This is amusing:
- As Navy Pier was emptying out a call came over for a large fight in the pier at Ben and Jerry's. A couple minutes later, as we were still making our way in, several people started running from the north/west area outside the pier claiming their was someone shooting there. Later, after the dust settled a white family from Iowa told us there was indeed three shots fired from a small caliber gun.
As a side note, the bike team got a gun with a head on the bike path off Ohio Street beach after the fireworks. That is the third gun pinch on the lakefront between Ohio and North Ave in the last month. Good job and stay safe.
Quote of the night: XO from 001 or 018 "officers need to activate the blue lights on their squads to give the illusion of more police presence". Next the department will hire Chris Angel for magic and illusion training at the academy.
The "illusion of more police presence." If that doesn't perfectly describe the "scarecrow policing" tactics being utilized by McFarmer and his kool-aid drinking cohorts, we don't know what is.
For the unaware, "scarecrow policing" is putting up a "scarecrow" or fixed post at a hotspot and hoping to scare away the ne'er-do-wells from the affected corner. It's usually a complete waste of time seeing as how the dope boys know we're stretched thin and they only have to wait us out for a few days, two weeks at most before they can go back to selling on their regular spots.