another shooting, but this one is just nuts. God bless the Guardian Angels.
I'm glad the guy survived. That's just insane.
Do residents oppose surveillance cameras? I think areas that have high instances of gun violence should have cameras with gunshot detectors installed, like are being used in Chicago. The cameras could be off most of the time (except maybe when needed for an on-going investigation) but when a gunshot was detected, the whole network could be "lit up", hopefully capturing the culprit on video.
Bill,
you must have read a lot of those Where's Waldo books. I'm in both the Channel 5 & Channel 7 videos.
Rob,
Carver Terrace is waiting on a crime camera. Supposedly it's on order. Cameras can only hit one area, these shootings are slightly more dispersed.
I was thinking more of a network of cameras not just one. The cameras in Chicago supposedly swing around to where the shot came from so a network of these in a neighborhood can cover a lot of territory.
If the city objects because of cost there might be some research showing how lowering crime leads to higher home prices leads to increases tax revenues on a scale greater than the cost of the cameras.
Not suggesting this as a silver bullet rather as a possible use of ever-less-expensive technology that may be a good investment.
PS It's always possible that the police there are trying to justify their investment, but this comes from an AP news story: "The city in 2004 reduced its homicide rate to its lowest level since 1965 and police seized 10,000 guns - successes that were in large part credited to a network of "pods," or remote-controlled cameras that can rotate 360 degrees and feed video directly to squad-car laptops. The SENTRI systems are an addition to that network.
'They have been extremely successful,' said Monique Bond, spokeswoman for the Chicago Office of Emergency Management. 'We've been able to see the benefits that cameras and advanced technology bring to the community.'"
The cameras they use in DC are pretty pricy, and they take a little finagling to even get. but I know Carver Terrace is on the list.
As a resident of the area, I definitely do not oppose camera's in the area. Although I think they wont be all that much help, any help is better than no help at all. I second Bill's opinion (God Bless the Guardian Angels).
-PHS
more police on the ground are of more use than cameras. what happens when the suspect is masked, lighting conditions are poor, shots are muffled, knives are used instead of guns, etc. the cost of installing cameras, to me, is a waste of resources compared to having more officers on the ground, on foot or on bike preferably, for mobility.
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